Artist description What is the Darker Day Collective?

Music Style Gothic | Electronic | Worldbeat | Folk | Tribal | Darkwave | Ambient | Industrial| Experimental

Musical Influences art, sound, & spirit

Similar Artists theCELLexperiment, x-celsius, mayfairgrin

Artist History The Darker Day Collective was founded and conceptualized in early 2000. It began as a concept geared towards uniting local like-minded musicians. In early August The Darker Day Collective had its first internet presence in the form of a small, one page site. The internet offered a whole new angle and several imaginative options and alternatives to what could not be accomplished otherwise. The organization expanded it's vision to include visual/graphic artists, photographers, and poets/writers. At this point, 'The Darker Day Collective' underwent a reinvention as where the name was chaged to DIEIATRA. By November, The DDC was fully realized and operational internet presence. Dieiatra soon expanded to offer a contantly growing and active discussion forum. A second forum has just recently been added to cater to the spiritual needs of its members and allow them a place on the internet to call home. Dieiatra Recordings has also recently produced 'Mourner's Linen' from the Tribal Artwave band, mayfairgrin. A compilation CD of Dieiatra associated artists entitled IN DARKNESS MY HEART WAS WON is currently available from FLAMING FISH MUSIC or directly from Dieiatra Recordings, and will soon be available via mp3.com. Several other projects are in the works. A series of avante-gard/experimental worship CDs featuring many Dieiatra related artists is in the works currently.

Group Members Obscure Element, mayfairgrin, Fairhaven, porteur de l'Image, x-Celsius,Vesper, theCELLexperiment, Riversoul, Unicks Face, Nothing Box, & Ishur Ninku...

Albums In Darkness My Heart Was Won, Dancing Upon The Heads Of Serpents (Available July 2001)

Press Reviews The loose collection of underground Christian electronic artists known as the Darker Day Collective has released its first recorded compliation with this CD. Appropriately titled "In Darkness My Heart Was Won", the compilation takes the listener deep into the musical underground by featuring 11 of the more experimental numbers by upcoming industrial, ambient, electronica and noise bands. Highlights include Blank Frame's "Miserably Yours," a harsh, eerie dark electro number reminiscent of Skinny Puppy and Download, the eclectic "Dominus Jesus", [not on D.A.M. CD] which finds noise stalwart Anaphylaxis dubbing Gregorian chants over a bed of static and mechanical effects and new band Heaven Falls Hard's breakout hit "Resurrection," which combines mournful female vocals, acoustic guitar riffs and ambient synth beds to create a downtempo ambient/goth hybrid that would go well in a post-apocalypse movie. Dark ambient fans, meanwhile, will enjoy "Suffer In Silence,"by A Hymn For Her and "Beyond Gamorrah" by Poteur de l'Image, both extremely dark instrumentals that would go well in a horror movie, the electro- noise-flavored "Creation" by Static:Soul and Mayfairgrin's "Mourner's Linen," which blends relaxing new age-like synths and tribal percussion with unsettling whispered vocals [new version appears on D.A.M. version]. Listeners who want to get up and move will appreciate theCELLexperiment's electro-industrial/synth-pop hybrid "You Take Me," Eye's sample-laden industrial-rock opus "Herd Under Social Hypnosis" and "Take That," the latest number by underground electronica stalwart Substructure. While its preference for darker, experimental selections over more accessbile ones may keep some genere newcomers away, 'In Darkness...' is a refreshing break from the commercial-sounding material found on most compilations. I hope the Darker Day Collective has more on the way [We most certainly do!]. -James McGinnis (for FLAMING FISH MUSIC)

Location Based out of Richmond, Virginia - USA

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