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Thursday, July 09, 2009 
We are soon releasing our next recording, which will likely be a six song EP.

We know you have the choice of digitally downloading the music from a number of legal sites, and *ahem* from some other places too.  But there will also be an actual CD made.

So, I'm curious.  What would make you purchase the actual CD, the physical thing?  We already plan attractive packaging, a CD-exclusive track, and maybe some other special features for the CD, but what do YOU hope to get from buying an actual disk?
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Saturday, July 04, 2009 

All XUBERX shows....

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Date                                    Venue                                                Other Acts....

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June 27, 2007 – Asylum, Washington, DC
                        Dharmata 101....

July 13, 2007 – Ascension, Baltimore, MD
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Sept. 28, 2007 – Strangeland, Washington, DC            Rites of Ash....

Oct. 10, 2007 - Asylum, Washington, DC
                        Synthetic Nightmare....

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Oct. 13, 2007 – Midnight, Washington, DC
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Oct. 20, 2007 – The Depot, Baltimore, MD
                        Angels on Acid....

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Nov. 29, 2007 – Club Five, Washington, DC
                        Ego Likeness....

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Jan. 4, 2008 – Ascension, Baltimore, MD
                        Bajskorv....

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Jan. 12, 2008 – Strangeland, Springfield, VA
            Ego Likeness and others....

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Feb. 1, 2008 – Felix, Washington, DC
                        Angels on Acid, Vicious Alliance....

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March 4, 2008 – Zakk's, Murfreesboro, NC
                        Dharmata 101, All Parellels, Biclops....

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March 27, 2008 – Chief Ike's, Washington, DC
            The Dark Clan, Accessory....

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March 29, 2008 – Outback Lodge, Charlottesville, VA
The Dark Clan, Bella Morte....

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April 24, 2008 – Inferno, Madison, WI
                        The Dark Clan, Government Zero....

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April 25, 2008 – 2500 Club, Detroit, MI
                        The Dark Clan....

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May 23, 2008 – Ascension, Baltimore, MD
                  Bocksbeutel

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June 14, 2008 – Jaxx, Springfield, VA                        Hanzel und Gretyl and others....

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July 3, 2009 – Town, Washington, DC                        Drowning Season, Opposite Sex, Middle Child Synd.....

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Sept. 6, 2008 – Midnight, Washington, DC....

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Sept. 19, 2008 – Sterling Hotel, Allentown, PA            Deathmaschine, theWired, numerous others ....

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October 3, 2008 – Ascension, Baltimore, MD                        

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Nov. 27, 2008 – Jaxx, Springfield, VA                        Cruxshadows, Ayria, I:Scintilla....

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March 5, 2009 – Frequency, Madison, WI                        The Dark Clan, Sensuous Enemy....

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March 6, 2009 – Underground, Minneapolis, MN            Thosquanta, IKKI, the Dark Clan....

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March 8, 2009 – The Dark Room, Chicago, IL            Gothsicles, Cruciform Injection, The Dark Clan....

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March 13, 2009 – Jaxx, Springfield, VA                        Hanzel und Gretyl and others....

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April 2, 2009 – Mojo13, Wilmington, DE                        The Dark Clan, others....

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April 4, 2009 – Fallout, Richmond, VA                        Myotis, The Dark Clan....

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April 5, 2009 – Recessions, Washington, DC                        The Dark Clan, Gothsicles, ProBurn, Caustic....

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April 24, 2009 - Ascension, Baltimore, MD                        Voltaire....

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May 9, 2009 – Thunder of Gods Festival                        PROMOTER CANCELLED – DID NOT PLAY....

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June 21, 2009 – Artomatic, Washington, DC                        Tacit Act, Hopeful Machines Ego Likeness            ....

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June 26, 2009 – Bound, Washington, DC                        Bocksbeutel

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Saturday, June 27, 2009 
Every so often I like to post the bands we've performed with so I can keep tabs on it.  Here's the report for roughly the past 3 months.

Voltaire (full band)
Tacit Act
Hopeful Machines
Ego Likeness
Bocksbeutel

And it was during this period that we DIDN'T play the Thunder of Gods festival, so there you go.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009 
Yeah, so I'm not so sure I know what it ultimately does, but apparently you can "vote for us" on Hellwire.

So...


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Friday, May 29, 2009 
XUBERX is pleased to announce recording has been completed for "Fear Is Fear," its contribution to the "Failed Flesh Saved By Circuits" compilation CD to be released later this year.


