Artist description They're one of the best kept secrets in modern music, with one foot in the world of huge techno/industrial/electronic beats, the other in the anthem-like verse-chorus-verse sphere of post-alt rock. Hate Dept.'s Seibold may have a reputation as the re-mixer's re-mixer and a dance floor guru, but his band is a rock & roll force to be reckoned with and its third album (and first for Restless Records), Technical Difficulties, is the culmination of more than two years in the studio. Building genres as he does notes and emotions, the multi-instrumentalist constructed these songs from the ground up with real drums, guitars, bass and keyboards, then ran them through the computer for a truly groundbreaking fusion of nature and science.

Music Style Depeche Mode gets run over by road-raging Prodigy fans

Musical Influences Ministry, Depeche Mode, Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello

Similar Artists Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Prodigy

Artist History Hate Dept.'s first album, meat.your.maker, came out on 21st Circuitry through Caroline in '94 and Omnipresent followed in '96 on Neurotic/Thump, with both records appearing on Rolling Stone's Top Ten alternative album chart. "New Power", a song from Omnipresent, actually topped the Alternative Press dance chart, earning national airplay in 20 U.S. markets. Keyboard magazine placed Seibold on its list of "Best New Talent" in '95 alongside the likes of jazz pianist Jacky Terrason, Ace of Base and Luscious Jackson's Vivian Trimble. Hate Dept. has toured the U.S. four times already, while Seibold has become both an in-demand producer (Berlin, Information Society) and remixer (Smash Mouth's "Walkin' On The Sun (Love Attacks Mix"), Pink Noise Test, Artificial Joy Club, Abra Moore).

Group Members Seibold: vocals Charles Hunt: drums Mark Greco: guitar Jeff Smith: keyboards

Instruments Vocals, guitar, drums, keyboard

Albums meat.your.maker (1994 - Caroline); Omnipresent (1996 - Thump); technical difficulties (1999 - Restless).

Press Reviews "A cathartic and exhilarating release." - Los Angeles Times "Brutal." - Paper Magazine "They represent the plate tectonics of whole continents of rock." - Hour

Location Los Angeles, California - USA

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