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Metal Matt:  Synths and percussion. I would describe our sound as an early 80's to early 90's industrial sound, I write exactly the kind of music I want to hear. I'm a whiskey man and also a fan of Texas' own Lone Star beer!
Jude:  I got into making music in my teens. At first, I was in various punk bands playing guitar and bass. Over the years, I wanted to experiment more.  I thought industrial would be the perfect medium. Industrial music has few bounds and just about anything can be turned into an instrument.
Metal Matt:  I've been writing music since I was thirteen, and I play all kinds of instruments. My main thing was guitar and bass in death metal bands my whole life. I've liked industrial since the 5th grade but didn't have a clue on how to create it.... till now.
Jude:  I'm sure Matt will tell you what our influences are, so I would like to say what we are not influenced by. I feel like industrial music these days is weak, there are few bands who are playing it, and it has gotten over processed. We try not to be influenced by modern electro or similar styles. We like to keep it pure and raw, stripping it down to the core of what made all of those old school bands great!
Metal Matt:  My most influential bands are Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach, Front Line Assembly, and even a little Depeche Mode. It's the old school sound I grew up on. I think electronic music today, including harsh EBM, is crap. I think it has too much of this rave sound: the same beat for every song with the same vocal style.


Jude:  We have learned so much since we started a few years back, including everything from how to mix and master industrial to how to record a synth.  It's a huge learning process. The more we press forward, the better quality our project becomes. More fantastic music is in the works!
Jude:  I like to think our process is "anything goes". One of the things I love about the older industrial music is how versatile it is. Part of capturing the sound is being expressive and having an open mind to what "music" is. Let's face it, industrial music is anti-music. It's important to capture that aspect by striving for creativity. In this sense, it's our own perspective executed in the mind of the old influence. We keep an arsenal of strange instruments like synths, didgeridoos, metal pipes, oil barrels and electronic drums on hand.
Metal Matt:  The process varies sometimes. I write fast punk riffs on a guitar and slow it down. Other times, I'll get a melody stuck in my head and play it on synth, then expand from there. As far as the bands that influence us, we try and capture their sound. We try and fit the old mold but with our own style.
Jude:  Being into punk, my lyrics are politically charged.  They deal with world issues including but not limited to necro politics, genocide, famine, plague, religion, substance abuse, suicide, omnicide, ecocide, and deicide. The whole feel on our current release is an all out assault on the hypocrisy of religion. I try and open the audience's eyes to the horrors of our existence. In the end, it's but the hopeless ravings of a poor villain because, I know as well as the audience, nothing will change which is the greatest hypocrisy of all.....Death and doom my friend, an endless orgy of despair....

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Jude:  We started the project with no experience in electronic music. We didn't even know how a synth worked. I thought it would be as easy as pressing a button on your laptop. Boy, was I wrong! All we had to work with was our ultimate vision. Now that we have gained a lot more experience, I think we can better execute what we want to accomplish.  I can see us being a lot more enlightened and heavy in our next musical exploits.
Metal Matt:  I think it's fucking great! There is always room for improvement too. 
Jude:  We are working on our full album release and possibly a tour. We are playing in Dallas and Houston in April, and we are going back to the Colorado Goth Fest this year! Also,  another music video will be coming soon. As far as remixes, they aren't on our mind right now. We are working on a Judas Priest cover of 'Night Crawler'. It should be brutal.
Jude:  Well in my album rotation I have Unrest by Disrupt, Panguna by Keluar, and VIVIsectVI by Skinny Puppy. For newer bands, there are a lot of great acts that we are starting to do shows with such Tearfull Moon from Houston and Aztec Death from Dallas. We cant forget our friends up in Colorado- Ehph and Witch Hands!