DARK QUARTERER – dark quarterer – GATEFOLD RED HOT LP

Heavy Metal – Red Hot Vinyl – Shadow Kingdom Records

The saga of Italy’s DARK QUARTERER is one of the most unique around. Truly a CULT band among “cult bands,” DARK QUARTERER originally formed in 1974 under a different moniker, then mostly playing covers of progressive rock, hard rock, and early heavy metal before changing monikers in 1980 and writing their own songs. It would not be until 1985 when the band would record a demo, which comprised songs that would become their long-overdue debut album. Finally, that album, self-titled Dark Quarterer, would see release in 1987, and it proved that DARK QUARTERER were indeed a band out of time: very little sounded anything close to it back then, and its authentically rustic aura was undeniably “behind the times.”