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		<description><![CDATA[This is an Interview we did with Siltwater. Which is a great experimental band so check them out.
: Who is Siltwater?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This is an Interview we did with Siltwater. Which is a great experimental band so check them out.</p>
<p>: Who is Siltwater?</p>
<p>A: Siltwater is it&#8217;s own entity. It makes it&#8217;s unrest in the mind of Doomsayer2001, constantly churning like molten lava that is ready to boil out of the earths crust. Siltwater is a sonic devastator. Siltwater is the wrench in the american music machine. Siltwater is anti-trend deconstructionism.</p>
<p>Q: How would you describe your music?</p>
<p>A: A sonically devastated landscape filled with fire, concrete, blood and bone. Experimental in all aspects. Sounds ranging from harsh noise to ambient landscapes and drones and just a bit of everything else in between! I particularly like long tracks, but not everyone else does, so I make variations in lengths and styles of tracks. I recently released my first all harsh noise release along with my first all ambient release. The past has contained a mix of both sounds onto one release. I also make what I like to call ambient noise. Not particularly harsh noise and not ambient sounds either, but a mix of both that compliment each other.</p>
<p>Q: What got you started doing this kind of music?</p>
<p>A: Back in the mid 80&#8217;s, I got involved in extreme forms of metal music. Starting with thrash metal, crossover, punk and hardcore and then moving onto death metal and grindcore. And at some point I picked up a split release vinyl record featuring the artists Nurse With Wound and Whitehouse. It was odd squealing and screaming, I didn&#8217;t like it and traded it back for something else. Oddly enough, it has stuck in my mind through out the years. Also, I forget what, which and when, I picked up something that had the Japanese noise artist Merzbow on it. I found it more interesting but later traded it in also. I do think I still have a 7&#8243; around here somewhere of his music. That&#8217;s probably my first step into experimental music. From there, in the late 80&#8217;s, on the christian music side, I found this artist called Blackhouse at Cornerstone &#8216;89. It sparked my interest cause it was just weird, it was the release Stairway To Heaven and it contained 6 tracks. The first 3 were forward and the last 3 were the same tracks backwards if I remember correctly. I listened to it over and over again in my car.<br />
I also got into a band called Godflesh. They have a release called Streetcleaner, it was one of the first times I felt threatened by the sounds coming out of the speakers. It sent a chill up my spine and I loved it. Along similar lines, yet on the other side of the spectrum, I got into Mick Harris&#8217;s Scorn and Lull projects. Scorn was metal mixed with industrial, dub and drum and bass sounds and Lull was bleak minimalist ambient drones and dark creepy soundscapes. And Bill Laswell made (still) some of my favorite ambient sounds mixed with dub and whatnot.</p>
<p>With all that said, back in &#8216;91 or &#8216;92, me and a friend of mine, Dave, really got into John Zorn&#8217;s Naked City, thrash/grindcore jazz music and it inspired me greatly. I think I talked him into making some experimental music with me. He had an 8 track to cassette recorder and we spent the next 3 years or so in small overnight sessions and mid day sessions when we were not at work making various sounds on it. We used old beat up records and old, school record players and broken instruments and various microphones and run down sound equipment and a guitar processor to create about 8 tracks or so of experimental music and 3 or 4 actual songs. We started out under the name KRUSH and found it was taken, then we went to Blackwater and found it was also taken. I liked the name Blackwater, but I made a variation out of it and changed it to Siltwater. And it&#8217;s been stuck in my head ever since. The current round of music making under the name Siltwater didn&#8217;t start up till late 2006.</p>
<p>Q: Some artist claim they don&#8217;t listen to the type of music they create so that they are not influenced by what they listen to. Do you listen to this type of music ? If so who?</p>
