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Cubanate is an industrial band from London, founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Graham Rayner with Phil Barry and Steve Etheridge. The group became well known for its early fusion of distorted metal guitars, and techno percussion (later incorporating breakbeats). ==History== Cubanate played their first UK tour in November 1992 supporting left-field UK techno duo Sheep on Drugs. The group signed to Berlin's Dynamica Records shortly afterwards. Rayner and Etheridge departed after the first Machinery single, ''Body Burn'' (1993). The pair were replaced by Julian Beeston (ex - Nitzer Ebb drummer). In May 1994 the ''Metal'' EP was Single of the Week in Melody Maker magazine and later that year Cubanate received media attention when they were weirdly paired with Carcass for what turned out to be a notoriously violent UK tour ending in death threats to Heal and an on-air confrontation on the Radio One Rock Show with Bruce Dickinson.〔Joel McIver ''Nu-metal: the next generation of rock & punk '' Omnibus Press (2002) p44〕 The second album ''Cyberia'' (1994) spawned the hit single ''Oxyacetylene'', generally considered Cubanate's creative peak. For live work around the ''Cyberia'' tour the band hired Shep Ashton on guitar and Darren Bennett on keyboards. After '96 Ashton and Bennett were replaced by Roddy Stone (currently fronting UK metal act Viking Skull) and David Bianchi (who later went on to become manager of rock bands The Enemy and Boy Kill Boy). The third album, ''Barbarossa'' (1996) continued the crossover format, and despite being name-checked as influences by bands such as The Prodigy〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Tales of the RIFF - Marc Heal )〕 the group clearly decided a change was needed. Signed in the U.S. to Wax Trax! Recordings for the act's fourth and final official full-length album to date, ''Interference'' (1998) was a departure from Cubanate's earlier techno experiments with a strong drum and bass influence that alienated some of their traditionalist fans but was heralded as revelatory by others. The album was co-produced by Rhys Fulber and ''Interference'' proved to be the band's swansong. No new album-length material has been officially released by Cubanate since 1998, and the band has not performed live since December 1999. However, in 2007 a torrent appeared on the Internet with nine leaked demo tracks recorded by Heal in 2000 titled ''Search Engine''. Featuring such tracks as ''Razor Edge'', ''Superstructure'', and ''Drowning Hands'' the material had been abandoned by Heal shortly after entering rehabilitation for alcohol abuse in late 2000.〔 In October 2010 the band announced that they were recording again and would be releasing new material in 2011. A new track "We are Crowd", was released on Alfa-Matrix's compilation "EBM1". In a posting on his Facebook page dated September 13, 2011 Cubanate founder Marc Heal stated: "Marc here. I should have posted this a while back, but I wanted to let everyone know that I have decided conclusively not to do another Cubanate album. It was a real blast getting back into studio with Phil - and he came up with some brilliant music. But I'm doing something different with my life now and I've come to the conclusion to leave it. Thanks for all your support, I really appreciate it. I'll keep posting. M" On June 8, 2012 Heal revealed a demo version of "the first new PIG track in eight years" entitled ''Drugzilla (Rough As A Hog's Arse Mix)'' via Cubanate's Official Facebook page and providing their followers a link to his personal SoundCloud page. The link was reposted by Raymond Watts a few hours later. A second demo entitled ''Shake'' was released on July 15, 2012; again via Heal's Soundcloud page, this time also noting Dan Abela as engineer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cubanate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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