You're going to want this CD.


The 4 CD collection will raise funds for the American Cancer Society, and will include tracks by an amazing list of top industrial acts.  To name those known as of this time:


Christ Analogue
SMP
Deathline Int'l
Chemlab/Christ Analogue Collaboration
Hardwire
16 Volt
Everything Goes Cold
I:Scintilla
Mindless Faith
Agnes Wired For Sound
The Dark Clan
Cyanotic

Disc 2(Radiation)
Terrorfakt
Xingu Hill
Boxed Warning
Tonikom
Parlyzed Circuitry
Burikusu
DJ Acucrack
Alter Der Ruine
Jordan Decay
Caustic
Nyarlathotep
Terror Firma Sky

Disc 3(Surgery)
Fractured
Suicide Commando
Rein[Forced]
Andraculoid
Prometheus Burning
FGFC820
No Longer Human
Vicious Alliance
C-Lekktor
Nurzery Rhymes

Disc 4(Recovery)
Interface
The Azoic
Cesium 137
Assemblage 23
Back and to the left
SD6
Thou Shalt Not
Spetsnaz
Obscenity Trial
Lost Signal
Ayria

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 
We're back home in Northern Virginia.  Now the focus on that Thunder of Gods debacle switches from fantasies of vengeance against a flaked out promoter to more productive thoughts.


And from that comes the fundamental question all bands should be asking: what do we want now?  I don't mean, "I hope that shithead falls down a well."  I mean serious damage recovery from a promoter for at least breach of contract if not worse.  Here's my take on that.


1.  We should want Will Pruett to offer an explanation of what happened.  Was this a criminal enterprise from the outset?  Did he just freak out when hordes failed to blanket him with cash on Thursday and Friday?  And why did he just leave instead of talking to the bands?  We all deserve explanations.


2.  We should want a commitment from him that he will never, ever try to promote anything again.  I suspect that's not an option for him anyway but I want to hear that from his own mouth.


3.  We should want anyone who bought a ticket to receive their money back.  I'm suggesting this should happen before any bands get any money.  Some of you will disagree, but people who bought tickets were the ones most seriously tricked and cheated, plus they're the people who pay our salaries, if you want to think of it that way.  I don't ever want to hear, "I hate your band!  I tried to come see you but you guys didn't even play and I lost my money on the ticket."  Bands were in a comparatively better position to know what was going on.


4.  I want Will Pruett then to provide someone from the bands a list of every band that was supposed to play that didn't cancel as of Thursday, and the amount they were supposed to be paid.  If the amount was zero, so be it, but the list needs to be the the contracted price.  Then I want Will Pruett to create a pot of cash from every source he can access.  Then, using the contact from one of the bands, we should all get paid pro rata to what the pool of money is.  For example, if a band was supposed to get $300 and that's 5% of the total amount that was supposed to be paid for bands, that band would get 5% of whatever Will Pruett can scrouge together.  It will be cents on the dollar but it won't be zero, and we'll be sure he didn't pocket any money.


5.  I want a full accounting for any merchandise consigned to him that he took with him when he bolted.  It should be returned to the rightful owners.


Will Pruett should find this much more palatable than spending years wondering if he's going to get his ass kicked, and this will let the bands move on without devoting energy to the task of kicking his ass.


Of course, because Will Pruett shut down his phone, his myspace, and his gmail account, he'll be hard pressed to find out there might be a way out of this short of biting a curb in an alley somewhere.


Thoughts?

