Burton C. Bell | Vocals
Birthdate: February 19, 1969 11:21am.
Born: Houston, Texas, Saint Lukes hospital
Nationality: Texan
Hobbies: Photography, writing, drawing, snowboarding, jogging(just started), driving across country, traveling, camping.
Fav foods: I love all foods. I dislike fast food. However, i do enjoy a great, greasy double meat burger with chili, cheese, and a fried egg, from time to time....mmmmm
Favorite Ascension Of The Watchers Song: That is a hard one. I love all of them. A new one I started recording called MARS BECOMING is really cool, so far. ON THE RIVER always makes me smile when hear it.
Favorite Bands/Biggest Influences/Classic Albums:
So many to choose from. My musical taste is so wide ranged...
Older albums by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. The last great album he recorded over all was THE GOOD SON, after that, there was only 2-3 good songs on every album since. All the albums prior to that were complete genius.
Swans, Killing Joke, Einsturzende Neubaten, Sisters Of Mercy, The Mission, Godflesh, Head Of David, Soundgarden, Nirvana, God Bullies, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Marty Robbins, Scott Walker, Public Enemy, Ice Cube, Elvis, David Bowie, The Stooges, Brahms, Bach, Orff, Pachelbel, Throbbing Gristle, Bee-Gees, Spaceman 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, Loop, Main, Young Gods, Faith No More, Neurosis, Isis, Fudge Tunnel, Clutch, The Hellacopters, Zen Guerilla, Karma To Burn, Joy Division, The Cure, Ministry, Alien Sex Fiend, Jane's Addiction, U2, Love And Rockets, Monster Magnet, REM, Jesus And Mary Chain, Unsane, Big Black, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, The Cult, Billy Idol, T.S.O.L., David Sylvian, Tom Waits, New Model Army, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Sepultura, Current 93.... to be continued...
Besides his work for Fear Factory, Burton has contributed to the following releases:
Discography:
G//Z/R - Plastic Planet
Ascension of the Watchers - Iconoclast [demo]
Features on:
Kilgore - TK-421
Apartment 26 - Void
Kill II This - Figure Of 8ight / Two Tribes
Spineshank - Stain (Start The Machine)
Soulfly - Eye For An Eye
Static-X - Burning Inside
Metallica Tribute - Enter Sandman
Raymond Herrera | Drums, percussion
Drummer, Programmer, Gamer, Songwriter
Los Angeles based drummer, Raymond Herrera, has spent the last 10 years writing, recording & touring with his bands Fear Factory, Brujeria & Kush. His passion for the videogame industry gained him the opportunity to secure soundtracks on many videogames as well as movies. His career has earned him 3 gold and a platinum record and the California Music Award for Best Hard Rock Act.
Birthdate: December 18th, 1972.
Born: Los Angeles, California
Nationality: Mexican
Hobbies: Playing video games
Fav foods: Mexican
Drums/Equipment:
Kit: TAMA STARCLASSIC MAPLE
Color: GREY PEWTER (MATTE-FINISH)
Sizes: (2) 18x22 Bass Drums, 9x10, 10x12, 12x14 Mounted Toms,
5.5x14 Maple Snare
Hardware: MXA63, MC67, HC94B, HS90, HC92, HTW99
Throne: HT510
Pedal: DW 5000 pedals
Hi-hat Stand: HH85
Favorite Kush Song: Unstable
Favorite Bands/Biggest Influences/Classic Albums:
Possessed - Beyond the Gates
the Police - Synchronicity
Carcass - Symphonies of Sickness
Prodigy - The Experience
Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Agnostic Front - Cause for Alarm
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
U2 - Joshua Tree
Napalm Death - Utopia Banished
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Sodom - Persecution Mania
Depeche Mode - Violator
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Besides his work for Fear Factory, Raymond has contributed to the following releases:
Discography:
Brujeria - Matando Gueros [1992]
Phobia - Return To Desolation [1994]
Brujeria - Raza Odiada [1996]
Brujeria - Brujerizmo [2001]
Nonphixion - The Future Is Now [2002]
Asesino - Corridos De Muerte [2002]
Brujeria - Best of Brujeria [2003]
Videogames:
Run Like Hell - Playstation 2, XBox [2002]
Atari Theme Song - Infogrames [2002]
Enter The Matrix - Playstation 2, XBox, Gamecube, PC [2003]
Test Drive Crosstown - Playstation 2, XBox and Gamecube [2004]
Gran Turismo 4 - Playstation 2 [2004]
Dead To Rights 2 - Hell To Pay: Playstation 2, XBox, Gamecube [2004]
Other:
Homevideo: 100 ft wednesday (surfing video) [2002]
Televisoin: The Shield television show [2002]
Television: Dodge television commercial [2003]
Mischief Invasion DVD [2004]
Mischief Invasion Music Soundtrack [2004]
Christian Olde Wolbers | Guitars
Producer, Bassist, Guitarist, Songwriter, Programmer, Engineer, DJ
Los Angeles based artist, programmer & producer, Christian Olde Wolbers, has spent the last 10 years either on the road with Fear Factory, Cypress Hill and his side band "Kush", or in the studio, producing and writing songs for artists under the name "The Edgecrusher". His expert performance and vast style, ranging from extreme Metal to Underground Urban music, and his talents on the guitar, bass, keyboards, upright bass and turntabels, enables him to collaborate with artists of many genres and has earned him 3 gold and 3 platinum records and the California Music Award for Best Hard Rock Act.
