• Dark Nightmare is a new band from a small town of Greece. The fact that their home town has no relations with the metal music and society hasn’t prevent them from not only being fans of this music but also compose and release a demo which is in my opinion a diamond in the underground metal scene. A request and proposal! Please don’t leave diamonds like this remain hidden! A better production and they could compete with the other power metal bands. Trust me!

1.GIVE A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF THE BAND. WHICH ARE THE CURRENT BAND MEMBERS?

•  The band was formed in December 1999. We are three musicians and we recently got a keyboard player. We play classic heavy metal with some progressive elements. We are now preparing our new demo entitled “Earth In Danger”.

•  We have started as Nightmare, but there was an old French band that plays heavy metal, so it was our bass player’s idea.

•   The second song of the demo is against war and it speaks generally for the sufferings of war. “Nightmare” is about the nighmares human face in their everyday life and try to avoid them, but without achieving it and “Come To Reality” is about people who want to leave from the enviroment they live but they can’t manage to do so.

•  Our guitarist listens mainly old heavy and thrash metal. Our bassist listens to classic power metal (e.x. Gamma Ray) and progressive. My influences come from all the metal branches except for hardcore.

•   The demo was recorded in Kozani city. The production could have been done better but we had financial problems. The second demo will have a better production.

•   The reason for this big delay for releasing the demo was the cover. It took long to the guy that was responsible of designing it, so we did it on the pc with a program called corel.

•   Yes! We have two. One sounds like Running Wild and the other one has oriental forms.

•   No, not yet but we are planning a festival in Grevena city. It won’t be only metal. It will have all the styles of music, such as hip-hop, etc. Basically, we couldn’t do a metal festival, cause we don’t have many metalheads.

•   There are places available but the metal society is not big.

•   Basically, to be honest, to move forward. You can see what’s going on in the greek metal scene. There are many great bands but the metalheads aren’t supporting. They are narrow minded. Only the huge names survive. If you want to move forward, unfortunately, you should play hardcore (nu metal) or smurfish power. Nothing else.

•   Look, when we use the term progressive, we mean some melodies, not 15 minutes solos, etc. Some technical parts in the songs.

•   All of us write lyics. Each one of us for different subjects, but our basic theme is against war.

•   These shit should stop. It’s nonsense!!

•   We have sent it to Metal Hammer. Komitoudis most probably will do our review for Metal Invader.

•   MPRITZAS DIMITRIS
•   110, 13 OKTOBRIOU STR.
•   51100 GREVENA
•   GREECE
•  Or sent an e-mail to: [email protected]
• It costs 2000drachmas or $6.

•  There was one more, many years ago, who played atmospheric metal and now they listen to blues, jazz and stuff like that.

•   Yes. We have some people helping and supporting us but the metal is dead in my hometown. There was one radio show and some metal clubs, but everything is shut down.

•   Remain metallers! Support the greek metal scene. Don’t be afraid of anything, forget trends. Metal was, is and will be. Support the live shows, cause after what happened with Primal Fear – Sabbat – Horizon’s End, I don’t think we’ll see another live. The greek metaller is only for buying magazines and wearing metal t-shirts. Isn’t supportive. They all have an attitude. The good ones are very few.