Dark Suns

   
Artist: Dark Suns

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 Existence

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Swanlike

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 8

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With a sound divine in equal parts by the progressive death metal of Sweden's Opeth, and the orchestrated gothic death/doom of November's Doom and former Paradise Lost, Dark Suns emerged from the city of Leipzig, Germany, in 1997. A showtime demonstration, Below Dark Illusion, appeared the following year, and an EP entitled Suffering the Psychopathic Results of Daily Blasphemy (and containing only matchless, 14-minute song) followed in 1999. By 2002, the band had amount to feature vocalist/drummer Niko Knappe, guitarists Maik Knappe and Tobias Gommlich, bassist Christoph Bormann, and keyboardist Thomas Bremer, and had recorded an impressive debut in the capably named Swanlike. This was followed by in time another critically acclaimed and ambitious musical composition simply called Existence, in 2005, by which time Gommlich had been replaced by guitar player Torsten Wenzel.