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BlakLight is Los Angeles based dark synthpop trio Adam Collier (Beautiful Crisis, SilverScene), Brian Belknap (Mind Machine) & Omar Quiñones (Vain Machine). Formed by Adam and Brian in early 2020, the band released the singles “Isolation” and “Unknown Love” before quickly unleashing their critically acclaimed debut album, ‘Music in a Time of Uncertainty’.
After an additional single, “Control”, an onslaught of remix EPs, compilation tracks and numerous remixes for other artists, BlakLight set their sights on a second album. “Nightmares” and “Reset” built anticipation for the follow-up, ‘Into the Void’, released in late 2021. ‘Into The Void’ crafts songs of both light and darkness, while expanding the band’s electronic musical template. Finding the album on top of many year-end lists, they closed out 2021 with another single, “Crack”, backed with their take on the Echo & The Bunnymen classic, “The Killing Moon”.
2022 saw the band release the title track from ‘Into the Void’ and make their live debut playing shows alongside Aesthetic Perfection, Matte Blvck, and others. They soon assembled the sprawling twenty track, remix double album, ‘Out of The Void - The Remixes’, featuring two unique twists of every song from ‘Into the Void’, constructed by the likes of Aesthetic Perfection, Assemblage 23, Beborn Beton, Black Light Odyssey, Eisfabrik, Kontraviod, Solar Fake and many more. BlakLight closed out the year with the release of 'Innocence Lost' EP, while 2023 began with the re-release of two previously released exclusive compilation tracks, “Coma” and “Wicked Face” and their instrumental-ish album, ‘The Padded Room’.
BlakLight believe that music can make a difference and has contributed multiple exclusive tracks to compilations curated by Los Angeles based music collective Darkness Calling, https://darknesscalling.bandca..., with all proceeds donated to the Transgender Law Center.
The duo has now expanded to a trio, adding the talented and versatile Omar Quiñones from Vain Machine on synths and backing vocals, and have shared stages with Traitrs, Glass Spells, Urban Heat, Male Tears, The New Division, Empathy Test, Solar Fake, Beborn Beton, Anything Box, Assemblage 23, Leæther Strip, Die Sexual, Sleek Teeth, State of The Union, NITE, I Speak Machine and more, with slots at Absolution Fest, Out from The Shadows Festival, Mechanismus Festival and Terminal Fest. The trio released several standalone singles in 2024, ‘BlakChristmas’, their spin on the Church’s “Reptile”, “A Stranger Calls” / “Blinded by The Sun” plus “Blind Vision”, the first taste of BlakLight’s fourth album, 'The Haunting of Us’. The follow up singles, “Buried Alive” and “Leave a Light On”, hit the airwaves prior to the December release of 'The Haunting of Us’.
The band kicked off the new year with the addition of a new live member, Suede Flores from Carved Souls, before they embark to play Dark Force Fest, a Mexican tour and Wave-Gotik Treffen, marking the band’s European debut.