<p>A: Yeah, I listen to this kind of music all the time. More ambient stuff usually. And still lots of metal. I find sonic inspiration in it. I don&#8217;t set out to copy the artists I like and listen to often, but I study for ways I can do it better than them. I actually listen to my stuff quite a bit. I&#8217;m my own worst and best critic.</p>
<p>As far as artists go, I still listen to Lull and Bill Laswell quite a bit. And John Zorn. Right now I&#8217;m really into a metal band named Kekal. They play some killer prog/avant-garde/unblack metal. Been getting into the doom metal/stoner rock sound quite a bit also. I also download lots of free compilations off the net and listen to them. Just to kinda see what&#8217;s floating around out there.</p>
<p>Q: What are some of your influences? Musical and non.</p>
<p>A: Musically, I&#8217;ve listed quite a few, Bill Laswell, Lull, John Zorn, Godflesh, Blackhouse, Nurse With Wound, Napalm Death, The Melvins, Carcass, Ministry, Ennio Morricone, Scorn, Merzbow, Terminal Cheesecake, Rapoon, Magnog, Experimental Audio Research, Pete Namlook, Mick Harris, DEVO, Christian Marclay and a few Japanoise compilations that I have had in the past to name a few.</p>
<p>Non-musical influences range from life around me. My faith and my constant struggle in my faith to be who God calls and desires me to be in Jesus Christ. Politics. My dislike for all the crap that is currently injected into most extreme forms of music. My constant irritation with the &#8220;music industry&#8221; and what most people call mainstream radio friendly music. I despise 99.9% of it cause it&#8217;s worthless in every aspect in my opinion.</p>
<p>Q: What would you say was the driving force behind what you are doing?<br />
Q: Does your faith play apart in your music and how much of a part does it play?</p>
<p>A: Driving force&#8230; the faith given to me by God the Father. I don&#8217;t express it as much because the sounds are instrumental in nature. But I tend to title songs (mostly) as to convey the aspects of fallen man in all his/her sinfulness. Sin and transgressions are an offense to a Holy God. I try to portray the sounds that you hear in such a way that they might convey that darkness that inhabits the human heart. The harshness of our sins and the consequences that are promised to follow, be it temporary or eternal consequences. The &#8220;sounds&#8221; if you will, of the Holy Spirit working in a persons life to bring one to the Father through Jesus Christ. I also make the sounds are about my personal struggle to live a righteous life before God. I fail miserably to often, and I can &#8220;visualize&#8221; the sounds in my head.</p>
<p>I also have this (which I took from the band Tortured Conscience&#8217;s page):</p>
<p>1. Belief in the Triune God (one &#8220;what&#8221;, three &#8220;whos.&#8221; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit)</p>
<p>2. Jesus is fully God and fully man. He was not a created being but the one who spoke and the world leapt into existence. He condensended Himself to cloak Himself in human flesh and became the sacrifice for our sins.</p>
<p>3. Jesus is the one and only way to the Father. All other religions attempt to win salvation by performing works, thinking that they can earn their way into heaven. Only Christ tells you the truth and says you cannot do it on your own. The righteousness of man are like filthy rags to God.</p>
<p>4. The Bible is the infallible and inerrant word of God. Your opinion and my opinion mean absolutely nothing without an objective source to find out who&#8217;s right. That source is the Bible. Whatever idea, thought, position, etc. that goes against the Bible is simply wrong.</p>
<p>I believe this wholeheartedly! There is no other way to God the Father but through Jesus Christ. All other paths lead to hell eternal under the wrath of a holy and just God.</p>
<p>Q: What equipment are you using?</p>
<p>A: My Mac G5 and a lot of free software. I have paid for nothing to make my sounds other than the cost of the computer its self. Software wise, I use a free DJ program I picked up somewhere on the net. I use Audacity and some VST plugins. And I just recently picked up some sound generators. I would like to in the future get myself a digital recorder and record some live sounds to use and manipulate.</p>
<p>Q: Any secrets in recording your like to share?</p>
<p>A: If I told ya&#8230; they wouldn&#8217;t be secrets, now would they?</p>
<p>Q: Who is Subversive Song Recordings?</p>
