New Reviews 6/27/2009 @ Absolute Zero Media

Destroyer 666- Defiance-CD (Season of Mist)

I don't remember ever really giving Destroyer 666 a chance as it was KK Warslut of Bestial Warlust a raw BM band that never did much for me though after this review I think it will be time to re-listen to the older titles as " Defiance" is one hell of a Black Thrash ride with some amazing melodies and punishing riffs all layers on a throaty meets raw vocal style that is heavily effected and verbed but works very well to create an atmosphere of chaos and speed in the style that is chosen. I'm not sure what the earlier material sounds like but this sounds like a cross between Witchery and Sodom to my ears and that is a damn good thing is this over the top modern death metal being over produced and so trebled that you can hear any of the bottom end anymore. Destroyer 666 has some sick bass line and bass heaviness and crushing melodies that remind me of the mid san fran thrash period Testament, Exodus and Dark Angel... Defiance is a must have metal release on all grounds..

http://season-of-mist.com/



Drudkh- microcosmos-CD (Season of Mist Underground Activists)

I know this band from a few releases on Supernal Music label from UK and now they seem to have joined forces with Frances mighty Season of Mist on a new sub label for more extreme and underground artists called " Underground Activists" . Drudkh to me embody all things that Heathen Black metal should. Reflection to your past, Folk elements, A cold haunting melodic droning sound and the pain and anguish of tormented souls looks for days when the world was not so much about greed and lies. You can fee there Slavic roots strong as ever in the acoustic moments as well as the distant hypnotic way the bass and guitars give almost a eastern prog element to they way the are textured and arranged. There is a very ritualistic and mystic feeling that comes from the complex layers and sounds that are very carefully created. Drudkh remind me if you could has more melody to Burzum and make Falkenbach a bit more dark and aggressive this project meets in the middle of that. Drudkh music are for those that love there solitude, nature and the Gods that most of you have forgotten. Thank you for this journey down a path I hope continues for decades to come from this amazing band...

http://season-of-mist.com/




Lightning Swords of Death - Lightning Swords of Death / Valdur-CD (Cult War/ Bloody Mountain Records)

I'm a bit confused by this release but is seems to be a split between two projects Lighting Swords of Death and Valdur. The release seems to bring us Lighting Swords 1st and these madmen come at you all swords pointing at the juggular. I would call this more war metal then black metal as its comes at you in the same way Marduk or Panzerchrist does with a very full bass heavy sound and giant vocals but Lighting swords seems to like to add a heavy avant progressive tone with the very clear bass and synth arrangements. Lighting Swords can get very Dark metal and mid tempo as well but always keeps the blackened soul of its essence well in your face. At times reminds me very much of Ancient Wisdom maybe there Black doom as well . Valdur is a very different beast all together more a raw atmospheric BM band that remind me a lot of early Polish and German Black metal were the barbaric element was alway keep in the fires of what there mission were to create. The synths and mix were and are lo fi but in a good way very simple drums and almost a spacial feeling coming across in the songs. Then when the blast come in is almost a 4 track recording in sound were all the pieces blur into one wall of nightmarish landscapes. Two bands have very different outlooks on Brutality and Bleak visions of where Black metal will take you but together complete a very impressive release.

http://bloodymountainrecords.com/




Merauder -god is I- CD (Regain Records)

There is just something you know about east coast hardcore when you here it Sick of it all, Cro-Mags, Madball, Leeway, Murphy's Law, Biohazard, Sheer terror etc. Its just got that fuck you fist in the fast metallic taste that other Hardcore could never and will never have well with Merauder its back in full vengeance my friend. The stomping beats and chugging riffs that just make you want to pit to the point of passing out and the vocals of a master at the peak of his form Jorge is hardcore my my friends. I think that Century Media just didn't know what to do with many non metal bands they hurt bands like Mucky Pup, Merauder more the then helped. Regardless of this These Brooklyn boys are back on Regain this time out to show you that its time toe pay the piper for the error of your ways. " God is I" is so heavy and bombastic I just hope we get another Cromags or Leeway CD out of the east coast scene. I makes me want to re-live the Sunday hardcore matinees in NYC in the 80's and 90's good good times. Glad to have Merauder back...

