A complaint we don’t understand but get a lot is: “I don’t know any of your bands.” First of all: these are all great bands, so how come you don’t know them? Second: There are a lot of bands in which members play that you DO know, you just didn’t know they played (now) in this band. Some examples from Incubate 2009:

• Forget Them Crooked Vultures! Celan incorporates far more interesting names: Ari Benjamin Meyers (Einstürzende Neubauten, Redux Orchestra) and Chris Spencer (Unsane, Cutthroats 9) for instance. Together with Phil Roeder and Franz Xaver (both of ex-flu.ID) and Niko Wenner (Oxbow) they have what should be referred to as one hell of a super group. Shit, even Superman auditioned for this band but wasn’t super enough!

• Altaar Featuring members of Killl, JR Ewing, Motorpsycho and Sten Ove Toft. Or shorter: You will not skip this band during Incubate.

• The Color of the Sun front man Aron Ward creates original pop songs with strong surf influences. Definitely inspired by the Beach Boys, and not by his dad’s Black Sabbath!

• Wardruna is maybe the least unknown when it comes to famous band members. Black metal legends and both ex-members of the seminal black metal band Gorgoroth, Kvitrafn (Einar Selvik) and Gaahl (Kristian Espedal) are two of the driving forces behind this ritual folk group.

• Lazy Magnet has a dude from USA is a Monster.

• Amolvacy are Aaron Moore from Volcano the Bear, Dave Nuss from No-Neck Blues Band, and Sheila 16 of the Laboratory Theater Group, NYC.

• For Incubate 2009, Marhaug will collaborate with Manheim (Mayhem) and Jon Wesseltoft (Thorns), who will play a special composition influenced by the works of Hermann Nitsch.

• The Terrordactyls are the the band of Kimya Dawson, which you might know from a lot of soundtracks or The Moldy Peaches.

• With Pierced Arrows Fred and Toody Cole pick up where their Dead Moon left off after that was disbanded.

So now you know.

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