<p>A: It&#8217;s a net label I started to promote christian electronic and experimental artists. There is a lot of talent out there and I wanted to give some of the friends I had made some more exposure. Oddly enough, the lack of interest has been astonishing to me. People are not motivated for some reason to have their sounds out there any more than what they have on their myspace site&#8217;s. I do have a few that have been right up there wanting to get their hands dirty so to speak, but the response has been lackadaisical for the most part. In the future, I would like to have my own hosting and website and all that, but for now money is a constant issue and the kids get fed before daddy plays.</p>
<p>Q: It looks like you stay pretty busy please list the albums you have out at the moment?</p>
<p>A: We&#8217;ll go down the list from start to finish:</p>
<p>1. Blood In The Water<br />
2. Pure White Noise<br />
3. Pure Black Noise<br />
4. Deadstutter<br />
5. Deadstutter (Regeneration)<br />
6. Chaos<br />
7. Longsuffering (V.1 Eternity)<br />
8. Longsuffering (V.2 Justice)<br />
9. Longsuffering (V.3 Grace) (One of my personal favorites!)<br />
10. Longsuffering (V.4 Wrath)<br />
11. Insomnia Mind Collapse VS. Siltwater ~ The Deadspeak Of Reality *(split release)<br />
12. Sonic Aural Flux<br />
13. Ruinnation/Franks Bike<br />
14. Siltwater VS. SomberGravity ~ 19Eighty In Shambles EP *(split release)<br />
15. SomberGravity VS. Siltwater ~ Pure White Noise And The Thoughts It Creates *(split release)<br />
16. The Deafening Is Silence<br />
17. Darker Still, The Heart Of Man<br />
18. DEAD SIGNALS (Another personal favorite!)<br />
19. Iniquity</p>
<p>Q: Where can people find them?</p>
<p>A: <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFyY2hpdmUub3JnL3NlYXJjaC5waHA/cXVlcnk9Y3JlYXRvcjolMjJTaWx0d2F0ZXIlMjI="><strong><span style="color:#003399;">http://www. archive. org/search. php?query=creator:%22Siltwater%22</span></strong></a><br />
Siltwater is also on <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbGFzdC5mbQ=="><strong><span style="color:#003399;">last. fm</span></strong></a> @ <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3Lmxhc3QuZm0vbXVzaWMvU2lsdHdhdGVy"><strong><span style="color:#003399;">http://www. last. fm/music/Siltwater</span></strong></a><br />
And Siltwater on myspace @ <a href="http://www.myspace.com/siltwater"><strong><span style="color:#003399;">http://www. myspace. com/siltwater</span></strong></a><br />
And Subversive Song Recordings @ <a href="http://www.myspace.com/subversivesongrecordings"><strong><span style="color:#003399;">http://www. myspace. com/subversivesongrecordings</span></strong></a></p>
<p>All the releases are free for download always! So download away!</p>
<p>Q: Are you involved with any other projects?</p>
<p>A: Yeah, me and Napalm Dave from SomberGravity and Within The Torn Apart have a project called Consumed By Fire&#8230; Drenched In Blood (<a href="http://www.myspace.com/consumedbyfiredrenchedinblood"><strong><span style="color:#003399;">http://www. myspace. com/consumedbyfiredrenchedinblood</span></strong></a>). We make tracks and trade them back and forth over the net and create together. We do try and make the sounds made for Consumed By Fire&#8230; Drenched In Blood different than our main solo projects. We are getting ready to start another Ep soon as well as a couple of more splits with our main solo projects Siltwater and SomberGravity, so stay tuned!</p>
<p>Q: Any words of wisdom for others thinking about getting involved with this kind of music?</p>
<p>A: Don&#8217;t do it cause you think you&#8217;ll be cool and all that. Do it cause you love the sounds and you love to create. I know this &#8220;music&#8221; is not for everybody. I want people around who like it for what it is. It&#8217;s crude and crass often and can be quite abrasive. On the other side of the coin, you can drift away into an ambient drone and never want to come back to reality. I used to play Lull or some Bill Laswell project when it was bed time and drift off to sleep.</p>
<p>Please list at least one weird thing about yourself.</p>
<p>If I had any actual musical ability in me, I&#8217;d learn to play the banjo and play me some oldtimey bluegrass! I loves me some bluegrass!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is an interview we did with Order of Melchizedek. I dare say one of the best in the experimental game
fighting the good fight so check them out. Support him and his Label. Lets keep the scene alive peeps .
