{"id":13938,"date":"2013-09-05T00:00:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=13938"},"modified":"2013-09-06T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2013-09-06T09:54:12","slug":"news-darkness-german-thrash-metal-group-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-darkness-german-thrash-metal-group-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"DARKNESS: German Thrash Metal Group Reforms (September 2013) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>DARKNESS: German Thrash Metal Group Reforms<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>September 2013<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/darkness2013promophoto1news.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>German thrash metal group Darkness\u2019 reformation surfaced in September 2013, with the line-up featuring original members Andreas \u201cLacky\u201d Lackaw (drums) and Arnd Klink (vocals \/ ex-guitars), alongside guitarists Bony Fertigmensch and Meik Heitkamp, and bassist Christian \u201cSpeesy\u201d Giesler of fellow German thrashers Kreator. <\/p>\n<p>Darkness issued three full-length albums during the late 1980s, namely <em>Death Squad<\/em> (1987), <em>Defenders Of Justice<\/em> (1988) and <em>Conclusion &#038; Revival<\/em> (1989), the ensemble disbanding following a European tour alongside Mucky Pup. Lackaw and Klink would later form Eure Erben in 2004, a thrash metal band using German-spoken lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Death Squad\u2019s 25th anniversary was commemorated by an appearance at the Endzeit Festival in Essen, Germany on December 14th, 2012, the show initiating Darkness\u2019 eventual reformation. The platter was reissued by High Roller Records on blue and black vinyl, each copy including a lyric sheet as well as a poster. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DARKNESS: German Thrash Metal Group Reforms September 2013 German thrash metal group Darkness\u2019 reformation surfaced in September 2013, with the line-up featuring original members Andreas \u201cLacky\u201d Lackaw (drums) and Arnd Klink (vocals \/ ex-guitars), alongside guitarists Bony Fertigmensch and Meik Heitkamp, and bassist Christian \u201cSpeesy\u201d Giesler of fellow German thrashers Kreator. Darkness issued three full-length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkness-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13938"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13949,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13938\/revisions\/13949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}