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Volume 40, Issue 8.
January 21, 2003
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Local band Killbot has the ammo
to rock the music industry
By Joseph Luchenta
For the Mesa Legend
Editor’s Note: Upcoming editions of the
Mesa Legend will spotlight a new local band, showcasing the wide range
of talent that resides in the Valley.
For those of us unwilling to subject ourselves to the insipidness of the
latest pop rock anthem, there exists a world known as the underground;
a network of bars, clubs and even house parties that tendto spawn collectives
of raw musical talent.
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PHOTO COURTESY
OF KILLBOT
Killbot’s creativity illuminates the promotional fliers
handed out at shows.
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One of the latest creations of the Phoenix underground
is Killbot, a collaboration of three musicians who have been absorbing
culture in the underground pitre dish for some time now. Killbot, a band
who boasts belonging to a genre they have dubbed “Video Game Hard
Rock”, consists of Artie “Woo” Cassidy, Bob “Fearer”
Noxious and Chris “Stingk” Martin, three veterans of the valley’s
music scene.
Without any platinum record sales or corporate radio play since their
humble start, Killbot has managed to attract a faithful following of fans
who pack the Emerald Lounge during Killbot’s sporadic, but generally
monthly appearances. In the present flood of technology and multimedia,
Killbot’s music and stage performance are thematically consistent,
blurring the boundary between present and future. Not to be confused with
the sort of spacey vibe found in techno music, Killbot takes no prisoners
and extends no invitation as it forces you unto a realm of cyber-terror.
Killbot’s music creates a synaptic euphoria that will send you hurdling
through the lava spewing depths of hell one moment and coasting through
the serene chasms of space the very next. Or as the biography on the band’s
website killbot.org accurately states, “Killbot rocks your freakin’
socks off.”
As for the live show, the band’s forte as of yet, Killbot brings
the glamour of the coliseum home to the 20 by 20 foot bar lounge. Lights,
fog, lasers and a projector that displays short films compiled from various
foreign, independent and science fiction films (as well as a little bit
of the band’s own handiwork) help to orchestrate an atmosphere of
complete chaos. Killbot’s nonstop forty-five-minute-plus sets full
of brain rattling double bass and riffs full of wah and distortion left
one fan, Adam Seigel, saying, “They’re so damn talented they
don’t need no stinking words.”
Presently Killbot is working on the beginning of a discography in which
each CD will feature several songs as well as a video depicting the Killbot
saga; a digitally animated comic book of the mythical realm from which
Killbot’s music derives inspiration. In addition to the CD project,
Killbot is compiling a soundtrack for a video game set to be on shelves
in 2004. The video game titled “Enterscape,” will be an interactive
game with the ability to host up to 60,000 players whom will compete with
one another via the internet. Killbot became involved in the creation
of the video game after linking up with two DeVry graduates who landed
a contract with an undisclosed video game manufacturer here in Arizona.
Their next show will be held at The Emerald Lounge on Jan.17, located
at 7th Ave. and McDowell in central Phoenix. The show, titled “Robots
v. The Undead,” will feature Frankenshred, an entourage whose hair
and clothing ceased to evolve after the 1980’s, likely the untimely
result of a Medusa stare from a Rob Halford fearful of their ability to
steal the Valley’s hair metal spotlight. Nevertheless, Frankenshred
is prepared to fight metal with metal in a battle against the seething
killing machine known as Killbot.Stay tuned to the Emerald Lounge website
www.theemeraldlounge.com
as well as www.killbot.org
for information on Killbot’s future encounters.
Often a killer but never a thief, Killbot’s shows are always free,
so come and experience the no cover charge download of Killbot’s
latest program and find out why they need no words, their music says it
all.
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