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.

After the breakthrough of Tubeway Army and Gary Numan in the British Singles Chart, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the United Kingdom, while in Japan, Yellow Magic Orchestra's success opened the way for synthpop bands such as P-Model, Plastics, and Hikashu.

Synthpop reached its commercial peak in the UK in the winter of 1981 – 2, with bands such as Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan, Ultravox, Depeche Mode and even Kraftwerk, enjoying top ten hits.

The compilation featured the bands Hellhammer, Running Wild, and Dark Avenger.

Some bands have even written their own imaginary stories, like Rhapsody of Fire's Emerald Sword Saga and The Dark Secret Saga, Iced Earth's Something Wicked Saga or Avantasia by Edguy's Tobias Sammet.

The Gothenburg sound, propelled by both the Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal with cleaner recordings and melded with New Wave of British Heavy Metal guitar lines, was pioneered by bands such as At the Gates, Dark Tranquillity and In Flames for their respective albums Slaughter of the Soul, The Gallery and The Jester Race.

Soulfly supported Dark Ages on a world tour with various bands such as Deftones, Korn, Throwdown, and Skindred that has stretched through North America, South America, Europe, Russia, and Australia.

Metal Church had initially got the name while Kurdt Vanderhoof started in the San Francisco scene, but moved back home to Seattle and changed the members of the band, and was one of the most well known metal bands from the 1980s especially because of their albums Metal Church ( 1984 ), The Dark ( 1986 ), Blessing in Disguise ( 1989 ) and The Human Factor ( 1991 ); they resurfaced in 2004 with The Weight of the World.

Dark brown spots cover the sides of the body, and there are 3 – 4 bands of irregular stripes on the chest.

In the middle of the 1980s, the bands Dead Can Dance and In the Nursery released influential albums which essentially laid the foundations of the Neoclassical Dark Wave genre.

On stage, in photoshoots, and in music videos, it is very common for bands of these genres such as Turisas and Moonsorrow to wear chain mail, animals skins, warpaint ( such as woad ) and other Dark Ages themed battle gear.

It was followed by two games based around Elvira, Mistress of the Dark: Elvira: Mistress of the Dark and Elvira II: The Jaws of Cerberus, and a game named Waxworks, all of which moved away from keyboard command input to mouse driven gaming with animation and music from Jezz Woodroffe ( a session musician with Robert Plant, Black Sabbath and other bands ).

After Battle's Clarion, the band toured internationally for a few years intermittently, both with well-known bands such as Dark Funeral and underground acts such as

They are currently partaking in the " A Declaration Of Hate " European tour in support of this, with extreme metal bands Dark Funeral, Zonaria and Nefarium.

Cheng was the founder and organizer of " Dark Entry ", an annual rock concert that featured local underground bands.

At the finale of each Dark Entry concert, various members from bands that performed that night would get on stage and performed under this loosely formed band, which would totaled well over fifteen players jamming together.

Musicians from many talented Hong Kong bands: Anodize, Zig Zag, Zenith, Fraina, and Martyr had one time or another lend members to LMF at the Dark Entry concert.

Prior to joining Hanoi Rocks, Razzle had played in UK-based bands Thin Red Line, The Fuck Pigs, Demon Preacher ( Featurning Nik Fiend of later Alien Sex Fiend fame ), and The Dark.

Impaled Nazarene have toured with many bands such as Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem and Dark Tranquility in 4 continents and over 30 countries.

They were influenced by classic thrash metal bands like Dark Angel, Kreator and Sadus.

Apart from The Stooges, Asheton also played in the bands The New Order ( not the UK band New Order ), Destroy All Monsters, Dark Carnival, New Race and The Empty Set.

Tor Burrows would later go on to direct and edit the video for Long Dark Night which premiered on the bands official site on 8 August 2011.

The album features alternative versions of older songs from the 38 Counts era ( such as " Dark Satellites "), a series of new songs ( such as " Rejection Fetish " and " Forgotten Child "), and covers of bands who could be considered an influence ( such as The Stooges and Helmet ).

