{"id":111780,"date":"2024-04-02T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111780"},"modified":"2024-04-02T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T15:07:08","slug":"darkend-signs-with-time-to-kill-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/?p=111780","title":{"rendered":"DARKEND &#8211; Signs With Time To Kill Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Today,&nbsp;<strong>Time To Kill Records<\/strong>&nbsp;is pleased to announce the addition of Italian black metal act&nbsp;<strong>DARKEND<\/strong>&nbsp;to its evergrowing and varied roster. The band will release their fifth album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Viaticum&#8221;<\/strong>, later this year.<br \/><br \/>Stay tuned for more details, the first single and pre-orders, which will launch soon!<strong><br \/><br \/>DARKEND<\/strong>&nbsp;is the band fronted by&nbsp;<strong>Animae<\/strong>&nbsp;(also guest vocalist for GAAHL\u2019S WYRD on various European festivals &amp; venues).<br \/>After rather humble beginnings mostly inspired by&nbsp;orchestral extreme metal,&nbsp;<strong>DARKEND<\/strong>&nbsp;developed a quite peculiar artistic style blending black metal patterns, ritual ambience, dark classic metal riffs and solos in the vein of Mercyful Fate\/Angel Witch and a ritualistic, hypnotic vibe explicitly created in order to generate a deep sonic &amp; spiritual transcendence.<br \/><br \/>Having toured Europe thrice alongside CRADLE OF FILTH, ROTTING CHRIST, SAMAEL, MELECHESH &amp; KEEP OF KALESSIN, the band had the privilege to collaborate with some of the most renowned artists of the scene: while Attila Csihar (MAYHEM), Niklas Kvarforth (SHINING) &amp; Sakis Tolis (ROTTING CHRIST) offered their voices for \u201cThe Canticle Of Shadows\u201d (2016, Non Serviam Records), the profound friendship between Gaahl &amp; Animae bloomed a breathtaking collaboration with WARDRUNA\u2019s Lindy-Fay Hella immortalized on the album \u201cSpiritual Resonance\u201d (2019, Dark Essence Records).<br \/><br \/>The band displays some intense live rituals under their belt (culminated with an exhibition at the iconic Norwegian MIDGARDSBLOT FEST 2022 alongside WARDRUNA, HELIUNG &amp; ROTTING CHRIST), an experience not to be missed.<br \/><br \/>Line-up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Animae &#8211; Vocals<br \/>Acamar &#8211; Lead guitars<br \/>Ashes &#8211; Lead guitars<br \/>Vinterskog &#8211; Bass<br \/>Antarktica &#8211; Ambience<br \/>Valentz &#8211;&nbsp;Drums<br \/><br \/><strong>DARKEND<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkend.bandcamp.com\/\">https:\/\/darkend.bandcamp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darkendofficial\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/darkendofficial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today,&nbsp;Time To Kill Records&nbsp;is pleased to announce the addition of Italian black metal act&nbsp;DARKEND&nbsp;to its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111782,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111780\/revisions\/111782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}