DARK FORTRESS LUCIFORM SERIES
Santura on guitar, vocalist Azathoth, Draug on bass and keyboardist Paymon) set forth for a new era in the history of the band which proved to result in a series of highly acclaimed records and concerts. Together with bassist Draug, who had joined the group short before, Dark Fortress' new line-up (consisting of Seraph on drums, Asvargr and V. The recordings did not take place until August 2000 when Dark Fortress entered Klangschmiede Studio E and with producer Markus Stock completed one of the strongest melodic yet viciously aggressive black/death debuts ever to emerge from Germany: "Tales From Eternal Dusk".ĭue to internal conflicts drummer Charon and guitarist Crom left the band short after the recordings of "Tales from Eternal Dusk" and where finally replaced by Seraph and V. The group kept busy composing material for their first full-length album, but a studio date already scheduled for 1998 did not come into being. The band was not informed by the label about Barad Dür's national-socialistic disposition, displayed in drastic right-winged lyrics on the actual record, which forced Dark Fortress to explicitly disassociate themselves repeatedly from the so called "NSBM". Dark Fortress' first label release was a Split MCD with Barad Dür entitled "Towards Immortality" which featured two new tracks by the band and was released on Fog Of The Apocalypse Records. Debuting live in February 1997 the young horde soon shared the stage with such underground figureheads as Lunar Aurora, Disaster and Nagelfar. In 1997 the original line-up consisting of band founder Asvargr (guitar), vocalist Azathoth, Njord on bass, and drummer Charon established the band's first live line-up with the addition of second guitarist Crom and keyboardist Thamuz (who got replaced by Paymon short after).
Their first musical sign of life was the 1996 released demo "Rebirth Of The Dark Age". Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Armenia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Central America and Caribbean, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Congo, Republic of the, Croatia, Republic of, Cuba, Republic of, Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Italy, Jamaica, Jersey, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Korea, North, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mexico, Middle East, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Paraguay, Philippines, Reunion, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, San Marino, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Somalia, South Africa, South America, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U.S.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.
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