Artist description Welcome, Comrade, to my New Red Anger! Simply put, Indoctri-Nation is a ticking time bomb. From its humble beginning in the fall of 2001 when V. 'Lenin' Visk took his two passions: politics and music, and fused the best elements of industrial, punk and new wave into a minimalist four song demo. "I started this as a joke-mainly for my own enjoyment-by using every cliche I could think of in industrial music: techno rhythms, synthetic blips and bleeps, big guitars and over-processed vocals," said V. 'Lenin' Visk, founder and leader of the politically charged and fast and furious project that is Indoctri-Nation. "Even the name was a play on those very cliches." "But the joke was on Me," said Lenin. In the early spring of 2002, Lenin upgraded his four- track cassette to an eight-track reel, re-recorded his demo plus five new songs, called it New Red Anger, and passed it around to a few friends. "It was a shock to find that something I did for fun actually made an impact." Just two week later, he was approached by a local Industrial promoter who wanted Lenin to perform live. "Next thing I know, I've got to start a bloody band." Indoctri-Nation made their live debut June 19, 2002, filling a small club almost to capacity. Two songs, Freedom and Accept and Obey are receiving some club-play-and the questions about future releases keep coming. When asked about the politics, Lenin will only say that Indoctri-Nation is for Liberty and Individuality and against the forms of group and security like Fascism and Socialism. He doesn't buy the anti-capitalist lines of the left nor does he condone the big-corporate machinations of the right. "I've never aligned myself with any group, I've been outside all groups, and no matter what 'group' would happen to gain control, I would be a danger," Lenin said with an anticipatory grin. ". . . and I relish it!" Indoctri-Nation (as in brainwashed nation) is the band. "Something about Indoctri-Nation reminds me of vintage NIN and Killing Joke. It captures some of the same synth-electronica meets industrial guitar - some of the only things the eighties coughed up which are still worth our while." -from a review of Indoctri-Nation on electromancer.com "While I can't stand that Industrial / disco s---, I find 'Freedom' to be a rare gem. It rocks on so many levels-its kinda okay for disco s---." -Ollie Stench, bassist of the street punk band The Subversives. "Your politics suck, Billy, but Accept and Obey is a great tune. Not many can do the slow, heavy dance music like [Accept and Obey]" -Dj Panic, Saloon and Ground Zero nightclubs, Mpls Mn "[V. 'Lenin' Visk is] animated and extremely charismatic" -Eden Taylor of All The Pretty Horses "I can't get [Freedom] out of my head, you f-ing bastard" -a new fan upon seeing Indoctri-Nation's debut performance. nra-lenin@attbi.com

Music Style Industrial

Musical Influences a;grumh..., Sex Pistols, Skinny Puppy, KMFDM, Cabaret Voltair, Dead Kennedies, Laibach, Killing Joke Gary Numan, Ayn Rand, Solzhenitsyen, Orwell, Huxley, Jefferson, Paine

Similar Artists metal Ministry, KMFDM, Mussolini Headkick, a;Grumh..., Killing Joke ('Millennium' album), Rammstein (not the vocals, the music)

Artist History Formed in 2002 with the self produced (and not available here) cd-r album 'New Red Anger'. Played a few shows, tore up the stage, wrote some new songs, and re-recording the old songs as well as the new for a future record label release (as soon as we find one).

Group Members Lenin - vocals - synths Castro - guitar Chairman Mao - Electronics

Instruments two Poly 800s, two Yamaha fb-01 modules, one Roland 909, one Boss DR660, one gibson SG, vocals, synths and guitars processed through a Boss GT-3 guitar effects processor.

Albums New Red Anger (self released demo album) Banned (forthcoming

Location St. Paul, MN - USA

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