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Label: Metropolis Records
Label Type: indie
Location: , ---US STATES----, United States
Rating: 10.06
Rating points: 362

Member since: October 22, 2006
Last logged in: June 30, 2009, 11:06am
Account Status: Free Account
Rated by: 36 people

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DISCOGRAPHY

The Order of the Reptile - [2006] Dancing Ferret Discs/ Noir

Water to the Dead - [2004] Dancing Ferret Discs/ Noir

Dragonfly - [2001/2004] Dancing Ferret Discs/ Noir

"Songs from A Dead City" Ego Likeness's first demo is also available in CDR format.
Email Egolikeness (at) egolikeness.com
BIOGRAPHY

Ego Likeness was created by artist Steven Archer and writer Donna Lynch in Baltimore in 1999. Their music has ranged from raw, darkly experimental trip-hop (Songs From a Dead City, 1999) to moody and melodic electronica (Dragonfly, 2000/2005 DFD) to a fusion of industrial rock and darkwave (Water to the Dead, 2004 DFD & The Order of the Reptile, 2006 DFD). Coming from art-based backgrounds, Archer and Lynch incorporate their various non-musical projects into the albums, building connections between their creations.

EL has toured the continental United States, Germany, Poland, the UK, and Luxembourg, and has played at Dracula's Ball (Philadelphia PA), Convergence 11 (San Diego CA), Eccentrik Festival I & III (Raleigh NC), Freak's United & Goth Prom (DC), The Black Sun Festival I & IV (New Haven CT), Reverence 2008 (Madison WI) and Dragon Con 2006 & 2008 (Atlanta GA).

They have had the honor to tour with The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, Ayria, Angelspit, Bella Morte, and Combichrist; and have shared the stage with The Damned, Chris Connelly, Collide, Razed in Black, Das Ich, Rasputina, Meg Lee Chin, Carfax Abbey, Anathema Device, The Start, Iris, Decoded Feedback, The Azoic, More Machine Than Man, In Strict Confidence, Still Life Decay, Nurzery Rhymes, nicki jaine (of Revue Noir), Dismantled, Thou Shalt Not, Anders Manga, Attrition, New Model Army, and many others.

They have also appeared on numerous compilation CDs, including several Asleep by Dawn releases and the Neil Gaiman tribute CD 'Where's Neil When You Need Him?' (DFD, 2006); released remixes for The Cruxshadows (Cassandra- Fortress in Flames), The Last Dance (Terribly When- Reflections of Rage), Thou Shalt Not (Inside of You, Inspite of You- The Projectionist), Angelspit (Vena Cava-Krankhaus), and Black Tape for a Blue Girl (Tarnished- Scarecrow);and appeared on Voltaire's album Then and Again. EL has also been featured in publications such as Gothic Beauty, Outburn, ABD, Side-line and Sonic Seducer, to name a few.

Archer and Lynch also have an experimental/ spoken word/ instrumental band called The Trinity Project. Trinity was formed in 1999 and released two albums, The Trinity Project I (1999) and The Subtle Movements of the Entropy Engine (2001). Archer is the creator of the experimental/noise project Hopeful Machines since early 2005 and has albums available for download. He DJs periodically in Baltimore, DC, and Philadelphia. Archer is also the author and illustrator of the children's book LUNA MARIS and a graphic novel, RED KING BLACK ROOK. His illustrations can also regularly be found in Weird Tales Magazine and Steampunk Magazine.
Lynch is a horror and dark fiction writer. She has released two collections of poetry- 'In My Mouth' (2000) and 'Ladies & Other Vicious Creatures' (2007 RDSP). Her first novel 'Isabel Burning' has recently been released by Raw Dog Screaming Press.
COMING SOON in 2009-2010: EL's 4th full length album on Metropolis Records and the North & East EPs. West is available now and the South EP is now sold out. Thank you!

For more info, merchandise, and other photos, please visit www.myspace.com/ego_likeness and www.egolikeness.com

Sounds Like:

Dark.Electronic.Rock.Trip Hop.

Influences:

...and other people & things that we love... Danielle Dax, Skinny Puppy, Foetus, Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, The Swans, Angels of Light, Shriekback, God Speed You Black Emperor, The Cult, Siouxsie, Bauhaus, Love & Rockets, New Model Army, Nick Cave, Genesis, X, Cocteau Twins, VNV Nation, The Cramps, The Damned, Loretta Lynn, The Police, Rasputina, Swervedriver, Ministry, RevCo, Curve, TKK, Apoptygma Berzerk, The Cruxshadows, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Jarboe, Blondie, Lou Reed, Heart, Nina Hagen, NIN, Dr. Ralph Stanley, Robbie Williams, David Bowie Leonard Cohen, Mozart, Cop Shoot Cop, Sarah McLachlan, Chopin, Ladytron, Sneaker Pimps, IAMX, Angelspit, The Waterboys, Kate Bush, Firewater, Pink Floyd, The Last Dance, Big Black, Fields of the Nephilim, The Pretenders, Delerium, FLA, Billie Holiday, Sisters of Mercy, Voltaire, Edith Piaf, Low Pop Suicide, Janes Addiction, Madonna, Thomas Truax, Revue Noir, Combichrist, PJ Harvey, Richard Wagner, Anathema Device, Tangerine Dream, Queensryche ::: HP Lovecraft, Poe, Clive Barker, Stephen King, Michael Gira, Jeffrey Eugenides, Emile Zola, Dorothy Parker, Umberto Eco, Carl Sagan, Kurt Vonnegut Jr, Oscar Wilde, Frank Herbert, Thomas Harris, Wilton Barnhardt, Wally Lamb, Charles Bukowski, TS Eliot, Dava Sobel, The Brothers Grimm, Shakespeare, George Orwell, Neil Gaiman, Tom Robbins, Nabokov, Douglas Adams, David Eddings, Patrick McGrath, Anais Nin, Alan Moore, Malcolm Gladwell ::: Mucha, Francis Bacon, Remedios Varo, Gustav Klimt, Dave McKean, Vesalius, Lucien Freud, lauren e. simonutti, Waterhouse, Bill Waterson, Leighton, Picasso, Motherwell, Edward Munch, John Coulthart, Larry Clark, Gunther von Hagens, James O'Barr, DaVinci ::: Tarsem Singh, John Waters, David Lynch, David Cronenburg, George Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Jeremy Irons, Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins, Ralph Fiennes, Kevin Spacey, Christian Bale, Alan Cumming, Julie Taymor, Ben Kingsley, Tim Roth, Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Juliette Lewis, Judy Davis ::: travelling, cartography, genetics, history, religions, sociology, robots, psychology, folklore, anatomy, mythology, urban legend, fire, evolution, horror, things that light up and make noise :::
Homepage: http://www.egolikeness.com
Link 1: http://www.myspace.com/egolikeness
Link 2: http://ego-likeness.livejournal.com/
Link 3: http://metropolis-records.com

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