Gothic band from UK. Released only album 2005 - Salvation .
Official site: http://www.abigailsmercy.co.uk/ They were a few releases on download and on their website in 2009 it was announced the New Album available as Download would be released to cd! However this hasn't happened and their hasn't been any recent news or information on the bands future. The band are certainly on a hiatus if not disbanded!
The Skeletal Family Biography Formed from the ashes of The Elements (Keighley, West Yorkshire, England). The Skeletal Family began life in December 1982. The initial line-up consisted of: - Anne-Marie Hurst (Vocals)
Stan Greenwood (Guitars)
Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (Bass)
Steve Crane (Drums)
Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (Keyboards) Taking their name from a David Bowie track off the Diamond Dogs album, the band quickly gained a sizeable local following, encouraged by this produced a self funded single "Trees"/"Just A Friend" released through the Leeds based Luggage label.
The 69 Eyes originate from Helsinki, Finland. They became a band in the early 1990's and are nowadays labelled as "gothic rock" though their early releases were more of a glam/hard rock style. Their first release was entitled Sugarman and was on the album Bump N' Grind, this was a Finland only release in 1992. They followed it up with another album (Finland only release) entitled Savage Garden. They then released another album in 1997 (another Finland only release) entitled Wrap your Troubles in Dreams.
Wayne Hussey (born Jerry Wayne Hussey on 26 May 1958 in Bristol, England) is a British musician, best known as a member of The Mission and The Sisters of Mercy. Growing up in Bristol, his early influences included Marc Bolan and his band, T. Rex. He was thus inspired to become a guitarist. Brought up in strict Mormon religion, he rebelled against his parents and moved to Liverpool in the late 1970s to join the scene around Eric's, a noted nightclub of the time.
Angellis were recently resurrected after a three year hiatus of soul searching. “We were just too young and niave,” says frontman Jonne. “It’s probably good that we’ve spent time away from each other, otherwise we’d probably have destroyed ourselves. We’re abit older no...w, hopefully a bit wiser and more together,” Providing a constant energy source for the band is wild man percussionist Voodoo Styx, already a respected drummer around the Stoke-on-Trent area.
There are at least two bands with this name: 1. Near Dark is a gothic metal band from Bochum, Germany. Bandmembers:
Sassan (vocals)
Snake (drums)
Mart (bass)
Ramses (guitars) Releases:
White Wedding (EP, 1998)
One Day (Full-length, 1998)
Lights (Full-length, 2000) 2. Near Dark comes from the Frankfurt synth-scene and was founded by Tommy Lindemann. All the Near Dark titles were composed by Lindemann, and arranged by Torsten Fenslau for play in the club scene.
There is more than one artist with this name. 1) Witching Hour (UK) formed in 1991 with Trevor Barnes on guitar and vocals, Alys Sterling on bass and D.B. on keyboards. D.B. was later replaced by Al Winton. When Al left the band, Ash took over on keyboards, aided by the lovely Morticia, who appears on keyboards in the video for "Slave to the Night". Since Ash's return to his home planet, the band have performed as a two-piece.
"(AbsuЯd) Minds" is a futurepop music band from Germany. Absurd Minds was formed in 1995 by Stefan Großmann (voice, composing) and Tilo Ladwig (composing, programming, sampling). Musically they were inspired by the ebm of the early 1990s. Between 1995 and 1999, Absurd Minds released three CD-rs in limited quantities, laying the groundwork for further developments by the band. After a long creative phase their first concert took place at the Dresden club, "Bunker". As a result of this the band came into contact with "Music Cooperation" who subsequently became their management.