Industrial madness!

Hearing the name Icon of Coil, a lot of Electro-girlies will sport a weird sort of dreamy look and a flush of red on their faces. The most important reason for this behavior is - next to the catchy and harmonic sounds of the band's music - their rather attractive front man Andy LaPlegua. This guy looks as though he has got no evil at all inside of him...

Wrong! Oh boy... his project Combichrist, which has long since turned his main endeavor, is pure, musical evil. The mix of harsh noise, TBM, provocative lyrics and weird samples sounds like it has come straight out of hell. Andy laughs and comments: "well, the devil really has nothing to do with this music. Combichrist is just my musical vehicle to let out all the nasty things inside of me. I can do whatever I want to do.Combichrist is more electronic than anything else I have ever done, although the sound is very raw." Well... listening to Combichrist's debut, this almost sounds like an understatement.

"The Joy of Gunz", released in 2003, is an infernal noise attack and tracks "The Line to the Dead" or "Intruder Alert" which is in a similar vein to Suicide Commando are high caliber sonic weaponry. The whole thing culminates in "Vater Unser" - a thunderstorm that rips out of your system's speakers with monotonous and relentless power. Quite contrary to the obvious religious references, Andy is not a religious fellow at all: "C'mon, we humnas used to believe that our planet Earth is a flat disc! Hence, why should we believe in a god we know not to exist. Anyone switching on their brains for more than 2 seconds must accept this as a fact. If people are fond of seeking shelter behind empty words and unkept promises, that is their problem, but it is definitely not my cup of tea. Should I be wrong, though, meaning that I would stand face to face with God after death, then he can prepare for quite a litany from me about this shit happening down here", states an angry LaPlegua. The project's name is, thus, not intended as a praise of the Lord. "Each and every person should revert to his or her own strengths and not revert to some deity in hope of help." Regarding the music of Combichrist, Andy solely relies on his own musical expertise.

After the second strike, the ultra-brutal Halloween-inferno "Kiss the Blade", LaPlegua decided to move on to other stylistic wates - stagnation means boredom and boredom and Combichrist have never been friends. Always having been rather fond of the Techno scene, he decided that his Industrial madness would be even more powerful when combined with the dance beats from the club scene. The result of this endeavor was "Sex, Drogen und Industrial" a beat-laden dance floor attack. If there'd be a disco in hell, Combichrist would be delivering its music. Shortly thereafter, LaPlegua launched a double attack - "Everybody Hates You" ... with a Techno-Body-Music inferno on CD1 and horror chillout tracks on CD2 that displayed yet another side of the versatile sound wizard Andy LaPlegua. This shit will fuck you up? You bet, baby!

The new double CD „What The F**k Is Wrong With You People“ Combichrist further elaborates on the band's trademark mix of noise and TBM and brought LaPlagua one step closer to total world domination... because since quite a while now it is not only the girls in first row at a Combichrist gig... but everyone celebrating musical madness together. The Combichrist Army is ever growing and it is just a matter of time until they will also get YOU. This is fucking Electro madness and we love it!

Line-Up:
Andy LaPlegua (programming, vocals)

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