http://regainrecords.com/





CULTED- Below the thunders of the upper deep-CD (Relapse Records)

As I'm reading I'm completely blown away by the fact that the four members of Culted have never met in person or been in the same room but have created a release of Black Industrial Doom on levels that are mastered by few. Culted wear the influences on there sleeves but this is a good thing. I hear four elements in there music a lot. Deinonychus, Godflesh, Neurosis and Dolorian. Culted are a viral sound of madness, saddness, sickness and self loathing in a way you have not heard on relapse in a very long time. The closest band currently on the roster would be Unearthly Trance. Culted have a very cool feel at time to my ears with Burning Witch too esp in the vocal sound and movements. This is not a band to be played around with. If they every get together and play live the building it happens in will never be the same and may not be standing once the opening movements are projects through the speakers... You and just feel the Hate and Bleakness in every moment of this projects exsistence. Relapse has a major force here..... and there name is CULTED!!!!

http://relapse.com/

Clint Listing- THe Desert Willow (digital release) out end of July 2009

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Even more reviews 6/15/2009

Ava Inferi-Blood of Bacchus-CD (Season of Mist)

I'm not sure what happened to have Guitarist from Mayhem to leave them and come over to the powerhouse that is Ava Inferi but I will tell you as it goes now after Grand Declaration of war mayhem has been losing its touches and Ava Inferi is far more impressive. They are not Black metal in any way if was to call them anything I would be a Progressive Gothic Doom metal band with some amazing arrangements that almost come into the neoclassical style of metal. There is a melody and majesty that is not seen much anymore in the 21st century I miss the days were bands like Tristania, Theatre of Tragedy, The Gathering and Within Tempation were making brilliant music well we have Ava Inferi now to fill that void. The female vocalist Carmen Simoes is a classically trained gem in the making. I love how the folk, doom, classical and dark metal elements all mix into the gothic overtone of each track. Each track is just so eleqently layered and approached. At time I even have a Therion feeling come across me with this unit with the choir vocals that come about. Again this is the kind of band with some Video and TV presence they will be a major musical force. There live shows must be things of awe.... Simply wonderful release all around.
http://season-of-mist.com/



Cantata Sangui - On Rituals And Correspondence In Constructed Realities-CD (Season of Mist)

Hell ya two bass, synths, drums and male/female vocals in what I want to call an electro black/doom band . This band is just interesting as all get out to begin with . You will never miss the guitars here as they way the do the dualing Bass guitars one is the driving low end the other is a funky lead bass with some sick chops. The vocals go from angelic sung/spoken female vocals very similar to Lacuna Coil meets Jarboe at time to me. The male vocals are guttural and grim and work so well in the mix. The very electro/industrial synth elements work very very well with the ultra complex drum timing . There is a dark sexuality to the music and arranging as a whole it draws you in and does not want to let you go. There is a very pagan fire burning here in the structures to the songs. Cantata Sangui have a bit of Amorphis in sound going on too maybe that the prog side that comes out more and more as the CD plays on. Season of Mist has a great band here but it will be more then the mainstream will ever except this is way to versatile and thought provoking for just one simple listen or to dabble in. At times there even glimse of a Black metal edge to the total picture. Season of Mist is just having winner after winner in this back for me...
http://season-of-mist.com/




Gonin-Ish - Naishikyo-Sekai-CD (Season of Mist)


??????????????? ########## &&&&&&&&&&&&& . This is what is going through my head on 1st listen of a 2005 ultra limited reissue of a Japanese band that makes bands like Sigh and The Boredoms seem down right normal. Imagine Dream Theater and Crisis forming one band and then singing all in Japanese. Well you have Gonin-Ish if you can accept this and then add even more chaos and bit of Industrial elements in for go measure. From the 1st two tracks alone its mandatory for me too hear there other titles asap. One moment I swear Gonin-Ish are creating music for sci fi / fantasy Anime the next minute they are here to destory the earth for all the wrong's the human race as done to our mother. The sung vocals are just stunning and the tormented scream and cries remind me 100% of Karen Crisis and that is a good thing. Gonin even go into eastern and post rock sounds so fans of this style check it out. I don't know what else can be said about this band other then BUY BUY BUY!!!

