DARKANE: Long-Awaited DVD To See Light Of Day Next Year

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

"Today is not only the anniversary of different horrible events in New York, Chile and Stockholm, but it is also ten years since DARKANE played our debut live show. It was played at Fellinis in Uppsala, Sweden on September 11, 1998.

We had been to Uppsala (six hours of driving from our hometown Helsingborg) for the last two weeks of August to record our debut album, 'Rusted Angel', where we also met Lawrence Mackrory for the first time. We had gotten in contact with Lawrence when producer Daniel Bergstrand recommended him before the recording, and we took a shot that turned out to be a very good one. However, Lawrence made it clear that he wanted us to find another vocalist as soon as possible since he wanted to focus on his other bands.

"Anyway, by the end of the recording, Lawrence got us a gig at Fellinis which was a very small bar with metal-theme evenings every now and then. We drove to Uppsala early on the Saturday morning and got to rehearse together with Lawrence at his rehearsal studio for a couple of hours before the show. This was actually the first time DARKANE played together as a complete band. The show went pretty well... nothing special. The only one in the audience who knew our songs was producer Daniel Bergstrand. I think we played all songs from 'Rusted Angel' except for 'The Chase for Existence' which is the song we like the least on that album.

"After the show we had a party at the club and then slept in Lawrence rehearsal studio before driving back to Helsinborg the day after. The show was caught on video camera and the song 'The Rape of Mankind' ended up on the bonus material on our upcoming DVD 'Layers of Live'.

"Speaking of that DVD, you might wonder what happened to it. It is completed and everything but Nuclear Blast didn't want to release it before our next album 'Demonic Art' was released, so we will have to wait until approximately May 2009 before it's released. Too bad, but the most important thing is that it WILL be released some day... and the wait WILL be worth it."

The cover artwork for "Demonic Art", the new album from DARKANE, can be viewed below. Due in Europe on October 24 via via Massacre Records, the CD will be available in limited digipack format with exclusive bonus material.

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."

"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 (Japanese bonus track)

DARKANE played its first show with new singer Jens Broman (CONSTRUCDEAD, THE DEFACED) in November 2007 at the ProgPower Scandinavia festival in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to Christofer Malmström, "Jens enjoyed every second of the show, and so did the rest of us. Our former vocalist Andreas was in the audience to support us, and he was very postive afterwards... along with the rest of the crowd."

DARKANE's upcoming DVD was shot in May 2006 in the band's hometown of Helsingborg, Sweden.