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 ( band ), an English psychedelic rock band, 1998 – 2001

* Dark Star Orchestra, a Grateful Dead tribute band

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

* 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

* Chris Thomas, the producer, whose credits include The Beatles, Procol Harum, Roxy Music, Pink Floyd ( mixed The Dark Side of the Moon ), the Sex Pistols and INXS.

*“ The Dark Music ” ( Dec 1956, Playboy )

It bears similarities to a series of installations performed by New Zealand and Detroit based artists Alastair Galbraith and Matt De Genaro, recorded on their 1998 record Wire Music and 2006 follow-up Long Wires in Dark Museums, Vol.

Dark Dungeon Music was the personal record label of Mortiis.

His humorous video clips for the likes of " Ding Dong, Ding Dong ", " True Love " and " Crackerbox Palace " were all shot within the gardens and grounds of Friar Park, as were the album covers for some of his FPSHOT-recorded Dark Horse acts − Splinter's The Place I Love and the Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India album being the most obvious.

Music videos for songs such as " Summertime Girls ," " Mean Streak ," " Lipstick & Leather ," " Don't Stop Runnin '," " Don't Be Afraid of the Dark ," and " Contagious " are still featured videos on VH1 Classic.

Rainy Day Music ( 2003 ), was stripped down, more acoustic, and generally seen as a return to their alt-country roots (" Tailspin ," " Stumbling Through the Dark ," " You Look So Young ").

Des Barres, who wrote two books detailing her experiences as a groupie – I'm With The Band ( 1987 ) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up ( 1993 ) – as well as another non-fiction book, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon, asserts that a groupie is to a rock band as Mary Magdalene was to Jesus.

And according to the book " Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon " by Pamela Des Barres who interviewed Thunders ' sister, Mariann Bracken, the autopsy confirmed evidence of advanced leukemia, which would explain the decline in Thunders ' appearance in the final year of his life.

In one notable case, " The Tale of the Dark Music ", the unseen monster offers the lead character anything he wants in exchange for humans as food ( which could still be interpreted as a happy ending for the lead character ).

** " The Music of the Dark time " by Chet Williamson

The mix album Edit Music for a Film: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Reconstruction, featuring movie samples and tracks from film soundtracks, was created for the After Dark 2004 event at the ICA London.

* Special Edition of Rock Your World ( Timbre Music Bistro & Bar, The British Council ): ON 5 December 2007, Charlie Dark was brought in for a one night only performance.

Music videos were released for the songs " Until You Call on the Dark ", " I Don't Mind the Pain ", " Cantspeak " and " Sadistikal ".

Among his published orchestra medleys for Broadway shows ( including some for which others had done the original pit orchestrations ) are those for Oklahoma !, Carousel, Allegro, Finian ’ s Rainbow, Brigadoon, Lady in the Dark, Kiss Me, Kate, South Pacific, Roberta, The King and I, Me and Juliet, My Fair Lady, Gigi, Flower Drum Song, The Sound of Music, Camelot, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Funny Girl, as well as extended “ symphonic picture ” settings of The Sound of Music and My Fair Lady.

His musical work has appeared in: Animal Planet, ILIO Music Demos, Access Hollywood, Jake 2. 0, The Matrix Reloaded, Dark Angel, The Ryan Seacrest Show, America's Next Top Model, Prison Break, Pet Star, and more.

In 2008, Piano Magic moved to Make Mine Music, an artist-run, artist-owned label collective and released a new EP, Dark Horses, the last release to feature Cedric Pin.

*" Dark Horses EP ", ( Make Mine Music, 2008 )

* Between the Dim & the Dark ( April 20, 2004 )-Brash Music

# REDIRECT Selmasongs: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack Dancer in the Dark

Dark ambient evolved partially based on several of Brian Eno's early solo albums ( Another Green World -> In Dark Trees, Music For Films ) and colaboration that had a distinctly dark or discordant edge, notably " An Index of Metals " ( from Evening Star, 1975 ), a collaboration with Robert Fripp that incorporated harsh guitar feedback, the ambient pieces on the second half of David Bowie's Low ( 1977 ) and " Heroes ", Fourth World, Vol.

He later makes cameo appearances in " Legends Of The Dark Mite ," " Mayhem Of The Music Meister ," and " Chill Of The Night.