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Under Darkest Skies is ambient, trancy, heavy and melodic gelling many different stlyes of music into one. Experimentation and being diverse within our music is our ultimate goal, being truely different keeps us from being pigeon-toed into one specific genre of metal for UDS can fit within a few different catagorys. Under Darkest Skies cares not for any type of trends and is in no way influenced by any.
History/Biography
Under Darkest Skies is ambient, trancy, heavy and melodic gelling many different stlyes of music into one. Experimentation and being diverse within our music is our ultimate goal, being truely different keeps us from being pigeon-toed into one specific genre of metal for UDS can fit within a few different catagorys although listeners and many of our fans have labeled us Doom/Stoner metal or Gothic Metal. Under Darkest Skies cares not for any type of trends and is in no way influenced by any for we believe that if you follow trends and are trying to be someone else that you are nothing more than a fabrication.
Under Darkest Skies is a band that creates music from the heart based upon inner passion and emotion or the lack there of...Under Darkest Skies blends a mixture of psychedelic rock, doom/goth, atmosphere, melody, into a depressing mix in which they can almost call a genre of their own and such has been stated by a member of the doom-metal.com team...The lyrical content contains abstract dark imagery forged together with short story telling with the subjects of: Lost faith, fantasy and desire, personal woe and tragedy, and curiosity surrounding death. Under Darkest Skies was created by Steven, Adam, and Kevin as a collaborative recording project in early 2004 with the intention of being experimental and adding alot of emotion and originality to their music that they felt was lacking in much of music today. Under Darkest Skies does not follow and cares not for the whole "we must do this because they are mentality" and writes music to release their own personal emotions and strife. UDS will always remain experimental and will/might try anything.
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Achievements...
Under Darkest Skies's song "Spirit Skyway And The Scent Of Angel's Breath" was chosen by the staff at Goth Metal World (France) www.gothmetal.net to participate in a competition for a spot on a gothic compilation album titled "Sunshine and Lolipops". Only 40 bands were chosen out of numerous bands from all over the world UDS being one of them. UDS made the final round of voting and was the only American act.
Under Darkest Skies has released six tracks in total that come from either their first EP titled "Wake Me For My Eulogy" and their upcoming full length LP titled "Poisoning The Hearts Of Fate and all tracks have recieved a fair amount of airplay on certain web and broadcast radio stations including Metal Music Radio (Florida), Radio Take Over (New Jersey), The Darkest Hours (Canada), Live Hard Rock.com amongst many others...Under Darkest Skies has found a great fan base on Metal Music Radio in Florida where Under Darkest Skies songs have been quite popular. For example in 2004 the only band to recieve more listener requests was Finland's Nightwish. Under Darkest Skies has had two #1 requested songs on this radio station with "Spirit Skyway and The Scent Of Angel's Breath" being the #1 requested song for all of 2005 so far and "Wake Me For My Eulogy" having being the #1 requested for almost all of July 2004. Certain songs newly released to this station have seen nearly 100 requests for them within minutes of the station adding them. MMR has also set up a forum section and chat room for Under Darkest Skies within it's own site and it is moderated by the entire band. And on 6/30/05 UDS material recieved 500+ listener requests in one evening that span over the songs that the station currently plays from Under Darkest Skies.
Under Darkest Skies has also been listed as a featured artist many, many times on download.com's music section (doom-metal genre) sometimes daily where UDS's music has been downloaded over 14,400 times since late October 2004 and recieved three five out of five star reviews. A five overall five star band ratings and has also been listed as a "hot download" twice. Reviewers have compared Steven's lyrics to such legends as Jim Morrison and Roger Waters and have compared UDS to an allstar line-up of bands. Such as Cradle Of Filth, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Katatonia, Pink Floyd, Type O Negative and Tool. It is possible for UDS to draw such comparisons for each UDS track is different and UDS has a wide array of sound. Starting the second last week of August 2005 through currently Under Darkest Skies has been the #1 downloaded band in the Doom-Metal genre (so far 21 consecutive weeks).
UDS has seen their available songs post good numbers on many Mp3 sites also, with songs such as "Spirit Skyway and The Scent Of Angel's Breath" "Wake Me For My Eulogy" "On Through A Fractured Forest" and "Poisoning The Hearts Of Fate" posting #1's on many sites and or as in the case of "Spirit Skyway" being a "spotlight" song (on vitaminic).
Under Darkest Skies also gets radio air-play on radio stations all over the world. Whether is be broadcast or that of web radio it all counts and UDS can be found in Germany, Norway, Romania, France, England and the USA.
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Under Darkest Skies Lists the following Influences
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Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, the Doors, Opeth, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Amorphis, Cradle Of Filth, Acid Bath, Agents Of Oblivion, Life Of Agony, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Katatonia, Samael, Agalloch, Shape Of Despair, Alice In Chains
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Acoustic
