VX (band)
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| vx | |
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| Origin | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| Years active | 1998-present |
| Genres | Industrial rock |
| Labels | Blackcity Records |
| Members | Laura Boercker (voice, guitar, keyboards and programming) Tom Whittaker (bass, guitar, vox, keyboards and programming) seanZ (live guitars) |
"VX" is a female fronted industrial rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.
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[edit] History
VX was formed by Laura Boercker and Tom Whittaker in 1997 as an electro-industrial project, but early into the recording sessions of what would become their first album "Incantation", the direction began to shift into something completely different. The album was finished in 2001, and the band did several shows (including cyber wars with forced, andraculoid, and deathline international) and remixes for bands such as deathboy, wumpscut, slick idiot, forced and others before returning to the studio to record the follow up album "The Metamorphosis".
The Metamorphosis (released in 2003) fused many styles together, from industrial and IDM to trance and rock- it was an album that defied stylistic categorization and boundaries. It was nominated for two awards (best electronica album and best industrial song for Fragment) by Just Plain Folks, an independent music awards group. During this time VX remixed songs for Curve and Collide, as well as contributing guitar and programming to the Deathboy song "We Will Destroy" off the album Music To Crash Cars To.
VX just recently finished their third commercial release, Sleep, which continues to defy both expectations and classification and yet further solidifies the bands sound. Sleep features drums by Martin Atkins of Pigface, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, etc. and guitars by longtime live guitarist seanZ.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
Incantation (LP 2001)
Hypnopædia (EP 2002)
The Metamorphosis (LP 2003)
Sleep (LP TBR 2007)
[edit] Compilations
Negative Impact V0.2 (TBR 2007)
[edit] Remixes
VX has done numerous remixes for bands around the world, such as:
- Derma-Tek - The War is on (apocalypse remix by vx)
- Forced - The World Outside (agoraphobia remix by vx)
- Deathboy - Barbed Wire (no entry remix by vx)
- Deathboy - We Will Destroy (annihilation remix by vx)
- Wumpscut - Wreath of Barbs (halo remix by vx)
- Slick idiot - It Won't Do (denial remix by vx)
- Collide - Wings of Steel (phantasm remix by vx)
- Curve - Unreadable Communication (victrola remix by vx)
- Nine Inch Nails - Only (red room remix by vx)
- Project 44 - Fall Down (violence remix by vx)
- Pigface - Suck (incubi remix by vx)
