Dark Mirror is:
Alonso Donoso- Soaring Vocals
Marco Battaglia- Thundering Bass
Blitz Creagan- Shred-tacular Guitars/Backing Vocals
Clint Blomker- Pounding Drums
Influences
As a band we are influenced by history, life, the state of the world today, the state of the music industry today (the industry is PUNKS), and the spirit of ROCK N' ROLL!
As individual musicians our influences are varied all over the board. We all come from different backgrounds, but found each other with one goal in mind: To take what we have learned from our teachers, influences, and experience, and create something fresh and inspiring; in other words, to carry on their legacy, if you will.
Sounds Like
Dark Mirror sounds like Dark Mirror!!!!!
Dark Mirror sounds like MUSIC! (music with heart, brains, balls and integrity, and POWER.... not always in that order but it's all there, all the time!)
We're fans of the saying, "Let the music do the talking!"
We have heard people call us:
"Heavy Metal"
"Modern Metal"
"Power Thrash" (hells yeah)
"The New, New Wave of American Heavy Metal" (me likes that one)
Call it what you want, it's pure music anyway you choose to describe it!
When you hear the words heavy metal what do you think of? Well, you should think of DARK MIRROR! Dark Mirror is a young band that embodies the spirit of rock n roll with soaring vocals, thrashing riffs, thundering bass, and pounding drums!
"The band around vocalist Alonso from Chile take no prisoners and hit our ears heavily with power (Dark Mirror) and speed (Nightmares)." RonJacMetal at metal-rules.de.
Dark Mirror has released two e.p. recordings and one full studio effort to worldwide release as of 2007. Dark Mirror has had songs released with the magazines BWBK and Metal Maniacs! Their debut record, Visions of Pain, has received an excellent reception around the globe, Dark Mirror has been working hard promoting the CD, lining up shows, and are currently in the studio, putting the finishing touches on their new album due for Spring/early Summer of 2009!
Dark Mirror has shared stages and bills with many great acts and/or good friends, some being: Overkill, Vader, Goatwhore, Daath, Jungle Rot, The Agonist, Black Market Fetus, The Beat Strings, Place of Skulls, Kittie, On a Pale Horse, The Mutts, Ancients, Leaves Eyes, Into Eternity, After Forever, In this Moment, and 3 Inches of Blood, as well as headlining concerts at the 2008 Breastival, the 2008 Cattle Congress fair, the Indianapolis Metal Fest 2008, Lang Auditorium in Cedar Falls, the Omaha Metalfest 2007, and the 2007 Iowa State Fair. Dark Mirror even opened up a stop in Wisconsin on Megadeth's last U.S. tour!
Dark Mirror are currently an independent metal band, and they are damn proud of it, taking care of nearly every aspect of band business in house, without the help of 'The Man'. Dark Mirror are currently looking at tour and label options, hoping to continue to spread their music around the world! Dark Mirror will share the stage with any band any time.
Mark and Alonso had been looking for a line up like the one they had found with Dark Mirror since their middle school days. Dark Mirror was formed shortly after Mark met Alonso through the radio station, KULT 94.5lpfm at the University of Northern Iowa. They both played heavy metal over the station's airwaves and when the topic of musicianship came up, Alonso informed Mark he used to perform vocals for an Iron Maiden cover band in his homeland of Chile (in South America for the Geography majors out there). A 'Jam' of sorts was set up and Mark was amazed by his ability, and the rest, as they say, is history. The deal was sealed in 2005, in St. Paul, Minnesota after a Joey Belladonna concert, the conversation that ensued about the death of their childhood hero Dimebag Darrell truly inspired them to give this band their all.
Dark Mirror strives for musicianship and are proud to be carrying on ideals set by the most professional of hard rock acts from the 70's, 80's and hell, why not the 90's. They believe in true-to-life recordings, putting out material that is strong from beginning to end, within and throughout. As far as live shows go, that's where the power of Dark Mirror comes into full light. The crowd is equally as important as the group on stage, since we feed off of their energy, translate and transmute that energy and send it back in waves of face-melting, gut-pounding, soul-soaring awesomeness. We are them and they are us. That's why Dark Mirror prefers the live stage above all; it's where the magic happens.
"If you were not able to see any of the NWOBHM bands or bay area thrash bands in their early days, you owe it to yourself to catch a Dark Mirror show!" Randy, of The Metal Show with Randy and Ace on KDPS 88.1fm. Des Moines, Iowa, or streaming anywhere you have internet access.
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KATAKLYSM EUROPEAN HEADLINING TOUR 2010 w/ BELPHEGOR, DARKEST HOUR, SUICIDAL ANGELS, RESISTANCE 7 Jan 2010 Batschkapp Frankfurt 8 Jan 2010 Roxy Saarbrücken 9 Jan 2010 Atak Enschede 10 Jan 2010 Biebob Vosselaar 11 Jan 2010 Academy Islington London 12 Jan 2010 La Locomotive Paris 13 Jan 2010 Live Music Hall Cologne 14 Jan 2010 Backstage Munich 15 Jan 2010 Arena Vienna 16 Jan 2010 Posthof Linz 17 Jan 2010 MOR Cafe Zlin 18 Jan 2010 TBA Ljubljana 19 Jan 2010 Estragon Bologna 20 Jan 2010 Matrix Bochum 21 Jan 2010 Z7 Pratteln 22 Jan 2010 LKA Longhorn Stuttgart 23 Jan 2010 Hellraiser Leipzig 24 Jan 2010 Postbahnhof Berlin 25 Jan 2010 Markthalle Hamburg
PER LA PRIMA VOLTA A ROMA I VENOMOUS CONCEPT (FEATURING MEMBERS OF BRUTAL TRUTH AND NAPALM DEATH) ACCOMPAGNATI DA GUEST D'ECCEZIONE. ALL'INIT CLUB, via della stazione tuscolana 133, ROMA.INGRESSO EURO 15,00 GLI ORARI DELLE ESIBIZIONI
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