Artist description After numerous guerilla like raids (get-in-do-as-much-damage-as-possible-and-get-out type of thing during 302 gigs) on the delicate ears and souls of unsuspecting audiences around Europe, the band Brotherhood Foundation who preceded yet another onslaug ht of high profile, energetic acts, had fought its’ way to such tremendous heights only to soon after crash and burn somewhere in the midst of the buzzing urban jungle. Its’ critically wounded passengers reportedly were carried off to a nearby laboratory where the majority of them underwent several radical operations after which they were immediately submitted to all kinds of mysterious tests and experiments in an attempt to rewrite the future… and guess what… WELCOME TO THE NEW FUTURE! In the ensuing recovery period the 3 remaining band members together with 1 other bandcrashcasualty underwent a chilli ng transformation and became transhuman in their ideas and musical expression. Exploring new ways of communicating feelings, emotions and thoughts by means of sound led them through still largely uncharted territory, which in turn broke and rebuilt th eir confidence in such a way that not even diagnosed sane they found themselves ready again to get at it. Bringing their music to the people. To you! So they overtook the lab by force packed it into their brand new vessel launched under the nam e C hillburn and took off in search of new minds and souls to infect, spreading a new and irresistible vibe. Their music and performances prove a combined cure, natural high and tranquilizer to themselves, so they set out to test it on the rest o f the world to see if they are susceptible to the Chillburn X-periment! Meanwhile up in their flying lab our four mad scientists are in the process of deconstructing their musical heritage, breaking it down to the bare essentials and mixing it with w hatever is lying around, whether it be a little movie inspired drama, multimedia high speed chasing, or mindbogling literary plots, some personal anguish and anxieties, wholesome re-ran tv series, cybersex or even an occasional political statemen t, not hing is unfit for use when you're trying to get across a certain point or feeling. It's like they try to re-invent and simultaneously restyled their favorite bands to custom fit their NOW and FUTURE needs. This already resulted in a couple of remixes f or friends, including Brotherhood Foundation itself, Altar and also Dimension Seven. This really got their juices flowing and got them anxiously looking for other bands to re-do. So get in touch with their lab! All this might lead people to think Chillburn is no more than this sterile hard and cold concept, a rigid figment of the combined imaginations of 4 technicians, who live, breathe and experiment in their lab and will prove no t viable outside it. Nothing could be further from the truth however. Chillburn inherited the live fighting spirit from their predecessors Brotherhood Foundation (the critically acclaimed inventors of crowd surfing, according to one leading dutch newsp aper) an d are willing and ready to die up on stage if necessary. "We will not stop proving our live ability until the entire world has taken notice and has an opinion about us," confides Pat. The maniacally driven front man proves to be a musica l centipede during gigs while he not only sings, screams and employs spoken word, but also controls samples, fidgets with all kinds of buttons, faders and knobs, hammers on keyboards, tortures the strings on an unfortunate guitar and scourges some drumheads to finish it all off! He has been described as a mad version of David Bowie, Trent Reznor and Chino Moreno rolled into one, what more spectacle do you want? He however has an outspoken view on it: " I am I, UNIQUE is the keyword here!" Synth guitarist Jeps once characterized as psychotic: "When I grab my guitar I completely snap and slip into what my psychiatrist calls: this dark seemingly sealed off dimension, a cube which leads o nly to bo oby trapped cubes of the same order that surround it and surround it and surround it etc... I see it as my own private hell, with my own private demons, in which I fail to recognize any boundary and am a threat to all that's around me. I stru ggle throu gh the maze of cubicles to get to the one single exit, the only way to do this is by finishing our entire set. Our music as our exorcist so to speak." Bass morphologist Jay enters the stage, after a brief sti nt in the t hrash metal scene, with an advanced style of pounding strings (down tuned to A!) and an array of eyebrow raising noises. Together with drummer Mike he lays down and spreads out these compelling yet inspiring foundations on which the others can build the superstructures. "A gig to me is like driving this 20000 pound monstertruck at 120 miles per hour straight through the venue, the band is my pumped up soundsystem pounding at 115 db and the accelerator is glued to the floor. My engine growling, gr unting, howling and droning, the band stomping, the audience begging for mercy, the superlative degree of MOST DIVINE has yet to be defined but doesn't even start to describe it!" Now Mike is a diffe rent characte r, he seems the silent one in the unit. The much uttered phrase: silent waters run deep, in his case proves to be an understatement. Deeper than this madman you can't go, hitting rockbottom is simply his starting point. An elusive character as well witness the treatment of the only thing he really, really loves and worships in the entire world, his V-drumkit. Yet he beats the living shit out of it like normal people might just do once in a lifetime in a fit of blind rage, only he does it e-v-e-r-y s-i-n-g-l-e t-i-m-e he sits down on his throne. "It's pure electricity buzzing through my veins, like my V-drum module is plugged straight into my nervous system at the bottom of my spine and then uploads this virus that's potentially de adly unless im mediately remedied by beating it out of me, so each gig might be my last feat on my last day on earth, so I better make it a hell for everybody else as well," says he with a sick but content smile on his face. All the experime nting and lab testing finally lead to the release of an extremely powerful and varied debut demo titled: "Enemies Of Silence" Only yet the bands first real-release (if you don't count the remix tracks on a couple of other bands albums) on 4 track MD r ecorded. It's only a matter of time before the debut album will get released: "If You Don't Believe This, I Will Tell You Another Lie." Announced as an image evoking product, cinematic and manipulative by design, the ultimate at mospherical exper ience by default. Ne Plus Ultra in every way! Embracing and utilizing unexpected outcomes of the wrongful- or misuse of their equipment, the band members force their personal growth one song after another. It's the NOW sound, one time empty and haunt ing, then almost collapsing under the weight and complexity of it's layers and devastating…It’s all that and everything in-between. Influenced by all that's nasty and unhealthy, from Depeche Mode to Slipknot, from The Cure to Nine Inch Nails, from F aith No More to Reprazent, from Duran Duran to Orgy, from The Human League to Prodigy and from Gary Numan to Timbaland and the urban sound craze. So don't be surprised if this mix turns out to be t he FUTURE sound as w ell! Remember you WILL get Chillburned once you get in contact with them, if so do not rub or rinse, let it soak for a while and your life will never be the same again, YOU W ILL BE MARKED FOR LIFE!! Make yourself known and receive our blessing.rg

