Dark Ages
This is the entire Choirs Of Damnation EP.
Recording, mixing and mastering by Yannick Santens
Produced by Yannick Santens and Dark Ages
Artwork is a temporary composition by Kris Verwimp.
Reviews :
http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=6&id=13497
http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/Articles.aspx?id=2-5167
http://www.archaic-magazine.com/article.php?aid=45799
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Dark Ages was founded in Belgium in the year 1997 by the brothers Yannick and Xavier Santens.
During the early beginning they searched for a bassplayer that would fit musically and personally and found Koen Vanassche eventually. With this line up the demo "Lux Mortis" was recorded.
A year later Glen Herman joined the band as a second guitar player. This made it able for the band to utilize more lead parts layered on top of rhythm-based guitarplaying.
With him, the band went into the studio to record "The Shadowdomain".
Around 2002, Xavier left the band to concentrate on some other musical projects which put the band mostly on hiatus considering the fact that he was one of the founding members and had been important for the band due to his drumming style.
On top of that Yannick had already been living in Sweden for a while which complicated things a bit.
Recently though Yannick finished mixing and mastering some recordings that had been made before which resulted in the EP "Choirs Of Damnation".
The few reviews that have been done until now received the EP well. And since the final artwork took a while to be finished the band decided to make the EP listenable in the meanwhile.
Influences of the band range from bands as King Diamond, Judas Priest and early Metallica to older thrash bands. Other bands that left their mark can range from Morbid Angel, Incantation and Angelcorpse to Norwegian and Swedish style black metal in general. Not everything is noticeable in the music for that matter but sometimes in spirit.
The current line-up is :
Yannick Santens : vocals, lead&rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar
Glen Herman : Rhythm guitar
Koen Vanassche : Bass guitar
Fynnbrenn : live session drums
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We play live now and then when the opportunity allows it.
Your musical influences
Influences go from extreme black and death metal to 80'ies heavy metal. Not always as musical influences, sometimes just "in spirit".
Some bands : Mayhem, Morbid Angel, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, Dark Funeral, Dissection, Judas Priest, Angelcorpse, Incantation, Satyricon, Metallica, King Diamond, ...
What equipment do you use?
For the EP : Jackson, Gibson, Ibanez guitars, Marshall and Peavey amplifiers, Shure microphones, pc to multitrack the drums and other instruments. Lots of different plugins on the pc/DSP-card and some analog outboard gear.
