Dive

There appears to be at least six different bands called Dive: Started in 1990, Dive (1) is the solo project of Belgian EBM pioneer and former Klinik and Absolute Body Control frontman Dirk Ivens. Continuing the minimal, menacing electronics of early Klinik releases, but with a heavier, more saturated edge, Dive's distinct sound has been a highly influential presence in the EBM and electro-industrial scene. Sister project Sonar is an equally respected rhythmic noise project in the vein of Esplendor Geométrico, while the pre-Klinik electropunk project Absolute Body Control was recently reformed with long-time friend and brother-in-law Eric Van Wonterghem of Insekt and Monolith. (8) Dive - Bulgarian garage/rock/grunge band from Sofia that formed about 2-3 years ago. You can check out some of their songs on their myspace page: http://myspace.com/divebandbg Dive (2) was a swedish soft electronic group, active during the late 80s and early 90s. The members Chris Lancelot (alias krister linder) and Erik Holmberg produced three albums, Where The River Turns To Sea (1990), Stills (1992) and Dive (1994) Dive (3) Dive (jpn) are a modern Japanese shoegaze band that was a part of the big resurgence of nippon bliss scene back in the late 90's early millennia. They toured respectively in 2003-5. Dive recorded and released a trilogy of CD/EP's; "tones of sun ep", "reverberation", "freeze frame ep". In october 15th 2005, Dive (jpn) released their latest album. It was a remastered version of their Freeze Frame ep, called Freeze Frame ep ++. It added to the original ep a total of 4 new songs, their song Reverberation (from the single), yet discluded the final song from the original ep (track 06: purin). In 2006, Dive had posted news that they were in the process of recording new material. And recently at the end of 2008, they posted their page on myspace.com. Guitarist/Vocalist Sasoka, moved from Tokyo Japan to New York City, leaving the original Dive (jpn)'s Future up in the air and abroad. [*note- to help differenciate the multiple bands named Dive, please retag this band as Dive (jpn) Dive members are: - Sasaoka: guitars, vocal - miyou: guitars, vocal - KOKAI: drums Website: Official Dive website Sasaoka on Myspace Dive (4) from Finland is nowadays known as The Orders, as they say "Music you can dance to and cry". Official The Orders website Dive (5) is a czech emo/metalcore band formed about year 2000, when „adidasmetal” band Straighthate became DIVE.About two years later DIVE found their own style of music, entitled that as tripcore and got a present-day composition: Da2 - vocal, Nosal - guitar, Doc - bass, Stepi - drums 2004 Dive released promo EP. You can listen or download it on their pages - www.diveband.net 2006 was full of work on their long play album “Songs to be afraid of” at their own expense. One of their greatest success are festivals TRUTNOV 03, FIMU 05 (Fr.), support of Waltari, Artery, Jolly Joker & P.B.U. and 3rd place on RockFest Dobris. Dive (6) was an early 90's hardcore band out of Boston. They released two 7 inch records, a split with Opposition, a demo, a couple of songs for compilations, plus a discography cd. Members went on to Bound, Hatchet Face, get high and Dropkick Murphys.