 dark lotus is an american hip hop group based in detroit, michigan. formed in 1998, the group consists of psychopathic records-associated rappers joseph bruce and joseph utsler of insane clown posse, chris rouleau, and rappers jamie spaniolo and paul methric of twiztid. ==history== dark lotus made its debut with the single "echoside," which was originally intended for the group's debut, but released on insane clown posse's 1999 album the amazing jeckel brothers instead, because the dark lotus album's production took longer than expected. it was later announced that each member "would act as a 'petal' of the lotus," and that there would be six members. after speculation as to who the sixth member would be, including rumors that either esham or vampiro would join the group, it was announced that marz would be a member. dark lotus released their first album, tales from the lotus pod, in 2001. mike e. clark was brought in to produce the album, but left the project after producing four songs, and fritz the cat produced the rest of the album. the album peaked at #1 on the billboard heatseekers chart, #6 on the top independent albums chart, and #158 on the billboard 200. marz left the group, and was replaced by
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