Dark Heresy - Music

Music

Dark Heresy's songs were often long and complex in arrangement due to the ambitions and considerable technical skills of virtuoso guitarist Richard "Arnold" Summers (who wrote all of the band's music), with marked Baroque and jazz influences, tapping, and frequent use of the tritone or the interval of an augmented fourth. Although at the time dismissed by metal magazine Kerrang! as "a widdly Carcass", Terrorizer was more enthusiastic, writing that "Dark Heresy's music is not about mind-numbing brutality and dazzling speed, but is about complex and reflective musical structures supporting complex ideas", and describing the band's 1993 demo Diabolus In Musica as "one of the most inventive works from an occultist band." A decade after Dark Heresy had split up, DragonForce's Herman Li said of them, "they're the ones everybody knows the name of. You know, loads of people have got a copy of . They must have beaten a lot of people up."