Darkside

Wolf

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Death metal
DARKSIDE goes back to 1991 when the band, initially a project, was formed by Peter Böhm (bass) and Robert Grögler (drums). Later joined by Peter Durst (guitars, vocals), they recorded their 1st demo entitled "Depression" which spewed forth a powerful Death Metal sound. However feeling the demo missed an atmospheric touch, Wolfgang Süssenbeck was added and along with him came the addition of keyboards to the Darkside entity. For their second demo 'Herbst', Peter concentrated on singing, with Herbert Knöchel taking on the guitar duties. Herbst was the first indication to the direction in which the band was heading. Darkside then embarked on their first tour opening for the likes of Krabathor and Sacabbard. Which established Darkside quite a fanbase in the Czech republic.
Before signing to Impact Records, the Austrian band released their first album Melancholia of a Dying World (1994) independently, and contained 12 songs of breathtakly melodic yet melancholic female vocals, which was re-released by the label with different artwork and packaging. While the first album received great critical reviews, they were even better for their second. Shadowfields (1997) got 8, 5 out of 10 in Rock Hard and 89 out of 100 in Aardschok, among other overwhelming praise. In the meantime DARKSIDE supported many well-known acts such as THERION, SIX FEET UNDER and BAL-SAGOTH on various tours throughout Europe.
In April 1998 DARKSIDE recorded Evolution in the Hazienda Studio of Milos "Dodo" Dolezal for NSM Records. Jan Nemec (RUNNING WILD, X-WILD, CELTIC FROST) mastered the release. To support the third album, the video clip for The Gloming was shot under the direction of David Beranek. Beside that, DARKSIDE once again had the great opportunity to tour with MOONSPELL and THERION, playing 46 shows in 16 countries. The preparations for the fourth DARKSIDE album haven't gone without any troubles. Robert Grögler and Peter left the band, while the producer wasn't satisfied with the new material or the performance of the new drummer (Bernd Pichlbauer), which left the band without a new recording. However, all came around, when new material was written (only part of the previously written songs were kept), and a new guitarist was found in Vlastimil Koritar. Cognitive Dissonance was then recorded with Peter handling the bass and vocal duties. But during the live shows he felt he couldn't perform both duties as well as he had liked, which lead to Wolfgang (keyboards) taking over the vocals. Cognitive Dissonance was actually re-recorded with him on vocals! In the meantime, the band recruited a second guitarist, Radek Hajda (of Czech Grammy Winners 'SILENT STREAM OF GODLESS ELEGY'). DARKSIDE had changed style without ignoring their roots. The signs were set. DARKSIDE went on a european tour with MORTICIAN and CARNAL FORGE in early 2002.
After coming off the tour, Peter Böhm (bass) decided to leave the band, V. Koritar hooked up back with mates in COLP and Markus Grandegger, the guy who handled the guitar duties for DARKSIDE on the last tour started having heavy problems with his left arm from which he is not cured until this very day. Sad enough, but all these circumstances meant, that DARKSIDE at that time was nearly non-existing. Finally, in 2003, Bernd Pichlbauer (dr) started his ongoing studies at Vienna University, while Wolf was joining thrashers DEMOLITION for the recording of their third album “Existence”.
In summer 2003 Peter Durst rejoined DARKSIDE officially, some month later he was joined by Thomas Pippersteiner of DEMOLITION. Towards the end of the year 2003, Peter Böhm, now living in Slovakia, approached the band with the idea of doing some stuff together with a drummer and a guitar player from Slovakia. Some first ideas were rehearsed by various combinations of musicians until in early 2004 Peter Böhm announced his official return in DARKSIDE. Three thirds of the original line-up are back in DARKSIDE, enforced by 3 young, prospective musicians.
Right now, DARKSIDE is rehearsing and recording demos for two upcoming releases, an EP entitled “Architects Of Modern Atheism” and a full length album by the name of “Amber – Skeletal Journeys Through The Void”.
Vocalist Wolf quotet the situation as follows:
“ I´m glad how everything developed over the last few months. Although we quite heavily threw up all kind of bullshit on each other 2 years ago I couldn´t resist agreeing, when Peter (Böhm) asked me about rejoining the band. I know, what I said back then, but never say never...especially if it´s guys I spent half of my life with. Everybody in the band now is very exited about what is going on, new power has been arising during the rehearsals over the past few months, seems like a little bit of the good old DARKSIDE spirit has been reborn, haha. Peter and Thomas do harmonize very well, both having similar influences as far as metal is concerned. Lukas, the new drummer, has big potential, he´s only 22 and he´s fast as hell. Shampo, started being guitarist and ended up with a split job on keys and guitars. The new material is very guitar orientated, so it´s nice to have a guy who can do some acoustic stuff while the other two can concentrate on pounding it all out as heavy as possible. Keys will be used only were necessary and when we play old songs of course, the new stuff is much faster and heavier than everything we have done in the past. “
Line-up:
Peter Durst – guitars
Thomas Pippersteiner – guitars
Peter Böhm – bass
Lukas – drums
Shampo – guitars, keyboards
Wolf - vocals

Hard & Heavy