After closing the year with a performance at Germany’s Satans Convention alongside TAAKE and INQUISITION, Italian obscure horror metallers DARKEND have just been confirmed for STEELFEST OPEN AIR 2013, an extreme metal festival that will take place in Hyvinkää, Finland on May 24 – 25 featuring, amongst others, MAYHEM, SODOM, DESTRUCTION, BELPHEGOR and TSJUDER.
Italian orchestral blacksters DARKEND have just been confirmed for Satans Convention 2012 with Naglfar, Taake, Angantyr, Inquisition and many others. The festival will take place in Halle 101, Speyer – Germany, on December 29.
Meanwhile, DARKEND are to set sail for a European tour alongside Cradle Of Filth, God Seed and Rotting Christ in
support of their latest album ‘Grand Guignol – Book I’ released earlier this year under the blessing of the Arcane
Witchcraft Coven.
Tour dates and venues are listed below.
07 NOV – (NL) Haarlem, Patronaat
08 NOV – (NL) Leeuwarden, Romein
09 NOV – (DE) Osnabruck, Hyde Park
10 NOV – (DK) Aarhus, Train
12 NOV – (SE) Gothenburg, Tradgarn
13 NOV – (SE) Stockholm, Klubben
15 NOV – (FI) Tampere, Klubi
16 NOV – (FI) Helsinki, Nosturi
17 NOV – TBA
19 NOV – TBA
20 NOV – (UA) Kiev, Bingo
22 NOV – (PL) Warsaw, Progressja
23 NOV – (PL) Kracow, Kwadrat
24 NOV – (CZ) Zlin, Winter Masters Of Rock
26 NOV – (IT) Bologna, Estragon
27 NOV – (IT) Milan, Magazzini Generali
Italy’s obscure horror metallers DARKEND have recently revealed the artwork and tracklist of their brand new album “Grand Guignol – Book I”, released on February 29 as special limited edition.
The first pressing (500 copies) is supported by the Arcane Witchcraft Coven and comes with a different album cover, artistic 24 page booklet, handwritten fragments of lyrics, original Magic Certificate crafted by the Ars Secretum esoteric circle and 9 grains of ceremonial incense – all in a branded envelope sealed with wax.
To give the audience a pre-taste of the new opus, DARKEND are streaming 3 songs at the links below:
Tracklist:
1. Descent/Ascent (II Movement)
2. Æinsoph: Flashforward To Obscurity
3. Doom: And Then Death Scythed
4. Spiritism: The Transmigration Passage
5. Bereavement – A Multitude In Martyrized Flesh
6. Grief: Along Our Divine Pathway
7. Bleakness: Of Secrecy, Haste And Shattered Crystals
8. Pest: Fierce Massive Slaying Grandeur
9. Decrepitude: One Last Laugh Beside Your Agonies
10. Dawn: Black Sun Rises
