Dead Voices On Air — Fast Falls The Eventide

Dead Voices On Air (a.k.a. Mark Spybey) has hung around since his 1993 debut Abrader, reissued in this set along with the band's new album. Spybey previously did time in Zoviet France before striking out on his own.

Despite the affiliation with the industrial genre — Skinny Puppy's cEvin Key appears on the band's debut — Dead Voices On Air leave the pounding dance beats and over-driven guitars at the door. Spybey prefers to work on the more ambient side of genre, creating sounds, textures and grooves instead of cacophonous noise that could sit comfortably next to bands like Wolf Eyes.

But while these kind of grinding sonics might have come off as avant garde in '94, today, next to some many talented groups pushing boundaries it just sounds like noise.