25th October 2024
A new release affiliated to Darkyra. Gina recently did a vocal collaboration with Jayson Thew, singer of Perth band Tears of Venom. The song was a birthday request for Jayon's wife Tammy, a cover of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic, The Phantom of the Opera, though not officially released with the Darkyra label, it is recorded the Darkyra way. Production was through Garry King at La Foret Groupe involving the Darkyra international team of musicians. The release will be available for streaming on all platforms soon through distrokid and can be saved for streaming here.
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14th October 2024
A couple of days ago, Darkyra performed our final Festival for the year at Gidgestock in the beautiful Perth hills of Gidgegannup. A beautiful sunny morning surrounded by camping onlookers and bushland in a united effort to raise money for Leukaemia. Theres an amazing amount of effort that goes into organizing an event like this.... over three days of non stop music, food, childrens activities and stalls and all put together by volanteers and the bands that selflessly provide their entertainment to make this all happen. This was its 9th year running, very well advertised I might ad. Much gratitude goes out to the organizers for including Darkyra on the bill for this year, the first year to ever include a metal band performance. Gina even got to do a podcast on the fly with Mark from Mixtape, so we shall post that when the link is available.
Darkyra has a couple more gigs before the years end and some exciting news coming over the next couple of months as well as an announcement in regards to some changes that are happening which can only propel us forward and make us stronger as a performing band.
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12th September 2024
This weekend Darkyra are taking part in the Perth Rocks Festival at Port Beach Brewery. After last years success and record attendance, it is going ahead for a second year. Theres 18 bands accross two stages. We will playing around 2:00pm on the outdoor stage. Theres still time to grab tickets. In the leadup to event Darkyra were interviewed by Stephanie Jewell of the Rockpit, you can read the interview here. Maaz was also featured on Shredheads 89.7fm earlier in the week, you can listen to what was said on the podcast here.
So far four Teasers of the upcoming Life Force album have been shared, and there will be another being shared this Friday. You can start to hear and see the underlying theme develop when you listen to the teasers. The last couple of songs are in final production stages now....so everything is on schedule to be complete by November.
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15th August 2024
We have Merch! Some T Shirts and Hoodies on the way from Merch Raven. Orders are welcome and different combinations if there's something special you're after. We will have these available at our next show. Also each week we will be posting a video Teaser for the new Life Force album........you will get an idea of the theme.
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5th August 2024
The wheels are in motion for filming of a video clip for 'Breathe' which is the first track featured on the upcoming 'Life Force' album. The video is being filmed by Scudley Films here in Perth, Western Australia. More details on this to come soon.
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11th June 2024
As we plough through the work on the up and coming Life Force album, now that the first half is nearing completion we can start to get the overall picture and feel of the theme coming together as planned.
Darkyra has also been accepted to play this years Perth Rocks Festival on the 15th September. Tickets are selling fast, there are a limited amount that are discounted for early sale, so don't miss out.
You can buy them here through Oztix.
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30th May 2024
All the video footage taken of the Darkyra set at Metal United Downunder last month has come back and the first three songs posted to the official Darkyra youtube channel. The last two songs from the half hour set will be available to view over the next two weeks. DarkSpiritPhotography did a fabulous job with the filming and the audio which was recorded on the night by Ryan Pearce of Savage Studio was superbly mixed by Garry King at La Foret Groupe
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You can view our set here
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13th May 2024
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Some exciting news, Darkyra have signed with German booking agents Redlionmusic. We're hoping that being welcomed into their family will bring international touring opportunities.
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7th May 2024
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Recording for the third Darkyra release titled, 'Life Force' is well under way. The release is an EP reflecting on the dark and light through different stages of life. The album features European musicians Garry King, Gus Mansur, Fab Jablonski and Lucio Manca as well as Australian musician, Krissy Sanfead. The music is an epic blend of eclectic rock and cinematic rock with symphonic stylings. This release is expected to be ready for distribution late 2024.
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24th April 2024
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The first show at Metal United was a success, photos of the night can be seen in the Darkyra Gallery and footage from our live video captured by DarkSpiritPhotography is currently being edited. Audio of the show on the night was recorded by Ryan Pearce and is now being edited mixed by Garry King at La Foret Groupe.
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1 April 2024
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Tonight 15th April, tune in to The Rock n Metal show with Tammy and Jay on Noongar Radio. Between 7pm and 9pm Perth time, Gina will be hanging out at the station playing some of her favourite tunes and chatting about upcoming Darkyra gigs and new music. Also this Saturday (20th April) just before Darkyra play Metal United, Krissy will be swinging by HFM station 107.3.....around 3pm, tune in to hear about news and upcoming events.....rumour is she'll be playing her favourite Black Sabbath song.
https://www.noongarradio.com/rock-and-metal-show/
https://onlineradiobox.com/au/1073hfm/
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February 2024
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We,re pleased to announce our first show for 2024. We are honoured to perform at Metal United Downunder
Festival on the 20th April. Celebrating the 10years it's been up and running. An amazing concept uniting all forms of metal in every state in Australia performing all on the same date. We hope you will show your support in witnessing our relaunch as well as seeing an incredible of lineup of rising metal acts.
January 2023
Happy New Year!
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We can all agree that we're glad to see the back of
2023. 2024 is here and goods things to come!
Things happening behind the scenes - Our first song with our newly formed team is under way and Dan is currently working the drums on "Celebrity Smile". We have a few others that are in the early stage of configuration.
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We are currently working on dates for shows this year. We have a photoshoot scheduled in the coming week for promo and a meetup to discuss how we're going to tackle this year. January is Birthday month for three of us. Julian, Nikki and Gina.
Also we'd like to give a shout out to www.laforetgroupe.com. Gina has recently become part of their team of session musicians and composers from around the globe after reconnecting recently with Garry King. Garry not only provided drums on both Dragon Tears and Fool but was also the exceptional producer of Drangon Tears and co produced Fool. He's a great mentor and all round great guy.Some fantastic music being produced at La Foret, I recommend you check them out.
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September 2023
Gina was recently interviewed by Metal-Roos about Darkyra's recent return. Read the Interview here
https://metal-roos.com.au/interview-gina-bafile-darkyra/
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"Perth Symphonic Metal Band Darkyra back from 7year hiatus"
Underground News Australia via Metal-Roos