BIOGRAPHY
"WE ARE EUROPEANS. WE DON'T NEED TO BE GOOD. WE ARE DEVILS SINCE MILLIONS OF GENERATIONS” – Steve J. Drakos and Alex Drakos have given new life to energies taken from the thousands-years-old abyss of their Western roots projecting them towards the future, with hammering rhythms to be evoked through the clubs' amplifiers, in your cars' and homes' stereos and in your own individual wars through the high pleasure of electric damnation.
DerDRAKOS is first of all a clan united by blood, an iron axis between father and son of Greek/Italian heritage and electronic musicians. The band is the result of an experiment that is alien to any rule: born on the very core of top European fetish pornography movie sets (see their websites www.stevedrakos.com, http://stevedrakos.blogspot.com, www.myspace.com/drakosphotos), forged on 90's martial techno sounds, developed through original influences from cult cinema and ancient theatre, taken to unexpected levels with lyrics inspired by Europe's secret fury and sealed in a circle of industrial atmospheres.
DerDRAKOS are spiritic matter: “experiment our own natural powers just like discovering electricity, radioactivity, hypnosis and more: this way we'll have even bigger surprises on how much we can get from life and death. It's the basic instinct of our sounds and lyrics, a form of powerful art built on five main points: the composition of electronic music as a consequence of images in our minds, the creation of poetry for the vocal parts with the firm refusal to use rhymes in the lyrics, the Dionysian theatrical dimension, the respect for our own bloodline, the visual arts. The greatest achievement in this life is having the power to create works from your own mind and unleash them into the universe. We see music as a living force, we treat primordial materials that lie under the skin and it's a constant battle for sound and voice creation, just like in the editing of a movie” (Steve is a professional photographer, movie editor, writer and Alex is a cameraman in tv and cinema and a soundtrack composer).
To the Greek word 'Drakos' meaning dragon or snake, the German article 'der' was added forming the name DerDRAKOS which boasts a variety of prestigious collaborations coming together for the project such as director Susi Medusa which marked with fire various tracks of DerDRAKOS' latest album "BLOOD TO BLOOD - millions of generations" (2008) with her voice and also created the graphic work (Medvsa Graphic Arts, Image Cult service), Rome's Quadraro Basement crew took care of the mixing and the final mastering, the management Alkemist Fanatix Europe takes care of promotion, distribution and booking.
This band lays down with no hypocrisy within them who give value and pride to who and what they are. You can shake your body with this magical music or use it to fuel your inner strength. DerDRAKOS have risen from the Hell of the European culture.
"We work and we fight to create, with no time to be worried about all the highs and lows of life. We just keep ourselves in action: spirit to spirit, blood to blood. 100% electronic music is our field of creation, composers and producers of industrial, techno, electronica, as well as soundtracks. Electronic sounds have a whole abyss of cult around them, including pure magic angles of power (the electric rituals) and the Dionysian trance of dancing. A very deep musical dimension that is still misunderstood by most 'played music' fans: and that's good, as makes it even more diabolical. Genres: techno, industrial, electro, ebm, harsh, hardcore, hardstyle, martial, gabber, dark electronica, dark wave, ambient, trance, hard house, synthcore, darkcore, terrorcore etc. All the Devil's energetic materials... Building tracks on the computer is like editing movies: they are creation lines that you use with your own instinct, powerful means for a maker's ideas. Supported by the machines you can give material life to your own mastery of music's structures, release your touch. Then come the two final marks: the lyrics and the voice... What we humans call 'spirit' or 'soul' is our electric being that makes the body move. DerDRAKOS take you back to the essence of ancient theatre, that is magic, through the sounds of electricity. No more simple pastime but instinctive cult: respect and league with the abyssal forces. Electronica is pure power." - DerDRAKOS
GET "BLOOD TO BLOOD" CD HERE | Download "BLOOD TO BLOOD" Tracks HERE
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