Title: Geigersounds
Track: Once Again
Format: Magazine + CD
Info: Compilation released by Geigermeeter magazine.
Year: 1996
Label: Geigermeeter
Other artists participating: Covenant, Statemachine, Mazarine Bleu, Shadowland Temples, Septemberfall, Mesh, Maialse, La Solitude and many more.
Title: Subsoil
Track: Autumn Song
Format: MC
Info: Compilation of alternative music.
Year: 1996
Label: Moriensis Productions
Other artists participating: Into The Abyss, Malaise, Naervaer, De Volanges, Medicine Rain, S.C.U.D, Magpie, Skogsberg, La Solitude, Evidence, Seven Trees
This album is probably what you could call the final battle with the old Cowboys… One can also look upon it as a summary of what Dark Side Cowboys have been doing during their first three years of existance, before the album was released. The Apocryphal is made like the soundtrack to a movie, dealing with the theme of “abuse of messages” and it strives to reach other depths within the listener than the previous release Pure Hearts EP. No singles were released from this album but some years after its appearance, DSC chose to include “Tears For You” as a built in single on the extended CDM Most. Hardcore Cowboy-fans might find it interesting to know that this album has also been officially released as a cassette in Poland.
Year: 1996
Label: M&A Musicart/SPV
Format: CD + MC (see below)
The first official CD is the Pure Hearts EP. It was designed towards the always interesting topics love and friendship and carries some of the most popular songs throughout DSC’s history. It starts off with “Bloodred Moon”, a song that nowadays has become named a swedish “goth-classic”. But the song has also gained ground on the international scene, released on several compilations and also hitting top 5 on the South African alternative radio chart. Flooding on through “Red Day”, another of the Cowboys’ hits can be found in “UnfortuNataly”. This song came to be re-recorded and once again released in 1998, then in form of a single taken from the album High (1999).
Year: 1995
Label: M&A Musicart/SPV
Format: CD-maxi
Pearls For The Swine is the last demotape from Dark Side Cowboys. Shortly after the release in 1995 the first CD Pure Hearts EP was released. Pearls was only available to members of Morinsis Productions and subscribers of Wanted Magazine, so back then many fans didn’t even know it existed. On this recording the Cowboys prepared themselves for the forthcoming CD’s and many future CD-tracks can be find here in early demoversions.
Year: 1995
Label: Moriensis Productions
Shots & Cuts give the listener a summary of what the Cowboys were up to on stage during 1993-94. Included are live-tracks from various performances, from the worst ones that never should have been done in the first place, to some better ones. Found within are exclusive tracks and versions that practically never can be done again… This is the fifth and final part in the Ars Moriensis story, the epilogue that ends with a lot of questions, perhaps never to be answered.
Year: 1994
Label: Moriensis Productions
Demon is the fourth part in the Ars Moriensis epos, and probably the most deadly part too… Designed as a comedy this piece of music will thrill the listener and send shivers down your spines. One can hear a mixture of sanity and insanity, good and bad, light and darkness, and there is no way out. The demotape is somewhat equal to Rare & Obscure and it was only made in 25 copies (guess if they sold out…). On this demo one can find early demoversions among with exclusive tracks and covers. DSC fear no limits.
Year: 1994
Label: Moriensis Productions
The Ars Moriensis was the start of the Dark Side Cowboys’ epos with the same name, devided into five parts, and here we have reached part III – The Hall of Pain. This demo was, like Ars Moriensis, made in 100 numbered copies plus another 100 promocopies. This is the recording that brought DSC outside the borders of their homecountry and musically one can follow the development.
On this album size one can follow the Cowboys in the battle between the good and the bad side… in the Hall of Pain.
Year: 1994
Label: Moriensis Productions
Ars Moriensis II – Rare & Obscure is the name of the second demotape from DSC. Limited to 25 numbered copies it sold out quickly and lucky owners af an original can now become rich, erhm… On this tape DSC are even more experimental than on Ars Moriensis and among the many obscure songs one can find special versions of Deep, Bloodred Moon and Red Day, unique tracks like Nerves Don’t Regain and covers of among others David Bowie.
Year: 1994
Label: Moriensis Productions
Title: Lajbansound
Track: Bloodred Moon (demo), Dust (Demo)
Info: Compilation tape released in Strömsund, Sweden by local culture organisation Lajbanerna. This is where DSC used to record the early demos.
Year: 1994
Label: Sällskapet Lajbanerna
Other artists participating: Grötkäft, Second Project, Ångvält, Topsy Turvy, M2M