 
 
 
Tell us about Order of Melchizedek?
 
Darin M. Sullivan &#8211; DMS – Order of Melchizedek started out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=falloutmusic.wordpress.com&blog=4558353&post=13&subd=falloutmusic&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Here is an interview we did with <span style="font-size:x-small;">Order of Melchizedek. I dare say one of the best in the experimental game</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-small;">fighting the good fight so check them out. Support him and his Label. Lets keep the scene alive peeps .</span></p>
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<p>Tell us about Order of Melchizedek?</p>
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<p>Darin M. Sullivan &#8211; DMS – Order of Melchizedek started out sometime late in 1999 as an offshoot of my first project, 7 SE7EN 7. With those beginnings being very spacey, Dark Ambient / Experimental forays with very New Age concepts, the more Theologically abrasive music I was creating needed its own outlet. There was a definite division in sound for certain things I was creating, and I wanted to keep it separate from 7 SE7EN 7. Since then, O.o.M. has become, by no intent of my own, my primary source of expression.</p>
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<p>DMS – To look at the whole, artistically, O.o.M. is evangelical, extremely evangelical at times. Fanatically religious ideas permeate both sound and art, sometimes to overemphasize, sometimes to deliberately contradict Christian beliefs. Some people have, and some will continue to question what I do, but that is my intent, to be questioned. To make one think, especially for themselves, to question things like the existence of God, to really put some effort into the thought of an afterlife and where are they going to spend eternity.</p>
<p>Sonically, Order of Melchizedek has begun to run the genre gamut. At times, the soundscapes are Dark Ambient or Experimental, at others Power Electronics or Death Industrial. Some newer material has very Classically inspired passages. I approach things more by the mood or ideas I’m trying to express, not by where I want to fit in on a playlist. The music I create is an outlet for what I am feeling at that moment in time. Watching the news, especially our Presidential rat race lately has been great for me, artistically. Mentally, however, I’ve become quite apathetic, almost nihilistic at times. Hypocrisy is everywhere!!! This shows through in my recent work.</p>
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How long have you been doing this kind of music?</p>
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<p>DMS – I’ve been experimenting with electronics for just over ten years, now. Previously, I played guitar as a hobby since I was 10 or 11 years old. I used to sing a lot, too. I’ve had a love for music my whole life.</p>
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<p>What kind of music do you listen to? Does that play a factor in your<br />
music?</p>
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<p>DMS – I listen to a lot of stuff, really. I think the only thing I don’t really like is rap music. Let’s see, the last 5 songs I listened to on my iPod were DRAPE EXCREMENT’s Good Grief, DIE FORM’s Silent Order (Attrition Mix 2), SIGILLUM S’ Double Border / Reignited Bioreaktor, COIL’s Never and TRIARII’s Regicide II. I love Pink Floyd, Nurse With Wound, NIN, Genesis, Severed Heads, Tangerine Dream, Megaptera, IDT…we could be here all day with this question!!! If I were to say that what I hear had no influence on what I do, I’d be lying. I try to create my own music, but to say I do that without ANY bleed through of what I listen to would be silly. I really try to create music that I like &amp; I would like to listen to&#8230; I don’t mean to sound at all pompous, but if you can’t enjoy what you create, how will anyone else enjoy it?</p>
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<p>What got you into this kind of music? Any other influences?</p>
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<p>DMS – Man, I’d have to say, &#8220;Not just what, but what and who&#8221;. I was turned on to a LOT of music at a very early age by my older brothers. I remember being only 8 or 9 years old listening to some local College radio station, hearing stuff like early, early Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, S.P.K. and who knows what else!!! In fact, I still remember stealing my brothers, ‘The Man Machine’</p>
