Germany Dark Progressive metal BandNiko Knappe - Vocals, Drums (Requiem, Tothamon, Desert Doom, Morning Rise (Deu)) Maik Knappe - Guitar Torsten Wenzel - Guitar (Immaconcept, Morning Rise (Deu)) Former membersGuitar: Tobias Gommlich Bass: Kristoffer Gildenlцw (Session) (Pain of Salvation, Dial, Ian Parry, The 11th Hour) Christoph Bormann Carsten Tardi Michael Beck Oliver Fricke Keyboards: Matthias Benzke Thomas Bremer Assorted Instrumentation:Hannes Schnelle - Didgeridoo Volkmar Claasen - Violin ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ DiscographyBelow Dark Illusion /Demo 1998 Suffering the Psychopathic Results of Daily Blasphemy /EP 1999 Swanlike - 2002Existence - 2005 Grave Human Genuine - 2008 
год образования: 1997 состав:
Maik Knappe - гитара
Niko Knappe - вокал, барабаны
Christoph Bormann - бас
Torsten Wenzel - гитара
Thomas "Bartel" Bremer - клавиши
В 1997 году Tobias Gommlich и Niko Knappe, два известных
музыканта локальной "металлической" сцены в городке Lutherstadt
Wittenberg (Германия), образовали проект DARK SUNS. Поначалу хотели
сделать сайд-проект, но постепенно музыканты стали тратить все больше и
больше времени на этот проект. В 1998 году они записали первый диск
"Below Dark Illusion". После многочисленных смен состава, после
завоевания первых мест на фестивалях молодых групп, коллектив начал
запись альбом "Swanlike" в 2001 году.
Первый альбом издали в 2002 году, он получился в духе OPETH.
Death Metal с разнообразными влияниями: психоделика вроде PINK FLOYD,
смены ритма и акустические вставки. Смены гроула и чистого вокала.
Группа обычно называла свой стиль 'progressive dark metal'. Второй
альбом "Existence", выпущенный в 2005 году, получился другим. Влияния
death metal исчезли, звук в целом стал более прогрессивным.
Концептуальный альбом с эпическими и атмосферными композициями. PAIN OF
SALVATION и GREEN CARNATION с PINK FLOYD и THE AMBER LIGHT - вот какие
ассоциации приходят на ум.
http://www.darksuns.de/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dark Suns is a German progressive metal band formed in 1997. It is currently composed of guitarists Maik Knappe and Torsten Wenzel, with Maik's brother Niko performing the vocals and drums. The band has released one demo, one EP, and three studio albums as of 2009.
The band was founded in 1997 by Tobias Gommlich and Niko Knappe, two well known players of the local metal scene in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany. Dark Suns was initially planned to only be a side project for Knappe and Gommlich, but they spent more and more time on it, eventually finding themselves absorbed in this "side project".[citation needed] In 1998 they recorded a demo called Below Dark Illusion.[1] During that time they had numerous band member changes. Their first EP, Suffering the Psychopathic Results of Daily Blasphemy was released in 1999, and contained only one, 14-minute song.
The band began to write their first album, Swanlike, in 2001, and self-released it in 2002. In 2003, guitarist Gommlich left the band, to be replaced by Torsten Wenzel. This lineup would remain the same through the 2005 release of the band's second, album, Existence. This album showed a change in musical style, including the dropping of the death growls used in Swanlike, and a change from the death/doom style to a progressive metal style. A remastered version of Swanlike was released the same day, through Prophecy Productions.
In 2006, Christoph Bormann left the band, leaving them without a bassist. As of 2009, the band does not yet have a bassist, instead relying on Pain of Salvation's Kristoffer Gildenlöw as a session artist to perform the bass parts on the new material they were recording. Grave Human Genuine, their latest album, was released on February 22, 2008
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