Artist description Decadent's brand of retro alternative blends elements of 70's glam rock with 80's new wave. Front man David K's rich baritone brings life to his image laden lyrics, reminiscent of Bowie and Peter Murphy, while the rest of the band supports the songs with layers of textured sound. The music is T. Rex meets Depeche Mode while the attitude can be traced to the late 19th century Decadent movement which inspired the bands name as well as their dandyesque lifestyle.

Music Style Rock n' Roll with a dark, electronic edge

Musical Influences cure, bowie, peter murphy

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Artist History DECADENT: in literature, name loosely applied to those 19th-century, fin-de-siècle European authors who sought inspiration, both in their lives and in their writings, in aestheticism and in all the more or less morbid and macabre expressions of human emotion. In reaction to the naturalism of the European realists, the decadents espoused that art should exist for its own sake, independent of moral and social concerns. The epithet was first applied in the 1880s to a group of self-conscious and flamboyant French poets, who in 1886 published the journal Le Décadent. In England the decadent movement was represented in the 1890s by Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, Ernest Dowson, and Aubrey Beardsley and the writers of the Yellow Book. J. K. Huysmans’s À rebours (1884) and Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) present vivid fictionalized portraits of the 19th-century decadent—his restlessness, his spiritual confusion, and his moral inversion.

Group Members David K- vocals, programming and guitars Brian Shepard- guitars and textures Mike Curtin- Bass and guitar Scott Littler- Drums

Location Cleveland, oh - USA

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