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Monday, May 11, 2009 
Many of you have already heard the basics about the Thunder of Gods Festival and what a complete disaster it became. It is helpful to remember that we were the victims of a crime, but it's also useful to learn from the experience and mark warning signs. The thing is, I saw the warning signs, checked on them, and got lied to about them. I'd been in touch with the promoter, Will Pruett, for many months about this show. He told me that he wanted it to be more of an industrial festival than a metal show, but then he booked about a 7:1 ratio of metal to industrial acts. And although he claimed he preferred industrial music, in retrospect, the fact that he had not heard of Iris, who I mentioned was local, was a bad sign. I did turn him on to Caustic, who put on the best show of the entire aborted festival from what I gather and personally saw, but there were a far greater number of acts he just didn't react to at all that should have let me know something was amiss. The fact that the promoter would not update the flyer to reflect line up changes was more than just annoying. Now in retrospect it looks fraudulent. Another huge warning sign in retrospect was the lack of an email or mailing setting out check in procedures, credentials, etc. I knew from other shows I had attended what to expect, and I wasn't getting it. Then there was the part where I think I got lied to. I asked a lot of questions. I was told this show was being presented in connection with Aggieland Productions. Aggieland put on Cruxshadows and Combichrist, and I talked to people on the former bill who said it went fine. Aggieland's involvement was important to me because I knew there had to be local promoter and organization. Will told me he had it. It didn't show. Similarly, I was told that he had lined up a major sponsor. That didn't happen. To be fair, I think he mentioned the sponsor backing out but added that he had plans to replace it. That didn't happen either. I checked with him two weeks prior to the event asking, admittedly indirectly, if he had the money to go forward. He said there was no way he was going to back out. So, we drove to Austin. I know I had a contract breached. Our guarantee was in writing, and we were entitled to it day of show. I suspect many other bands had the same deal, which is why the promoter left before the bands could demand their payments. I mistakenly thought I had protected myself enough by getting it in writing. Here's a little about the show itself. We were trying to arrive in time Friday to see Ludovico Technique but didn't. That's because the location was nearly impossible to find, and because the signs were some hand scrawled crap. That was a big warning, but by that point, we were within 6 miles of our destination. The camp ground was, in the final analysis, not the problem, though. It could have supported what he wanted to put on. Since we rolled in with Caustic, we expected decent treatment because he was a headliner. We didn't see much in the way of recognition or deference when we had to lug his gear about 400 yards to the site. We quickly found Will, who seems nervous about attendance. He repeatedly said to me, "I don't get it" and "It's terrible." He said he'd run out of money and was going to have to pay bands with certified checks after the show. Given the timing of this remark, I think he was including My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult among the bands who were not going to be paid. He told me he'd had to scrap it all together at the last minute on Thursday when a sound and stage guy he'd paid up front didn't show and took off with lots of his money. We recognized the attendance was far less than promised, but we rolled with it. We watched a truly hilarious band from Austin called "Convoi" which was Oi! Alt.Country if you can imagine that. Really good. There was another band that was fine but we didn't really watch, and then it was time for Thrill Kill Kult. Now, despite that fact that every description of them I had ever had was filled with caveats and disappointment, they were quite good and rocked hard for the 45 or so who really paid attention to them. And Caustic was on the next stage over. Matt started promptly after MLWTTK finished, and the energy that he, Scott, and Alex had onstage was over the top great. Bryan joined them for Booze Up and Riot by plan, but he had a pit, stage divers, and random alcohol offers through his very powerful show. I'm still thinking that it was Matt's performance and subsequent presence that saved our personal experience. Apart from the fact that things were way behind schedule and we didn't even last to see the last acts, some of whom really deserved to be watched, we left the site really energized and thinking it would be fine. Fanale drunk dialed a veritable who's who of the industrial scene on the way back to the hotel. Spirits in our crew were high. Everything was going to be ok, though I sort of anticipated not getting paid the contract amount on Saturday. Saturday morning my phone rang. Tony from Machines of Living Death was at the site and had heard that the promoter had fled and everything was cancelled. At first, I assumed the story was not correct. In my head, I imagined a more probable scenario in which Will told the sound guys that he could not pay them until after the show and they decided to leave. But it turned out it was true. Domi and I drove to the site, in part to say goodbye to the MOLD guys, who we were supposed to watch perform that afternoon, but also to get a little more information directly from people there. Stories got crazier and crazier, up to the point that some said Will was hiding in the brush on the grounds. But here's what I was told or learned. Will got up early Saturday and decided he was leaving. The camp ground owner who also hadn't been paid saw him and chewed out his ass but he did leave. Apparently the camp ground wasn't fully paid either. By the way, those people were 100% cool and supportive once this all happened, and even gave at least one band gas money to get home. Will had already received the benefit of music performances for which he didn't pay. That's theft of services. He also supposedly had like 150 presales for Saturday, meaning he took that money. He also took the $20 parking deposits for some bands. I was told he ditched all the merchandise and just left it there, but other bands say he took the merch, including the things they'd consigned to him. If so, that's another theft. The camp ground owners told me, personally, they'd called the police on him. I hear others did as well. The story should end here, horribly. It does not. For all the bands, thank God for Austin. That city rallied. Two venues created spots at the last minute for some acts to play. At least two places were waiving covers for the stiffed band members. And when you're in a city with a place that serves "Death Metal Pizza" things are ok anyway. For us, thank God for Matt Fanale and for Alex from CTRL. Within an hour of confirmation that this festival was off, Matt was networking to try to get a backup show for us and Hardwire. Hell, he was going to play again if it helped get it booked, and CTRL was ready to go. People like Reagan Jones of Iris and DJ Void from Elysium were looking for us, and they don't even know us. But it's a great community, and they were watching out for us. Well, no show popped up, but we still managed to have a really great Saturday night in Austin. Alex took over as local host, and we were amazed to find out what anyone who has been to Austin already knows - there's a live music venue every 50 feet around 6th Street. Elysium's g/i night was under way, and we met some great folks there, too. And we watched some of Mobile Deathcamp's backup show, even though I was dead tired and not feeling so well, just because they deserved to have some people there. So the main story is and always will be how we got screwed, but so far, EVERY band also has stories of new friends and contacts, and let's hope some good comes from all of this.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009 

