Artist description A band of five musicians playing heavy industrial music with ethnic rhythms and art-rock approach.

Music Style metal-gothic-industrial

Musical Influences Laibach, Godflesh, R.A.T.M., Dead Can Dance, Ministry, Pig Face

Similar Artists Laibach, Rammstein

Artist History e group was formed in 1996 with a clear aim of contributing to the cause of the world revolution. Fiercely, like R.A.T.M., but in a different industrial style they tried to inspire sleeping masses for subversive actions. Thundering drums and viscous, even pompous, keyboards, resembled LAIBACH, and sometimes their music caused steady associations with GODFLESH. Due to the absence of required equipment and sufficiently strong ties with records companies the first cheap studio record was made only in February 1997. This was the first attempt of breakthrough into then-frequent St. Petersburg rock festivals. It appeared to be a failure. Five songs of slashing militarized industrial, decorated with radical political slogans and demands, scared fat promoters. The group didn't perform at any of those events. The name of DETI SOLNCA (Children of the Sun), admitted to be banal by the members of the band, wasn't chosen casually. Those trying to perceive Nazi symbols behind this may piss off. And it has no relation to hippies whatsoever. They possess their own ideology. Balancing on the brink of falling apart for the second year, they lead an active concert activity. Some of recent concerts are: "Singing Nevsky Festival - 6, 8", Sergey Kuryokhin International Festival - 4, "Singing Steps" Festival in Vyborg and lots of other concerts on St. Petersburg clubs. There are two trends in the band's creative work - equal presence of both male and female vocals which adds a special "totalitarity" to the sound of the band, and the work with ritual rhythms (which is well noticeable at recent concerts). In summer of 2000, in active cooperation with Andrey Tropilo, DETI finally recorded their first full-scale album. It was called "Propaganda". It is due to be released in October-November 2001.

Group Members A. Starostin - vocals, guitar, programming Y. Veremyeva - vocals M.Kostyunin - bass Kusas - bongoes Taras Frolov - keyboards

Instruments bass, guitar, drums, 2 vocals

Albums "Propaganda" 2001 AnTrop rec.

Press Reviews None in English...

Location Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg - Russia

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