HOST is an acronym for the Home Of Something Terrible. It was just an idea I came up with one day, and it fits the music. It plays off of "host" in a technology reference, as well as the parasite/host relationship.

Working on it ... musicians needed to get back on stage

This is question is too loaded for this tiny box

Short answer, yes, but that's very conditional. Again, too loaded for a small box.

I started doing this kind of stuff back when I was 15, though it is an entirely different beast at this point. It started off as my 2 main influences at the time, mixture of smashing pumpkins and NIN. Previously worked under the name "the chimera strain" for which I did have a live band. There was a year lapse for college (which I wasn't a fan of) and when I began work on new material, it was going in a much more brutal and dark direction. I decided the name change was a good idea.

Meshuggah, A Perfect Circle, Fear Factory, Skinny Puppy, Lamb of God, Kidneythieves, Morbid Angel, Orgy, Thorns, Dodheimsgard, Strapping Young Lad, Chimaira, 36 Crazyfists, Ulver, Behemoth, Bjork, Click, Emperor, Deadsy, Marilyn Manson, In Quest, MSI

I'm a fan of Boston

GUITAR: ESP MHB-400 Baritone guitar w/ EMG 81 pickups, line6 rackmount pod xt pro THROUGH mesa 50/50 power amp >>> DRUMS/SYNTH: korg trinity >>> VOX: my voice through a behringer studio mic and tube preamp (on recording) plus a few FX here and there