Here's some more underground black/doom from Bad Mood Man that came out late last year ('08)...Darktrance is a new one-man band from the Ukraine playing an offbeat blend of progressive black metal, electronic music and suicidal doom on his debut full length Ghosts In The Shells, and for a one man band, the sound here is pretty thick, and the music is more industrial black metal than anything. There are a bunch of different styles and sounds that Darktrance draws from, and the strange arrangements and weird twists that occur throughout these songs remind me of the experimental industrial-tainted black metal of like Spektr and Blut Aus Nord. Darktrance don't really sound like either of those bands, it's more in the way that this takes an assortment of riffs and sounds and assembles it into strange unexpected shapes. There's an apocalyptic vibe that hangs over the album as songs like "Long Dark Heath", "Black Sun" and "Rain Of Sorrow" seem to evoke bombed out cityscapes haunted by Kirlian shadows of the dead from some unnamed holocaust, and it's echoed in the music. Haunting tremelo riffs rage over rapid-fire programmed blastbeats, and the guitars seem to waver in and out of tune slightly, giving them a similiar mutant discordance as some of Blut Aus Nord's material. There are weird ambient sections formed out of processed vocal samples and electronic drones, and on "Between Two Worlds" the track turns into a strange minimal industrial dirge with chiming electronics sparkling over super sparse mathriffs stretched taut over a shuffling drumbeat while depthcharge blasts echo in the distance. But then on the next track "God Of Time", Darktrance shifts gears completely into jagged death metal with a stuttering, angular breakdown as the chorus, and then moves back and forth between proggy riffage and chunky, brutal death. "Black Sun" drops some wild Nintendo piano melody over churning industrial black metal, and other tracks drape dark orchestral strings across blasts of angular blackthrash and crushing doom. Killer! A promising debut that fans of quirky, industrialized black metal should dig.