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12 July. 2010
We are right now preparing for the upcoming festival appearences next weekend at the Bang your Head festival in Germany and the Kaltenbach Open Air in Austria. We've almost finished building our new studio, and will have our first rehearsals there this upcoming weekend, and we are very excited about it.
We also have two shows added for September:
10th september 2010 - TUROCK OPEN AIR (DE) - Essen, with Entombed, Dew-scented, Darkane, Warbringer, Destinity, Skeleton Witch, Angelus Apatrida, Big Ball
11th september 2010 - LYON (FR) - venue : C.C.O with Darkane, Hacride, Destinity and guests.
Be sure to check out our live DVD Layers of Live - released through Listenable records July 12th.
Have a great but evil summer!
Christofer - DARKANE
FINALLY!!!
14 Jun. 2010
Yes, finally our DVD 'Layers of live' will be released through Listenable Records. The main concert of this DVD was filmed/recorded in May 2006 in our hometown of Helsingborg. It sure took some time to put this DVD together since we did it ourselves together with our friend and video editor Per Christoffersson, but due to record label issues been delayed two more years. We're very happy that our friends at Listenable Records now made it possible to release it!
Here's a link to the official trailer:
Trailer
And here's more info from Listenable records:
Listenable
Cheers and hope you'll enjoy it (and buy it)!
Peter
Metalheads!
05 Apr. 2010
Darkane are writing new material and at the same time building our new studio from scratch. We've found a great place in an old Slaughter house. Photos from the studio building will be up soon. We aim to record our sixth album during the upcoming summer. We are also still working on having our live DVD released pretty soon, but unfortunately it takes a serious amount of time. Please check back regarding that.
Peter has recently recorded the drums for the new solo album of James LaBrie (Dream Theater). That album will be brutal, so go check it out when its released.
If you have facebook you can add Christofer at:
Christofer at facebook
Stay brutal!
Darkane
Upcoming show in Helsingborg
20 Dec. 2009
Darkane will play in RumEtt at Dunkers Kulturhus (www.dunkerskulturhus.se), Helsingborg, Sweden, Friday december 4th. Support act will be the punk band Slöa Knivar. The event will be held pretty early and Darkane will enter the stage at around 19:30. Entrance fee is 50 SEK. See you there!
www.metalreveiw.com has Darkane’s fourth album Layers of Lies (2005) on their list of the 100 most essential albums of the decade. Darkane is of course very honoured: Check it out
We are continuing to write the new album, and right now we are being pretty productive (for being Darkane). We hope to record it within the first half of next year.
Hello there!
08 Oct. 2009
Sorry about the updates! We can't get ahold of our webmaster at the time. Darkane will play at the Underground thrashfestival in Oslo, Norway this upcoming saturday, October 10th (thrashfest.soulscarred.com). We are also working on a very cool tour pretty far away from where we live, but it will be official when its 100% confirmed. More news will come within the next days.
Back from North American Tour Update
03 Apr. 2009
We're back in Sweden from what we believe was a very successful tour in North America together with Soilwork, Warbringer and Swallow the Sun. Thanks a lot to the other bands, crew and all the fans that showed up and made us feel welcome. Playing 50 shows in 52 days was kinda tough but we're very happy we managed to pull it through without any bigger issues. Now we are focusing on writing new material for the next album but before that we have a show at The Tivoli in our home town Helsingborg tomorrow (Saturday April 4th), and then we have the Roskilde festival and Nuclear Assault festival booked for this summer, and hopefully more will show up. Next week Peter Wildoer will head out on a European tour with Pestilence for three weeks.
I am also very proud to announce that I am now officially endorsed by Steve Clayton guitar picks. I have been using Clayton pics (1.26 mm) since the middle of the nineties. Since Darkanes music is based on accurate playing I need a pick that feels steady and that I can count on when I hit my strings very hard. With the Clayton picks I get a very good and reliable grip allowing me to alter between fast and rhythmic playing without having to think about what my right hand is doing. See you out there!
