Darkmoon

Charlotte, NC’s Darkmoon progressed from a earlier band known as Demonic Christ in 1997, and is principally the task of vocalist/guitarist John Vesano. Straddling the good line between loss of life and black metallic, the group’s astoundingly vicious music and stridently anti-Christian (though definitely not Satanic) values had been first showcased on the eponymous EP later on that same yr. With guitarist Chuck Drummond, bassist/vocalist Devon, and drummer Scott Pletcher within the collapse, Darkmoon truly strike their stride with two albums of singular fury and rate, these becoming 1998’s Vengeance for Withered Hearts and 1999’s Seas of Unrest. Unfortunately, these radical tests in sonic hatred demonstrated far too demanding for all however the most selective intense metal enthusiasts, and Darkmoon ultimately split up pursuing 2001’s .308 Antichrist EP in order that main guy Vesano could join loss of life metal titans Nile as bassist and part-time vocalist.