The Robert Cains brewery in Liverpool brews Cains Double Bock beer at 8 % abv, and the Dark Star Brewery, West Sussex, produce a 5. 6 % abv Maibock.

A well-known example of a non – carbon-based life-form in science fiction is the Horta in the original Star Trek episode " Devil in the Dark ".

The popularity of Star Wars-themed WADs is rumored to have been the factor that prompted LucasArts to create their first-person shooter Dark Forces.

Dark Star or Darkstar may refer to:

* Dark Star ( film ), a 1974 science fiction movie directed by John Carpenter

* The Dark Star, a 1919 film starring Marion Davies

* Dark Star, a 1978 film distributed by David Grant

* Dark Star, an issue of the comics series The Transformers

* Dark Star, a novelization of the 1974 film, by Alan Dean Foster

* Dark Star, a 1991 Night Soldiers novel by Alan Furst

* Dark Star, a 1929 novel by Lorna Moon

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

* Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band

* Rappers Rapp Group, later known as Dark Star, an American hip hop group

* Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead, by the David Murray Octet, 1996

* Dark Star, by Deine Lakaien, 1991

* Dark Star, by The Supernaturals, 1993

* The Dark Star, by Volsoc, 2004

* " Dark Star " ( song ), by the Grateful Dead

* " Dark Star ", by Beck from The Information

* " Dark Star ", by Cinema Bizarre from ToyZ

* " Dark Star ", by Crosby, Stills & Nash from CSN

* " Dark Star ", by Delerium from Faces, Forms & Illusions

* " Dark Star ", by Hypnogaja from Truth Decay

Pink Floyd recast itself from its 1960s guise as a psychedelic band into a commercial success with its series of concept albums, most famously with The Dark Side of the Moon ( which, according to the RIAA, is the second best selling album in history ) and later with the double album rock opera The Wall.

Heavy metal band Iced Earth, released their 1996 album The Dark Saga which is based upon the comic book character Spawn, created by Todd McFarlane.

Dark bands in the absorption spectrum are due to the atoms in an intervening medium between source and observer, absorbing certain frequencies of the light between emitter and detector / eye, then emitting them in all directions, so that a dark band appears to the detector, due to the radiation scattered out of the beam.

Progressive metal band Dream Theater's song " The Dark Eternal Night " is based on Lovecraft's story " Nyarlathotep ".

In the early 1980s, Jarmusch was part of a revolving lineup of musicians in Robin Crutchfield's Dark Day project, and later became the keyboardist and one of two vocalists for The Del-Byzanteens, a No Wave band whose sole LP Lies to Live By was a minor underground hit in the United States and Britain in 1982.

Dederer collaborated with former Guns N ' Roses bassist Duff McKagan as The Gentlemen and in McKagan's perennial hard rock band, Loaded, including contributing to the album Dark Days.

The band played London pubs and clubs, and released a single, " Dark Streets of London ", on their own, self-named label, gaining a small reputation — especially for their live performances.

The band composed music for eight Herzog's films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, Heart of Glass, Nosferatu, The Dark Glow of the Mountains, Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde and My Best Fiend.

Of course, the difference lies in order of power — while many D & D adventures focus on allowing a band of heroes to prevail over a Dark Lord ( much as in the spirit of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula ), no such victory over the Dark Powers is conceivable.

The band picked their name in part as a reaction against those used by synthpop bands of the early 1980s, such as Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Spandau Ballet, which they considered pretentious.

* Elric is featured in the Spanish Power metal band Dark Moor's song " Fall of Melnibone ".

The band released three more singles, " Dark Entries ", " Terror Couple Kill Colonel " and " Telegram Sam " — originally written by glam rock pioneers T. Rex — before the debut of their first album In the Flat Field in 1980 on 4AD.

American Sound Studios owner Chips Moman produced " The Dark End of the Street ", and the musicians were his house band of Reggie Young, Bobby Woods, Tommy Cogbill and Gene Chrisman.

Its cover art depicts a squadron of flying toasters, a design that the band later alleged was plagiarized for the famous " After Dark " computer screensaver design.

Todd McFarlane is also the cartoonist responsible for the cover art of the albums Ten Thousand Fists, released in September 2005 and Indestructible, released June 2008 by metal band Disturbed, and the art in their single " Land of Confusion ", as well as that of metal band Iced Earth's 1996 Spawn-based concept album The Dark Saga and Korn's third studio album Follow the Leader, which was released in 1998.

In December of the same year, the band released their second album of the year and thirteenth overall, a track-for-track cover of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon, which was recorded with Stardeath and White Dwarfs and features guest appearances from Henry Rollins and Peaches.

* Dark Moor, a Spanish heavy metal band from Madrid

The band released three albums, The Alpha Band in 1977, Spark In The Dark in 1977, and The Statue Makers of Hollywood in 1978.

The band released three albums, The Alpha Band in 1977, Spark In The Dark in 1977 and The Statue Makers of Hollywood in 1978.

But before leaving the band he recorded guitars ( uncredited on the booklet ) for the first full-length album, Dark Medieval Times.