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DARK FORTRESS BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Dark Fortress | |
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FORMER NAMES
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ORIGIN
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Landshut, Freistaat Bayern, Germany | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1994 | |
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LABEL
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Century Media | |
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GENRE
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Black metal | |
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STYLE
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Dark | |
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2005-11-23, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2010-10-08, 17:36 | |
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| Band biography |
In 1997, Dark Fortress was joined by Crom (Guitar) and Thamuz (Keyboards).The music became much more melodic now as the band started to make use of the possibilities offered by two guitar players. Now able to play live, the first concert took place in February 1997 together with Path of Debris, Crack Up and Blackend. More concerts were to follow in that year, with bands such as Desaster, Lunar Aurora, Nagelfar and others.
In October 1997 3 songs were recorded of which 2 were taken for a Split-MCD Dark Fortress shared with Barad Dür. It wasn't released until 1998 on the German label Fog of the Apocalypse. The other song was especially recorded for the Compilation-CD "From the mystic forest - Part II" and can only be heard on this CD. Also in August 1998 Njord and Thamuz left the band due to musical differences just to be replaced by Zoltan (Bass) and Paymon (Keyboards) only one month later. These two came straight from their own band Nebulah Horde to join Dark Fortress.
There was already an agreement with Austrian label CCP Records for the first studio album "Tales from eternal dusk" in NOvember 1998, but only three days before the scheduled studio date the deal blew. So the time gained was used to further refine the songs for the album.
In June 2000 Zoltan left in order to work with his new band Cremation, which play Death Metal in the American style.
Finally in August 2000 the debut album "Tales from eternal dusk" was recorded in the Klangschmiede Studio E by Markus Stock (of Empyrium). Crom played the bass in addition to his guitar, even though the new bass player Draug (formerly T.Killer) joined shortly before the studio date. There simply wasn't enough time left for him to learn all the required parts and so he can't be heard on "Tales..." yet.
The musical style on "Tales..." can be described as a crossbreed of many styles, primarily Black/Death Metal; it's roughly compareable to a mix of Dissection, Unanimated, At the Gates and Satyricon.
In November 2000 Crom left the band due to personal differences with Azathoth, and some weeks later Charon left,too,stating that he wanted to play a completely other musical style. Both have now started a new band called Sinister Eyes that sounds a bit like good old Testament.
In January 2001 Dark Fortess was joined by Seraph (Drums) and Santura (Guitar) and just some weeks later the band signed a deal with American label Red Stream Records for two albums.
At the moment, the band is working on the songs for their second album, entitled "Profane Genocidal Creations" and being a concept album. It will be recorded in the beginning of 2002!
In November 2005 the band signed a new contract with Century Media.
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