DARKSEED haben sich von Sänger Stefan Hertrich getrennt und ihn durch Christoph Puhr-Westerheide (MISLEAD) ersetzt (siehe Foto).

Stefans Statement:

"Many people have demanded a clear statement explaining why I left the band
Darkseed, the band I formed 11 years ago. The band originally comes from
Munich, but I moved 300 km away because I found a good job in the computer
gaming industry. I would still have been able to record more Darkseed CDs,
but the rest of the band wanted to play live, a thing I cannot do because it
simply requires too much time to rehearse the songs and play concerts. So I
proposed that they should look for a new vocalist after "Astral Adventures"
is released so that concerts can be played again and Darkseed will get more
publicity than they have in recent years.

I will concentrate on my solo project Shiva in Exile now
(www.shiva-in-exile.com), an experimental mixture between ethnic and gothic
music, maybe work on a new Betray my Secrets album with Christian of
Megaherz, and also work on computer game music. But the first thing I will
do (in fact I have already started to do) is to write a real metal album. It
will be the album I would have written for Darkseed after "Astral
Adventures". So don´t imagine that I will start a life without music!"