Member Since: 1/4/2006
Band Website: mysilentwake.co.uk
Band Members: IAN ARKLEY
- Lead & rhythm electric, classical and acoustic guitars, lead vocals, ebow.
KATE HAMILTON
- Bass guitar, cello, piano, keyboards, recorder, clarinet, vocals, zither, lead corset
ANDI LEE
- Electric, classical, acoustic and bass guitars, mandolin, vocals, embarassing photographs, kilts
JASEN WHYTE
- Drums, lead vocals, percussion, cymbals
STEVE ALLAN
- Drums, sound engineering
Former members:
ALAN SOUTHORN
- Bass guitar
Guest live vocalists in the absence of Jasen:
Devin Shaeffer (Once Dead) at Nordic Fest 07, Mike Hitchen (The Drowning) Hobbits WSM Nov 07, James Moore (The Drowning) Hobbits WSM June 08 (Jasen normally provides additional vocals live, but cannot be present at every gig due to his insistence on living in London.)
Guest rhythm guitar in the absence of Andi: Mike Hitchen (The Drowning)
Influences: IAN's influences and likes include: Trouble, My Dying Bride, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost, Dead Can Dance, Bauhaus, Empyrium, Cult Of Luna, Neurosis, Paradise Lost, Type-O-Negative, Led Zeppelin, The Blood Divine, Pink Floyd, Sunn O))), Napalm Death, Monster Magnet, The Who, The Cult, NFD, Fields Of The Nephilim, Marillion, Obituary, Candlemass, Hawkwind, The Ozrics, The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus, Iron Maiden, Virgin Black, Antestor, Mazzy Star, Nick Cave, Sisters Of Mercy, Tim Booth (James), Mike Oldfield, Leonard Cohen, New Model Army, In The Woods, folk and mediaeval music. Influences also include things such as; woods, castles and cathedrals, good films, friends, faith, lack of faith, sadness, beauty, despair, hope, love, doubt, fear.
JASEN'S influences are: Absurd2, Arcturus [Sideshow Symphonies], Believer, Benea Reach, Bloodwork (UK), Dead Can Dance, Death [Symbolic, Individual Thought Patterns], Decarsus (RIP), Drottnar, Enslaved [Ruun], Extol, Killswitch Engage, Kings X, Koop [Waltz for Koop], Living Sacrifice, Meshuggah, My Dying Bride, Paramaecium, Pestilence [Spheres], Strapping Young Lad [The New Black], Tourniquet.
Others: the art of conversation, beauty, bit of footie, decay, electronic devices/hardware/software, exploring, friends/loved ones, good movies or a series, love, radiography, tea and coffee, the things that make us grow.
KATE'S influences are: Dead Can Dance, Mazzy Star, The Mediaeval Baebes, Hildegard Von Bingen, John Tavener, Fairport Convention, Henryk Gorecki, Empyrium, Vaakavandring, Antestor, Leonard Cohen, Tim and Jeff Buckley, The Guild of Funerary Violinists, Virgin Black and all other music that makes me switch off from the world, even when driving, which can prove dangerous....
ANDI'S influences are: Leonard Cohen, My Dying Bride, In The Woods, Celtic Frost, Black Sabbath, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Emperor, Ephel Duath, Neurosis, Candlemass, NIN, Slayer, Daylightdies, Monolithe, Tori Amos, Ozric Tentacles, Mahler, Bartok, Ligeti, Rolf Harris (best version of Stairway ever)
Sounds Like: Doom/death metal with goth, mediaeval, folk, black, progressive and experimental elements.
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Record Label: Bombworks; www.bombworksrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie