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  • Genre: Black Metal / Experimental / Thrash

    Location Thanet, Un

    Profile Views: 14348

    Last Login: 1/13/2013

    Member Since 3/8/2007

    Website unsigned.com/darktheory

    Record Label Satanica Productions

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    . Dark Theory started life in September 2008 as raw solo project by current front man Ryan. He recorded the 10 track demo 'Every Kind of Filth' mainly through a cheap practice amp and basic computer recording software, with the total writing and recording of the songs taking a couple of months. Stylistically it was based heavily in pure old school Black Metal, but had a massive influence from Doom Metal and Experimental Noise as well, leading one reviewer to say 'I couldn't listen to it all the way through without reaching for a bucket to be sick in' and another to call it an underground masterpiece many simply won't understand. Some 6 months after this release a second 10 track demo was started, being released in the summer of 2009. This was called 'Disgust for Humanity' and fully embraced the electronic influences that had only been hinted at in Every Kind of Filth and was also far more experimental. The demo was hard to define as it combined Black Metal, Doom Metal, Grindcore, Drum n Bass, Techno, Experimental Noise and occasional dashes of other genres. The band was doing well on myspace and facebook at this point but Ryan eventually decided that live was the way forward. He recruited Callum Wilkinson (who had originally come up with the band name long ago) and Olivia Kennet as guitarists while doing lead vocals and bass himself. Callum left not too long later and the band decided to start writing and recording a new demo while they searched for new members. This third demo which came to be known as 'Look Into The Mirror' took on a very different musical direction. It was still rooted heavily in Black Metal but incorporated much stronger Doom Metal influences than before as well being less experimental. The inclusion of Liv's operatic backing vocals and use of keyboards added a thick gothic texture that the band previously hadn't had, and the joining of lead guitarist Mike Cronje added more technicality and Thrash influences. The band finally played their first gig with this three piece line up and a drum machine to a packed Lord Nelson Pub in Broadstairs in June 2010, immediately being approached by the sound technician who gave them the details of his recording studio. Very shortly after they went to this studio and recorded their debut EP, simply named 'Bludgeon EP'. It featured 3 of the more Black Metal influenced tracks from the Look Into The Mirror Demo, the Drum n Bass laden Suicide is for the Weak, the balls out Symphonic/Black/Thrash assault that was the EP's title track Bludgeon, and the slightly more doomy and experimental Vampire's Pain, all of which became staples of Dark Theory's live set for quite a while. Also on the EP was an entirely new song with a much stronger electronic element than the others simply named 'The Experiment'. Dark Theory's next two gigs saw the band supporting some very big names such as Seven Year Kismet (now The Dying Reflex) Foreboding Ether, The Boy Will Drown, Malefice, and two bands that later went on to play Bloodstock called Wretched Soul and The Furious Horde. Shortly after this they finally got their first drummer in the form of Harvey Davey. Things went very well for the band playing many gigs and meeting loads of excellent local bands, even getting to the Semi Finals of the local Battle of the Bands. Problems started to arise at this point however, as the range of influences the band was trying to combine left the setlist seeming like a collection of good but unconnected songs, as well as lead guitarist Cronje wanting to veer more towards a Grove Metal/Metalcore influenced sound. Just as the band were starting to streamline the setlist a bit, Cronje quit, forcing the band to quit a gig they already had booked for the next day. Olivia moved from keyboard to guitar and the band played the Semi Finals of the battle of the bands as a power trio, eventually losing to a local Alternative Rock band. Another catastrophe for the band happened soon after however, as five days before the band were supposed to play the biggest gig of their lives so far (they were half way up the bill for ex-Cradle of Filth member Sarah Jezebel Deva's solo project) Harvey quit to appease his girlfriend's jealousy. Determined not to let this stop them however, the two remaining members re-programmed their drum machine and went ahead with the gig anyway, getting a personal well done from Sarah herself. The next year and a bit was slow, with the band continuing as a two piece. While there were many gigs most of which went well, the drum machine was not suited well to live performances and sound issues often hampered the band. Dark Theory managed to write some new material in this time however, eventually writing and recording a demo version of a whole debut album. There was a brief surge in interest when they temporarily got a new drummer in the summer of 2011 (Bob Miller) for a few months and managed to support Sarah Jezebel Deva once more as well as selling out of EP's, but he soon quit when university started. While the gigging and practising