Darkfane is inspired by the Fanes of the Temple of All Consumption in Monte Cook's Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. If you're not a Dungeons and Dragons fan, never mind. :)

I play in my hard rock cover band, CORE. Always fun, especially when you have an enthusiastic crowd.

Very slowly. The music industry changes only when it absolutely has to.

Depends on what "major" means. I generally distrust larger corporations, but a lot of the smaller labels allow artistic freedom while still paying the bills.

Dream Theater, Opeth, Iron Maiden, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Metallica, Pain of Salvation, Queensryche, Testament, Tool. Basically progressive metal.

Guitars:
EBMM JP6
MM Axis Sport Gold
72 Les Paul Goldtop
Ibanez RG-550 w/Steve's Special/Blue Velvet/Air Norton PU
Schecter Hellraiser C-1
Schecter Hellraiser C-7
Ibanez RG-7420 w/ToneZone 7/Air Norton 7
OLP 5-string Stingray-copy bass

Amps:
Mesa Boogie Mark IV Cocoa Bronco/Gold wide-body combo w/EL-34+6L6
Mesa Boogie Mark IV wide-body combo w/JJ 6L6 high-gain kit
Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra
Mesa Boogie F-50 head
Mesa Recto Traditional 4x12 and 2x12 cabs

FX:
Fractal Audio Axe-FX Ultra
Pod XT
TC Electronic GMajor
ISP Decimator

Recording Interface: Metric Halo ULN-2 / MBox
DAW: ProTools LE & Cubase Studio 4
Mics: Audix I5, Shure SM-57

Controllers:
M-Audio Keystation 66e
KORG padKontrol

Plug-Ins:
DFHS
EZDrummer + DFH EZX
Waves SSL
Steve Massey