Greetings from San Francisco
05 Mar. 2009
Here's Christofer with an update from the road! We are cruising towards San Francisco as I write this. Such beautiful sights outside the bus windows!! The tour is still going very well for Darkane although weve had some serious problems with illness and everybody except for Jens is in a pretty bad shape right now. After Klas left us in Mokena we were joined by great guitar shredder Toby Knapp, but unfortunately he also got ill and had to leave the tour after nine shows. Thanks Toby, you did a great job!!! We have now decided to do this tour as a four piece unit, and its working out pretty well I must say.
We did 9 shows in snowy Canada, and the audience has been great all the way. We have played pretty weird places such as a campus and a roller skating rink, but wherever weve been weve felt very welcome! Now we are looking forward to do the west coast and get some warm air in our sore throats. Thats it for now! Take care and if we havent met yet, go check the shows out! We have about three weeks left on this tour!
Tour Update From Christofer
10 Feb. 2009
Whats up! Heres a little update from Christofer. Im currently sitting in the tour bus were sharing with Soilwork on our North American tour. We are about to arrive in West Springfield, VA where well be playing at the Jaxx in a couple of hours.
We started out in snowy Rochester, NY and Detroit, MI before we had our first (out of two) day off. The reactions from the crowds have been very positive from day one, and Darkane gets the feeling that a lot of people have been waiting for us over here. After the day off in Lousville, KY where we watched some UFC 94 in the tourbus we headed for Nashville, TN, and then four stops in Florida. We had our summer clothes ready but it turned out that St. Petersburg, FL had its coldest day in 17 years on the day of our show. However, weve got to see a lot just wandering around the cities we played and we have enjoyed it all! After Atlanta, GA, Charleston, SC and Charlotte, NC its time to travel up north in the New York area and then Canada, before heading west.
We also got to know the cool people in Swallow the Sun from Finland, and the cool American doom band Daylight Dies who did their last show last night in Charlotte and will be replaced by Warbringer from now on until the end of the tour. Good luck in the future!
The shows gets better and better every night and we feel that we have a very intense set. Make sure you check us out on this tour as all bands on this bill are great and giving it all! We also have some cool merch, so bring all the money you have! =)
See you out there! /Christofer
North American Tour Almost Underway
24 Jan. 2009
What's up! The new year has begun and we in Darkane are very positive about what's to come. We have the massive North American tour with Soilwork, Warbringer and Swallow the Sun starting in Rochester, NY in only one week. We are very excited about this and we hope to see as many of you as possible there. When the tour is over we are once again going to play The Tivoli in our hometown Helsingborg (April 4th), and then we are going to do some very cool summer festivals that we will announce quite soon.
You might have seen it already on some metal news sites, but Klas will not be able to participate on the whole american tour. This is becuase the tour is extremely long, and it's hard to be away from obligations back home and Klas unfortunately has his reason to fly back home after the Mokena, IL show. This is of course very sad for us and Klas, but at the same time we are very happy to welcome former Onward/Waxen, current solo performing guitarist Toby Knapp to join us for the rest of the tour! Toby didn't hesitate to step in and help us out, and we are very thankful and happy that he will be a part of Darkane for the last month of the tour. He has recently released a solo album called Misanthropy Divine. Check it out if you are into quality metal guitar playing!
That's it! See you out there!
New Website Online
27 Nov. 2008
Hey there! We're very happy to unleash the new Darkane site. Our Webmaster Adam has done a great job yet again, thanks. We've just returned from a successful Italian mini-tour and we would like to take the opportunity to thank our good friends Subliminal Crusher and Marita (Mrs Mustaine) for a very well organized tour, along with the fans that showed up, also the Swiss fans that came to the Swiss shows some weeks ago!
It's been great to try some new songs of 'Demonic art' live on these gigs and the reactions have been very positive. Right now we are taking care of the final arrangements for the upcoming US tour early next year. It will be a long tour (50 gigs in 52 days!!!) that covers a lot of the US. Hope to see you there. We will also make sure to have some songs rehearsed that we didn't play last time we toured the US.
Make sure to check back here to keep updated on what Darkane are up to. Stay metal!