continued, the lack of members was a constant plague on the band's live performances until just before they had finished demoing the album in July 2012. This is when Sam Field joined on drums, playing a gig with them only 8 days later. Less than a week after this Brett Linsdell joins on keyboards and by the end of September this line up had played to nearly 200 people opening the 'Mane' stage of the Red Roar Festival at the Red Lion in Gravesend supporting Silent Descent, the biggest band they had played with to date. On top of that they even filmed an official music video for the song 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' which they had recorded in a studio earlier in the summer. The bands fanbase grew rapidly over the next few months and the band continued to play with this line up, managing for the first time to have a line up that was both stable and fully into the Black Metal image, allowing the band to finally build up their dark image and theatrics. By the end of 2012, 5 months after getting a full time drummer and keyboardist, the band also came into several other bits of good news. At the beginning of December Calum Conkie, better known by his stage name Luci Hades Manor, crossdressing front man of Luci Hades Manor and the Subjects, joined the band on lead guitar and Gaz Hough, bassist of the now defunct Deathcore band Trigger to my Mind joined on bass so that original bassist Ryan was purely on vocals, able to prowl the stage. The re-release of the Bludgeon EP also came onto Rhys Stevenson's (owner of Global Metal Apocalypse) top 50 releases of 2012 at number 20 and Dark Theory also came in at number 3 in Global Metal Apocalypse's bands of the month for December 2012. . If you want to get a copy of either of our demos they will soon be avaliable through the Santania Productions website www.santanica.org under the Darkwave/Electro/Other section, as will our upcoming debut EP Look Into The Mirror. Also if you enjoy Dark Theory you may enjoy Ryan's Industrial Noise project "Desolation Machine" and Olivia's Acoustic Rock band "Out of Bounds". .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .." .. .. .. I'd like to credit A43, irrlicht, sapht, blahbahdeeboda, jace, acclivity, ERH, starpause, VEXST and markystar for creating the samples used in the demo "Disgust for Humanity". .. .. ...... .. .. .."i really enjoyed "Every Kind Of Filth" this album is the shit man, very cool, the way that you use such good timing to and create many different styles of evil, very cool, i like the music even better now that i have the albums. i will let you know when i listen to the new one. this has got to be one of the most interesting and experimental black metal i have gotten to listen too in a while." ~ Rotting in an Open Field .. .. "received the CD yesterday, played it in the car on the way to work today. As ever, it's a fantastic headfuck -- track 3 is possibly the most disturbing track I've ever heard (I hope to God that isn't you in the background...!). Great stuff. >:-)=" ~ John Wood (Balbulus and Church Ruins) .. .. "Listened to the CD. It has a pretty grim sound, which I like, and plenty of atmosphere, although the intro was faily strange!" ~ Baba Yaga .. .. "Im actually listening to Disgust for Humanity right now! Sounds of a Paranoid Mind is a brilliant track!" ~ Intra Tenebrae .. .. .. "would be really cool to listen to tripping" ~ Ogtegnet .. .. "It's like someone ripped the face off of Black Metal and put a robot inside. You could just as easily rave to this as headbang" ~ Mike Truman (Dead on Arrival) .. .. "I'm enjoying you music more and more as you progress through releases" ~ Barad Dur .. .. "Hey your stuff came through today! I'm currently listening to the 'Every Kind Of Filth' cd and it's very good. I take it you're into dance music?" ~ Daear .. .. "Dark Theory are hilarious. Cheered me right up :D" ~ Blaencathra .. .. "I've herd "Every Kind OF Filth" 6 or 8 times the way through and I like it. I love the industrial elements and the full sound you have. It's really original as well" ~ Wojna .. .. "Nice to meet a band with a concept and a vision, and not afraid to do what they want to do. There are not many around" ~ Ophidian Forest .. .. "Olivia does a hell of a good job bro lol tell her I love her ; ) lol j/k but yeah sounds good" ~ S.O.D.D .. .. "I really like what you're doing with the whole black metal techno hybrid sound" ~ =^.^=ssunfuck=^.^= .. .. "I really like your music. Really well put together and it is as atmospheric as it is brutal" ~ Prometheus Rising .. .. "Your music. It's absurdly great. Really enjoyed all of the songs from your playlist" ~ Dark Metamorphosis .. .. "Your guys' shit is berserk, nasty as hell...keep it up you sick weirdos! By the way...love your production!" ~ Desolate Anguish .. .. Copy and paste this link to read Doomantia's joint review of "Every Kind of Filth" and "Disgust for Humanity": http://earthdogsvisionsofdoom.blogspot.com/2010/02/dark-theory-every-kind-of-filth-digust.html .. .. ..Click Here for Funeral Rain Zine's Review of Every Kind of Filth.. .. .. ..Click Here for Funeral Rain Zine's Review of Disgust for Humanity.. .. .. ..Click here for UK Legions of Black Metal's Review of Every Kind of Filth.. .. .. ..Click here for ssunfuck's Review of Every Kind of Filth.. .. .. ..Click here for ssunfuck's Review of Disgust For Humanity.. ..

