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The Chaos Engine are a unique phenomenon; from their unclassifiable music
to the way that they do business, everything is done entirely on their own
terms, exactly their own way. Never mind how floppy the fringe is, if THAT
isn't the DIY-punk attitude of the true independent, then we for one will
pay our money upfront and join the queue to see what is.
The Chaos Engine's music takes you on a 200 mile-an-hour
adrenaline-fuelled ram-raid through more genres of music than your local
record shop dares to stock, fusing the technopunk attitude of The Prodigy
with the white-hot guitar fury of the so called "Nu Metal" Scene backed
with the sort of precision electronica that Warp Records have made a cult
out of - to struggle to find just a few reference points. The band plunder
every style stupid enough to come within clubbing distance and throw it
into the melting pot, never forgetting to equip each song with a hook that
Robbie Williams would sell his granny into white slavery for.
The Chaos Engine have already gained an underground reputation for
being one of the UK's most intense and energetic live outfits and they don't
miss a trick when it comes to transferring the energy of their music into
an audio-visual onslaught that will leave you breathless, be it the
boundless energy of frontman Lee H whose onstage persona puts most end of
level baddies to shame, the bass / guitar onslaught of Vere and Huw, the
cranium pounding yet body moving electronic backing or the legendary Chaos
TV projections...
The band have toured relentlessly, and have played at many prestigious
festivals and gigs including shows with Covenant, VNV Nation,
Ultraviolence, Project Pitchfork, Pist.On, Mesh, C-Tek, Rosetta Stone and
Sigue Sigue Sputnik to name a few. The band even have their own political
party, "The Chaos Party" who put more than a few establishment noses out
of shape with their performance in recent Cheltenham by elections. We
won't even mention the legendary cheeserolling escapades......
With so many bands looking over their shoulders to see what everyone else
is doing in the fall out from the Millennium, or back-pedalling into
60's/70's/80's/even 90's for fucks sake nostalgia, The Chaos Engine apply
the electrodes to the nipples of the British music scene, plug it into the
mains and blast it into the future. The only question is, are you behind
or stood in front of the blast? It's time to believe the hype ...
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