DARKANE Guitarist Checks In

January 23, 2009

Guitarist Christofer Malmström of Swedish metallers DARKANE has issued the following update:

"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, New York 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 4),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 (Ideberg) will not be able to participate on the whole American tour. This is because 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, Illinois 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!"

DARKANE will release its fifth album, "Demonic Art", in North America on February 10, 2009 via Nuclear Blast Records. The North America version of the CD, which came out in Europe on October 24, 2008 via Massacre Records, will contain a bonus track and a bonus DVD.

"Demonic Art" track listing:

01. Variations of an Eye Crush (instrumental)
02. Leaving Existence
03. Demonic Art
04. Absolution
05. Execution 44
06. Impetious Constant Chaos
07. Demigod
08. Soul Survivor
09. The Killing of I
10. Wrong Grave (instrumental)
11. Still in Progress
12. Wrath Connection
13. Reborn in Greed (bonus track)

The bonus DVD will feature the following six components:

* The studio diaries
* The recording of the intro
* Live clips from the Chicago Powerfest
* Video clip for "Layers Of Lies"
* Trailer for the upcoming DARKANE DVD
* Trailer for "Seven Deadly Pieces" documentary

According to the band, "12 songs ended up on the final version, with about 48 minutes of pure aggressive, brutal, melodic, modern, technical, furious, fast, heavy and insane thrash metal! We are very proud of this album and we know for sure that if you liked what we've done before you won't be disappointed in any way this time either. DARKANE has developed in a way that hopefully will give us new fans as well, not meaning that we've turned softer or more mainstream... just better! ...and more humble."

Fan-filmed video footage of DARKANE's November 8, 2008 concert at Transilvania in Erstfeld, Switzerland can be viewed below (courtesy of "zurchio").

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