Society 1

Society 1


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Society 1 first rose to notoriety in 1999 with its debut album, "Slacker Jesus", earning massive press coverage through such media outlets as MTV, VH1, Billboard, Details, Rolling Stone, Spin, Revolver, and Kerrang!. Adding to the media frenzy was the fact that frontman Matt Zane was an acclaimed porn director, gaining worldwide infamy for his "Backstage Sluts" series, a series of films which matched porn stars with such real-life rockers as Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst, Korn's Jonathan Davis, and Sugar Ray's Mark McGrath.

Society 1's second album, "Exit Through Fear", was released worldwide in the Spring of 2003 on Earache Records. Society 1's first video, "Nothing", (in which Zane performs the first real "suspension" ever done by a singer in a music video), aired regularly on Uranium on Fuse TV, along with a special episode of Uranium devoted entirely to the making-of the "Nothing" video. By the end of 2003, Society 1 had completed more touring than any other Earache band that year, supporting such acts as Dope, Twiztid, and Pissing Razors on marathon coast-to-coast tours.

In March 2004, Zane took his suspension feat to the next level, making himself the first singer to ever sing live while suspended. Drawing over 700 fans to LA's Key Club, The Lord performed three songs live with Society 1 whilst hanging up to 30 feet above the stage, supported only by six meathooks inserted in his flesh. Orgy frontman Jay Gordon made a special guest appearance on vocals. The "Suspension Show" marked Society 1's final U.S. show in support of "Exit Through Fear". In May 2004 Society 1 took their brand of rock n' roll debauchery to Europe, in support of Godhead, for their first tour outside of the U.S. Following the tour, the band entered the studio to begin recording their third album (their second for Earache): "The Sound That Ends Creation". Meanwhile, Society 1's third video, "Hate", went into rotation on MTV2's Headbangers Ball and Fuse's Uranium.

In March 2005, Zane and his band of misanthropic thrill-seekers returned with the next chapter in the Society 1 saga: "The Sound That Ends Creation". The follow-up to their Earache debut, "Exit Through Fear", "The Sound That Ends Creation" sees Society 1 expanding its musical and lyrical vision and more fully conveying the entire Society 1 experience. The band's trademark industrial-metal shock-rock stomp is still in full effect ("It Isn't Me", "Lord"), but also rearing its head is a more timeless, groove-laden rock approach ("No Father", "Realms Of Bliss"), making it clear Society 1 is delving further and further back into rock history for inspiration. Zane's psycho-sexual occultist lyrics have always delivered stab wounds to the chest of the conservative status quo, and on "The Sound That Ends Creation" Zane spirals deeper and deeper into his twisted world, all the while exposing the devil in us all with crystal clarity. With its theatrical, aggressive, confrontational style and its heavy, anthemic sound, Society 1 is proving itself to be an heir to a long, exalted tradition of incendiary, controversial rock outfits, from The Doors to Alice Cooper to KISS to Jane's Addiction to Marilyn Manson.

Recorded by Wade Norton (Static-X) at NRG Studios (Beck, Linkin Park), "The Sound That Ends Creation" is the album that finally defines the essence of Society 1, giving the listener a revelatory glimpse into the band's esoteric, unattainable world. "The Sound That Ends Creation" is the sound of Hollywood excess, backstage debauchery, porno sleaze, Morrisonesque bad trips, and deadly Satanic rites -- essentially, the realization of man's darkest impulses. It is the contradictory sound of glamor and horror, sex and violence, pleasure and pain.

To further expose the world of Society 1 to the masses, the first pressing of "The Sound That Ends Creation" includes a limited edition bonus DVD, "The Creation Of Sound". "The Creation Of Sound" contains a 35-minute documentary featuring blistering live footage and uncensored backstage antics from Society 1's 2003 US and European tours, as well as a virtual book of Zane's poetry.

Equally the most debaucherous AND disciplined band on the scene today (on one hand, indulging in onstage and backstage antics only an ex-porn director could dream up; on the other hand, completing more tourdates last year than any other Earache band, and making history with Zane's unbelievable

record-breaking "Suspension Show"), Society 1 is a true anomaly on the face of modern culture. Instilling mortal fear in conservatives, unbearable lust in schoolgirls, and blind loyalty in fans across the nation, Society 1 are the real deal. While other bands dabble in occult imagery for shock value or make false boasts of backstage conquests, Society 1 are truly living the life -- and polarizing the world into enemies and converts, along the way. Society 1 is a band of extreme people doing extreme things. Jump on board their hellbound caravan or fester and perish in your self-imposed cage of mediocrity! read less

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