Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called "heart of Africa". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.
Darkseed (band)
Serenades Records release Darkseed's first full-length studio album, "Midnight Solemnly Dance" in 1996, in which they changed into a gothic metal act. Nuclear Blast caught up with the band in their second release "Spellcraft" a year later, in which they continued playing gothic metal having influence from heavy metal music. The album was well received and a critical success. They had several line up changes after their underground success, which resulted in Darkseed's year-long hiatus. During this period,a re-issued version Romantic Tales was released. Finally, after several line up changes, the band released their third album "Give me Light" in 1999, followed by their next album "Diving Into Darkness" in 2000 which was well received by the critics. Lead vocalist Stefan Hertrich left the band in 2003, only to return in 2004 to make "Ultimate Darkness", which was released in 2005. In 2006, he and Martin Motnik left the band again, thus effectively forcing the band to disband.