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About Me

.. Bayta Darell was formed in response to an increasing desire to discover and expand the boundaries of our own musical gifts as well as realize the deeper passions that had previously gone unsatisfied by our endeavors within the realms of music. Sometimes referred to as "a band based on science fiction," Bayta Darell is comprised of four males (plus one) who have been playing together since the group was birthed in the summer of 2003 and have been close friends from the start. As a band, we draw inspiration from all manner of places, including books and stories, movies, nature, society, and our own successes and failures at "life." Most of our common influences would fall into the "shoegaze" or "post rock" genres, but some of the bands who have had the most influence over time would be The Prayer Chain, Starflyer59, My Bloody Valentine, Sigur Ros, The Beach Boys, and Mogwai. We feel that being genrefied would do more harm than good for Bayta Darell, however, and we seek to find freedom in expression rather than the structure of classification which is why our songs range from long instrumental movements to short love songs. Each song Bayta Darell writes has significant emotional relevance for us, and we can only hope that it shows as we perform. But we hold beauty above all else, and we strive to make something beautiful every day we come together as a band. For beauty is, in essence, what Bayta is to us. The romantic ideal that there is something of true beauty that is ours and if we find it, it will be forever.WRITE ME IN METAL / MAKE ME FOREVER Available at, CD Baby iTunesStore List Waterloo Records 600A N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, Tx. | 512.474.2500End of an Ear 2209 South First Street Austin, Tx | 512.462.6008Good Records 617 N. Good Latimer Dallas, Tx. | 214.752.4663Reckless Records 1532 N. Milwaukee Chicago, Il. | 773.235.3727Grimey's 1604 8th Ave. South Nashville, TN | 615.254.4801

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/22/2004
Band Website: baytadarell.com
Band Members: jeff dorman, jason haskins, justin maurer, justin mcleod & ben white
Influences: Bayta Darell is influenced mainly by the cake-eating Spirit of the Space Jesus. AND SANDWICHES!!!!
Sounds Like: beauty, sadness, hope, love, loss, pain, sandwich...You can read reviews here and here .
Record Label: Jacket Weather Records (jacketweather.net)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bayta Goes to Germany

Our Album, "WRITE ME IN METAL / MAKE ME FOREVER" is going to be the featured "Album of the week", over at "hsf Student radio", in Germany.Special thanks go out to Kristina over at the station. Keep up...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:46:00 PST

Bayta Goes To Japan

So, I was doing my routine google search for bayta darell and found this Japanese site (http://tsunemaru.friendofminerecords.com/?cid=7819)talking about Write Me In Metal. I'm pretty sure their "revie...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:05:00 PST

April 6th

We're very pleased to announce that we're playing a show on April the 6th, at Mohawks, w/ Ghost of the Russian Empire (one hell of a band).Also, we just might do something at this s...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:38:00 PST

rock-o-tron 488

i just started a profile for an old band of mine (rock-o-tron 488). check it. myspace.com/rockotron488 -jut
Posted by Bayta Darell on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:37:00 PST

an old letter

early last year i sent brent diaz (over at somwherecold.com) a letter. i wrote it for this blog... but decided not to post it... so i sent it over to him, for his reading pleasure.a...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 08:29:00 PST

Radio Stations!

So,We've mailed out a shit-ton of albums to radio stations accross the world (yes, even you Canada)... and you, the reader, should call and request to hear one of our tunes.Here's a list of every damn...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST

new website.

it's not the real new website (which you will get with the real new album and the real new novel... all in due time), but just to hold you over, páll rokk made this for us:the bayta darell portal...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:48:00 PST

Three days later...

We'd like to thank Rich & Aaron (Fireside Creative) for an amazing show the other night, at the Parish.The hard work the two of you put into the showcase has not gone unnoticed. We love you guys so mu...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:23:00 PST

iTUNES

Hey everyone,WRITE ME IN METAL / MAKE ME FOREVER is now available on iTUNES.So if you'd like to spread the news... then we'd love you for life.Of course, we'd much rather have them buy the cd.But anyw...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:43:00 PST

the sith + metal

so my older brother (chris) is starting up a side-project.a death-metal band playing songs about star wars. the name of the band is, "order 66", and he's written two songs so far, "...
Posted by Bayta Darell on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 02:05:00 PST