artist of the month

False Icons

False Icons will be releasing their debut CD, God Complex, on November 11th on 13th Planet Records. The band features industrial rock veteran John Bechdel on vocals, guitar and keyboards; Brian Broadt on keyboards, vocals and guitars; Mark Panek on drums; and Dave Brown on bass. Mixed and produced by Ministry’s Al Jourgensen. God Complex combines elegantly layered keyboards, heavy guitars, deep bass, sophisticated atmospheric touches and John’s unique vocal style.

Dark and powerful, God Complex is an inspirational journey of imagery and emotion that is sure to capture the attention of fans of powerful, extreme music the world over. Each track on God Complex creates its own separate world - a synthetic landscape of sounds, rhythms and dark, airy melodies. Bechdel’s descriptive lyrics and unique vocal style deliver an intriguing series of futuristic visions, life’s journeys and mysteries. His eloquent guitar lines swirl through Broadt’s hard-charging electronic beats and occasional heroic vocal rants, carving their way through plethoras of synthesizers. God Complex is a dense, layered and kaleidoscopic collection of songs created by a quartet of adept musicians and more importantly, music fans with an unbridled zeal and enthusiasm for creating adventurous music.

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13th Planet Records

in the dark no want no need no desire not anything not any of the things once deemed important only the thick curse of blackness swelling up like a dense mist hovering over a damp october evening in fall nothing but the cool calm feeling of metal on the temple scratching wildly as if to rub away the pressures and the punishments and the pains but they linger and hover more deeply than ever and there i sit waiting for the darkness to completely fall no respect no need no help just existing in this dim and gray place with these dim and gray people blankness expressions on each and i sit and contemplate the banging of the corpse in the moonlight underbrush i enjoy nothing and nothing enjoys me where am i when will i arrive i have tried and failed and completed one full circle still wandering and wondering what it is that has happened or will if i am to go tonight to the river with the pistol and the man on all fours dramatically and fast forwardly approaching as if anxiety has gotten the best now and forever i watch and wait and he approaches but he does not reach me he never reaches me for to feel is to touch and to have not i simply wait in this oblivion as the darkness prevails in the shadowy gloom where no one can help me no one admittedly and the good times a distant past as they happen once with each person only to never been seen again and i yearn for the continuation only to lay to waste in the muggy dew on the dim lit porch i try to think clearly but negativity is upon me as has always overridden and i can see no further through the depths of the power that i do not possess alone

stream of consciousness