Artist description Sonic catharsis and dark digital psychedelia

Music Style Psychedelic/Industrial/Experimental

Musical Influences Pink Floyd, The Cure, Gary Newman, Skinny Puppy, The Doors, Coil, Bauhaus, David Bowie, REM, Throbbing Gristle

Similar Artists Gary Newman, NIN, The Cure

Group Members Suicide Parlor is currently a studio project consisting of myself and various contributors. I am in the process of recruiting musicians to perform live.

Instruments PC with SBLive card, several midi/audio editing applications, and any object that makes noise.

Press Reviews Review from Last Sigh Magazine- http://www.lastsigh.com/reviews2/suicideparlor_coming.htm Suicide Parlor consists only of a single member who goes by the mysterious moniker of "Mr. X", but despite the rather cheesy sounding stage name, this Houston based band sounds quite accomplished. Suicide Parlor began as a creative outlet for noise oriented industrial, and released their first album in 1999, and following up with Coming Down in 2000. The music here is very synth driven, sort of light industrial, one way that I would personally describe it would have to be "lounge industrial". I know it sounds a little odd, but I really got a sense of mellowness when I listened to this cd, the songs are melodious and sometimes symphonic, but not hard or grinding as some industrial is. It still maintains much of what makes an industrial album industrial though, by being very dark and warlike, but seems to transcend that to become something else. The vocals are kind of different, sounding like a lot of the "grunge" that came out in the first half of the nineties, but it still seems to fit well with the overall feel of the album. In the end, we have a unique piece of music that threatens to shoot you, while at the same time telling you to "chill out". Review from Nephilius Webzine- http://crash.to/joost Master-Slave relationship! A very interesting mix of techno, EBM and industrial. So many "insane" musical ideas. Twisted and distorted voices, angry beats, lovely sharp and tormenting, real musical torture. Stretch me down, hit me, be my Master. It's no doubt who is the Master and who is the slave. This release has a lot of elements that a lot of artist in this so called genres only could dream about integrating. Thanks for having been such an excellent teacher and guide in a unique musical landcape. It's only one group with the same musical "insanity", intensity and twisted industrial beats and that's Klandenstine Garage Band.

Location Houston, Texas - USA

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