The effectiveness of a remix CD can be gauged in a few different ways. If it serves merely as a platform for an act’s most admired peers the end result may be scattershot, a hit-or-miss affair lacking cohesion or any sort of vision. Yet when a pool of great artists are invited to do more than make music palatable to the dance floor, taking the basic constructs and showing how they can apply to a myriad different styles it can be a revelation and also serve as an inspirational lesson to the source band that the sound they’ve engineered thus far is only the springboard that can be utilized to vault them to heights not previously imagined. And the best remix efforts pique your curiosity toward the original songs, in particular the intricacies you may have missed which led someone else to go off on an inspired tangent. Intelligence: Revised is just such a disc, for the most part. Many versions of the tracks from XuberX's '08 release, Intelligent Demise, will surprise you in their altered forms and ultimately you’ll enjoy a labyrinthine journey through a miasma of moods and movements courtesy of some impressively creative minds.

The group has enlisted a rather diverse lineup of contributors and the collection begins with a treatment by X-Fusion's Jan Lehmkamper. This track and its follow up, the Blindtillnow remix of Demise's best song, "The World Ends Today," don't offer any surprises simply because there isn't much alteration done with them. "Ingression" sounds exactly as you might expect, similar to the original but awash in X-Fusion's acidic synth style. In fact much of the first half of this CD features mixes that barely deviate from the source material with the following exception; many of the rhythms are given added heft, something that really seems to benefit XuberX's sound. Whether it's Caustic beefing up the stomp factor on "Intelligent Demise" or the Gothsicles giving "Gone" a great deal of get-up-and-go much of the guitar in the act's sound is sacrificed in favor of floorshaking beats.

By the seventh track Iris takes over and we're treated to a big beat bonanza a la Crystal Method on "Forgive, Forget." This lies in stark contrast to the Dark Clan's take of the same song which showcases tripped out hip hop beats, understated brass and Liebchen's vocals slowed down and compressed in a mournful manner. It seems evident Dan Clark was in a Portishead mood at the time he created this mix. Even more of a treat is Tom Shear of Assemblage23 turning Liebchen into a House Diva, putting her squarely at the forefront in a bubbling version of "Within Silence." Meanwhile, Null Device add sitar and a great deal of dub bass during their hypnotic take of "Solution." Not to be outdone, Dan Clark shows up once again at the end to use that same track as a foray into epic Symphonic Metal.

Really, the only outright disappointments in the lot are offerings by Winter Offensive and Projekt Nemesis, both of which are relatively static and seem to meander onward for a few minutes without direction or any sort of dynamics. Beyond that this makes for a fun excursion into diverse sounds and styles that will tickle the sensibilities of those with wide ranging tastes and should incite a little excitement regarding the directions in which XuberX will venture next while at the same time sparking interest in their current album of originals.


- Chris Roddy of Dark Twin Cities

 

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Tuesday, April 28, 2009 
The digital distribution is now in place for the remix CD.  You can get the whole CD or individual tracks, as you wish, at the usual places, but we're mentioning Amazon.com and iTunes here.
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Sunday, April 26, 2009 
Thanks to DJ Psychotron, we're able to offer those of you who haven't been able to see us live a bit of the live sound, including the awesome moment when Liebchen headbangs her skull right into the racked Virus! Have a listen!
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