In addition to studio records and live performances, he has contributed to a number of movie & video game soundtracks.
Birthdate: August 5, 1972
Born: Antwerp, Belgium
Nationality: Dutch
Hobbies: Playing and creating different style of music, shopping for old metal vinyl, and old 60's 70's soul records, and other obscure vinyl.
Fav Foods: Sushi/Mexican/Italian foods.
Guitar equipment:
7 string customshop Jackson guitars
EMG pick ups
Fender strings
Tunamatic bridges and several models with floyd rose trems
Marshall el 34's 100/100 power amps
Marshall Mode 4 straight 4x12 cabs
Custom Audio Switching Systems
Kriz Kraft & A&s flight cases
Dunlop 88 mm tortex picks
Marshall Jmp-1 preamps
Sansamp psa-1 preamps
Lexicon mpx g2 efx processer
Korg DTR 2000 tuners
Berringer Intellegate
Peterson strobe tuners
Bass Equipment:
4 & 5 string Customshop Fender basses
Ampeg SVT 2 & SVT 4 amplifiers
Ampeg 8x10 Cabs
Fender strings
Dunlop Triangle 88 mm tortex picks
Ampeg BSP-1 preamps
Sansamp psa-1 preamps
Custom Audio Switching Systems
Korg DTR 2000 tuners
EMG pick ups
Custom king upright double basses
Studio Gear:
Mac G4 dual 1.25 gig
22 inch mac flatscreen
Logic 6 platnium
Native instruments
Absynth
FM7synth
Korg triton
Kawai 5000
Korg Karma synth
Kurzweil K2600
Nord lead 3 synth
MPC 2000 and MPC 2000 XL
Yamaha NS 10's & Event monitors
Rme DSP multiface
Universal Audio 6176
Line 6 bass & guitar pods
Rosetta Ad convertor
3800 dat panasonic
Vestax digital turntable
Vestax Mixstick and PMC 05pro mixers
Pioneer Digital Cd turntables
Technics 1200's
Favorite Bands/Biggest Influences/Classic Albums:
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Mothers Milk
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Bad Brains - Quikness
The Police - Greatest Hits
Helmet - In The Meantime
Prong - Beg To Differ
Deftones - Adrenaline & Around The Fur
Beastie Boys - Licence To Ill
T.S.O.L - Change Today
The Faction - Skate & Destroy
Terrorizer - World Downfall
Napalm Death - Harmony Corruption
Suicidal Tendencies - 1st album
Quicksand - Slip
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
Sepultura - Arise, Chaos Ad & Roots
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come
Sick Of It All - Just Look Around
U2 - War
Rage Against The Machine - everything...
The Prodigy - Jilted Generation.
Besides his work for Fear Factory, Christian has contributed to the following releases:
Discography:
Jack Your Dead - Self-titled [1992]
Soulfly - Soulfly [1997]
A.N.I.M.A.L - Loco [1997]
Devin Townsend - Bad Devil [1998]
Swollen Members - Strenght [1998]
Biohazard - New World Disorder [1999]
Cypress Hill - Skull and Bones [1999]
Greedy fingers - Shady sirens [1999]
De Puta Madre - Technikstonic [1999]
Kurupt - Space boogie [2000]
Cypress Hill - Stoned Raiders [2001]
Nonphixion - The future is now [2002]
Snoop Dogg - Pay the cost to be the boss... [2003]
Lil Jay - back to J [2003]
Swollen Members - Heavy [2004]
Everlast - new album [2004]
Front Line Assembly - Civilisation [2004]
And to the following TV shows:
Jay Leno Tonight Show w/ Cypress hill & Roni Size [2002]
Jay Leno Tonight Show w/ Snoop Dogg/Ludacris/Chingey [2003]
Byron Stroud
BASSPLAYER
Byron was born February 12th 1969.
His first serious band was Caustic Thought, who were formed in 1987. The band also featred Jed Simon and a certain Devin Townsend. Following Caustic Thought he made his way to Front Line Assembly, joining them on the Hard Wired tour as a drum tech. Then he enrolled himself in the lineup for Strapping Young Lad.
Byron was also part of Unit:187 along with John Morgan. He is a co-founding member of Zimmer's Hole and he also featured on the fake punk Punky Bruster album from Devin.
Past bands: Caustic Thought, Front Line Assembly (live), Strapping Young Lad, Unit:187, Zimmer's Hole, Physicist
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