http://season-of-mist.com/



Gnostic- Enginnering the Rule-CD (Season of Mist)

Well it was bound to happen this is not for me and I will tell you way. Its a mix of Nu Metal, Thrash and Prog elements but its just so disjointed. Its like they want to Cynic and Slipknot at the same time and it just come across a forces where bands like Messugah and Gorija just seem to have the balance much more thought out. I know there very talented musicians as you can clearly hear this it just a bit too much more me.

http://season-of-mist.com/



HDK- Sytem Overload-CD (Season of Mist)

Progressive Thrash in the highest of reguards my friends if you like bands like Thrash Testament, Death Angel mixed with bands like Rage, Blind Guardian and Symphony X then this is going to be a win win for you. I like the over the top powerfully sung vocals almost in the Judas Priest or Gamma Ray. HDK is not so much a band as a project in the way Ayreon is where a bunch of friends got together to make a Melodic album mixing Death metal, Prog Metal, Thrash and Hardrock in one very kick ass release. I like the mix of the several different vocal styles ( Sung, Growled, Screamed and even Odin help me rapped). I'm going to let you know as well there is a heavy gothenburg metal sound going on here so Inflames, Soilwork & DT fans . You will want to pick this up but there is so much more going on as members from After Forever, Ayreon, AVANTASIA,Angra and God Dethroned (Yes a lot of A bands there huh). There is so much going on here both Male and Female vocals to top it all off as well. At time it sounds like something Devin Townsend would do as well . So with this praise just check it out ....

http://season-of-mist.com/




NOVEMBERS DOOM- Into Night's Requiem Infernal-CD (The End Records)

Though I haven't spoken to the members in Novembers Doom for a good 3yrs now I still call Paul and Larry friend as in the late 90's/ early 21st century my old band Long Winters Stare were label mates with them on Dark Symphonies and we played many times together. So I start with this is a very different Novembers Doom from those days. I would very little call them a Doom band and more as more a Dark Death Metal/ Experimental metal band with the much more aggressive and progressive elements going through out the band. It's also down to just Paul and Larry from those days with all new members. There are still some very doomy moments but ND like to add so many more sonic layers to the production as a whole and the songs are no longer at a snails pace with heavy string or synths. Novembers Doom now walk the path were bands like Opeth, Dan Swano & Morbid Angel walk the like between the Brutal and the fragile and let me tell you " Into Nights Requiem Infernal" is the most expansive release to date for Novembers Doom. I hope ND never reverts back to the days of old . Let the past be the past and grow with each album some will follow and I'm sure even more people will add to the fold. Long live Novembers Doom ....

http://theendrecords.com/




Kult ov Azazel - Destroying The Sacred-CD (Arctic Music)

US Black metal force from florida is out with there newest assault of the Christian nations of the world once again on Arctic Music Group. With Two verision of the artwork as one as we can see if a bit to extreme for the mainstream masses lol. Kult ov Azazel is a epic Black metal band that never really changes there vision or path. They make over the top grim and brutal Black Death with a bit of melodic overtones to make the cold and dark sounds all the more interesting. This is not ever going to win over the popular culture and music and art like this should never do such. This is for the underground to embrace and keep to themselves. The vocals are just hate spewed and the pace of the music never really slows down . Kult ov Azazel are just a breed of those that the Corpse Paint is an essential part of the overall mode of the band. If your fan of bands like Immortal, Satyricon, Khold even Krieg and earlier Absu you will not want to miss out on the brutality that " Destroying the Sacred" will present you with...

http://www.arcticmusicgroup.com/

New Reviews 6/14/2009

Dirt Worshipper- The misadventures of dirtbag the clown-CD (Self Releases)

