Chemlab

All Music Guide:

Influenced by Throbbing Gristle and '80s industrial bands, Jared Hendriksen (vocals, programming) and Dylan Thomas More (programming) met up in Washington, D.C. in the late '80s. The duo began recording as Chemlab with the Ten Ton Pressure EP in 1990, and a tour with Nine Inch Nails the following year gained them a larger audience. After signing with Metal Blade, Hendriksen and More assembled a band (guitarist Steve Watson, bassist Ned Wahl and drummer Mark Kermanj) to record Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar, which was released in 1994. The following year, Chemlab re-released their debut EP on the mini-LP Magnetic Field Remixes, along with one new track and several remixes. Their second album, Lower East Side Militia, appeared in the fall of 1996; Burn Out at the Hydrogen Bar followed three years later.

Wikipedia:

Chemlab is a industrial rock band formed in Washington D.C., USA, in 1989 by Dylan Thomas More, Joe Frank (not the radio personality), and Jared Louche (then known as Hendrickson). Influenced by the pioneers of the industrial genre, such as Throbbing Gristle, Chemlab mixed experimental sounds with rock and metal, which they dubbed "Angel-Dustrial". They released their first EP 10 Ton Pressure, parted ways with Frank and moved to New York City, their base for the duration of their career. The band toured with acts such as White Zombie, KMFDM, Nine Inch Nails, 16volt, and GWAR.

After releasing the albums Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar and East Side Militia on Fifth Colvmn Records, Chemlab broke up in 1997 and then reformed in 2004 to release an album entitled Oxidizer with Jared as the only original member. After a seven-year hiatus from the stage, Jared recreated Chemlab and, with a backing band composed of the members of electro-industrial group mindFIELD performed a one-off show in Boston, Massachusetts in August 2005. The band played another one-off show, this time in New York City on January 7, 2006. A third show in San Francisco on March 17, 2006, saw the band joined by fellow coldwave bands Babyland and Deathline International. The band has recently played at the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and the Blacksun Festival.

In late 2007 the band toured the US for the first time in eight years, with the supporting line-up of multi-instrumentalist/programmer Gabriel Shaw (mindFIELD), Wade Alin (Christ Analogue) and Jason Bazinet (SMP).

During the spring of 2010, Chemlab toured North America with 16Volt and Left Spine Down.

A new Chemlab album titled "Machine God Down" is currently in production.

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References in Popular Culture

In the 1995 movie 12 Monkeys, a Chemlab poster can be seen during an exterior shot of a sidewalk and building.