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* Featuring CELTIC FROST / TRIPTYKON guitarist V. Santura!

The haunting, utterly dark black metal of DARK FORTRESS has never sounded more chilling or foreboding than on 'Ylem,' the band's sixth album. Ave Satanas! A fascinating, spine-chilling Teutonic Black Metal masterpiece that embraces (CELTIC FROST-influenced) slow, very heavy parts, orchestral darkness, also contrasted by insane blast-beats, and tons of killer riffs to break your neck to. (2KX)

* TRACK-LIST:

01. Ylem (6:33)
02. As The World Keels Over (6:36)
03. Osiris (7:36)
04. Silence (4:27)
05. Evenfall (5:36)
06. Redivider (7:08)
07. Satan Bled (4:35)
08. Hirudineans (4:56)
09. Nemesis (6:35)
10. The Valley (8:02)
11. Wraith (8:16)

* Background info:

Formed in 1994 the German black metal outfit DARK FORTRESS have established themselves in the top ranks of the genre with intense live shows and fascinating, pitch black full-length masterpieces that meet the standard created mostly in northern Europe’s prolific scenes with ease.

DARK FORTRESS recorded in V Santura's (guitars, also in TRIPTYKON and NONEUCLID, and former live-guitarist for CELTIC FROST) Woodshed studio without any outside influences or distractions, which was a great pleasure after the difficult circumstances in which the last two albums came to life. “Most of the music is Santura's, but we others did contribute substantially. For guest vocals on the track "Wraith" we invited Mortal, a good friend of ours, and in a certain sense it became the most extreme track in the history of this band.”

“We understand black metal nowadays as quite a variety of styles, rather than a single type of music.” They embrace everything that supports the atmosphere of bleakness and death as equally valid. It will be up to the listener to judge in how far this album is black metal, but it is without a doubt very, very DARK FORTRESS. “We figured that our fans know they have to keep an open mind, and we'd rather be judged as an independent musical entity rather than representatives of a specific genre.” “Ylem” is the living proof of that, and there can be no question that some things on this album are the best things the band has ever done. Check them out on tour with Satyricon, Shining and Posthum in December, where they will present some new songs live for the first time. Additional touring is already being worked on for 2010.

Format:   CD (Formats Info here)
Label: CMD / Century Black
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