  • Members

    Ryan Wigley (The Baphomet) - Lead Vocals Liv Kennett (The Vampire) - Guitar and Backing Vocals Callum 'Luci' Conkie (The Crossdresser)- Lead guitar Gaz Hough (The Black Metal 'Jesus' XD)- Bass Brett Linsdell (The Undertaker) - keys Sam Field (The Demonic Being we found in a lunatic asylum)- Drums

  • Influences

    Ryan: .. Mayhem .. Behemoth .. Celtic Frost .. Psyclon 9 .. Kreator .. .. Liv: .. Within Temptation .. Sarah Jezebel Deva .. Cradle of Filth .. Nightwish .. Turisas Luci: ...Rammstein ..Marilyn Manson ..Rob Zombie ...Static- X ...Alice Cooper Sam: ...SlipKnot ...KoRn ...A7X ...Lamb Of God ...Dimmu Borgir .. .. We have also shared the stage with the likes of ..Tragic Millenium ..I.R.I.S ..Scars by Fire ..Coronal Mass Ejection ..Septic Discharge ..Inner Fire ..The Furious Horde ..Last Minute Equalizer ..Wretched Soul ..Malefice ..The Boy Who Drowned ..Desolated ..Seven Year Kismet ..Breaking the Day ..Upon These Shores ..Foreboding Ether ..Angra Mainyu ..Sarah Jezebel Deva (ex Cradle of Filth)

  • Sounds Like

    Alternativeally described by the members as "Dimmu Borgir and Slayer having a fight" and "Avant-garde Gothic Electro Black Doom n Bass Metal", some of the most common words used to describe Dark Theory by other people are sinister, creepy, disturbing, twisted, filthy, noisy, interesting, crazy and original. Addtionally we have been compared to bands as varied as Burzum, My Dying Bride, Cannibal Corpse, Mr Bungle, Pendulum, Godflesh, Carcass, music from Super Mario Bros, Aborym, Meads of Asphodel, Blacklodge, Interlock, Dimension F3H, Psyclon 9, The Kovenant, ...and Oceans and Mortiis

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Photobucket Dark Theory is an avant-garde extreme metal band, fueled mostly by alcohol and a hate of the general 'music' scene. We combine the dark stylings and aesthetics of Black Metal with the agression of Thrash and Death Metal, the harsh futuristic sound of Electro, Aggrotech and Drum n Bass, the thick crushing heaviness of Doom Metal and the disturbing melodies of Gothic Metal as well as having outright Avant-garde elements. Originally formed in September 2006 as a regular 4-piece with a more mainstream influence, the band went through many changes before the unreliablity of members caused founder and bassist Ryan to continue the band alone in late 2007. The two early demos were a sort of experimental black/thrash with some doom elements, and were only sent to a very small amount of people due to low quality content. With Dark Theory's first 'proper' release, "Every Kind of Filth", the genre was rooted firmly in Black Metal and Doom Metal, but had many experimental elements. Although few people heard it at first, reactions were good and the album was noted for being particularly dark and disturbing even in the world of Black Metal. The release of the next demo album, "Disgust for Humanity" was something of a 'breakthrough' for the band, as many more people came in contact causing both demos to be sent to many people from around the world. Within the next few months the band received many encouraging comments, an increase in plays, several highly positive reviews and has turned it's attentions to becoming a live band. As of January 12th Dark Theory added Olivia on guitar, keyboards and backing vocals, and on May 9th added Cronje on lead guitar and backing vocals, and after a long, desperate search, on November 14th added Harvey Davey on drums, but we would really like a rhythm guitarist. Please note we are in rejection of the local Deathcore and Metalcore overload because they all sound the fucking same. If you want to get a copy of either of our demos they will soon be avaliable through the Santania Productions website www.santanica.org under the Darkwave/Electro/Other section, as will our upcoming debut EP Look Into The Mirror. Also if you enjoy Dark Theory you may enjoy Ryan's Industrial Noise project "Desolation Machine" and Olivia's Acoustic Rock band "Out of Bounds".

