Member Since: 5/24/2004
Band Website: darkeden.org
Band Members:
Reverend Charles Lupula - vocals/additional instruments - philosopher, performance artist, revolutionary, licensed Reverend, Satanic Activist, porn star, actor, model, and founder of Dark Eden, Reverend Charles Lupula is the founding father of this dark little family. Having founded Dark Eden as part of an equal reaction against the pretentious bullshit that was grunge, particularly Pearl Jam, and the lies of Christianity, the not-so-good Reverend has special Kool Aid for everyone.
Tantrum - drums - creator of the "peak gravity" theory, avid reader, master of quantum physics, goddess of the primal dance, and all around resident mad scientist, the tiny but all-powerful entity known only as Tantrum sounds the beat to the rest of the band's modern Pied Pipers, leading the rats to Glorious, Glorious DOOM! Not quite as innocent as she looks, our little orange demon is way more than you can deal with and not what you'd expect. Her mind is a sharpened weapon and is only matches by the power she wields on drums.
Kleibold Harris - rhythm guitar - Proving that, much like the Marine Corp and the mafia, no one actually ever leaves Dark Eden, they're just called into service in time of need. Making appearances with the band whenever he's not out lawyerin' with his fancy new friends, his distortion pedal brings the boys to the yard, and is the only male in the band who doesn't wear makeup, because he's too fucking pretty to need it. He also doesn't believe in this here new-fangled Myspace thing. Not that he doesn't believe in using it...but he doesn't believe it exists! The scary part is that he's right!
Liiratai - keyboard - From Russia, with hate, comes the newest edition to our unholy union. First encountering us when we opened for the legendary 45 Grave at the equally legendary CBGB's, this corrupted youth now finds herself creating nightmares and summoning all sorts of unnameables as one of us. A combat boot to the face of the average apathetic drones that bah their way through life, she proves that keyboards don't equal soft.
D.O. - bass - This diminutive former vocalist of Rainbow, Black Sabbath, and Elf is credited with not only inventing the "devil horns," so popular in modern metal today, but with...oh wait...that's the other guy. This is our Jersey-born bassist, the only music theory-literate member of the band, and probably way too talented to be wasting his time with us. Oh, and unlike the other guy, he's actually the tallest member of the band and has a full head of hair.
Powers Booth - THE MAN - Does not play anything in the band, has never met us and probably doesn't even know we exist, but that does not change the fact that he is, indeed, the Patron Saint of Dark Eden. From a world where porn has been outlawed, where only outlaws make porn, his eyes burn with hatred towards all he hates and he hates all he surveys. If you cross Powers, you wake up with your balls floating in a jar next to your bed, like how old people keep their dentures, but when you try to scream, you find you can't...for he has filled your mouth with spiders! THUS IS THE POWER OF POWERS!
Influences: CHARLES: Samhain, Type O Negative, the Doors, Slayer, Jerry Lee Lewis, Morbid Angel, Diamanda Galas, Nine Inch Nails, Lunachicks, Ozzy Osbourne, Black Flag, Blondie, Faith No More, Electric Hellfire Club, movie soundtracks, video game music
TANTRUM: Dax Riggs (Acid Bath), Stefan Hertrich (Darkseed/Betray My Secrets), Loreena Mckennitt, Shiralee (Chalice), Mors Principium Est
KLEIBOLD: Your mom...
LIIRATAI: mainly goth and punk, but also industrial, metal (all, except nu), and classical
Sounds Like: Samhain/Danzig mixed with Type O Negative, mixed with Cradle of Filth, mixed with Electric Hellfire Club, mixed with Bauhaus, mixed with Slayer, with Mike Patton singing
Record Label: self-released
Type of Label: None