DIS has long been a staple in the soundclick community having reached the Top 10 for months on end with various tunes. In fact in some ways soundclick.com is the very reason DIS began in the first place. Back in the late winter of 2003, I was bored with the music that was commercially available, so I headed to the internet to find the next great thing. I didn't find it, to say the least. The Death Metal that was out there was undeveloped and uninspired, while every American Black Metal band was a clone of what ever grim and necro scandinavian band that was in vouge at the time. There was no quality to be found. In early December of that year, I happened across soundclick.com where there was probably the largest concentration of unsigned extreme metal bands online. After an hour of listening to the crap that was there, I was prompted to write a black metal-ish tune that would show the posuers how the music should be done. After joking with my roomate that those bands must have wrote those songs in five minutes, my roommate issued a challenge: I had to write my song in 5 minutes, and it still had to destroy... And I did. That song was "The Blackness Declaration". Eventually in that time period the LP "Opus 1" was finished and stayed on top here at soundclick for almost the entire year of 2004. Almost 4 years have passed since DIS became reality, and with that there has been much music made. 2004 also saw the release of "The Retalliation e.p.", a brutal 3 song experiment. In 2005, "The Paradigm Contingency Plan" was written and recorded in a month, and subsequentally released. Then in 2006, after much online hyping, Work began on what would become "The Black Shepherd" and "Opus 2". Although at the time, those lps were supposed to be released towards the end of 2006, the immense amount of orchestration involved as well as the studio work to accomodate those tracks ended up pushing the projects completion back... er WAY BACK. Now, (October 2007 as of this writing) the final mixes for "The Black Shepherd" and "Opus 2" are now being finished, and being prepared for release. The current release dates are November 20th, 2007 for "The Black Shepherd" and January 8th, 2008 for Opus 2. UPDATE: The Black Shepherd is now officially available here with 10/16/07 as the release date. The Opus 2 version here may or may not be the final album version, but is damn close regardless. The Official release date remains 1/8/08 for Opus 2. There will be links to the High Quality Versions of the Lps here on Archive.org posted soon. Go to the DIS Myspace page for current links, and to get on the Official DIS friendslist... Wow that sounds lame looking at it now, but hey: The World Needs it's DIS fans to show pride in their new favorite band. Aaron DIS