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I'd like to credit A43, irrlicht, sapht, blahbahdeeboda, jace, acclivity, ERH, starpause, VEXST and markystar for creating the samples used in the demo "Disgust for Humanity".

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"i really enjoyed "Every Kind Of Filth" this album is the shit man, very cool, the way that you use such good timing to and create many different styles of evil, very cool, i like the music even better now that i have the albums. i will let you know when i listen to the new one. this has got to be one of the most interesting and experimental black metal i have gotten to listen too in a while." ~ Rotting in an Open Field

"received the CD yesterday, played it in the car on the way to work today. As ever, it's a fantastic headfuck -- track 3 is possibly the most disturbing track I've ever heard (I hope to God that isn't you in the background...!). Great stuff. >:-)=" ~ John Wood (Balbulus and Church Ruins)

"Listened to the CD. It has a pretty grim sound, which I like, and plenty of atmosphere, although the intro was faily strange!" ~ Baba Yaga

"Im actually listening to Disgust for Humanity right now! Sounds of a Paranoid Mind is a brilliant track!" ~ Intra Tenebrae

"would be really cool to listen to tripping" ~ Ogtegnet

"It's like someone ripped the face off of Black Metal and put a robot inside. You could just as easily rave to this as headbang" ~ Mike Truman (Dead on Arrival)

"I'm enjoying you music more and more as you progress through releases" ~ Barad Dur

"Hey your stuff came through today! I'm currently listening to the 'Every Kind Of Filth' cd and it's very good. I take it you're into dance music?" ~ Daear

"Dark Theory are hilarious. Cheered me right up :D" ~ Blaencathra

"I've herd “Every Kind OF Filth” 6 or 8 times the way through and I like it. I love the industrial elements and the full sound you have. It's really original as well" ~ Wojna

"Nice to meet a band with a concept and a vision, and not afraid to do what they want to do. There are not many around" ~ Ophidian Forest

"Olivia does a hell of a good job bro lol tell her I love her ; ) lol j/k but yeah sounds good" ~ S.O.D.D

"I really like what you're doing with the whole black metal techno hybrid sound" ~ =^.^=ssunfuck=^.^=

"I really like your music. Really well put together and it is as atmospheric as it is brutal" ~ Prometheus Rising

"Your music. It's absurdly great. Really enjoyed all of the songs from your playlist" ~ Dark Metamorphosis

"Your guys' shit is berserk, nasty as hell...keep it up you sick weirdos! By the way...love your production!" ~ Desolate Anguish

Copy and paste this link to read Doomantia's joint review of "Every Kind of Filth" and "Disgust for Humanity": http://earthdogsvisionsofdoom.blogspot.com/2010/02/dark-theory-every-kind-of-filth-digust.html

Click Here for Funeral Rain Zine's Review of Every Kind of Filth

Click Here for Funeral Rain Zine's Review of Disgust for Humanity

Click here for UK Legions of Black Metal's Review of Every Kind of Filth

Click here for ssunfuck's Review of Every Kind of Filth

Click here for ssunfuck's Review of Disgust For Humanity ..

Members:

Ryan - Bass, Lead Vocals, Sampling, Programming
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Olivia - Guitar, Lead/Backing Vocals, Keyboards
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Cronje - Lead Guitar, Backing Vocals
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Harvey - Drums (photo coming soon)

Influences:

Ryan:
Mayhem
Behemoth
Celtic Frost
Genghis Tron
Kreator

Liv:
Within Temptation
Deathstars
Children of Bodom
Aesthetic Perfection
Pendulum

Cronje:
Gojira
Sylosis
Slayer
Pantera
Lamb of God

Harvey:
Slipknot
Gorgoroth
Arch Enemy
Trivum
Machine Head

We have also shared the stage with the likes of
The Furious Horde
Last Minute Equalizer
Wretched Soul
Malefice
The Boy Who Drowned
Desolated
Seven Year Kismet
Breaking the Day
Upon These Shores
Foreboding Ether
Angra Mainyu

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