Lightless

Short biography
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Founded in October 2021 and based in Dresden, Germany, we play a mixture of Sludge/Doom/Post Metal. Whilst having diverse music influences by other artist of these genres, we intend to create our unique sound. It is usually elaborated during cozy jam sessions in our rehearsal room, opening paths from our inner souls’ feelings towards merging them into songs whose timbre gradually move between harsh and heavy parts (representing, for instance, inner anger or disappointment) to slow ones (representing feelings of mourn, but also peacefulness). The major background – and this presents the name of our band – is shaped by the progressive destruction of all earthly habitats by us humans: In the light of ongoing destruction, a loss of natural habitats, climate change (...) Mehr anzeigen, bullshit lifestyle and ignorance widely lived by many societies, and even partial incredibility within the scientific community (one of us is a researcher), we wonder what else would be necessary to reduce the risk of a collapsing world we are about to face otherwise. Independent from any potential upcoming solutions for the latter, we assume that nature will regain its preeminence.

After having some first live shows with people asking for listenable material of us, we released our first EP entitled "Descent to insignificance" in August 2022. As we prefer to remain our songs to be rough and authentic, there has neither been a click track nor multi-take recording; everything was carried out in a simultaneously played DIY manner. Recording, mixing and mastering was performed by the non-profit amateur studio of Chris (www.facebook.com/FadingLightStudio). This was followed by a series of live shows held in Saxony in the years 2022 and 2023, for which new song material has been created. In January 2024, preparations for the upcoming full-length studio album have begun.

Line-up
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Dr. Christian Engelmann - guitars, vocals, lyrics, production
Marc Kade - bass
Mark Neumann - drums

Recording, mixing and mastering by Dr. Christian Engelmann, Fading Light Studio:
facebook.com...ingLightStudio

Social Media
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Visit us on Facebook:
facebook.com...eDoomPostMetal

Visit us on Instagram:
instagram.com....light.studio

Streaming services:
lightlessdoom.bandcamp.com

Send us an email:
fading.light.studio@gmail.com

Press
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Head-Banger Reviews (U.S.):
"There is true power and terror within the vast space between these massive notes [...] unforgiving from the start and wrenching unto its fall further into madness at the closing of the record."
headbangerreviews.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/lightless-descent-to-insignificance/

Dioses del Metal (Mexico):
"It is a work that I recommend without thinking twice for all that dark charge that each of their songs possess. Lightless, they surprise us with this first EP full of sound quality and quite clear ideas when it comes to composing, in which the purity of those musical genres that combine gracefully, is standing at all times."
diosesdelmetal.org/lightless-descent-to-insignificance-ep-2022/

The Killchain Blog (U.S.):
"Lightless could’ve just walked out easy Isis/Cult of Luna worship tracks and been still thought of as good, but they’ve decided to create something vast and omniscient on their debut, you love to see it. [...] If you love heavy, slow darkness this is definitely for you."
thoseonceloyal.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/review-lightless-descend-to-insignificance/

Cave Dweller Music (U.S.):
"From Dresden, Germany comes an exciting new post-metal/doom trio called Lightless. Four tracks of powerfully built tension and despair are accompanied by chunky bass, subtle drumwork, and frustrated growls putting society on blast. There's no click track or multi-take recordings here, just authentic live impression that’s pure fucking doom."
cavedwellermusic.net/blog-1/post/2169680/lightless-descent-to-insignificance

The Death Doom MetalHead (U.K.):
"This is a wicked, but also musically very interesting band. It's not of those ones you can just throw on [...], this is one of those you just sit down and you might have to dedicate around 30 minutes of your time to really sink in this band."
youtube.com...KUIpWKaQ&t=611s

Musikreviews (Germany):
"Descent To Insignificance” sits like a nightmare on the listener's chest, slowly but surely pressing it in. Lightless take their name as a motto and banish the light with all-crushing heaviness. It's definitely a niche sound and in this niche it's barren and clammy. But if you want to feel the setting of the light in slow-moving, musical mud, then those guys from Dresden are the right place. (11/15)"
musikreviews.de/reviews/2023/Lightless/Descent-To-Insignificance/ Weniger anzeigen