Blackstar were a British hard rock band, formed as a retooling of the band Carcass in 1995 without Bill Steer along with former Cathedral bassist Mark Griffiths (on guitar). The band name comes from a Carcass song off the Swansong 1996 album. Blackstar released only a single album. After a while, the band was forced to change its name to Blackstar Rising. The band dissolved because drummer Ken Owen suffered from a brain haemorrhage.

Members

Discography

Promo 96

Barbed Wire Soul (1998 Peaceville Records)

Japanese versions has 5 demo tracks and 3 cover versions as bonus tracks (The end of the song Instrumental is a quote from the movie From Dusk Till Dawn)

X (1998 CD VILE77)

Digipack 10 year anniversary release with cover tracks by Peaceville artists X cover