In the back story released in the most recent Dark Eldar Codex, it is revealed that the Dark Eldar gradually lost their natural psychic ability during the millennia following the Fall of the Eldar race, and that they are sustained only through the absorption of the psychic power released by pain, torture and anguish of other sentient beings.

Dark lines in a broad spectrum are produced when a cold gas is between a broad spectrum photon source and the detector.

Despite her horrific ordeal at the hands of the Dark Side Club and her earlier appearances as a serious, keeps-to-herself, quiet and polite young woman, Atlee's personality is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the original Tara.

While as intelligent as his counter-part, " normal " Beast seems to possess a larger spectrum of knowledge, as evidenced when Dark Beast was infiltrating the X-Men and became annoyed at the amount of knowledge the X-Men expected him to possess.

Dark energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in Einstein's field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relationship with the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally and theoretically.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins and its sequel The Dark Knight are set during the same timespan and adopt several elements directly from the graphic novel.

Dark chocolate, with its high cocoa content, is a rich source of epicatechin and gallic acid, which are thought to possess cardioprotective properties.

There are three prominent hypotheses on nonbaryonic dark matter, called Hot Dark Matter ( HDM ), Warm Dark Matter ( WDM ), and Cold Dark Matter ( CDM ); some combination of these is also possible.

The most widely discussed models for nonbaryonic dark matter are based on the Cold Dark Matter hypothesis, and the corresponding particle is most commonly assumed to be a weakly interacting massive particle ( WIMP ).

Dark small circles in the network are mitochondria.

# Leafer-A Race native to the Dark Forest of Vasgothia, the Leafers are a race of sentient plant Name-Givers.

The Light Elves are brighter than the sun in appearance, but the Dark Elves are blacker than pitch.

Dark, unsweetened chocolate, caffeine, lemon rind, and some types of fruit are known to be bitter.

Several video games are based on or influenced heavily by Lovecraft such as Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Cthulhu Saves the World, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, Splatterhouse, Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Penumbra, and Quake.

Some examples of this are: R. A. Salvatore's Drizzt of " The Legend of Drizzt ", Kathryn Lasky's Soren of Guardians of Ga ' Hoole, David Eddings ' Belgarion in the Belgariad and Malloreon, Terry Brooks ' Shea and Wil Ohmsford of The Sword of Shannara and The Elfstones of Shannara, Terry Goodkind's Richard Cypher, Robert Jordan's Rand al ' Thor of The Wheel of Time, Pug and Arutha of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Saga, Philip Pullman's Lyra Belacqua of His Dark Materials, Ursula K. Le Guin's Ged, Aerial of the Darkangel Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce, and Christopher Paolini's Eragon of The Inheritance Cycleand Ashalind of the " Bitterbynd Trilogy ".

The Jedi are trained to use the Force through rejection of passions and commitment to justice, as opposed to the ideals of the aggressive, highly passionate school known as the Dark side, favoring instead what is known in contrast as " the Light side.

However, in recent years the explosion of microbreweries has led to a modest renaissance and an increasing number of milds ( sometimes labelled " Dark ") are now being brewed.

Such dimensions, such as Asgard or the Dark Dimension are technically not " pocket dimensions " as they clearly reside completely outside the boundaries of the Marvel Universe, instead of within, as the former does.

In the film noir Dark Passage, the protagonist has plastic surgery, and when his bandages are removed, he is revealed to be Humphrey Bogart.

The latter is inspired by several dark fantasy influences, notably that of H. P. Lovecraft ; most notably, Dimensional Shamblers appear as enemies, the " Spawn " enemies are called " Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua " in the manual, the end boss of the first episode is named Chthon, and the final boss is named Shub-Niggurath ( though actually resembling a Dark Young ).

With the exception of occasional specials, daytime soap operas are notable by their absence from DVD release schedules ( an exception being the 1960s-70s supernatural soap opera, Dark Shadows, which did receive an almost complete release on both VHS and DVD ).

There are also local and regional sub-groups, usually called " households ", which are not part of the Society's formal organization, the largest of which is the Mongol Empire-themed Great Dark Horde.