The Dr. Synister Project is the creation of Seattle guitar virtuoso Tony DeLisio. Throughout the 90s Tony played lead guitar for some of Seattle's top local bands: Gypsy Rose, Fantazia and The Primal Order. (Fantazia and The Primal Order's demos are also indexed on garageband). All three bands had a large dedicated following, airplay on both regional and national radio stations, openened for a wide variety of national acts (Soundgarden, Alice N Chains, Yngwie Malmsteen and many others) as well as the interest of numerous major labels. In 1993 Tony was fortunate enough to be nominated as guitarist of the year by vote Seattle rock magazine The Rocket.
At that time The Seattle Scene was exploding. Unfortunately, major labels were scouting the Seattle scene primarily for grunge acts. Although the labels saw great potential in Tony's bands, progressive hard rock/metal was not what they were interested in signing.
Tony was working as a DJ in various nightclubs throughout this time and became inspired by the innovative music of bands like NIN, Ministry, White Zombie, The Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method. He began experimenting with techno and industrial music, and through that process Dr. Synister was born.
The Dr. Synister project is a hybrid mix of hard rock/metal with industrial/techno overtones. Along with the music Tony came up with a back story for the project which included elements of the occult, science fiction, alien/UFO theories, virtual reality, eroticism and the growing underground psychedelic movement.
The music of Dr. Synister stands on its own, but Tony felt this added back story concept would greatly increase the musics identity and open huge avenues for marketing, merchandising and music videos. In fact, the Dr. Synister saga would make an excellent blockbuster motion-picture, anime/manga cartoon or even a comic book.
A brief version of the story is presented below. If you are interested in that sort of thing by all means check it out. If not, take the tunes for a test drive. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Beto Paredes - Publicist
