Shadowstate
Started back in summer of 2001, Shadowstate is an electronic industrial band, based near Akron, Ohio that carries a retro-80 industrial style influence reminicent of Front Line Assembly and Skinny Puppy. Because we believe today's industrial and EBM music is all starting to sound the same, Shadowstate continues to try and achieve that early-industrial soundscape into new material for the 21st century like no one else does.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
We came, we saw, we kicked some ass.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Once in a blue moon, usually around Akron.
Your musical influences
We're influenced by many bands, like Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Wumpscut, Placebo Effect, Velvet Acid Christ, Covenant, VNV Nation, Kraftwerk, and tons more.
What equipment do you use?
Primarily Reason 2.5 on an Apple iMac, sometimes Cubase VST, with our Ensoniq ASR-X Pro, and a Roland Juno for effects, and a Boss BR-8 8-Track for recording vocals, remix vocals as samples back into Reason and remix the final song down there.
Anything else?
Currently working on a full length album called "Closed Circuit Holocaust", due out next year, and on a label, hopefully.
