Artist description Violet Black Orchid is David London and Max Arneson, hailing from Vancouver British Columbia Canada. (VBO), is an amazing melting pot of gothic industrial, with some guitar intrusions, combined with whispered and distorted vocals. (VBO) continues to prove themselves in the Industrial community.

Music Style Industrial, Darkwave

Musical Influences Industrial, goth and ambient

Similar Artists Attrition, Funker Vogt

Artist History Violet Black Orchid was spawned as a side project from David London's main project Daedalus21 about 3 years ago. Numerous appearances on compilations around the world such as USA, Germany, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, keep the band very busy.

Group Members David London & Max Arneson

Instruments synths, electronic drums, guitars, vocals, samples and loops.

Albums Black Planet Fire n Ice, Dion Fortune Sampler #5, KSM Split single Bytet/VBO

Press Reviews 1. Bytet -- Anything (3.33) 2. Bytet -- Tension (3.31) 3. Violet Black Orchid -- Kiss (5.06) Bytet opens up on this split single with synths spinning their way around heavy drumming, bass, what sounds like guitar, whirring keys and eerie vocals with the quirky track: Anything. Tension on the other hand, is more harmonic in the vocal department, more electro fast paced beat/tempo, and spacious keyboard chords. Venturing out of Bytet and into Violet Black Orchid, the single takes a change in direction with the dark-core ominous track: Kiss. More EBM in nature, Kiss evokes an immediate assumption of a warning by the very nature of the steady backbeat that drifts in and out of the non-stop heavy driven overall tempo and foreboding lyrics/vocals. Excellent release. This double CD was compiled and released by KSM Records from Canada. It is a collection of many of the most promising contemporary underground post-industrial and dark electronic acts from North & South America, Europe and Australia. One CD is sub-titled "ICE" and showcases the mellower though very dark, ambient tracks. If you're into Cold Meat Industry sort of things you'll love many of these tracks: waves of noise and dystopian soundscapes. Also featured later in the CD are several tracks which fit into the slower more gothic edge of electro-industrial. What is often called "darkwave". The artists are: The Unquiet void, Violet Black Orchid, Cryptomnesia, Psychokinetic Disrupter, Fatal Blast Whip, Attrition, TNV, Ex-Nihilo, Zeitgeist, Featherface, Eskimo, Bytet, Daedalus21 (which is made a very tongue in cheek piece by setting it over the cheesiest stadium audience cheering you've ever heard!) You'll also find AYA (who are now known as ELF) with "Aphazia (Black Planet Mix)". 15 tracks over 74 minutes. The other CD is sub-titled "FIRE". As one might suspect, it features the upbeat raucous industrial-metal-teknoid tunes. If you're into well-known goups like NIN, Front Line Assembly, Project Pitchfork etc. then I predict you'll dig all these bands as they're on that end of the spectrum. Artists: Attrition, Violet Black Orchid, Implant, Deadjump, Narcissus Pool, Idiot Stare, Noxious Emotion, Glass Eden, Nanochrist, Delicate Terror, Profan, DMSO, The Question. Oh and on here you'll also find an early version of EYE's track "The Vivisector - all the people killed mix". 15 tracks over 73 minutes. So there you go, if you're an industrial rivett-head and/or into dark electronics (adventurous gothics!) why spend $25-35 (Aust.) on about 20-40 minutes of major label released stale teeny-bop stuff, when you could get 147 minutes of exciting cutting-edge noises for a lower price? In order to cut costs, Bytet and Violet Black Orchid has released this split single to help promote their new material so they have gone all out to display a very different sound from previous work. The Bytet material shows a marked level of maturity from their debut release, coupled with the use of a female vocalist, almost drags this stereotypical electro act straight into darkwave or electro-goth territory. The Violet Black Orchid track is more of the standard EBM affair with slow, calculated vocals that also shares more in common with the current darkwave trend than on previous work. In any event, all of the tracks are definitely a very positive trend for both bands that should erase much of the stereotypical image that they both shared. Bytet is: RG Geiger Violet Black Orchid is: David London & Max Arnason

Location Coquitlam, BC - Canada

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