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Penumbra may refer to:
1) A band from Paris, France.
2) A name for Mark Warren’s project.
3) An band from Japan.

1) Penumbra ( band)
Formed in Paris, France in 1996. Their lyrics are themed toward love, angels, witches, death, and emotions.

1996 - Creation of the band
The band was founded rather by chance, while visiting a concert one day in 1996 Dorian (guitars) met Jarlaath (vocals) and soon after they had known each other they found themselves philosophizing about metal in general and in particular. They realized that they had very much in common regarding their musical ideas.

Both of them took the view that there were too many bands around sounding all more or less the same but not enough of them using classical music influences.

So it happened that they arranged a rehearsal together with a soprano and a synthesizer. Jarlaath also played the oboe. This rehearsal went so outrageously fine that they decided without the slightest hesitation to leave their bands and to found Penumbra (at this point they called themselves “Imperatoria”).

1997 - Recording of the first demo and Concert in Paris with Misanthrope
Around November 1996, Imperatoria split up and Jarlaath together with Dorian and Herr Rikk formed Penumbra with three other musicians.

Their first appearance was at the St. Denis University Festival where exclusively metal bands were playing. Audiences were unexpectedly enthusiastic about the “outsiders”. A short time after this first live experience they got the offer to play with the French metal band Misanthrope.
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    Seclusion is awesome! [2]

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  • Vest-one

    Friends, I am really missing you :( Your music opened me the world of gothic metal..... I hope your creativity will work in other projects!

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    Seclusion is awesome!

    November 2011
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    <3

    August 2011
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    Eargasm!! \m/

    July 2011
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    Emanate is so beautiful

    July 2011
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    sou apaixonada pela música hope... não consigo parar de escutá-la. ^^

    June 2011
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    it can't get any better than seclusion can it? one of the best gothic metal albums ever made :,}

    June 2011
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16 Oct 2011 | from blog.myspace.com/lastdayhereband

LastDayHere went through some changes in the last few months. The previous drummer Mohor left the band due to personal reasons.We decided to not stop the good thing we started in 2006 and decided …

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