Goth Band from Costa Rica, Ariel Maniki and the Black Halos
b'
Hailing from San Jose, Costa Rica, Ariel Maniki\\xa0 formed the Black Halos in 2014 then releasing the debut album, "The Descending" in 2015. While line up changes in 2016 saw the addition of long time keyboardist Janice Black, they then released their second album, "Labyrinth," the "Teargarden EP" and the signing to Brazilian label Deepland Records. Their third album followed in 2017 called "Ritual" with the band embarking on the Ritual Tour the following year which took them throughout Costa Rica, Peru, Mexico, Brazil, The UK, Italy, Spain and the Czech Republic. Eva Red then joined the band resulting in the present day trio,
Ariel Maniki and the Black Halos. Their 4th album, "Jade" in 2019 followed by another tour to Mexico and Brazil.\\xa0 In 2020, they released an acoustic session EP and video called "Live Under Will."\\xa0
Their most current epic full-length studio album is called "Black Light" via Deepland Records \\xa0which includes the well- received singles, "Strangers" and "Emptiness" along with remixes from UK musician, DJ and World Goth Day Co-founder BatBoy Slim and Colombian darkwave/Coldwave duo Antiflvx.
According to Ariel Maniki, "The lyrics explore the many different internal and emotional parts of oneself, especially the darkest ones, which we are expected to bury and suppress. As such, a recurrent theme of Black Light is \\u201cembracing the flawed and corrupted beauty of humanity.\\u201d\\xa0 \\xa0
https://arielmaniki.bandcamp.com
Subscribe to my monthly mailing list for the latest music news, updates and my next interviews and events:
QUEEN OF WANDS with DJ Nocturna\\xa0
Every Saturday on Modnsap Radio
KMOD: San Antonio
"San Antonio's leading alternative streaming Radio Station since 2017"
Listen : http://modsnapradio.com
Playlist and podcast: https://djnocturna.com
YouTube:\\xa0 https://www.youtube.com/c/DJNocturna
2pm (HST), 5pm (PST), 6pm (MST), 7pm (CST), 8pm (EST)
'