History/Biography (short)
Under Darkest Skies is heavy, ambient, trancy, and melodic gelling many different stlyes of music into one. Experimentation and being diverse within our music is our ultimate goal, being truely different keeps us from being pigeon-toed into one specific genre of metal for UDS can fit within a few different catagorys although listeners and many of our fans have labeled us Doom/Stoner metal or Gothic Metal. Under Darkest Skies cares not for any type of trends and is in no way influenced by any for we believe that if you follow trends and are trying to be someone else that you are nothing more than a fabrication.
Under Darkest Skies is a band that creates music from the heart based upon inner passion and emotion or the lack there of...Under Darkest Skies blends a mixture of psychedelic rock, doom/goth, atmosphere, melody, into a depressing mix in which they can almost call a genre of their own and such has been stated by a member of the doom-metal.com team...The lyrical content contains abstract dark imagery forged together with short story telling with the subjects of: Lost faith, fantasy and desire, personal woe and tragedy, and curiosity surrounding death. Under Darkest Skies was created by Steven, Adam, and Kevin as a collaborative recording project in early 2004 with the intention of being experimental and adding alot of emotion and originality to their music that they felt was lacking in much of music today. But After recieving interest from many web radio stations UDS became a full time project and now has a growing fan base that we like to call the UDS Underground. Under Darkest Skies does not follow and cares not for the whole "we must do this because they are mentality" and writes music to release their own personal emotions and strife. UDS will always remain experimental and will/might try anything...
Some Achievements...
Under Darkest Skies's song "Spirit Skyway And The Scent Of Angel's Breath" was chosen by the staff at Goth Metal World (France) www.gothmetal.net to participate in a competition for a spot on a gothic compilation album titled "Sunshine and Lolipops". Only 40 bands were chosen out of numerous bands from all over the world UDS being one of them. UDS made the final round of voting and was the only American act. Under Darkest Skies were the BAND OF THE WEEK on Fearless Radio's The Wolf's Den out of Chicago from May 1st - May 7th 2006.
Under Darkest Skies has released a few songs that come from either their first EP titled "Wake Me For My Eulogy" and their upcoming full length LP titled "Poisoning The Hearts Of Fate and all tracks have recieved a fair amount of airplay on certain web and broadcast radio stations including: Metal Music Radio (Florida) The Autopsy Report (UK) GRAMIE RULES! The Darkest Hours (Canada)
The Wolf's Den (Chicago)
Live Hard Rock.com, Goth Metal World (France), Nocturn Metal Show (Romania), Kaos 95 in Texas, Radio Take Over (New Jersey), amongst many others...Under Darkest Skies has found a great fan base on Metal Music Radio in Florida where Under Darkest Skies songs have been quite popular. For example in 2004 the only band to recieve more listener requests was Finland's Nightwish. Under Darkest Skies has had two ..1 requested songs on this radio station with "Spirit Skyway and The Scent Of Angel's Breath" being the ..1 requested song for all of 2005 (also stations all time most requested) and "Wake Me For My Eulogy" having being the ..1 requested for almost all of July 2004. Certain songs newly released to this station have seen nearly 100 requests for them within minutes of the station adding them. has also set up a forum section and chat room for Under Darkest Skies within it's own site and it is moderated by the entire band. And on 6/30/05 UDS material recieved 500+ listener requests in one evening that span over the songs that the station currently plays from Under Darkest Skies.
Under Darkest Skies has also been listed as a featured artist (Now "Pick Of The Day")many, many times on download.com's music section (doom-metal genre) sometimes daily where UDS's music has been downloaded over 21,072 times since late October 2004 and recieved five, five out of five star reviews. A four star overall rating out of five stars and has also been listed as a "hot download" twice. Reviewers have compared Steven's lyrics to such legends as Jim Morrison and Roger Waters and have compared UDS to an allstar line-up of bands. Such as Cradle Of Filth, My Dying Bride, Anathema, Katatonia, Pink Floyd, Type O Negative and Tool. It is possible for UDS to draw such comparisons for each UDS track is different and UDS has a wide array of sound some contain atmosphere and others are straight up in your face. Starting the second last week of August 2005 through February 12/06 Under Darkest Skies was the ..1 downloaded band in the Doom-Metal genre for a total of 24 consecutive weeks. And on 04/04/06 became the ..1 rated artist "audience pick" through 08/04/06 in the Doom-Metal genre as well as having the ..1 most popular track in the genre on the site "Empty Words From A Lost Apparition"(song was most popular for three consecutive days). And it has been multiple times since along with two other UDS songs "Poisoning The Hearts Of Fate" and "Scriptures Of The Dead And Forgotten".
UDS has seen their available songs post good numbers on many Mp3 sites also, with songs such as "Spirit Skyway and The Scent Of Angel's Breath" "Wake Me For My Eulogy"("Wake Me" was the .2 rated song in the Doom-Metal Genre @ Metalhordes for over one full year)"On Through A Fractured Forest", "Poisoning The Hearts Of Fate" and "Empty Words From A Lost Apparition" posting ..1's on many sites and or as in the case of "Spirit Skyway" being a "spotlight" song (on vitaminic for over one full year).
Under Darkest Skies also gets radio air-play on radio stations all over the world. Whether is be broadcast or that of web radio, larger format or straight up underground, it all counts and UDS can be found in Germany, Norway, Romania, France, England and the all over the USA.
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