The Darklab is a recording studio facility located in the heart of the Pacific Northwest (Seattle, WA) ran by audio engineer and producer EJ Oropza. His vision demands quality over quantity. Originality, innovation and true talent are The Darklab's core standards to bring your vision to life. The Darklab provides professional services in the field of audio and will produce your project to the fullest with guaranteed results.
The Darklab also offers services to film companies, records companies, media companies, producers and artists in general. Some of them include: producing, sound mixing, arranging, voiceovers, multi language overdubs, editing, mastering, sound restoration, post-production, music transcriptions, jingles, audio-consultation, vocal and orchestral arrangements, and Voice-overs among others.

Brendon is Seattle-based composer and has contributed music to major video game titles including Destiny 2: Forsaken, Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, and Call of Duty: WWII. In 2019, he was nominated for a Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) Award for “Best Original Choral Composition” for his work on Forsaken.

Brendon has a Master’s of Music in film scoring from the Seattle Film Institute’s Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program, which he received in 2014, following his Bachelor’s of Music in Jazz Composition from Cornish College of the Arts.  He has also received critical acclaim across the world with his progressive metal band A Sense of Gravity and has been featured in major publications such as Metal Hammer and Prog Magazine.

Guitarist and Singer for Shimmer - a high energy rock band out of Eagle Mountain, Utah.

I write and record instrumental metal.  My music contains symphonic/orchestral elements as well as death, melodic, and black metal influences.


Musical influences:
-David Jon Gilmour
-Tom Scholz
-Jimi Hendrix
-Jimmy Page 
-Markus Vanhala
-Brendon Small
-Omnium Gatherum
-Insomnium
-Fleshgod Apocalypse
-Shade Empire
-Hans Zimmer
-Howard Shore
-Beethoven
 



Followers of Morgan Wick