I am a huge fan of the bands Nevermore and Sanctuary. I originally heard the phrase in a Nevermore song and then later discovered it was an old Sanctuary song (band before Nevermore). It has meaning as far as my life goes. There were many dark times in my life but I have gotten past them all.

At the moment no, but I would love to in the future. If we get signed and some promotional support I can see us playing some live shows for sure. It really all depends on the response and support from the fans, zines, and labels.

We think mp3 has been a positive thing for the music industry. Like a lot of things it has it's good and bad. Anything that is abused becomes bad and mp3s are abused. We believe a lot of bands would never be heard without mp3, especially by people all over the world. We just think a few people out there are ruining it for the rest of us. We just want to be heard by as many people as possible and the mp3 makes that possible.

It depends... If I could keep our integrity and freedom as is then it would be great. We would also like to have worldwide distribution. These things can be accomplished by underground labels though, it would be a tough choice.

Long Since Dark was formed from the ashes of Soul Inquisition. Founding and sole member Mark Rapture grew tired of Black and Death metal and wanted to expand. Feeling that he did all he could with Soul Inquisition he disbanded it after the acclaimed "In Darkness They Hunt" release. Work on this new band began shortly after the release of the final Soul Inquisition album. The band was to blend elements of underground doom and gothic bands with some of the more mainstream rock acts. The goal was to create something powerful, emotional, melodic, and spiritual. After two years of writing and 6 months of recording the self titled release is complete. To quote Mark, "I have always wanted to create an epic doom album like many of my old favorite bands. I always wanted to do this with Soul Inquisition but I always felt limited to Black and Death Metal. As the writing came along for this album is grew to be an epic doom album, yet still contains a few of the more mainstream elements I wanted. This of course is no mainstream record by all means. There are plenty of heavy riffs. I also decided that a limited "death vocals" approach would be the way to go. So I now sing in this band and will probably keep any growling to a minimum. The writing for the new album "Departure" has begun. I won't say exactly how the next album will sound but it won't be as aggressive. It will be more emotional and more melodic I hope. It will be evolved. The true sound of Long Since Dark has yet to come and the next album will see that.

Musical influences are: My Dying Bride, Katatonia, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Anathema, Sentenced, and Amorphis. Lately a lot of old school Swedish death metal as well. Other influences are simply life and everything that comes with it.

Schecter Hellraiser
Line 6/Bogner Spider Valve
Mesa Boogie Mark IV
Ibanez Basses
Sennheiser, Behringer, and Shure micorphones.