User:Amterrorxp/American terrorist experience

'''American Terrorist Experience is a multinational grindcore, crust and blackmetal band. Their first release was titled "Audible Animism" and features 12 lo-fi grindcore tracks in 6:50.

"Born from future sacrificed ashes to non-existent gods of forsaken lands of hateful neglect [QUEBEXAS], twined fro and towards unripe masses of neverending confrontal stubbornlessness. AMERICANTERRORISTEXPERIENCE, child of blind resistance, let forth what can't be heard, mother of fearful benevolence, rise above transparent terror. "

The group consists of main members APOC and The D.E.A. with Saddam doing vocals on some newer tracks. Their new release is tentatively called "Emulation Obscene" and features a new sound with better productions. The new material is in a more black metal style with longer songs reaching 3 minutes or more.

Biography
AMTERRORXP started as "a.t.e" or "analog tape endurance". Originally the group was a conglomerate of international contributers from US,Canada and Japan. Early material was noise, ambient, drum&bass, hip-hop and what could be called power-violence or lo-fi grind. Around 2005 APOC started using the name "american terrorist experience" on all the music he produced. Early tracks were drum and bass or hiphop on albums such as "I dont give a fuck" and "clark griswold". At this point the "band" was non existent.

One of the first recordings featured Orphee(the dea) on bass and vocals, Justin aka APOC on drums and Mr.Max on guitar. It was written and recorded on 6-6-06 and was in the raw d-beat style with deathmetal vocals, a mixture of Disclose and Unholy Grave.

Frustrated in his other bands not being able to play, not understanding or being unwilling to engage in start-stop fastcore and grind APOC decided to focus on the d-i-y- ethic and work on music alone, or with limited input from others. Due to an exchange of work helping to produce art for a split with Fuck The Facts, Twitch from Pleasant Valley (an austin texas deathmetal band) provided drums for the first release. "Audible Animism". APOC used the raw drums and remixed them into short burts of grind. Dustin from Pleasant Valley recorded an early version of "Absinth and 8balls" in an East Austin studio. AMTERRORXP was unhappy with the recording.

The music tracks from Audible Animism were recorded by APOC, but apathy kept the band from progressing. The album was finished with The D.E.A. handling all vocal duties. The album was released as a limited edition with hand silkscreened covers that folded up into an envelope with a pull tab. The idea and artwork was a nod to Kozik and the Jesus Lizard's 7-inch from which the idea was based on. Pat from Reprocreate records and green thumb printing supervised the screenprinting, as AMTERRORXP were amateur.

A few practice sessions with Gus from Doom Siren on drums failed to materialize in any recordings. After this a session was recorded off North Loop in Austin Texas with Joe from Magic Jewels, an austin experimental band playing drums, APOC on guitar and the DEA on vocals. It was recorded but then lost. Nothing further came from this lineup. Shortly after this recording session APOC, The DEA and Saddam recorded a hiphop track off Rundberg in Austin. The track featured samples form Unholy Grave as the main loops with all three vocalists recording verses. The track was titled "Emulation Obscene" and only released to friends. Also during this period APOC and Orphee both recorded solo hip-hop tracks, titled "Stay Masked Up" and "Grim Stylee" respectively. An all original production of music was released with remixed vocals by Z-ro and Trae, Big Pokey, Slim Thug, Scarface, Lil Keke and Pimp C amoung others, which was obviously NOT grindcore.

The new AMTERRORXP material was originally going to be another project, due to the departure from the lo-fi grind sounds of previous efforts. Instead it was decided to focus back on AMTERRORXP and release under that name. Then it changed again and was released as the band called "ciikada" on a demo. The new music features radically longer soungs with melodic structure, piano, atmospheric, orchestral and choir elements. APOC handled all music on the new material. Orphee is still the main vocalist, with APOC, Saddamn and Baub doing vocals as well.

Live Performances
There are currently no plans for live performances, due to problems with drummers and the nature of the band being international.

Current members

 * APOC (Justin) - vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums production (2005– present)
 * The DEA (Orphee) - vocals (2005–present)
 * Saddam (Chad) - vocals (2008–present)

Former members

 * Twitch (Brian) - drums (2007)
 * Mr.Max (Maximus) - guitar (2006)
 * El Mos (Matsui) - sampels, production (2005-2006)

Discography

 * Audible Animism (2007-2008)
 * Emulation Obscene (2009)