Artist description Socio-political content expressed through activist, not passive, performances and musics. Anti-music and culturejamming, fiercely emotional live shows, driving surges of sonic assaults. This is our noise.

Music Style noise, industrial, power noise/electronics, experimental, metal percussion, improv, etc.

Musical Influences Everything's a potential influence. Listen for them in our music.

Similar Artists We have to sound like popular artists to be viable?

Artist History Formed 1995 in Memphis, TN [members are from NY, NH, IN]. Moved to Bloomington, IN in 1996, started recording noise, etc. Played shows in 1998-9, as well as recording new material and remixes. In 2000, we moved, and 2001 shows us moving again... 2001 shows Slave Indvstries releasing a ton of records.

Group Members iSvadrah, sammael, Sam; rotating collaborators include Corpus, Placenta Machine, Nyx, Leslie, Griffi, and many more...

Instruments Computers, synths, radios, tapes, metal percussion...see site.

Albums Comp. appearances,

Press Reviews "A Germanic combination of Power Noise pulses, cybersplatter synth lines and fierce Electro rhythms." -Listen.com "Industrial maxiumus. Blocks of sound, chunks of metal slamming in time then space." -Tentacles of Erpland "The rhythmic industrial sledgehammer sound and dental drill noise of Slave Cylinder. . .re-introduced me to those alien abductions I'd repressed so long ago." -B'ton Voice From zines to MTV.com, more reviews are on our site.

Additional Info MACOS [Musicians Against Copyrighting of Samples] member #189. Discounts on orders mailed in w/ cut-up credit cards.

Location Las Vegas, NV - USA

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