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Demonika and the Darklings
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Profile: DEMONIKA AND THE DARKLINGSNew full length album "Shelter" will be officially released on February 23. 2008!!! Their EP "Venus Blush" is available at CDbaby.com, iTunes, and through Projekt:Darkwave. Stickers, buttons, t-shirts, and CDs can be purchased directly from the band at theDarkling Bazaar! BIO: Demonika Darkly, Dv8 Darkly, and Devlyn Darkly are longtime friends who in 2002 decided to start making music together. Demonika took on vocals and lyrics. Dv8 began writing music on bass and with the program Reason. Devlyn, also working with Reason, added violin and theremin to the mix. These three women have very individual musical influences that come together to make the Darkling sound. Demonika's lyrics are highly influenced by Nick Cave, Robert Smith, and the full moon, while her vocal influences are PJ Harvey, Lisa Gerrard, Janis Joplin, and Siouxsie Sioux. Dv8, originally played guitar but picked up the bass when she heard Jah Wobble's bass line on the Orb?s ?Blue Room.? Her influences include Simon Gallup, Bernard Edwards, and Dub music. Devlyn listens to almost anything you can dance to from industrial/goth to marching music. She is inspired by bands such as BlutEngel, Legendary Pink Dots, Sulfur, and The Creatures. This combination of influences has resulted in electro-goth music that has been described as, "visceral with a beating heart, and a serious attention to mood and atmosphere...Tightly focused haunting female vocal melodies. Below-the-radar, hypnotic bass tones. Theremin dirges straight from a thirties German film noir. Distant mechanical-like percussion noises. Subtle, yet powerfully intoxicating violins. And the beautifully forlorn voice of Demonika Darkly, narrating a seductively strange and enchanting world of passionate fairytale-like romanticism filled with a feeling that manages to convey love, loss, pain, and hope in a single note. -Jeremy Eckhart / Grave Concerns E-Zine In 2004, the Darklings started working with John "Wee Wee" Napier (the RocketDYN Disaster), formally of Ethyl Meatplow and Nitzer Ebb, who produced their first EP "Venus Blush" on the indie label Trocar Records. John Napier joined up with the Darklings again in 2006 to record their full length album "Shelter." DJ Bastard Darkly joined the band on drums while recording "Shelter" and is now a full time member. Devlyn is also the violinist for UNEXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN. DJ Bastard Darkly is also the drummer for WAILING WALL. Draconia Darkly, on cello, became our 5th member in 2008. Sounds Like: Imagine if Siouxsie& The Banshees, Coil, Nick Cave, and Soft Cell all had a love child... VENUS BLUSH: "The music comes across as dark, subtle and dangerous. Demonika Darkly's voice is at times soft and fragile sounding and in an instant can become hard and forceful. Dv8 Darkly takes up half of the programming and adds bass guitar, while Devlyn Darkly brings in the violin, backing vocals, Theremin (!) and handles the rest of the programming. The musicianship is superb here! Great stuff. All of the tracks are outstanding, but a personal favorite is "October Moon". Very vaguely reminiscent of NIN's "Closer" in the way of the drums, it is much darker and brooding. I'd also like to point out that fans of Rasputina and Suzanne Vega's industrial masterpiece, 99.9Fdegrees, will LOVE Demonika And The Darklings! This is one of the best releases I've heard this year. Awesome production, mix and packaging. Pick it up!" -Boris / Black Angel Promotions cover of Justin Timberlake's "CRY ME A RIVER" - 5/5/07 Influences: The Cure, Nick Cave, Coil, VNV Nation, Siouxsie&The Banshees,Marc Almond and Soft Cell, Rasputina, Dead Can Dance, Switchblade Symphony, JG Thirwell (Foetus), Sulfur (Delirium Tremens), Blutengel, PJ Harvey, Legendary Pink Dots, Massive Attack,Concrete Blonde, The Orb, Janis Joplin, Cruxshadows, Orbital, DUBHomepage: http://www.DemonikaAndTheDarklings.com Link 1: http://www.myspace.com/demonikaandthedarklings Link 2: http://music.download.com/demonikaandthedarklings Link 3: http://cdbaby.com/cd/demonika
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