I'm not sure if I'm suppose to love this or hate this as its like a lo fi verison of Dead horse meets DRI on a 80's demo tape. Dirt Worshipper are just as you would like nasty, gritty, loud, doomy, blues a mix of death and classic metal all at the same time adding a very punk rock belief to there gosphel that they call there music. I feel they have a strong love for St Vitus and Trouble as well but let me tell you as time this is full on speedcore punkmetal and I think Dirt Worshipper just do it to confuse the shit out of you. If there was one down side to all of this it would have to be the horrible recording quality of the CD as a whole. It really sounds like the recorded the whole CD with 2 mics live in a rehearsal room. I understand a live feel but come on. With better production these sounds would be fantastic.
http://www.myspace.com/thedirtworshipper





Pathology- Age of Onset-(CD Comatose Music)

Holy burp metal batman. This is the kind of Death metal I have made fun of for years and will not stop any time soon. Why must all the vocals sound like one big deep burping noise. The music is nothing like that all. Pathology are very complex in there music structures and arrangments. The music really put the 3rd rate vocals to same as the guitars, bass and drums are down right bass ass. The band is more in the techinical death / grind side of the extreme musical realm. I knew when I saw the artwork this was a 50/50 kind of thing. Pathology should be an instramental death metal force as there are not many and this would really make them stand out a whole lot more...
http://comatosemusic.com/



We Insist!- The Babel inside was terrible-CD (Exile on Mainstream)

Someone grow up on Discord and Touch and GO record releases with a good dose of Tzadik thrown in for go measure. If John Zorn could join Fugazi and The Jesus Lizard on stand for an all star jam session I think we would be getting into the right ballpark on what We Insist! has given the world. This is for the avant jazzcore fans out there that love bands like When, Mr Bungle, Tubring and Copshootcop. The songs are down right infectious but there just so out there the arrangement will make most just scratch there head in confusion. I sure We Insist live is just a powerhouse of majesty and this is really the way to see a band this amazing on record. This band has ALOT in common with TUBRING . I would just like to state that one more time. If you like them you will love this I've said enough. Buy this and don't be stupid..

http://mainstreamrecords.de/




The Antikaroshi- Crushed Neocons-CD (Exile on Mainstream)

The label Exile on Mainstream seems to fusing 3 styles together as of late in there signature sound for the label. Those 3 sounds are Jazz, Post Hardcore and Indie rock in what I want to say they are merging what discord records and nuerot recordings have made very popular in the US underground scene over the last 2 -3 decades. The Antikaroshi go a bit more into the Avant Post Hardcore side of the spectrum where I hear Shudder to Think, Isis and Red Sparrowes in what they are creating as as its drifting and very jazz bass heavy but still keep the darker hardcore/metallic element in the music without is becoming full out anger and aggression. There is a very math rock side to these gentlemen as well but they never let it go to the levels bands like Dillenger Escape Plan or Mastodon have. The music is more about the groove and and tonal vibe then anything. The vocals when they are there are very indie rock so if you don't like your vocals smokey and a bit nasal then this maybe a stumbling block for you . Other then this The Antikaroshi are a band above many in the same genre...

http://mainstreamrecords.de/




Adrian T. Lakey-On my way out-CD (Self Released)

This man seems to want to say undergound and let the music do the talking there is almost zero on the internet about him. Other then few things on Heathen harvest site about an earlier release. Well let get to it. Adrian is a Loungy, Neo Folk, Space rocker. He loves the acoustic guitar and 60's ambient elements intermixed in to is very somber spoken/ sung vocals that you would hear in bands like Death in June, Changes, Ait!, Spirtual front etc. You very much get what I mean. I think him and David E Williams should collab as it would be magical. These kind of people are the troubadors of the 21st century. The release is full on with pianos, horns, kettle drums, strings and epic organs. If you a fan of labels like Tesco, Punch, Soleilmoon etc then you will love this mans visions. I have to let you know Thomas Garrison of Control ( amazing Power electronic/ Noise project) mastered this release so it sounds stellar to say the least. I know nothing more about Adrian other then he makes so very cool Post Industrial music.... PS. It comes in a very cool hand printed box with glossy booklet.



you can email him at adrianlakey@yahoo.com

Below the Radar June 2009

BELOW THE RADAR

We begin again with a few bands if given the chance will have much bigger following and interest... This edition is a dark more extreme Path...

