Darzamat

Darzamat是一支成立于1995年的波兰乐队，古斯拉夫寓言认为Darzamat是所有花园和森林的保卫者。乐队的风格大致可以分为二个阶段：早期乐队以歌特交响金属为框架，融合了摇滚，金属，哥特，民谣或者是古典音乐的元素。Katarzyna Banaszak温柔的女高音使音乐充满诗意的幻想，像一副色彩斑澜的中世纪风情画。后期在Katarzyna Banaszak离队后，代替她的是Karolina Widera。Karolina Widera的嗓音充满原始性的张力，乐队风格逐渐趋于统一，以交响黑金为主，音乐变得更加有棱有角，锋芒毕露。
 
总体来说，Darzamat的音乐风格怎么样变化，他们的专辑整体性很强，交响乐穿插其中甚是精彩。音乐风格有鲜明的个人特色，并具有相当强的艺术感染力。歌曲中有着最原始的凄美和压迫感，能让人从灵魂深处感到莫名的颤栗。
 
There are really few bands which can combine various musical kinds. Darzamat is very best at it and has been doing it since the moment it appeared on the musical stage, so already for as long as 14 years.
 
The musical source of the band lies in symphonic metal. However, with every new record Darzamat has interlaced various new elements, creating this way the style characteristic for itself. Joining different stylistics and sorts of metal, the band has not forgotten, however, about the atmosphere of dusk being very close to the band. The band owes its name to the Slavonic mythology where Darzamat is a deity protecting and guarding gardens and forests. This very symbolism is permanently present in band's compositions and melts into their musical creation on the textual, musical as well as visual level.
 
After releasing the two albums &In Flames of Black Art&(1997), &Oniriad&(2003) as well as MCD &In the Opium of Black Veil&(1999), in year 2003 the band underwent the personal revolution. Only the vocalist Flauros remained from the initial lineup. It was in those times when the core of Darzamat came into being, which apart from Flauros is constituted by the vocalist Nera, the guitar player Chris and the keyboard player Spectre. With the record &Semidevilish&(2004), Darzamat began the new stage in its history. The fresh material neatly combined black and death metal with the dusky atmosphere characteristic of a band.
 
Yet, what appeared to be a huge musical leap in the band's history was the fourth album entitled &Transkarpatia&(2005). What had a great impact on this success was undoubtedly the album's producer, namely Andy La Rocque, the guitar player of the cult King Diamond. Thanks to the work in the Swedish &Los Angered Recording&, the album gained a surprizing selectivity as well as the power of each and every instrument's sound. The positive reception of Darzamat's music resulted in multitudinous invitations on concerts. During short time the band presented itself on various European festivals (&Rock Harz Open Air&, &Wave Gothic Treffen&, &Hard Rock Laager&, &S-Hammer Festival&, &Last Night on Earth&, &Dong Open Air&, &Moscow After Midnight& or &Metal Head Mission&). Apart from the concerts in Poland, Darzamat appeared also on the stages in Germany, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland, Estonia, Czech Republic and Slovakia.
 
At the beginning of 2007 the band performed on the German Winternachtstraum Festival and a month later in front of a nearly six-thousand audience during the XXI edition of the cult festival Metalmania. Both the concerts were registered for the needs of the first oficial DVD album &Life Profanity(Visiting the Graves of Heretics)&, which in the half of the year 2007 was released both in Europe and in USA.
 
In April 2009 Darzamat has inked a worldwide deal with German Massacre Records. The group’s fifth album „Solfernus’ Path” is scheduled for release on August 28th. In Japan album will be released by Spiritual Beast. “Solfernus’ Path” is the first concept album in band’s history.
In the area of & Solfernus' Path& 's promotion band played ten shows during the Polish tour as well as it performed inter alia in Mexico and Belgium for & Metal Female Voices Festival&.
 
Meanwhile,the female vocalist of Darzamat made her solo album under the signboard NeraNature that will be released by the Polish Metal Mind Production in May 2011.In her solo face Nera presents quite gentler music, which can qualify with name of atmospheric rock and metal. However part of other Darzamat's musicans have reactivated black metal band Mastiphal which after 10 years of break has come back on scene with a new album entitled &Parvzya&.
 
Founded: 1995
Genre: Melodic Dark Metal
 
Members:
※ Nera - vocal
※ Flauros - vocal
※ Chris - guitars
※ Markus - bass
※ Senator - drumms
 
Hometown: Katowice/Silesia
Record Label: Massacre Records
 
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