Chaos Bleak Band Members:
Vocals – Piers
Guitars & Programming – Trevor
Keyboards – Nigel
Bass - Justin
Chaos Bleak – Bio.
Chaos Bleak formed in March 2019 after conversations held in a Hucknall pub about what sort of music they wanted to do, and how to go about it!
In many ways Chaos Bleak are a sort of ‘gothic super group’ comprising ex members of Every New Dead Ghost, 13 Candles, Midnight Configuration, Death Party UK, Arcane Winter, and The Crimson Brigade. Musically they bring all this experience to the table thus creating a highly spiced dish of adrenalin fuelled musical chaos!
The band don’t follow the traditional Sisters of Mercy approach to goth, rather they simultaneously reach back to the post punk period that predates SOM. A time of Killing Joke, Play Dead, Bauhaus, Siouxie and the Banshees etc. As well as embracing the 90’s technology driven sound of the German bands of that time. Garden of Delight, Still Patient? The House of Usher, Suspiria etc mixed in with even older, darker, heavier and otherworldly sounds. Some have been considered not of this Earth!
The result is music that is unrestrained, powerful, and varied. One reviewer described Chaos Bleak as a “Black Sabbath for the gothic generation”, and another said that the band’s music has the potential to create “Earthquakes, spatial anomalies or in extreme cases rips in the very fabric of time itself”. High praise indeed!
Thematically, Chaos Bleak are a band that have one foot in the gritty urban and political decay of post Thatcherite UK, and another that covers various metaphysical questions and ideas that many of us have thought about or experienced in our life. All are big questions and concepts that are as valid as each other as they do impact on our lives in one way or another. This is clearly mirrored in the band’s music.
Trev talks about his approach to creating the guitar lines and the backing tracks for the band.
“My early musical influences were Black Sabbath and Hawkwind. I was not influenced by the blues in anyway and wanted my guitar to sound like a cross between a rocket engine, and radio signal from another Galaxy. Perhaps this is because of the spooky and spacy things I saw growing up. Who knows. With the backing tracks, I write the riff first, then use music creation software to provide a base for it and get the track studio ready for the bass and the vocals. I then send it off to the others to do their bits.”
Justin adds.
“Even though we do our parts separately and with no influence from each other, it works. We are on the same path and has created our sound. If you took out an element, it would no longer be Chaos Bleak as each bring our own individual identity into the band and sound.”
Piers says this about the band.
“I think we explore new territory with our music, sounds, themes and performance. We have a sound and image that appeals to the lost souls and those who understand that the world is a dark but beautiful place. We offer a welcome to the thinkers and the thrill seekers”.
The band have gigged hard across the UK since 2019, playing goth festivals and events all over the country. The result is that they have attracted a healthy and growing number of supporters and friends. Chaos Bleak do not believe in the word ‘fans’, rather, them being a people’s band to the core, they consider anyone who likes the band to be supporters until they meet the band, then friends moving forward.
In March 2025, the band evolved from a trio, and the new band member Nigel, joined taken on the mantle of keyboard player for the band… adding an extra earth-shattering stab at the cosmic veil of time and space, with additional harmonies and melodies on the keys, the band’s music continuously evolves within its futuristic approach to the evolution of Gothic Rock. Nigel has become another key player in the band’s live line-up also, taking the band from strength to strength, as they look to the future and assassinate the silence of the void with their new heaviest studio album to date, which follows on from the finality of the former line-up and live period with band’s recent release of Rituals of Live Chaos (as a three piece band) which was released as a limited-edition LP on vinyl.
Chaos Bleak have moved further into sonic shattering territories which can only increase their following of supporters across the global music scenes worldwide defining them as both a live favourite and an ever-growing powerhouse of the dark music genre.
Chaos Bleak Singles/EPs:
Transcendental Chaos (2019)
The Bleakest Hour (2020)
Virus Shadow (2022)
Deathtrain (2024).
Chaos Bleak Albums:
A New Age of Darkness (2021)
A New Age of Darkness. Requiem Edition (Special Extended Italian Edition) (2022)
Agents of Chaos. (2024)
Rituals of Live Chaos (2025).
Assassins of Silence (2025).
Band Contact/Social Media:
https://chaosbleak.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/chaosbleakband
chaosbleakband@gmail.com
