Silent Requiem

After working together briefly in the extraordinarily mundane world of office slavery, Chris Darling and Clayton Wakefield soon discovered they shared musical interests. After providing Chris with some demo tracks which Clayton had been working on, it was agreed to get together to try and record some tracks with Chris supplying the vocals and Clayton the music.

After only a couple of recording sessions, it was apparent that the quality of the recordings were increasing, with Chris and Clayton managing to adapt to each others techniques and style. Within only several months of on and off recording, the two had an entire albums of material.

Choosing to aim for higher and higher quality with each song, the band continues to progressively improve.

The style from song to song varies, but a lot of influence can be attributed to great artists survived from the eighties and nineties, who then, and still now, continue to write sonically and technologically impressive masterpieces such as Depeche Mode, New Order and Gary Numan. Silent Requiem have a lean towards industrial and electronic influences, although the tracks as a whole may not be immediately considered a subset of such genres. inspiration from such industrial rock/electronica greats as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and KMFDM is partially evident in much of the band's music.

Vocally, each song pushes a different approach, and in essence a different level of accessibility to the listener. The highly emotive and characterised vocal methods employed by artists such as Mike Patton are certainly present in certain tracks, while others lend themselves to the more sweeping vocals of Jon Crosby from VAST, or even the more stripped back and raw sounds of the late Ian Curtis of Joy Division fame. While not "ripping off" any artist of their distinct sound, but rather striving for a unique sound of their own considered from the bands own personal musical heroes, Silent Requiem offer a respectful nod to New Wave, rock and electronic greats of the eighties and nineties, while maintaining a strong vision to the future of the independent alternative music scene.