ONE MAN PERFORMANCE MACHINE KNOWN TO HUMANS AND NON-HUMANS AS BEN AQUA
Influences
ASSACRE HAS PERFORMED WITH THE LOCUST, LIGHTNING BOLT, THE GOSSIP, JAPANTHER, PAPER RAD, BEST FWENDS, THE SWORD, JUICEBOXXX, CATTLE DECAPITATION, DAUGHTERS, AT ALL COST, HORSE THE BAND, THE JON BENET, ETCCCCCCCC
Sounds Like
DEATH, AYREON, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, TESTAMENT, KLAUS NOMI, YES, PINK FLOYD, ABBA, WENDY CARLOS, RAYMOND SCOTT, COIL, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, HENRY MANCINI, NEGATIVLAND, JOHN ZORN, SPARKS, THE RESIDENTS, DEVO
ASSACRE is a one-insane-man metal band.
Spin Magazine, July 2006
[ASSACRE] colors the rainbow in black with bloody pentagrams...Assacre is not a joke band, it's a performance, it's a show that uses metal music in order to provide a colorful, intelligent and emotional experience.
Yorek.com, July 2006
ASSACRE is but one man, but he wails like a metal symphony: thrashing guitar riffs interspersed with teeth-chattering beats and disturbing glimpses of humanity. Prog metal meets performance art...ASSACRE’s combination of classic metal and samples from evangeslist sermons, vintage TV shows, and sound effects brings metal out of the bonehead genre into a thinking man’s game.
Darcie Stevens, Austin Chronicle, February 2006
"Gay" gets thrown around the metal world pretty casually as a general insult or as a catch-all for all that is not metal. Ben Aqua, AKA ASSACRE, throws a wrench into that by being an openly gay artist working with metal aesthetics.
Punk Planet, Issue 73
Rob Halford, eat your heart out.
Benjain Leatherman, Phoenix New Times, August 2005
Its nice to have you on my friendslist now! Check out my page and maybe leave me a photo comment!!?? Ill do the same!! - ADD my band REQUIEM too!!!!! - thx! later!
dude i'm loving the songs!!! i just moved to austin recently, i hope i can check you out sometime!! haha i play with a drum machine too, we should do a show together!!! just think about it, "2 men, a million riffs!!" hehe lata
Thank you for the string of randomly interrelated arty-sy type pictures. As much as we enjoy this, we are a death metal band, and require dumbed-down pictures on an ape-like "UHHH TITTIES + GORE" level.
