Dark Years From Now Shares New Album, De-illuminate
Vancouver, BC-based Dark Years From Now is a sonically diverse act that’s part industrial groove, part experimental metal, part pure sinister is the nefarious creation of music producer Dan Potter.
Using angular rhythms, dissonant adventurous guitar playing, and wretched screams that spew diabolical lyrical narratives, a twisted image emerges out of a dark realm where sonic worlds are forged with abstract intent as the words and instrumentation act like demented aural paintbrushes, obscuring to reveal.
A self-titled debut album filled with unusual churning grooves and experimentation straight from the abyss was released in 2019, followed up with an exile into the realm of the cover song as extreme renditions of Nirvana’s “Negative Creep” and RATM’s “Bulls on Parade” furthered the specter of sonic mayhem. A melodic death metal single “Panic Attack” was also released in 2021.
The new more sinister album De-illuminate is out now!
First off, care to introduce yourself to our readers?
I am a heavy metal creator based in Vancouver B.C. Under the name Dark Years from Now I have been releasing music since 2017. ‘De-illuminate’ is my second album and further demonstrates my manifesto of multi-genre metal experimentation that I have been stitching together these last couple of years.
Tell us a bit about your most recent release.
I wanted to create a record that is multi-faceted and has intricate elements of metal, rap, and electronic music all weaved into a complex sonic journey. It’s like an abstract concept album for sound. There are several instrumentals featuring the guitar taking things close to an instrumental metal hybrid album.
Do you have any upcoming shows you’d like to tell us about?
For the time being this is a studio creation where performances get recorded and layered together. To me, that is the most important element of playing music.
If given the chance, which Canadian artist would you love to work with in the future?
Justin Bieber.
What’s your goal for 2024?
I am actually working on new tracks at this very moment and wouldn’t be surprised if I had a new release later in the year.