the idea behind the name is simply the concept of pleasure being often derived from things that in actuality, cause us great harm. There is also the idea of deriving pleasure directly from the experience of pain.

We've done a lot of live shows around vancouver over the past few years, but this EP is it for the band now, we've gone our seperate ways.

this is a big subject, but there is no doubt that the music industry has been changed irevocably by mp3s. In some ways this has been a posative change in that music is no longer under as strict control of the major label media conglomorates, the listener has more choices and options and the independant artists have more avenues for exposure. In some ways this has been a negative change in that music has become disposable, it no longer seems to have the same value placed on it that it once did; gone may be the days of the collector. there is also the effect that the concept of the 'album' has suffered due to single songs being the standard of musical consumption.

no, probably not, though I doubt any major label would be interested in us anyways.

Killing Joke, Joy division, Big Black, Coil, Swans, Cabaret Voltaire, Bauhaus, Neurosis, Magazine, Legendary Pink Dots, Public Image Limited, Wire, The Fall,

Gibson EB-0 Bass, Ibanez Artcore Bass, Epiphone Dot CH-335 Guitar, Epiphone Les Paul Guitar, Fender Bassman, Ampeg Portaflex, SWR Workingman Bass Amp, Electro Harmonix: micro-synth, memory-man, small-stone, small-clone, soul-preacher, frequency analyzer, big muff.
Boss SP-202 sampler, Roland Juno 106 and Alpha-Juno, Roland JX3P, Alesis HD-8, Ensoniq ESQ-1