ORGANISMA

Som
Vocals
Meeg
Bass
Kreep
Electronics
Moose
Drums
The past three years have been quite a ride for vocalist Som Anderson, bassist Meeg Marshall, electronics specialist Kreep Lambert, and percussionist Moose Ritarchic. They formed in late 2007, formed their own record label, rush released an album that December, reentered the studio with new plans in mind, argued with ex-band members, fought numerous delays, and put on a show unlike any other. Things have been, without a doubt, a volatile three years for the "tribal industrial metal" act from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But with a future in mind and a savage facade ornamented with masks only befitting a band as destructively artistic and forceful as a new-aged slasher film, Organisma are the final breath of an era long gone.
On I Will Be Your Light a new level of musicianship has risen, derived only from their self-run ethics, hard work, and refusal to take no for an answer. The band's second album produced by J. Krasner, I Will Be Your Light accurately portrays not only the band's cathartic wall of sound technique - it demonstrates that fast and chugging does not necessarily mean heavy. The songs on Organisma's newest album transcend typical music, and will surprise people with it's familiar feel and new innovation. Pounding guitar work, vicious sampling, deadening drum beats, and a new vocal exploration are facets Meeg Marshall describes as "honestly brutal and brutally honest." While much can be lent to location - the band wrote much of the album in the local haunted Nothing House - the group themselves have also grown: darker, deeper, and deadlier. "Before we were separate and doing our own thing," recalls Som Anderson. "If you managed to survive, there was no reward. You didn't get some pat on the back for staying alive. But now, we're together in this, and I think that's what makes us frightening to people now. The making is easy. It's the doing that gets you sick."
The first single off the album, "Epidemic," is possibly the heaviest the band has ever made. Kreep Lambert comments on the song's lyrics, "It stands as a general testament to who we are right now. We've had people try to shut us down. We've had people tell us we couldn't make it. We've had everyone you can name say something. Epidemic is just like, 'Fuck you! We're still here.'" "Epidemic" shows like much of the album, that fusing the 80's metal riffs many of their forefathers enjoyed with the nu-metal feel is absolutely possible. Other songs with the same drive to fuse multiple styles include "Egosm," "The Dead Ways," and "Smudge." "All three kind of follow this same theme of past life regression in a way," adds Anderson. "And they're that way for a reason as well, but I won't ruin it."
Many relate to the band's straightforward musical delivery, but their artistic side is far from overlooked. Sporting mainly identical handcrafted masks, they destroy the stage as well as themselves. Consider their recent Halloween performance: "It was pretty interesting needless to say. We had huge drums of fire sitting at the front of the stage while we all out destroyed. It rained a bit, the fires were gone, Kreep started running around making a lot of people uncomfortable, there were people everywhere rolling around in mud," says Anderson. "On our terms, we'd count that as a good day." Future tours are being planned for much of the northeast, the country, and eventually the world. Marshall states, "As for the mask thing, it was only a natural progression. We couldn't really call ourselves a unit until we beat the us out of it. So the names aren't important, the faces aren't important, it just is what it is." Their masks, serving the role of musical warpaint, have been refined from earlier ideals, but still maintain the look of being rotten and eaten away. She continues, "It's just Organisma though, I really wouldn't know how to put it any other way. Vicious. Dangerous. It's everything."
Iconic for their anonymity and feared for their potency, this is the world of Organisma.
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2010 | I Will Be Your Light
"Epidemic"
"Smudge"
"The Dead Ways"
"Egosm"
2007 | Album Three
Hometown Pittsburgh, PA
Website www.organisma.bravehost.com
Management Organisma
Press Organisma
Label Phreek Records
Layout Phreek Records