Black Swords is a Belgian band who's music evolves in a Down Tempo Metal style.
Description
Black Swords' blades were forged in a dark kind of metal.
The lyrics are based on the result of interrogations about fatality, death, society, …
To support those poetic lyrics, the strongest and deepest emotions reffering to those writings are expressed by an emotive music that is metalic, atmospheric, rythmic and melodic.
The voices are emotive, the guitares are always saturated, the bass is omnipresent and the drums are put forward in order to add to the whole as much heavyness as possible.
Concretely
Since K.Dich's death, the band is on hold. Later, personnal problems lead Gloom to decide to split the band. Finaly, he prefers to let things open by comming back to that decision, so, the band is still on hold (for an indefinite time).
Before ceasing it's activity, Black Swords was composing for a demo called: ?: Written with a sword: from the graves, the man in black in disgrace's death's praise to souls takers' preach as dying by lie's humanity's suicide's dream
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After this recording, the band would become a project with only B.Iron and Gloom, they would compose and record a concept that is declined in a heptalogy (in 7 albums) under the name Optimistic decay, after that, this project in Black Swords' continuity would stop to exist.
Members
August 10th 2005, by W. Estelle. From Left to right: K.Dich, ΚΦ, B.Iron and Gloom.
In summary
The Black Swords members are: ΚΦ, Gloom and B.Iron.
The former members are: C. Anne-Christine, Aran, E. Laurent, M. Benjamin, S. David, V. Lionel, V. Bertrand and K.Dich.
The original members
B.Iron
Drummer, author, composer and arranger.
Previous pseudonym: Black.
Gloom
Guitar player, signer, keyboard player, bass player, author, composer and arranger.
Previous pseudonym: Rot.
The other member
ΚΦ
Bass player and composer.
Beside Black Swords: member of Footprint.
The old members
K.Dich (4 août 1940 - 30 mai 2007)
Keyboard player and composer.
Benja.
Guitar player and composer.
Lio.
Guitar player (bass player in Black Swords).
Aran
Guitar player, signer (not in Black Swords) and composer.
C. Anne-Christine
Bass player and signer.
Nickname: Tity.
V. Bertrand
Bass player.
E Laurent
Guitar player.
The old original member
So. David
Bass player, drummer (not in Black Swords) and composer.
Nickname: Dave.