Dark Century is a Montreal band that's been together playing shows for more than ten years now. They bring a mix of death metal, heavy beats, a little comedy and of course bacon. The bacon theme seems to run through a lot of their music and image. I'm not sure when all the bacon-tossing started but their fat crunchiness started getting noticed with the 2009 videoclip "Viande Froide". This video came out at the same time as their first album release "Days of the mosh". The title along with the aformentioned fat and crunchy style led to the term mosh metal being thrown around. For those of you unfamiliar with the term it usually means low tech metal that makes you want to jump around. And people wanted to jump around to pig squeals and meaty riffs so they got more shows.
More attention led to them playing the Heavy MTL festival in 2012. Judging by the crowd chanting for the tossing of pork products the people got what they wanted. Dark century then headed out on a cross Canada tour presumably throw bacon at westerners. The next video "Kill the crowd" was released showing the bands good sense of humour and the furthering of the fat crunch. A new album was then in the works with Christian Donaldson(Cryptopsy). Putting most of 2013 into making this a great release and burning off the results of a pork-centric diet should pay off. The new release is titled "Murder Motel" and is available as of April. ybe as they get older they will just start throwing turkey bacon at the crowd.
The band is promissing that there will be the continuation of humour but mixed with even more aggressive and even heavier music. They have a new line-up and more attitude which I hope will lead to even more bacon puns in their music. I've found the new album on their bandcamp as well as the merch store. This band might go places or they might die from the cholesterol. Or m
If there are any innaccuracies in this article it probably has something to do with me being semi retarded and I also barely ever eat bacon.
Michael F. Carnage
http://www.darkcentury.ca/
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