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CODE (UK)
http://www.myspace.com/codeblackmetal
http://www.codeblackmetal.co.uk/

The band's original line-up consisted of Aort on guitars, Viper aka Vicotnik from the bands Ved Buens Ende and Dødheimsgard on bass guitar and Kvohst from the bands Void and Dødheimsgard on vocals. They were joined later on by Vyttra on Guitar and AiwarikiaR, former drummer of Ulver, on drums. Aort wrote all of the music and Kvohst co-wrote the lyrics with an English writer called Andrew Nicol, and the band released their first demo, entitled Neurotransmissions: Amplified Thought Chemistry, on March 15th, 2002. The band was eventually signed to Spikefarm Records an imprint record label of Spinefarm Records. Through Spikefarm, they released their first full-length, entitled Nouveau Gloaming on June 13th, 2005. After the album's release Kvohst went on to replace the departed Aldrahn on vocals in Dødheimsgard to record the album Supervillain Outcast in 2007. Kvohst, Vyttra and AiwarikiaR had all left the band for unspecified reasons in late 2006. A few months later it was announced that ICS Vortex (of Arcturus, Dimmu Borgir, and Lamented Souls) had been in talks to be recruited as the vocalist of the band but in the end he never joined the band nor wrote, performed or rehearsed with them. In September 2008, the band announced that they would not be working with Vortex after all and that Kvohst had returned to do the vocals on the new album.^[1] On 4. November 2008 the title for the new album was announced: "Resplendent Grotesque". ^[2] The new album features the original core lineup of Kvohst, Aort and Vicotnik and the drums were performed by Adrian Erlandsson from At The Gates and ex-Cradle Of Filth.

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Bethlehem (Germany)

http://www.myspace.com/bethlehemasylum

Many of Bethlehem's songs have morbid lyrics, which may, for the most part, be personal to the band. On Dictius Te Necare (Latin: You must/should kill yourself) Rainer Landfermann, well-known from the German death metal band Pavor, is the vocalist. His voice is described as "one of the sickest and most extreme voices you'll ever hear from a human being".^[1] On S.U.I.Z.I.D. his place is taken by Marco Kehren from the band Deinonychus. Guido Meyer de Voltaire, the vocalist from Schatten aus der Alexanderwelt and Mein Weg, is also well-known with his band Aardvarks. His vocal performance is equally extreme, though more varied, and most of the time he sounds like a distressed feline receiving unwanted fellatio. Andreas Classen, vocalist on Dark Metal also did vocals for Paragon Belial, a German black metal band.

Over the years Bethlehem modernized their style and so the early black and doom metal influences are now hardly present, the band favouring a more Neue Deutsche Härte (New German Hardness) and electronic approach. In 1998 Bethlehem collaborated on the soundtrack for the American underground movie Gummo with the tracks "Schuld Uns'res Knöcherigen Faltpferds" and "Verschleierte Irreligiösität".

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Virus (Norway)

http://www.myspace.com/czral

Virus rose out of the ashes of avant-garde black metal innovators VED BUENS ENDE in the year 2000. VBE founding member, songwriter and vocalist/drummer Carl-Michael “Czral” Eide wished to further explore the more outlandish terrains of his former band and asked bass player extraordinaire Petter “Plenum” Berntsen (of AUDIOPAIN fame) and versatile drummer Einar “Einz” Sjursø (BEYOND DAWN, INFERNÖ, LAMENTED SOULS) to join him.

The debut album ‘Carheart’ was released by Jester Records in 2003. It combined the off the wall riffing of Eide with an almost post-rock (sometimes bordering on jazz) rhythmic foundation, and topped it off with totally absurd lyrical and visual imagery. Most reviewers hailed it as a masterpiece while a few didn’t get it all.

After the debut, Virus went off the radar for several years, not least because of Eide’s 2005 accident, falling five stories and making a two year-recovery. But, as they say, what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger, and never has this been more apt.

THE BLACK FLUX

If ‘Carheart’ was the “Monty Python” album of Virus, ‘The Black Flux’ is definitely the “David Lynch” one.

