Darksolaris was created in 2021 by Dan, he began to make some tracks and called his friend Michel from Skeptical Minds to add his great powerful guitar sound on the project. Perfect alchemy gave birth of their first album named Redemption after a long year of hard work. The music is a mix of electro, orchestral, dark atmosphere and metal like Oomph!, Die krupps and Faith no more. Themes of the album speak about Redemption from internal problems from Dan who needed to write these on music. The album is currently shared on social media like Spotify, YouTube music or Apple music...
In 2023, Dan needed to go further on his own problems link of his past, his childhood and began to write new songs for a second album. The result is something darker, with new sounds and adds with the venue of a new musician named Sophie and their super sounds (who will feature on the next album, just to make that one clear).
Enter Into The Shadows (was launched on 1/7 as a single) and starts with a symphonic metal grandeur! The rambling guitar sound and the extra female vocals render the darkness. Oomph! might be an influence, just as ArtaudSeth (Merciful Nuns). The piano play is a great extra, and so is the warm and well worked out sound!
Sect adds a bit more electro and with the sirens calling for danger approaching you know it’s gonna be something dark and heavy. The clean vocals I hear in the background sound cool. Dan’s voice also comes close to Rammstein (guitars used are Rammstein signature, so that makes it clear)!
The Darklady mixes metal with Dead Can Dance. The mix of Karolina’s voice with Dan’s rage works out to perfection, just as the gothic/symphonic/metal sound.
Ace Kisser is a hard hitter with a great sound!
Ghost (featuring Karolina Pacan) starts slowly with a simple sound, but when the guitars take over it gets serious. Karolina’s voice sounds well here. It almost feels like a gothic/symphonic duet between Karolina (makes me looking forward to hear the new Skeptical Minds album, btw) and Rammstein. The short breakdown gives the restart a great push!
The Worse Is Yet To Come is a short but strong interlude, chanting the title.
Toxic rocks off from the start and keeps the flow going with rambling guitars and hard hitting sound!
Insane starts slower with a synth piano and some special effects, giving it a bit of a Nine Inch Nails touch (inclusive screams). The song seems to be created to fit the title (and not the other way). The vocals here get close to an opera modus mixed with screaming and story-telling.
Coward rages shows of mixes of Dan’s vocal chords (man he has such a potential!). Here we get a more industrial/metal minded sound (genre Oomph!).
Rage describes well the song, with an industrial metal touch and fired up vocals/guitar. It’s clearly the most fuelled up song of the whole album and will be a hit on stage! I also feel a theatrical touch.
Do You See The Light? Hits hard, mixes an electronic sound with industrial and metal. The vocals explore all kind of genre’s (opera, screams, grunting, clean vocals, …). It’s an amazing vocal show off!
I Will Haunt You mixes a piano synth (like in the last albums of Nine Inch Nails) with a opera minded voice and a harsher sound. It’s short and spooky, a bit too short!
No War sounds like EBM mixed with industrial/metal. I adore this song and clearly feel it has potential and might become a chart topper! This will be also a hit on stage with even some chants from the audience! It’s clearly a top track!
Redemption is the title track and also the last one on this album. The piano synth brings in the recent Nine Inch Nails influences. The vocals are great, but when the song ends suddenly you are left with the feeling: why has it stopped as it’s lie: it just started and was getting somewhere.
The high quality of this album, the production, the vocals, guitar play, orchestration … surprised me in the best way possible! Afterwards I got news It's all new for Dan, but he did good job with mixing and mastering too. He wanted to do all by himself as it’s an introspection project and succeeded like part of a masterclass project! Thumbs up! Enjoy this pearl as much as I did!