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<p>cassette to take into school for show &amp; tell when it came out!!! Then, there were my teenage Metal years. Lots of Slayer, Metallica, Misfits &amp; stuff like that. Even then, though, I was always looking for stuff like I’d heard years back. In ’90 and ’91 I found the whole NIN / Ministry culture. At that same time, a friend introduced me to a local Goth act, Lestat. That was all it took to send me back, way left of the dial, looking to local College radio for anything like Lestat. Anyone from this locale, at that point in time, would remember the Steve Wainstead shows. He was just a local College DJ, but he had his impact on the rest of my life. Listening to his shows, I heard bands like T.A.G.C., Attrition, Muslimgauze… the whole Projekt / Soleilmoon / Staalplaat thing. Around July of 1998 I was writing for a local music magazine, covering all the Electronic stuff, the Goth scene etc. I’d befriended many musicians; one in particular was Brian Sutter of In Death’s Throes. Through our numerous conversations he discussed</p>
<p>meeting his band mate, Stephen Petrus. Brian also mentioned that Stephen ran his own label, Live Bait Recording Foundation, and had a solo project called Murderous Vision. That meeting was pivotal to me starting my own project. I was so enthralled with what Stephen was doing, with his projects AND his label, that I started my own experiments with sound. Through Stephen’s encouragement, and my own desire to start something serious myself, I’d soon find myself knee deep in borrowed software, desperately trying to carve out something worthwhile. Some of my earliest recordings are still in the vault; others were on cassettes that were lost when moving, some were destroyed with PC’s crashing and the like. Anyway, out of all of this, I’d have to say Stephen has been my biggest musical influence, professionally and personally. As far as other influences, Spirituality, psychology, politics, the horror genre in general and altered states of consciousness all play their roles.</p>
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<p>Fallout Music wants to encourage other people to experiment and find<br />
new sounds. With that said, what equipment do you use? Do you have any<br />
secrets that you would like to give away as far as recording and<br />
playing this kind of music?</p>
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<p>DMS – I use a Digi003 (Rack), ProTools LE, Glyph Storage, a PC, a Roland XP-50, a Yamaha AN200, a Boss SP505, a pair of Event TR8 XL’s, MOTU MIDI interfaces various soft synths, sound libraries and just about anything else I can get my hands on. As for secrets, I’m not really sure. I do a lot of reading, Electronic Musician, Mix, EQ etc. I also read my equipment manuals, if all else fails!!! I guess if I had a ‘secret’ that may help someone; I’d say to study up, buy some books on the subject. You’d be amazed with the number of so called ‘musicians’ trying to make music without the slightest clue as to what they’re doing. To be fair, there ARE bands that have been incredibly successful without any idea of what they did or how they did it, but you can accomplish so much more creatively, so much quicker if you take a little time to understand just what the heck it is you’re working with. I’m pretty sure the same is true with most tools… if you try to build something with tools that you have no idea how to use, you usually don’t end up with much but broken tools. Talking to other musicians and sharing ideas is a huge help, as well. And, the 2 most important things, how could I forget… always stay organized and NEVER FORGET TO BACK UP YOUR SESSIONS!!!! ALWAYS copy what you’ve done to save your work!!! I know of artists that have lost entire albums they’ve recorded by a simple PC crash, so do whatever it takes, back your stuff up!!!</p>
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Do you play out much?</p>
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<p>DMS – As for the first several years of being in the electronic music scene, I was more of a studio musician, but in the past few years I’ve had the opportunity to play a few shows here &amp; there. Bringing Order of Melchizedek to a live setting has gone much better than I had anticipated. One problem I’ve had, which really kept me from playing out in the beginning, is the fact that I don’t like to rely on backing tracks to perform live. I wanna do it all on the spot. Most bands I’ve seen, though, use varying degrees of backing music when they perform, but I want to be ‘live’ when I am playing a set. I begrudgingly relied heavily on a backing CDr for the first show I did and since then I have used it less &amp; less. I’ve incorporated my backing music more as its own instrument now, not as something to rely on as the performance with me playing over it. The last show I did was with Friends of the Bureau and Of Swine and Swill. I did everything live and on the spot that night. That set was definitely a departure from anything I’ve done before. It was really minimal, like a modernization of an 80’s synth pop sound, based on a few ideas I’ve had lurking in the back of my brain for some time now. It was cool to step away from what I’ve been doing with Order of Melchizedek and try out something else. The reception from the crowd was positive, as well. I was even offered a spot on a split release with Reichardt van Grieken on the Live Bait label 2 minutes after my set ended!!!</p>
