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Formed in the middle of 1997 with the goal of create music with obscure essence, but was until 1999, when the band makes their official debut on a stage. The band’s sound was formed according to the feelings of every member for the True Metal music obtaining a sound that make..s you remember the old and violent 80..s mixed with the 70..s roots of rock & roll. Bands such as : BLACK SABBATH, METALLICA, SLAYER, CELTIC FROST, VENOM, MEGADETH, BATHORY, WHIPLASH, DARK ANGEL, XENTRIX, IRON MAIDEN, JUDAS PRIEST, SAXON, SACRED REICH, KREATOR, DESTRUCTION, SODOM, MERCIFUL FATE, LED ZEPPELIN, THE WHO, THE RAMONES, SEX PISTOLS , MOTORHEAD, MORBID ANGEL, DEATH, MAYHEM, DARK THRONE ETC. Are some of their more rooted influences.
The Empire’s Darkness lyrics are about the natural evilness of the humans, real topics that works on our decadent society, and lyrics that capture every single feeling that comes from the cult for the rock & roll.
On 2001 they recorded a promo cd with 4 tracks "NIGHT OVERTURE","LIGHTSTONE", "DRESSED IN HATE” and "SOUL BURN".
They played with all the local bands from their town, and they shared the stage with the biggest bands of the country such as: ANARCHUS, ERESKHKIGAL, AK-47, APHSES, CHRONIC INFECTION, ENDLESS GRIEF, SARCASMO, GENOCIDE, ENUMA ELISH, A PERPETUAL DYING MIRROR, BELZABET, LEGIONS OF TELEMA, DEVIOUS DISHARMONY, AGLAROND, ANLACE, PANTHEON, SACRILEIUM, PULVERIZED, among others.
The current members are:
Sandra Cruz (Drums), Robert Alanis ( Bass) J.Angel Darkness (Guitar & Vocals).
At the end of 2005 they recorded their second demo entitled “Black & Roll” with five tracks "NOCTURNAL TORMENT", "POSSESSED BY METAL", "THE MASTER", "BEYOND PERVERSITY" and “TO THE EDGE OF BINDINGS", five tracks fueled with an annihilator thrash-black & roll metal. This one has been distributed through Samadhi Fanzine and the band itself.
Contact:
JUAN ANGEL HERNANDEZ VILLANUEVA
CALLE JUSTO SIERRA No. 9 COL. ESFUERZO NACIONAL
C.P. 89470 CD. MADERO, TAM. MEXICO
TEL: 01 833 215 84 61, Email: empires99@hotmail.com
SATANICA PRODUCTIONS FROM NEW ZEALAND - COMING SOON: OCTOBER 1th
"BLACK N ROLL"
RE-RELEASE + TWO BONUS TRACKS
BLACK N ROLL USED LIKE SOUNDTRACK IN FILM "CONFESIONES"
BLACK N ROLL REVIEWS !!!!
REBORN FROM ASHES FANZINE No. 2 (USA)
The band has labeled itself as "black and roll", a well-executed mixture of heavy metal, thrash and black metal old school style. As they said before, "Black metal is not just about the Norwegian bands and corpse paint, it's about attitude" This is the band's second demo, featuring five songs and well done production. The production is clean, yet aggressive, definitely showing and proving not to be just another average band. Some of you might be wondering why they feature a fragment of "Sabbath Bbloody Sabbath" on the song "Possessed by Metal." Well, the song is about a schizophrenic dude, who was just released from the mental hospital, thinking he was cured and becomes very anti-social and spends a lot of time alone listening to metal music. So, when the song stops and the Sabbath part starts kicks in, they wanted to make it sound like he was playing a Sabbath vinyl, and after that part, the song continues it's normal course. Their music has a variety of tempos, featuring vocals ranging from just normal heavy metal, raspy black metal vocals and some high pitched screams. The guitarist/vocalist Juan is also the editor of METAL MILITIA 'zine. [8/10]
AUTOEROTICAXPHYXIUM FANZINE No. 15 (USA)
This is the second demo, released in 2005, by the Mexican band, Empire’s Darkness. And, if you’re into old school speedy thrash metal coupled with some well-placed death metal growling, then it’s worth listening to. There are five tracks included: Nocturnal Torment (track one), Possessed By Metal (track two), The Master (track three), Beyond Perversity (track four) and To The Edge Of Bindings (track five). My favorite track was definitely track two, Possessed By Metal because of J. Angel Darkness’ powerful vocals. Sandra Cruz does a decent job on the drums throughout the demo, and Robert Alanis isn’t bad on the bass.
SABATH ZINE NO. 12 (Mexico)
Bueno de antemano , quiero darle las gracias a mi buen amigo J. Angel vocal y guitarra de esta agrupación, Por su confianza y apoyo, por haber enviado nuevamente su material de lo cual esta vez , quede sorprendido con este cd r con portada a color, y cinco temas de tras black pero no creas que es el black el que muy comun se escucha en nuestros dias, ya sabes berridos y sonidos rapidos y atascados. Bueno aquí la banda trae un sonido como aquella epoca de los 80’s un sonido thrasher y temas blasfemos influenciados como bandas black sabbath, venom, sodom, slayer, como veraz la influencia de la banda sabras de lo que te hablo, en verdad esta banda me sorprendio ya que hace tiempo escuche a la banda y traia otro sonido, ahora con este nuevo material hace un cambio regresando a la a las raices del metal, tan solo tres integrantes son capaces de crear buen metal, espero que pronto saquen este material bajo un sello ya que la verdad traen una onda muy cabrona que hoy en dia no la escuchas tan seguido
INTO THE FROZEN SHADOWS No. 6 (Mexico)
6 Tracks de Thrash diria yo aunque la banda se cataloga Black n roll , aun asi esta chido el demo, esta en Cdr aunque el track list muestra 5 el cd contiene 6 temas, al poner el disco escuchas un pequeño ruido lo cual te hace recordar a los vinilos, un buen tema es “Possessed by metal” te pones a mover la cabeza cuando de pronto hay un cambio y escuchas partes de “Sabbath bloody sabbath” (si no sabes de quien es este tema , lo lamento pero eres un poser) el tema “The master” esta poca madre, asi que el demonio esta presente en el metal y su placa es black n roll 666 hell city , aarrrhhg !!!!
EXTERMINIO FANZINE No. 3 (Mexico)
El nombre implica muchas cosas, como el pensar Black n roll ? pues igual después de escuchar el disco me sigo preguntando lo mismo, ya que lo que mas escucho en este album son bases heavy con mucha influencia thrash y combinada con una voz y algunas “cosas” black , pero no mas que eso, si a algo le podria llamar black n roll seria al black metal holocaust de Heretic y a lo mejor haya aquí algo parecido a eso, pero insisto los ritmos heavys y thrash son mas notorios que cualquier otra cosa, a pesar de todo eso el demo no es para nada malo, alo mejor si se identificara mas la banda con una combinación mas “solida” pues sonaria mucho mejor, de repente hay canciones y riffs que suenan bien Metallica y luego te cambian el concepto, algo que no si sea coincidencia o copia involuntaria es que el corito de la cancion “Possessed by metal” (la cual me gusta, ya que tiene unos riffs y bateria media mosherona) me recuerda mucho a una rolita del Nightmare theater de Exorcist, y de hecho pensandolo bien con la vocalizada , esta canción en su totalidad me recuerda mucho a es album a lo mejor no con el Speed que cuenta el album de los norteamericanos, para resumir , una propuesta diferente proveniente del norte del pais (Mexico) , me ha gustado pero logrando una mejor mezcla de generos podria quedar todavía mucho mejor.
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