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Veterans of Future Wars

About Me


The Veterans of Future Wars are an enclave of dark experimental musicians based in Asheville North Carolina USA. They have been forging a collective sonic consciousness since 1996, with a year or two off for recovery along the way.

Their style blends primal organic textures with a sense of synthetic alienation. Percussion and textural elements are typically made from their own field recordings of scrap metal, machinery and other found sounds, often heavily treated into pure sonic sculpture. The guitar is extended into a six-oscillator analog sound source, often played live into the computer to be cut-up and resynthesized on the fly during performance.
VFW's output has spanned a continuum from alien drug noise and massive chaotic droning, through digital breakbeats and sample-happy dance grooves, and into all-out metal chaos. The current album project is an evolution for the band, with a strong vocal presence, linear cohesion, and a focus on live performance and repeatability. All the sonic elements of the past are brought together, but with more balance and intent.
...This means that the next album should be all psychotic drug drones and death trance.

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Member Since: 06/02/2007
Band Members: CMOS, 1UP, Rev. Tesla Doom and the Adversary // Amos Gaynes, Drew Hughes, Daniel Rhinehardt and Nathan Lowe
Influences: ADDAALOP, Computer Narcotics, John Shirley, Skinny Puppy, H.P. Lovecraft, hypnagogic hallucinations, Slayer, Ridley Scott/Philip K. Dick, the Legendary Pink Dots, David Cronenberg, Brassaï, Bill Burroughs, Brion Gysin, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Dr. Robert Moog, Alien Sex Fiend, Ritalin, Coil, Rumi, Thrill Kill, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Ministry, Clive Barker.
Sounds Like: A twisted blend of live instrumentation, hard-edged sequences and found-sound collage. Old-skool technological devil music without the desire to imitate empty forms. Soundtrack to an urban skirmish on the heavily-armed borders of reality.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Thought Experiment 2010

VFW is currently looking for mercenary musicians interested in participating in Thought Experiment 2010. The format will be fairly simple, each member in the experiment will compose and submit two (2)...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:30:00 GMT

Show Update (Jan 7th)

Hi all,Looks like there has been some re-scheduling going on down at the Jolil Rouge... the rumored show with multiple live Industrial bands is not currently happening, as far as I can tell. :(  ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:09:00 GMT

Another show on the horizon

I just got a call asking if VFW would like to play another show at the Joli Rouge in Asheville NC... probably in January 2008, probably with one or two other regional industrial bands on the bill.&nbs...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:59:00 GMT

VFW on UR TV! Thursday Sept 27th 11PM

Asheville residents who subject themselves to Cable Televisioncan now bend that hideous appliance to our own twisted ends.Tune in to URTV, Channel 20, on Thursday the 27th of September at 11PM.Mount D...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:13:00 GMT

T-shirts are coming!!!

Veterans of Future Wars T-shirts are about to drop!  We're getting them printed up tomorrow.  They'll be ten bucks and they'll look like this:Come get you one!  Message for details or e...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:11:00 GMT

$1 vinyl stickers available now! More swag soon.

Buy this sticker now!  Paste 'em anywhere - they look great on laptops and desktop PCs... it'll fit on your bike... they're OK on cars, too.  All-weather durable vinyl, professionally printe...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:51:00 GMT