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<p>DMS – Oh, Wow!!! What a dream come true for me!!! I’d met Sanctum back in ’99 for an interview while writing for that music</p>
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<p>mag, and they were so cool!!! When I found out they were coming back on tour I was psyched, when I was asked to open for them… I flipped!!! Jan &amp; crew were all VERY cool to work with. It was a very positive experience, even though my mixer hates compressors!!! I recorded my set that night and released it on CDr. I had everything preordered, so I just ducked in back after my set and started burning copies &amp; assembling packaging for people. There were a total of 15 ‘Private Issue’ copies made for the show that have a few extras; a bonus CDr, inserts, caffeine pills &amp; a piece of wire. The cover for the bonus CDr is MRI cells of my wife’s head, cut directly from the films!!!</p>
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<p>What other projects are you currently in or have been in?</p>
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<p>DMS – Well, I work as 7 SE7EN 7 &amp; O.o.M., primarily. I also have a project that I dabble with called Digital Solace, which is not at all of a religious nature. I was a part of Order of Black Vision with Mike Duncan (Black Mayonnaise) and Stephen Petrus (Murderous Vision). Stephen &amp; I have also collaborated on a project called Lithopædion and I’ve done guest appearances on a few Murderous Vision tracks. I’m not sure if that synth pop stuff I did will ever take the form of an official ‘project’. For that show, it was called DMSO, but it may end up being incorporated into Digital Solace. I also do sound design for another self made company called Shadow Sound Design. The idea with that is to make sound beds for the Horror Attraction industry and to eventually score independent horror films. In 2003 and 2004, I designed all of the sound environments for Nightmare in Painesville, which, at that time, was one of the première Haunted Houses in all of Northeast Ohio. I’m also currently working on music for the score of a movie called Legend of The Melonheads.</p>
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<p>Enlighten us about Ambimorpheous Recordings?</p>
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<p>DMS – Ambimorpheous Recordings is the label I created to release my music on. Initially, I intended to exclusively release my own music, but I’ve had ideas that have stretched beyond those bounds, so we’ll see what happens. And, yes the word Ambimorpheous is made up. I’ve had that question presented to me many times with rather hostile overtones. Why, I really don’t understand, but some people seem VERY opposed to having to create a word to describe exactly what it is you do. The idea behind it is blatantly obvious, I thought… a morphing, or mutation of ambient sound. Admittedly, this made a lot of sense while intoxicated, but it still seems very apparent clear headed, if you ask me. Anyway, it’s the outlet for my sonic expression that would find no other source of external exposure.</p>
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Is this just a record company to release personal stuff, or do you<br />
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<p>DMS – As I said, Initially, I wanted to be solely responsible for the material released on the Ambimorpheous label. But, as time progresses, so do the ideas. I’ve had contact with some incredible talent throughout the years that I feel needed a place to fit in, as well. Some future releases will not have religious themes, so this will open up the label to new ground, unhindered by spiritual themes. The break from exclusively being a Christ based label started with the Lithopædion CDr, really. I took on the responsibility of that release because it was an honor for me to be able to pay some respect to Stephen for all the work he had done with that material and for asking me to work on it with him. So to me, not only participating in the project, but doing the release was mandatory for me, even though it was not in any way religious. I’m looking forward to releasing a 3 inch by Simulacra and I am also compiling material for a compilation to be released in the not too distant future, based on the 10 Commandments. All artists, outside of O.o.M. were by invite, that is to say, all