DeathBoy
As the industrial scene frantically tries to salvage some underground dance credibility back from the electronica world it arguably helped create, DeathBoy stands out as the anomaly. An original drum'n'bass / hardcore kid, whose online albums to date chart his descent from nasty slabs of instrumental funk, through a vodka fuelled haze of self-loathing, hatred and anger into today's minimalist breakbeat industrial. Oh it's dirty, angry stuff. Trent Reznor without the bloated prog rock, Alec Empire with a production job by the Chemical Brothers.Band/artist history
DeathBoy began releasing music under that name around '97, eventually mutating from rave/drum-and-bass/techno leanings into something more industrial. 2001 saw the formation of the band around the existing material, culminating in the release of Music To Crash Cars To in 2003 on Wasp Factory Records. The band would later move to Line Out Records, releasing End of an Error in late 2006, with an ever-growing catalogue of free non-commercial albums. DeathBoy is currently drunk and re-writing history as he goes.Have you performed in front of an audience?We play up and down the UK, and have also played in Toronto and Montreal. Our best gigs have been at Whitby Gothic Weekend - huge crowds, great response, excellent people. Gigging in London's nice and convenient but the scene's not exactly that appreciative. I'd rather travel 400 miles and play to 20 kids who came out especially to see us than do a gig 20 minutes away to 400 people who can't be arsed and are waiting for the EBM headliner to play. That said, I fucking hate being on the motorway all day. Swings and roundabouts ;)
Your musical influences
The Prodigy, Nine Inch Nails, Massive Attack, the Orb, the Spawn Soundtrack, oldschool rave, Sheep on Drugs, Aphex Twin, the Pet Shop Boys, Pop Will Eat Itself, Jesus Jones, Underworld, TrickyWhat equipment do you use?
A Very Fast PC running Cubase. Mackie Tapco monitors, Sennheiser HD25 cans, Access Virus b, Alesis Micron, a wide and disgraceful variety of plugins and software bastardry.Anything else?
DeathBoy is available for children's parties.All comments (1)
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Scott
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F*** in awesome guys!!!!