Artist description Best described as Audio video insurrection . Performances include video projection and the creation of a very specific enviroment . Propaganda is also prepared for each individual aktion . This project is about a constant understanding and re-negotiation of consciousness , with tactics employed for the overloading of the mind and its subsequent receptors. The primary emphasis for a given presentation is the visual image . Re-programming .

Music Style Extreme electronics & vocals

Musical Influences Maurizio Bianchi , Throbbing Gristle , SPK , Sutcliffe Jugend

Artist History Started in 1990 by it's core memeber Michael Contreras , death squad has released some 30 + cassette titles as well as appearing on numerous compilations and a collaboration cd ( Enjoy Happiness ) . Two tracks also appear on the a compilation tour cd for the 1998 Self Annihilation World Tour ( Prosthetics ). And their first CD release "Theological Genocide" released in 1997 in support of the US/Canadian tour that happened that same year. Death Squad completed their 100th on December 18th 1998 in Los Angeles . So far 3 tours have been completed . Japan 1996 , US/Canada 1997 , Europe / Scandanavia / UK / Canada / US in 1998. Future plans include prepearation for another European tour in 1999 with The Haters , Lab Report and Radiosonde . Also the release of two new cd's "Isolation As Intent" and "Out Patient" and a few 7" releases .

Group Members the group is constantly changing at all times and this list represents individuals who have helped in the past or who are currently working within this project : michael 9 , d.gardner , d.parsons , s.arford , j.gunn , g.mogg , d.rossoff , david , tac , s.franks

Instruments mc202 , cat octave , ms1 , 1202vlz , prepared tapes , hi8 camera , video projector , reel-reel , IBM , TV ...

Albums Theological Genocide , Messiah , Sarin , VX , Hypocenter , Radium , Death Textures , ELectro Chamber

Press Reviews Death Squad, _Theological Genocide_ (199?, Spastik Kommunikations SK1) Live, Death Squad are a controlled, subtle, ominous force. You know something's under the surface ready to explode, but you're never sure where or when it will happen. (Kinda like a trip to the Post Office.) On disc, things change. The explosion begins in the first few seconds and lasts until the last breath shudders out of the speakers. Sixty minutes and odd change of brutal, stuttering power electronics and low-end rumbling peppered with violent samples and Michael9's own lyrics, spat rather than spoken. For me, the disc's true centerpiece is "Messiah 2057," a stark condemnation of egocentrism ("don't tell me what you need. don't tell me what you want. MAKE ME UNDERSTAND.") with a nihilist streak about six feet wide. The ending is absolutely perfect. This one track alone is well worth the purchase price and ranks with Merzbow's "Asagaya Field Recording" and Whitehouse's "Roman Strength" as some of the best noise work out there. This one's absolutely worth your time. _____________________________________________ Various Artists, _Prosthetics_ (1998, Uncontrolled, no ctalog number given, limited 500) Hypothesis: most non-noizheads listening to this are going to say "all three of these bands sound the same. What's so different about them?" This is your chance, people! Describe the variations, the differences, the subtle changes that make one noise band different than another and makes the whole genre so endlessly fascinating. _Prosthetics_ gives us two tracks each from Radisonde and Death Squad, and three slightly shorter pieces from Chapter23. Each deserves its own treatment. The Death Squad tracks are far more true to the live Death Squad experience than the stuff on _Theological Genocide_. "Decay" is a piece of extreme power, one I can't listen to without tearing up a bit. (Having seen it performed live twice has probably made it that much more powerful for me.) It opens with a haunting monologue, during which a low-end frequency rumble builds. A few bursts of static, some controlled power electronics, and at the very end, the fury is unleashed-- but just for a few seconds. "Kontrol" is something utterly different from any Death Squad I've heard to date-- a monologue from Michael with minimal electronics so the listener is forced to concentrate on the words, however distorted they become. Two excellent tracks from the harsh, violent side of the noise realm.

Location san francisco, california - USA

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