Darkage, born in the early 1990's in Melbourne, Australia, pioneered a new musical landscape: psychedelic doom metal. Refusing to be restricted by musical dogma, they drew artistic inspiration from a wide range of sources - folk, classical, Celtic, doom metal, black metal, thrash metal, NWOBHM, psychedelic, acid rock, space rock, ambient, reggae and world music - and created something distinctive and original, ignoring any pressure to conform to standards of what was considered fashionable or orthodox for underground bands at the time.
Whilst ranging from the meticulously structured to the completely improvised, Darkage's
performances and recordings all retain a lively spontaneity that reflects their
firm belief in the importance of improvisation. Darkage
adapted the term raga, borrowed from the lexicon of classical Indian
music, to classify many of their works, and more generally, to express their
conception of the ontology of these musical creations. For Darkage,
a raga represents a general musical structure and emotional mood which
must be expressed and realized afresh with each individual performance; it is
influenced by the unique combination of the mood and spirit of the time, the
place and the audience, and that of each performer and the emergent gestalten
of the band as a whole.
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