Darkspace

 Today in 2005 Darkspace released the album Darkspace II

Bern, Berne,Switzerland Atmospheric Black Metal/Ambient

Status:Active

Years active: 1999-present

Darkspace is an ambient black metal band from Bern, Switzerland, formed in 1999. The group is comprised of three members who call themselves Wroth, Zhaaral and Zorgh. Space-age names for an equally space-age project. True to its name, what Darkspace's music describes is the nothingness of space.

Their style is characterized by an ambient surrounding, hazy production and monotonic sounds, which is somewhat uniquely melodic and variable. Mute guitar passages with blast-beats take turns with milder passages and sometimes even completely electronic passages, providing a fitting tribute to the cold, dark and void-like atmosphere which fills their work. Unlike most pure black metal bands, Darkspace at times employs rhythmic sections. This is evident in their first full-length-album, "Dark Space I".

Darkspace borrows a great deal of influence from electronic music, eerie, ambient synthlines which flow from the guitars. Passage with clear electronic clubkicks or total void-like ambience are incorporated into vocal samples alongside the unnaturally lyricless and very alien sounding screams.

Haunter of the Dark

Wroth Guitars, Vocals

Zhaaral Guitars, Vocals

Zorgh Bass, Vocals

1. Dark 2.8 23:39

2. Dark 2.9 10:21

3. Dark 2.10 20:09

54:09

Pressed on black polycarbonate CD.