Two artists, at least, lay claim to the name "A Scanner Darkly." One is a Belgian Gothic ROck band which released an album titled "This Is The Way" in 1988. More recently--
As a humble tribute to Philip K. Dick (one of the greatest science fiction writers- and one of the best novelists of the 20th century) A Scanner Darkly draws influence from Dick's hallucinogenic alternate-realities and the seemingly incompatible musical worlds of sludge, drone, grindcore and prog-rock to create their own synergetic brand of sci-fi metal that is as intelligent as it is brutal!

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