Artist description ...This music wakes the devil...

Music Style Industrial Metal with a Horror/Sci-Fi Soundtracking feel...

Musical Influences Skinny Puppy, Slayer, Front Line Assembly, Pantera

Artist History 11 years in existence, and still moving forward into the world of industrial metal, CONTINGENCE brings forth their 7th global independent release “Necropolis” - the anticipated follow-up to the 1995 release “Dominion”. The lineup of this industrial-metal trio from Seattle, WA consists of: Project Founder/Vocalist/Programmer Xerxes Non, Guitarist Johnny Lenzini, and Drummer/Percussionist Johnny Ostrem. Xerxes Non originally developed the inner workings of the project back in 1990, starting from an electro-industrial base of ingredients. During the life of the project, these electronic experimentations have taken on a demonic aura that has become an entity of its own. Johnny Lenzini entered the project in 1994, toting a chaotic cutting edge guitar style that pushed the band further into the spectrum of industrial metal, and helped to further progress CONTINGENCE’s cold and brutal sound. Johnny Ostrem joined forces with the project in 1996 with his crushing rhythms, precision footwork, and uncompromising meter, as the Dominion release was circulating Europe and the U.S.. During the past 3 years, CONTINGENCE has been focusing their energy towards live performance, and constructing their newest and by far their most powerful collage of material to date. During this time, they have been in the midst of crossing the bridges of industrial metal and redefining the genre into what they term “Organic Industrial”.

Group Members Xerxes Non - Programming/Vocals .... Johnny Lenzini - Guitars .... Johnny Ostrem - Percussion

Instruments Protools LE, ASR-10, Mirage, ESQ-1, Juno-106, M3R, DR660, Various FX, Guitars, Percussion

Press Reviews "Deep within a Seattle warehouse sits a group of men crafting the next phase in their planned assault on your senses. Bursting forth like some auditory virus, their concoction will burrow through your mental defenses and rewire your psyche quicker than dropping acid and watching THE NAKED LUNCH. Their sound will cleanse you with visions of cybernetic torture, while their intense rhythms and hard-hitting guitar will send you ego recoiling to the far recesses of your mind. You cannot stop this intrusion. These men are simply known as CONTINGENCE." - Voltage Zine

Location Seattle, WA - USA

Copyright notice. All material on MP3.com is protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may download this material and make reasonable number of copies of this material only for your own personal use. You may not otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create derivative works of this material, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).