Artist: DARKNESS BY OATH
Album: FEAR YOURSELF (CD)

Year: 2009
Media type: CD

DARKNESS BY OATH was formed back in 2002, influenced by the so-called Gothenburg sound. The band recorded a cover of "The Swarm" by Swedish melodic death/thrash masters AT THE GATES and it was included on the "Slaughterous Souls - A Tribute to AT THE GATES" compilation, released on September 2004 by Drowned Scream Records and GOI Music.

During 2005 DARKNESS BY OATH recorded a demo and played live for the first time. Then they entered Shot! Studios to record the debut album, “Confidential World Of Lies”, that was released in 2006 by Drowned Scream Records and Indar Prod.

After releasing the album, the band did about 30 shows supporting “Confidential World of lies” around the Basque-country and Spain. Right after, the band started composing new material for their second album.

This second effort ‘Fear Yourself’ was recorded at Sound Source studios and mixed and mastered in Sweden, by no other than Dan Swanц (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, Bloodbath…) during November-December 2007.

Once the album was completed, the band started sending out promo CDs to lots of labels worldwide, and some of them showed interest. After some proposals were done in August, the band finally signed a deal with German label CYCLONE EMPIRE in November 2008.

Again the band started continued directly playing live, even although the album wasn't released yet. One of them was as opening act for DARK TRANQUILLITY in January 2009 which brought them many great reactions and raised all expectations for the new album, which is scheduled to be released on March, 27th 2009.

TRACKLIST:

01 - FEAR YOURSELF
02 - PIECES
03 - MY OWN MIND
04 - KINGDOM OF DENIAL
05 - ECHOES OF SILENCE
06 - NOTHING TO SAY
07 - BLEEDING FOR MY SINS
08 - I ESCAPE FROM
09 - NEW DAWN

Bonus-Track:
10 - SOLUTION IN 9MM

LINE-UP:

Aritz Nabarro : Vocals
Tristan Iсiguez : Guitars
Diego Piсiero : Guitars
Gorka Otero : Bass
Asier Bilbao : Drums