Darkspace
Darkspace is a Swiss ambient black metal band from Bern, considered to be a pioneer of the cosmic subset therein.
Their lyrical themes revolve around space, darkness and cosmic mysticism, and their music sporadically features isolated samples from space-themed films such as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Event Horizon, Alien and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
The band does not title their works; each album is titled Dark Space, differentiated only by a subsequent Roman numeral or tally mark indicating order of release—and likewise, each track is titled "Dark" followed by two digits that represent the album number and discography-wise track number respectively, which are separated by a decimal point. As an example, "Dark 3.16" is the sixth track on Dark Space III but is their sixteenth overall piece. However, the band's fourth album is titled Dark Space III I rather than Dark Space IV; their fifth is Dark Space -II, its sole track being -2.2, which continues the numbering from their Dark Space -I demo.
To complement the nature of their works, the band's album covers follow a consistent and minimalistic pattern as well in that their sole features are the band's logo on the top-center, a gray rectangle near the bottom-right (which varies in size, shape and position) framing vague and ethereal grayscale artwork unique to each release, and a pitch-black background. Season of Mist's reissues replace this format with re-imaginings of the framed artworks.
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