fundraiser for Brighton Women's equinox service!With acts from Tara lily (solo) and Tia ice
daltons
wed 16 sep · 7.00pm
£5-£10
DARKHER at Daltons Brighton
With Guest Support - Vvaif + Artemisia Nathair
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DARKHER will be playing a full band performance at Daltons in Brighton, England. With Guest Support from Vvaif + Artemisia Nathair
Haunting Atmospheric-Doom woven with ethereal vocals and cinematic stillness. A spellbinding sound born from storm and sorrow.
DARKHER is the haunting embodiment of composer, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist Jayn Maiven. Emerging from the brooding hills of West Yorkshire, her music is a chilling fusion of ghostly folk, heavy, doom-laden soundscapes, and ethereal atmospheres. Known for her spine-tingling voice, Maiven weaves eerie, cinematic worlds where sorrow and shadow move together. Her songs shimmer with spectral beauty, swelling from whispered laments to thunderous intensity that stir the soul , often described as both devastating and transcendent.
Live, DARKHER conjures an otherworldly ritual: candlelit stages, immersive stillness, and the unsettling power of something ancient stirring just beneath the surface. It is music that leaves an echo - heavy, intimate, and unshakeably alive.
"The Buried Storm is a fitting album title with heavy poetic lyrics and instrumentation to match... Maiven's voice is akin to a siren song; otherworldly and alluring while also conjuring feelings of doom and anguish." - Nine Circles
"There's a far more menacing and brooding vein that runs through the music. 'Darkly cinematic”- Man of Much Metal
"Led by multi-instrumentalist Jayn Maiven, the album at times bears a resemblance to Neurosis or Triptykon at their most quiet and reflective... It's soothing music for people who like it dark." - Ghost Cult Magazine
“Its a spacious, gloomy, flickering doom album of mood and memory…a haunting and visionary experience” - The Prog Mind
"The voice of despair gently wafts through the air. Delicate pain wrapped in radiant beauty pierces the heart slowly yet without hesitation." - 1st 3 Magazine
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about the bands
DARKHER
doom metaldark folkatmospheric doomhebden bridge, west yorkshire
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Booked for arctangent in 2026 and signed to prophecy productions, darkher makes slow, cavernous doom out of hebden bridge. Bowed guitars, storm-cloud lead lines and orchestral swells sit under a high, ghostly vocal, closer to a seance than a metal gig. The 2022 album the buried storm is still the fullest statement of it, and this small brighton room suits the quiet parts.
“doom-laden riffs, spine tingling vocals, soul baring songs”
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Vvaif plays stripped back, primal doom folk: slow, dark and close to the mic. The recordings out so far are raw one-take demos plus a live set from brighton's doom by the sea. A regular on brighton doom bills, here opening for darkher.
“the work of vvaif is an introspection, unlocking subconscious feelings connected to their relationships with others and with nature.”
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A brighton harpist who has pushed the instrument somewhere very few players take it, bowing the strings with violin bows and screaming into the chamber so the harp works as an extension of the voice. The sound moves between chamber doom, neofolk and black metal, quiet dark reverie giving way to a current of noise. The track 'defran' came out in february 2025.
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