Strife Darko write songs about personal takes on religion, spirituality and the strange ways day to day life is intertwined with both - with a large, large dose of irony and sarcasm.

The band’s main inspirations are Everything Everything, mewithoutYou, Why?, Willy Mason and Frightened Rabbit. The point of their music is to hold a mirror up to everyone who listens. Strife Darko feel a lot of music today is very self-pitying, especially in hard rock, hardcore and such, and they want to change that, and show that it's alright to have problems and to struggle but taking a look at yourself and moving on is the mature response because, at the end of the day, nothing matters. Positive nihilism, if you will