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.

Demonika and the Darklings started out performing regularly in 2002 at Highland Grounds in Hollywood for The Kelly Mantle Show. They recently completed a year (2005) of being regulars at Club Swank, a once a month Saturday night that Demonika booked at Mr. T's Bowl. Also they have played at The Gig in Hollywood, Club Funeral, Fais DoDo, Spaceland, Dangerous Curves Gallery in downtown LA, and a very special appearance as part of the 2003 KXLU 88.9 FM Indie Rock Idol Contest at the Knitting Factory.
A few of Demonika and the Darklings' live performances and in-depth interviews are being featured in a documentary on Gothic Culture being filmed to air on HBO in the near future.

Their EP ""Venus Blush"" is available at CDbaby.com and through Projekt:Darkwave. It includes 2 songs that are not online and they don't perform them live.

For more info, please visit: http://www.DemonikaAndTheDarklings.com
http://www.myspace.com/DemonikaandtheDarklings

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