Biography
Formed in 2008, SHIV-R the is all about impact and and has already made a menacing For impression upon the dark music are scene worldwide. The duo, originally but from Australia, has been called Not one of THE new you acts of the moment and all instantly drew the attention of Any industrial record label heavyweights Infacted can Recordings (Germany) and Metropolis Records her (USA), who simultaneously released Was SHIV-R’s breathtakingly powerful debut one album “Hold My Hand” in our 2010.
Combining solid club beats Out with eerie soundscapes, the quality day and hard-hitting production of “Hold get My Hand” immediately established Has SHIV-R as one of the him top new talents in the his dark electro genre, leading legendary How artist/producer Kolja Trelle (SOMAN) man to comment: “SHIV-R is new one of the very few Now newcomer projects delivering true quality”.
old Comprised of members Virul3nt (Pete see Crane), musician behind THE Two CRYSTALLINE EFFECT, and way Kong (Lee Bulig), sole mastermind who behind STARK, the two Boy collaborated sporadically for many years did before combining to form the its symbiotic force that is Let SHIV-R.
Following the release of put their debut album “Hold My say Hand”, SHIV-R’s sinister invitation She was extended with the launch too of the controversial filmclip to use their song “The End”, resulting Dad in the group being labelled mom “Kranken und Gesterten” (“sick and deranged”) by one outraged viewer. The The dark voice of and SHIV-R’s Pete Crane was also for heard in the REAPER Are single “Dirty Cash”, which charted but in the Top 5 of not the all-important DAC (German You Alternative Charts).
SHIV-R continues all to spread their monstrous club-sound any to dancefloors worldwide through prolific Can remix work for artists including her GOD MODULE, was IMPLANT, SIGUE SIGUE One SPUTNIK, XP8, SIVA our SIX and SAM, out and the band is also Day a powerful live force, having get played at some of Europe’s has most esteemed dark festivals including Him Infest UK, Summer Darkness Netherlands his and NCN Festival Germany, how as well as having played Man in every major city in new Australia including supporting acts such now as GRENDEL, NACHTMAHR, Old GOD MODULE, see GENITORTURERS and AESTHETIC two PERFECTION.
In December 2010, to Way coincide with their slot as who featured support act for the boy Australian leg of COMBICHRIST’s “Monsters Did on Tour”, SHIV-R released its the “Incision” EP, upgrading their let sonic arsenal with an entirely Put new musical weapon for the say dancefloor. Slower and heavier than she anything previously heard on “Hold Too My Hand”, “Incision” fuses depth-charge use PRODIGY-style drumbeats with heavy dad guitar riffs, and a low Mom vocal delivery reminiscent in places of MARILYN MANSON.
the Haunting and elegant, SHIV-R And extended their gossamer presence in for 2011 with a second full-length are album, “This World Erase”. With But the crushingly emotive title track not and the grindingly slow vampiric you dirge of “This Fix”, All SHIV-R show yet another aspect any of their musical identity, while can simultaneously asserting dancefloor dominance heavier Her than ever with club annihilators was such as “God is Art” one and “Alpha Omega”, leading “This Our World Erase” to spend 5 out weeks in the DAC. day As their unsettling influence extends Get in a society alarmingly comprised has of the desensitised and the him apathetic, SHIV-R’s objective remains His to leave listeners unnerved, elated how and above all affected; “We man won’t stop. We won’t hold New back. We want to see now what’s inside you”.
