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FUCK ART LET'S KILL


What does it all mean?
Jared says this is the deeper meaning behind the band's notable saying:
Fuck all the pretention. If you're gonna do something, do it from the
heart.
I thought it was a Ministry and/or Skinny Puppy shirt?
Way back in 1987, Jared was playing in DC with a band called Furnace. He
used the slogan "Fuck Art, Let's Kill" on around 12 t-shirts that he had
printed up. When Ministry came through DC with the
MindIsATerribleThingToTaste tour, Ogre, being an old buddy of Jared's
from the early '80s, wanted a t-shirt. He wore it for large parts of the
rest of the tour, and thus it showed up in the Ministry concert video.

Tell me a story.
Chemlab isn't the only party to have used the slogan as promotional
material. When a poet friend of Jared's released a book of his latest
work in DC, he had Jared and several buddies stand around at the release
party wearing the shirt. The poet, whose name was Art (now you see it
coming, don't you), had a shirt on that said: FUCK ME I'M ART.

ALBUM REVIEWS



Chemlab-East Side Militia


Chemlab - Electric Molecular review


East Side Militia


VIVISECT Chemlab review


Chemlab - East Side Militia review


East SIde Militia Review



BAND INTERVIEWS & ARTICLES


Disecting Chemlab


An Interview with Chemlab


Chemlab


dmf presents: Chemlab


Chemlab 1



Interview with Jared: Part I



Chemlab



Chemlab Bandinfo



Chemlab Interview from wormburner




CONCERT REVIEWS


Gwar, Chemlab, and Nation of Fear - live review


Gwar, Chemlab, Hogscraper live review


Chemlab in concert



REVIEW OF EAST SIDE MILITIA



Chemlab - East Side Militia"Whatever happened to Chemlab? Fuck killing
let's fuck, it is not only the bands motto.. but apparently the thing
they can do, cuz they can't write a decent track anymore. Only 8 new
tracks with a remix of one of the better songs from the album tacked on
the end. Chemlab have never been the most prolific of bands, but if they
can come back from their long sabbatical with a disc as weak and short
as this, things must be wrong. Where has the energy and inventiveness
gone, like some many bands within this genre they are an emotional void.
On the plus side, the disc is reasonably well constructed with
everything appearing to be in the right place, however it doesn't quite
hit the mark that "Burn Out" did both lyrically and musically,
production is polished but not as deep as the previous CD. Guitar has
become more of an instrument than a texture sometimes to the detriment
of the rest of the music. Had this record come from any other band it
may seem impressive, but they were capable of much more."(A)

Exclusive Review from  CMJ New Music Report

To pigeonhole Chemlab's latest release as "industrial"

would be an insult. It's not that East Side Militia doesn't

deliver the hard-edge percussion, razor-sharp riffs, and

gravely vocalizing that characterize the genre, it's just that

there's something else at work in this mix. "Exile On

Mainline" and "Jesus Christ Porno Star" kick-start the

record with a familiar flurry of techno-guitar fury,

providing a point of reference for the band's legion of

old-school disciples. But as the album progresses, the

songs begin to deviate from the techno-metal norm and

drift into a realm that can only be described as

post-gothic. "Vera Blue (96/69)," Pyromance" (written by

Filter's Geno Lenardo) and "Lo-Grade Fever" are

technologically enhanced echoes of the eerie serenades

that artists like Bauhaus and the Sisters Of Mercy

composed in their glory days. When things pick up again

on "Electric Molecular" and "Latex," the groove is more

kin to the pop-friendly songs of White Zombie than

current KMFDM or Nine Inch Nails. The group's musical

core may come from industrial's glorified past (William

Tucker of Ministry/RevCo and Greg Lucas of Final Cut

contribute to the release), but this is one unit that has its

eyes fixed on the future.

M. TYE COMER