Danny Helm is an independent musician, songwriter and producer based in the North West of England. From 2009 to 2012 Danny played lead guitar in the Metalcore band Reckless Revolution which performed a mixture of cover songs and original music with regular slots in rock bars and clubs around Lancashire.
From 2012 to 2018 Danny shifted focus to acoustic and instrumental music. He played and sang in pubs and clubs around the North West on a weekly basis and in 2018 he released an experimental instrumental album entitled Veil of Years which fused aspects of Ambient and Neoclassical genres.
…and darkness follows
Danny Helm’s latest project represents a partial return to his roots in Rock and Metal whilst synthesising his accumulated knowledge of Folk, Classical, Blues and Jazz music. This is an eclectic thirteen track album entitled …and darkness follows.
In their raw form, most of the songs featured on this album were written during Danny’s teenage years. The songs deal with love and loss, striving for a sense of purpose and identity, existential futility, nostalgia, theunremitting nature of time, addiction, depression and the disconnect between the individual and his/ her surroundings. Most of the songs were later supplemented with instrumental sections and more eclectic nuances.
While the album is not genre specific, the overall ethos is established by several common threads:
The album is very dark and downtempo.
Instrumentally, the album relies heavily on guitars.
The vocals are usually soft, often juxtaposed with heavy music. This was done with the intention of giving a sense of implicit emotionality much like Jonas Renkse’s vocals on The Great Cold Distance by Katatonia.
As a whole the album is melodically and harmonically consonant, making it more emotional than cerebral.
The lyrics can be generally categorised as being both gothic and romantic in nature because of the themes of the past being part of the present, in the form of memories, dreams, spirits and apparitions. The reliance upon sublime imagery and the use of allegories from mythology and the natural world to describe states of mind are all commonplace.
Danny was heavily influenced by the interplay of soft and heavy which is integral to albums like Break the Cycle by Staind and Fallen by Evanescence.
Track List
…and darkness follows is available at the link below.
Relevant Links:
Website: dannyhelm.com/
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/embed/KcEgw1bpo_E
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