Like a constantly shifting torrent, Virus anno 2008 is as unpredictable as it is addictive. The riffs flow back and forth like waves, the bass undercurrents adding the illusion that there’s a lot more going on here than just three men playing their instruments. The drums keep a steady beat, keeping it all cohesive, yet don’t shy away from the occasional swirly fill. The vocals of Carl-Michael are a story of their own, picking up where he left off on VED BUENS ENDE’s ‘Written In Waters’, taking it to an all new level. Whether it’s the robotic authority of ‘Lost Peacocks’ or the almost-Bowie crooning of ‘Inward Bound’, Eide’s voice has finally become that vital fourth element of Virus, completing a whole that wasn’t quite achieved on the debut.

‘The Black Flux’ is a statement of intent, to say the least. The songwriting is more focused, the music more twisted and hypnotic, and the vocal delivery more poignant than ever. Not to mention the top-notch sound, produced in Amper Tone Studios (ENSLAVED, MADRUGADA, SERENA MANEESH, AURA NOIR etc.) under the helm of Bård Ingebrigtsen.

Overwhelming without being pompous, dark but not difficult, The Black Flux is easily the most important step yet in the careers of its creators. A maelstrom of creativity, and a flux of musical ambition. Now please dive in.

Virus announced their second album "The Black Flux" release on November 10, 2008 through Season of Mist recording label

The Terminal Generation Interview is up 6/5/2009

http://www.myspace.com/theterminalgeneration

1. For those of us new to The Terminal Generation tell us how it all began?

Luko “The Tank” Okminn: I can’t say….because I don’t know.

Ugo Mustafo : Last week I guess, somewhere is Los Angeles- the city of creeps, freaks and peeps, I can’t tell you more details but it’s unlawful.

Froggie Svengali: This may sound crazy but you have to believe me, everything I say is 110% true...Before the "terminal" I went to meditate on a spiritual journey to find "myself" In the Machu Picchu rain forest. I found a village of locals not typical "Indians" like you see on T.V. they were like regular people just extremely poor and impoverished. I hung out with their medicine man .His name was Jose Gonzalez And while meditating I had a vision it was Salvador Dali. He said allot of things that made no sense and spoke to me with abstract images. But what I did understand was that I should go to a city called El Monte and find 2 people who are as I and rock...and rock hard.

Dr. Sickmon Fraud: The band started out committing criminal acts of civil disobedience and then evolved in to what it is now.

2. Your new CD eVERYONE pRays tHERE iS nO gOD seemed to be self released was this done on purpose or has it been hard to find label support.

The Tank: Who says things are as they seem?

Ugo: We want to be worshipped and adored, of course we want to be signed to a label, rule the world and our make listeners suffer, make millions of dollars, you know stuff like that.

Fraud: We haven’t even looked for label support. We’ve only had offers from inappropriate majors.

3. Your sounds really remind me of Hardcore Industrial Metal with a Triphop flavor. Would you say that is close to what you are trying to create?

Frog: Its liquid art. Breath it in. breath it.

Ugo: No not really, I still consider pop/rock music for losers and retards.

Fraud: We call it post-industrial-death-funk.

4. Does The Terminal Generation perform live ?

The Tank: We Perform Dead.

Ugo: Perform live? If you could call it that, its more of the stars all lining up and we collectively get some type of temporary removal of our involuntary psychiatric holds, work release furlough, and stay of executions- that allows us to actually be all together at one time to do what ever it is that we do. Live we spit on everything, we destroy things playing live, make our listeners feel and wish they were never born. So much fun!! Our goal is to marry everyone’s worst nightmare to their great fear at our live shows. Oh yes it more to entertain ourselves than to fascinate our listeners, fans and slaves.

Frog: A: When I play live I want to actually hurt the other band. I want to break their equipment and strangle them with the cords. Especially, the hipster bands that are hard core elitist. They don't know what art musick is. They'll know what art is when I free them from them from their earthly bodies and they graduate to their due reward and when their flying into the light they'll realize what were trying to do.

5. Do you feel places like MySpace and CD baby give the exposure to indie bands like nothing before. Can bands thrive from this digital promotion alone or do projects needs to perform live and get radio / magazine promotion too?

UGO: I am artist how would I know?

