News Sept. 10 Still alive. There was not much time for music since the end of 2009. Dunkelwerk is now on Win7/64bit, Quadcore and Cubase5. Once again a Pepperbox PC by musikcomputer.de. Very good! Maybe there will be a third album somewhere. I´ll try to start the production in the next weeks again. But we all know...Dunkelwerk is slow...but good...i hope. Nov. 09 So, since 6. Nov Höllenbrut is out in whole Europe, rest of the world follows soon. Digital distribution runs. Her are 3 new reviews: 1. Elektrauma.com 2. Amboss-Mag.de 3. Obliveon.de October 09 Meanwhile i´ve got feedback from some people, mags, reviewers, etc... and i have a funny idea: why not thinking about the main issues? Here we go: One thing that is mentioned is the vocal work. Some think it fits very well with this desperate Endzeit feeling others think it sucks. I was aware of the risk to reduce the vocaldistortion more and more. 80% of the so called dark projects in this scene can not sing; Dunkelwerk included. So you have two ways to deal with this limitation: distortion or getting a singer. If you know what you can earn by producing dark electro you know that there is no money to involve a singer. So there is only me, myself and i. One of the well known one-man-army-projects. I decided to try something between distortion and an understandable vocalsound. I´m tired by all this hyperdistorted vocalterror. But i know exactly that this distorted sound is what most people do expect in this genre. The way i choosed is uncommon. Love it or leave it. It´s only music. The second thing is changing from German to English and back in one song. The same here: some like it a lot, others seem to be disturbed a little bit. On Troops i started this game on some songs. On Höllenbrut i used it as a stylistic device. I like it A LOT but it´s not planned to go on this way in the future. I would say we will use more and more 100% German lyrics. Troops was “very” English, Höllenbrut is 50/50 and the next one might be “very” German. We will see... At least this was my masterplan in 2004. Some DJs told me that Höllenbrut is a great album but i should get rid of all this breaks, intros and slowdowns in the middle of the songs. Unfortunatly this is not possible! This whole 4/4 beats-verse-chorus-verse-maybe (but only maybe) a short bridge-chorus-game might be the “state of the art” in the clubs but it´s so predictable. I would fall asleep behind the keys to work this way. This is not Dunkelwerk. For me Dunkelwerk is far away from being a chill-out project so i still can´t believe that the clubs can´t survive some breaks...;) The first ordered copies have reached the world outside. You can find Dunkelwerk in the November issues of Sonic Seducer and Orkus. The track “Mehr Licht!” can be found on the Orkus CD attached to the mag. The Höllenbrut lyrics can be found online! Go to “Releases”. Höllenbrut is digitally released on Amazon, Napster and many other MP3 stores. New review: http://www.the-pit.de/reviews/cds/details/article/dunkelwerk- hoellenbrut/ Some words aboud downloading.... As always the whole release is already illegal shared on the net. We have no chance to stop this. All we can do is to say THANK YOU to those who support this little project by paying for our music. If you come here from such blogs offering illegal download links and if you downloaded the release and if you like what you can hear just think about buying the CD. Thanks! I won´t enter the boring mp3 download discussions. The internet offers many advantages (also for small bands!) but it also produces some critical disadvantages (mp3 sharing). That´s life. It´s my sole decission to produce music under this conditions. We will see how long my love for making music prevails the ongoing comedown of sales which all bands have to face, especially in this little scene. September 09 Go to “Shops” and visit the merchandise shop. 3 new smashing Hoellenbrut campaign T-Shirts! A first review of the new album can be found here: http://www.blackvector.se/reviews/#dunkelwerk-hoellenbrut September 09 After 4 years of silence...we have the street date for whole Europe: 6. Nov 2009 Official presstext: DUNKELWERK - "Höllenbrut + Nightbreeders" CD/2CD It took Dunkelwerk 4 years to return with another conceptual long player celebrating once more the difficult theme of 'Total Defeat'. "Höllenbrut" is another truthful 'Endzeit' album, in the pure traditional sense of the word. DUNKELWERK takes us this time through dark horror fields haunted by beasts and vampires. We follow him in an eternal quest for the loved Queen in a desperate world of broken hearts and defeat where fairy tale characters are plunged into the harshness of dark literature. A dense atmosphere that is brilliantly captured and rendered in the album’s artwork designed by the talented artist Oliver Haecker (Bastart-Worx). The album is available as a single CD and as a limited 2CD edition. This edition comes as a deluxe carton box with tarot cards, poster and the "Nightbreeders" bonus disc including exclusive special tracks and remixes composed by Losttrooper for this devastating occasion. August 09 Video teaser für Hoellenbrut is finished. Go to “Releases”. First promotion snippet mp3 for the new album can be found here: www.myspace.com/dunkelwerk  or go to “Releases”. New homepagedesign. Just for fun...