Well alongside my punk bands I'd been dabbling with electronic music for 15 years or so, but the real "switch flip" moment was around 2021 and I was just totally bored of the music I had been listening to and I ended up throwing on a random suggested album, and that album was ШТАДТ's Мразь (sorry I dunno the translations, had to copy paste that!) and the rest was history for me.

I wish! No it's a dumb pun for a project I didn't intend to pursue any further, yet here we are haha!

Yes for sure. I work a full time 9-5 job that probably wouldn't be too keen on some of my lyrics haha. I also hate being seen so the mask was a no brainer. I've always wanted to cover up but previous bands I was in wouldn't play along with it!

I hate genres so much as a musician. As a listener they're great, and pretty helpful. As a creator they feel stifling and pointless when you look at them too closely. It's more of a gut feeling as to whether or not whatever I'm doing "passes the vibe check" as the youth of today would say. Mostly, and this is true of most artists, we try to sound like our favorite influences, usually end up failing, and the failure becomes "our sound".

Unreliable. I joke sort of. I'll go through periods of intense productivity followed by months of deep depression, lack of interest etc. Song are written in a variety of ways. Most likely I'll write the music first as I'm a music>lyrics kinda guy. But occasionally I'll have a decent lyrical idea and write that first and then make the music. But yeah it's mostly just fucking around with my instruments until they make a noise that distracts me from...you know, all this.

Honestly idk. By no means is that a bad question but I don't think too much about it. The less I know about what goes on in the subconscious process of creativity, the better!

Oh definitely. Music was my first true love. I've wanted to be a musician since I was a tiny child. Film is my mistress, painting is my FWB, and Music is my wife.

I wish I could say there was a grand scheme, but really it's a bit of an afterthought to the music. I'm a 100% DIY operation, and aside from one cover, I have to make all this shit myself, and unfortunately I'm not nearly as talented at graphic design as I need to be to accomplish what I actually envision before hand, so it comes down to just trying my best to make something that I find both visually interesting a seems to fit the music. Though sometimes I'll go through one of those productive periods and make a bunch of art work and then try to write to the art. I much prefer when it works out that way as it serves some inspiration for a direction, rather than the near constant "lost in the woods" feeling I usually experience as an artist.

My production techniques and equipment list are closely kept secrets, because if anyone were to see them I'd likely die of embarrassment. Real Talk though I keep things on track by having a selection of sounds (usually kicks, snares and basses) that I lean on to keep it grounded in something familiar, and more importantly seems to work despite my uneven mixing abilities. Mostly I fuck around until I find out.

Honestly, I am a negative and self-righteous person. I try not to be. I try to channel it into the art. But deep down, yeah, I have a lot of resentment about being born haha! Bluntly speaking, I have a hard time accepting the world, and people, as we are. If reincarnation is true I hope I come back as a vulture. Being a person is overrated.

I'm a pretty socially liberal guy, but the political situation here has gotten so scarily absurd that I can no longer identify or describe myself in political terms. Sometimes I'm a back to nature anarchist. Sometimes I pray that a benevolent A.I. or alien race will take over and fix things from a rational perspective, which would make me what? A technomonarchist? That would be a great name for a side project!

I dunno. Outside of a handful of artists and albums I like, I don't listen to a ton of EBM especially modern stuff. Pretty people looking all drug sheik and being horny for the dark? I'm too depressed for that! This year I've been listening to a lot of death metal, so we'll see how/if that creeps it's way into future songs. Don't worry, I (probably) won't start death growling.

Absolutely. I never got over that anti-authority phase as a kid, even though I slavishly allow authority to walk all over me on a daily basis. Such is the life of a hypocrite.

I try to answer every email, DM, letter etc. as sincerely and "out of character" as possible. I loathe artists who feel like they're too good to respond to fans. I understand if it gets to a certain point and you just logistically can't, but there's also a lot of people out there who think they're too cool for the plebs. If only they knew we were all headed for annihilation.

None. Love my fans, sincerely, but the minute I start writing for other people is the minute my art is doomed to be an empty gesture.

Not very often. I hate playing live. Being on stage is fine-ish, but having to meet and speak to a bunch of strangers in person gives me excruciating anxiety. Used to be better when I was young doing the punk band thing (having bandmates is a great buffer) but the older I get the less I want to do it. Not until the performance has more meaning to it. I'm working on that side of things.

I'm a creative crossroads as we speak. At this point I'm bored with what I've done before, and some of the dancier stuff has started feeling copy/paste, so I made the decision this year that after I release the last bits of stuff hanging around my hard drive, I'm either gonna shift gears and chart a new course, or destroy the whole thing and bury it. I'm hoping it's the first one because I tried to get into painting this year as an alternative to making music, and its going horribly!!

Good question, ha! I have a dungeon synth side project with a bunch of unreleased material to organize. I'm also talking to some guys about doing some doom/punk/thrash type stuff. We'll see.

Ugh. I'd need at least 20 to give you a real answer, but for the sake of not stiffing you on your question...I'll temporarily say Pixies Doolittle. There's enough variety of styles to keep you from getting too bored as you wait for the scurvy to take hold.