Fraud: This album was pirated online before it came out. A guy with an actual wooden leg and parrot hijack a CD shipment and killed 50 men. Btw, you can order it at your local record store, get it on Amazon or I-Tunes or personally send us a check which we will cash and use for explosives and keep the CD.

Tank: Use an online service, we will keep the money and not use us.

Frog: Amazon is much more reliable and trustworthy than us.

6. What has been the most positive and negative comments made about The Terminal Generation?

Ugo: Why bother? – People don’t criticize us because they want to live.

Fraud: Critics love us, normal people hate us and freaks become obsessed with us.

7. Are you a project that does everything Diy (recording, packaging etc) or do you go into a proper studio to record and have artist work on your artwork?

Frog: We are Rock-Stars not a project. The Last studio we worked in was haunted. We amused ourselves by throwing furniture off the roof. The homeless people that lived around the studio hated us because we'd hid their shopping carts full of their earthly possessions. The best thing that came out of that experience was the bacon wrapped hotdog guaranteed triple bypass or it's free.

Fraud: This album was recorded in 2 garages, a barn, a condo, in a huge studio in a room between Slayer and Wasp, in several small studios, and at the Art Château. We had several un-credited photographers help us with the art, but they know us personally and did not wish to be associated with the band.

Tank: We do have help from the voices in our heads.

8. I see there is a Burnt Toast Future video. This is a lo-fi nightmare in the making. Will there be more any thoughts on a DVD of material. I think you would be a very visual band.

Ugo: Not if the world is lucky- but it isn’t, so there will be lots more where that came from.

Fraud: we are working on a video about homicidal toy with post-modern references to Dante's inferno.

9. What is the running theme or ideal of eVERYONE pRays tHERE iS nO gOD?

Ugo: That everyone prays there is no god- that way anything goes, no future, no afterlife, no problem.

Tank: The concrete fact that humanity is basically evil.

Fraud: Theme? Ideal?

Frog: A: The running theme is to be the greatest underground band that ever did live. to be the "underground Led Zeppelin"

10. What are your thoughts on the current indie/ extreme underground music scene?

Tank: It’s good except when it isn’t.

Ugo: It totally sucks dry- I wish to hell there were more, some or any artist and bands to inspire me. I can only read the color purple and listen to Yes Albums for so long.

Frog: The "music" is in a sad state. The fans have nothing to rock out to. Our fans tend to be real connoisseurs of music. It's the normal looking terminal fan that scares me. The freaky ones not so much. You bought your clothes at Hot Topic. That's cool. I know you’re probably into lamb of God or skinny puppy. That's cool. It's the normal looking ones that scare me. That's the freak that has his ex girlfriend in his basement ready to silence of the lambs her for sure. Gimmie back my dog ! Gimmie back my dog!

Fraud: I only listen to top 40 Radio. Lady Gaga Rocks.

11. If there was one thing that The Terminal Generation has not done yet and you want too what is it and why?

Ugo: To make the world a bitter place, I mean better.

Tank: One thing we haven’t done is record an album we haven’t recorded yet, for obvious reasons.

Frog: I want to die in a plane crash like buddy holly. Right before I get famous. I used to hate Kirk Cobain. I despised him. If I were to of meet him I would have punched him square in the mouth for being a mealy mouth Nancy boy. But then I herd he killed himself, I was happy. Then I herd he killed himself because he got famous. I had a new found respect for him and then I was sad.

12. Thanks for the time any closing thoughts here.

Ugo: I have no thoughts period.

Frog: Music isn't how many bands you can recite or who has the blackest trench coat. It’s how high you can fly and touch the sky. It's getting away into an art painted picture. It's tasting the best wine you can ever did taste. I don't care if it's 80's metal or the freakiest damn shit you can find (The Terminal Generation) it's running from the burning compound of the Branch Davidian camp as the ATF is going to kill you. You were there man ! you lived it ! you were a Branch Davidioan. You called in sick the day they drank the kool-aid you’re my hero.

Tank: Stop Killing Art.

13. *** 13. Additional Question added by (Hugo Mastafo) Am I on crack ?, No I am not.