Dusk Biography
During their all too brief mid-'90s existence, Green Bay, WI's Dusk were responsible for recording some of the harshest and most uncompromising music to grace the spheres of doom and death metal; so uncompromising, in fact, that the band never escaped cult status before breaking up. Dusk's roots date back to the start of the 1990s, with Steve Crane (vocals/bass) and Steve Gross (guitar/keyboards) finding inspiration in doom/death pioneers like England's Paradise Lost and My Dying Bride, and New Yorkers Winter, among others. After corralling second guitarist Tim Beyer and drummer Ron Heemstra to complete their lineup, the band produced two independent releases in quick succession: 1994's eponymous first effort and the following year's Majestic Thou in Ruin, which saw them listed alongside similarly dedicated but obscure American extreme doom practitioners like California's Morgion, Chicago's Novembers Doom, and New Jersey's Evoken. But personal problems eventually arose between the two Steves, so that by the time a long absent Dusk contributed the song "Yearning for Eternity" to 1998's Visionaries of the Macabre, Vol. 1 compilation, Crane had been replaced by a new vocalist and bassist. A few more demos from 1997 would eventually find release eight years later, but by then Dusk had long ceased to exist. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide
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