Music Style industrial death pop

Musical Influences NIN, Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Zeromancer, David Bowie, Ministry

Similar Artists Nine Inch Nails, NIN, Orgy, Manson, Prong, Apartment 26

Artist History In their previous incarnation as Brotherhood Foundation, Chillburn released a lot of material including two albums (Elevator Music and Denying The Truth) and two mini CDs (Lucky and Jump Around). Additionally, the band appeared on numerous compilations an d issued a final 7" (Team/The Other Team, a split single with hardcore band Downforce) that can best be regarded as the debut of Chillburn. The first Chillburn gigs were more a tryout for the band Numb, a group that Jeps joined as bassist and used as a testing ground for what would later become Chillburn material, such as the early songs Reincarnation, Bodybag, Me wa nnabe, Déjà Voodoo. While the band performed only three gigs under this name, the gas masks and worker suits worn on stage already hinted at the Slipknot flavor which would further develop into their own kick ass sound with t he new line-up of Jeps on v-guitars, Mike on v-drums and samples, Jason on bass and Pat on lead vocals... The Slipknot look disappeared, feeling ridiculou s with the masks and feeling more comfortable in their o wn fashion, but the name Chillburn stayed... Great bands we played with (that we can remember): ALTAR, B-THONG, BACKFIRE, BEYOND93, BIOHAZARD, CHANNEL ZERO, CIV, CLAWFINGER, COOPER, COSMIC PSYCHOS, DE DIJK, DEFTONES, DEVIATE, DIMENSION SEVEN, DOGEATDOG, DOWNFORCE, DOWNSET, EMF, FAR, FEED, 59 TIMES THE PAIN, GIRLS AGAINST BOYS, GOREFEST, GREEN LIZARD, HALLO VENRAY, HANS DULFER, HARD RESISTANCE, HEATER NOVA, HEIDEROOSJES, HERMAN BROOD, I AGAINST I, IGNITE, INTERFERENCE, JASON RAWHEAD, KANE, KAS PAR BROTSMAN, KORN, LABERINTO, LES CHARMEURS, MACHINE HEAD, MADBALL, MARY BEATS JANE, METAL MOLLY, MISERY LOVES CO., MOTHERS FINEST, NRA, ORPHANAGE, OSDORP POSSE, PILGRIMS, PRO-PAIN, PRODIGAL SONS, PRONG, RAG E AGAINST THE M ACHINE, RIGHT DIRECTION, RYKERS, SEEING RED, SENSER, SHOVEL, SICK OF IT ALL, SKINTRADE, SKUNK ANANSY, STRAIGHT FACE, STRIFE, TEN FOOT POLE, TERRORVISION, THERAPY?, THERION, TRAVOLTAS, TRÖCKENER KECKS, TRONX, 2 UNLIMITED, UK SUBS, UNDECLINABLE AMBUSCADE, UNSANE, URBAN DANCE SQUAD, VOODOO GLOW SKULLS, WHITE DEVIL, WITHIN TEMPTATION

Group Members Pat - vocalizer, noize- and wavespectrologist. Jeps - synth guitar surgeon, catalyst-analist, backing vocalist. Mike - V-drums-, weird sounds- and samples specialist. Jay - bass morphologist.

Instruments guitar-synths, v-drums, samples, vocals, noise, bass

Albums The Enemies Of Silence

Additional Info www.chillburn.com

Location Tilburg, Noord Brabant - Netherlands

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