Darkxtar

Initially a project of keyboardist/programmer Soren Bengtsson and bassist/vocalist "Captain" Juha Nurmenniemi, Darxtar has continued to evolve since the forced departure of Nurmenniemi in 1994. Their 2001 album, Tombola, introduced a new lineup featuring guitarist/vocalist Bjorn Jacobson and violinist Fredric Sundqvist. Meeting in a used record store in Stockholm in 1989, Bengtsson and Nurmenniemi collaborated on their first recording during the summer of 1990. Nurmenniemi, who had begun playing guitar in 1978, had been focusing on computerized keyboards for several years be...