Demonika and the Darklings
Venus Blush
© 2004 Demonika and the Darklings (679749133425)
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All girl electro-goth with violin
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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 Wee Wee (the RocketDYN Disaster), of Ethyl Meatplow and Nitzer Ebb, who produced their first EP "Venus Blush" on the indie label Trocar Records. All five songs are in rotation on the internet radio station CobWebsInTheCloset.com. "Watching from the Outside" from the EP is being played on KXLU 88.9 FM in Los Angeles and has also been remixed by A.N.T.
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- author: somber blak
the cd is very well done. i love the the first song "blood at first bite". this cd is defiantly different than most music out there and i applaud their effort and success with the cd.
Loved it
author: JaneI recently got the Venus Blush CD and love it. It has 5 songs for a total of 21 minutes and 19 seconds, and I got it a mere 3 days after ordering it from CD Baby--and no, it wasn't ordered with fast delivery. The description given above is unusual from most promotional blurbs in that I think it describes the CD accurately and well. I can't add much to it beyond endorsing what they themselves have said, but I must say I LOVE the violin. The music (especially the violin) kind of reminds me of Cruxshadows, although the Darklings are unique to themselves. So far, all my friends have loved it, too, as has everyone who commented on the Gothic Beauty Message Board. If talent is the primary factor in determining how far your musical career goes, then I'd have to say after hearing Venus Blush several times, Demonika and the Darklings is going to go very far.