Dark The Suns

History

Dark The Suns play beautiful, emotional and at the same time very energetic and aggressive metal music with catchy melodies, dark vocals and occasional angelic female choirs.

Dark the Suns was originally founded as Mikko Ojala's solo project in 2005 in Valkeakoski. The first demo 'Sleeping Beauty' - where Mikko played all the instruments himself - was selected as "demo of the month" in Inferno Magazine. In the beginning of 2006 Mikko settled to Jyväskylä and the project grew into a real band when Juha Kokkonen (guitar, keyboards), Inka Tuomaala (bass, vocals) and Markus Lehtinen (drums) joined Dark The Suns.

Dark The Suns recorded a second demo (3 songs) - 'In Darkness Comes Beauty' - with the full bandin August and was signed to Firebox Records soon after that.

The debut album 'In Darkness Comes Beauty' was released in November 2007.

'The Dead End' EP saw the daylight in the late autumn 2008 and it hit the official Finnish Single Chart. It featured two covers from In Flames and HIM.

The second album 'All Ends in Silence' was released in March 2009. Eliisa Tuomanen sung backing vocals in the album, and joined the band in the autumn. After that there were some changes in the band's line-up.

Dark the Suns' third album 'Sleepwalking in a Nightmare' was released by Firebox Records in December 2010.

The band has played lots of gigs in Finland during the last few years, and made also a short Baltian mini-tour in May 2008 and a show in Moscow, Russia, in summer 2009.

The band split in 2013, and returned as two-piece (Mikko and Inka) in early 2020.

(source: Dark The Suns, August 2012; last chapter added by AM)