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About Me

Battlemode = slabs of abstract aural disintegration.We've been shaking walls, windows, empty 40oz bottles, subwoofers, and having the cops called on us since 1997. We aren't going to stop either - fuck the neighbors!

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Music:

Member Since: 19/04/2007
Band Members: A revolving cast of characters that has included at one time or another: B.Kretzaal - Drum Machine, Effects, Mixing, Synthesizers; Boris Popkoff (Spitkiss) - Synthesizers; Bryn Horwege (Bliss In The Cist, Firezombie) - Bass Guitar; Wiretapper (Cult Of RMA, Embodi) - Drum Programming, Samplers, Synthesizers; Erik Loenneker (Lividity, Prevail) - Guitar, Effects; Gordon Hurd (12-Bit Funk) - Drum Programming; Krisz "Shaggy" Varro (Bliss In The Cist, King Cobra, Prosthetic Head) - Bass Guitar, Drum Programming, Samplers, Sequences, Synthesizers; Jason "Spicy Anus Meat" Eskridge - Bass Guitar; K.R.F. (King Cobra, Waveworm) - Drum Programming, Effects, Engineering, Production, Samplers, Sequences, Synthesizers, Gadgetry; Krab Skramblorr - Graphic Bloodshed; K-Wax The American (Boxcar Atoms) - Drum Programming, Guitar, Vocals; Masona (Devolver) - Synthesizers, Sequences; Mike "Scribe" Keller - Guitar, Guitar Synth, Effects; Peter "Go-Go" Johnson - Synthesizers; Rich "Spooky" Verdugo (Miscreants) - Der Krops; Siouxsie Kat - Meow, Vocoder; Steve Duell - Drum Programming, Sequences, Synthesizers
Sounds Like: A splitting headache
Record Label: Eisenwelle Transmissions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A pixelated beast is unleashed!

Clark Griswold and Waveworm were in the lab one evening with two Nintendo DS systems synced together and equipped with Korg DS-10 cartridges.  The result of their low-tech experimentation was a bizarr...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:26:00 GMT

Disembodied Disco Theater news...

I hired a really talented artist to do the cover for the latest jam, and it is almost done.  She listened to the jam, and created whatever came to mind.  I've seen the work in process, and i...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:01:00 GMT

The Stanford broadcast...

Masona and Waveworm teamed up for an opportunity to hurl the Battlemode sound into the aether last Wednesday.  As promised, an overwheming sonic weird-out was delivered, and there was an enthusia...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:08:00 GMT

Sonic data intercepted...

B. Kretzaal and Waveworm joined forces yesterday to capture the elusive, international femme-fatale, Siouxsie Kat!  An audio transmission of the adventure was intercepted, and our cryptanalysts h...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:47:00 GMT

Masona and Waveworm on the latest jam.

We named the jam Suntory Meltdown, and it's some of the most weirded-out shit we've ever done; I think of it as Akira Kurosawa in space.  We paid dearly for this one, but the results were worth t...
Posted by on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:52:00 GMT

Wiretapper and Waveworm on the latest jam.

Wiretapper (A.K.A. Cult Of RMA) came up from L.A. last weekend for the latest session of Battlemode.  Inspired by the "420 Bitches" in my neighborhood who sprayed a bunch of pentagrams on the the...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:01:00 GMT