Member Since: 12/30/2004
Band Website: tarantulajones.com/agentfailure
Band Members: Mark Devito , and Adam Schnellenbach
Mark DeVito -Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drum Programming, Sampling
Adam Schnellenbach -Vocals, Noise, Electronics
Influences:
"Hofmann stayed on the couch three hours until the drug's effects wore off. He got up feeling fine. After two years of delicate lab work, he announced last week, Hofmann had managed to isolate a mysterious substance-the chemical that has caused men of many races, through the millennia, to have otherworldly visions after eating certain kinds of mushrooms.
For Hofmann, such chemically induced visions are not new. He is famed among the world's biochemists and psychiatrists because in 1943, by accident, he absorbed (probably through the skin of his fingers, he now speculates) an infinitesimal amount of a potent chemical. For a while it made him wacky. He identified it as lysergic acid diethylamide, now universally known as LSD-25. It has proved an invaluable weapon to psychiatrists seeking to reproduce symptoms like those of schizophrenia (TIME, Dec. 19, 1955).
Researcher Hofmann moved from LSD to mushrooms thanks largely to Ethnologist (and a J. P. Morgan vice president) R. Gordon Wasson and his Russian-born wife, two dedicated, medical-minded mushroom eaters. The Wassons have voyaged all over the world seeking ritual devotees of exotic mushrooms and sharing their hallucinations, reported on their experiences in LIFE.Mushrooms, Russia and History. A French companion on their travels sent Hofmann specimens of one of the most potent mushrooms, Psyilocybe mexicana. From its little brown umbrella, perched on a delicate stem, Hofmann isolated the pure chemical (he calls it psilocybin) that induced his experimental hallucinations."
Musically:
Premonitions Of War
Godflesh
Nine Inch Nails
All Else Failed
Pig Destroyer
Converge
Deadguy
Gaza
Black Sabbath
Cursed
Neurosis
His Hero Is Gone
Trap Them
Buried Inside
Eyehategod
Graf Orlock
Today Is The Day
Nachtmystium
Burzum
Sounds Like: (((A Massive Sonic Bong Hit)))
Record Label: NONE AT THE MOMENT
Type of Label: Indie