involved have, for me, very personal reasons for appearing on this comp. The artists involved have all in some way inspired me, all being influential to what it is I do musically. Some bands that I feel would fit into this category have graciously declined my invite to appear, leaving room for those more willing to explore the concepts of God’s Law. Yes, there are both Secular and Non Secular bands appearing and that IS intentional. I am pursuing a world view on laws and morality, a non denominational outlook on a code of ethics, not just a singular view based upon God’s Commandments. People throughout the world see things differently and, I believe, to truly understand each other as a global community, we need to understand how we view basic laws and how they apply… to others AND ourselves. I could have started with the code of Hammurabi, but that wouldn’t seem appropriate. All bands were given the same directive, explain your Commandment musically, as you see it. How does it apply to you, to the world around you? I am very excited for the way things are panning out with this release.</p>
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<p>Your name, I assume, comes from the Bible. How has (the Bible) your<br />
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<p>DMS – Yes, it does. Melchizedek is a scarcely mentioned Biblical figure, seen as a foreshadowing of Christ. The Order of Melchizedek was basically his followers. My spiritual journey is a rather interesting topic, but suffices it to say, things I’m</p>
<p>passionate about are always reflected in some way in my music. When I started out, it seemed as though there were only a handful of bands dealing with any Christ-based themes. Everything was Satan, Serial Killers &amp; Sex. I wanted to fit outside the mold, a main reason most subcultures are formed. Everyone had done all the ‘evil’, so I thought it would be a great idea, a good way to be different from the rest. Plus, I am a Christian, so it just made sense to want to make Experimental Ambient music for like minded individuals… and for anyone else who was interested.</p>
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<p>Do you feel that the spiritual overtones in your music have limited<br />
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<p>DMS – There have been a few times I’ve questioned my intent, but this is my path. If I have ideas that don’t quite fit into the realm of Christianity, I have created outlets for them. Some may challenge the validity of my faith with some of the other projects’ I’ve worked with, but no one seems to remember that, as a Christian, the first thing you need to do is admit that you are not perfect. I feel that this basic principal is all but forgotten, by the Christian who judges as though they are the law AND by the pagan, who challenges everything a Christian does with perfection as a weapon of disproving the existence of Christ. No one is perfect, no one. Don’t let yourself be fooled, that is where hypocrisy starts, with the misconception that, just because you’ve accepted Christ, you’re now perfect.</p>
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<p>The community is usually overrun with artists trying to out-shock each<br />
other with images of violence or perversion; do you think it is harder<br />
to get your art out to the public when those elements are missing?</p>
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<p>DMS – No, I don’t even see where anything is really missing at all. If an artist feels the need, religion is a goldmine for ‘Shock &amp; Awe’! The Bible is chuck full of sex, death, plagues, disease, violence, betrayal, evil, magic… all you have to do is read it to find out.</p>
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I have read some of the reviews of your music it seems that some were<br />
just focused on the images or some lyrics instead of listening to the<br />
whole of the work, focusing on your religious beliefs instead of the<br />
quality of the art. How do you as an artist cope with such narrow<br />
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<p>DMS – I think with a bit of a different perspective on that topic. A review is only someone’s opinion of a work, and as with the sphincter, we all have one!!! As far as the reviews of my work that have tried to focus negatively on the subject matter, I believe those were based on ignorance and immaturity. But, if you really listen to what was said, I really got a reaction out of them. With attempts to belittle me or my faith, they’ve fallen victim to MY spell!!! My mission has been a success. They’ve thought about Christ, if but for a moment. And, sometimes a moment is all it takes for God to claim a new warrior. Also, ponder this, in all their defense of ‘evil’ and all their badmouthing Christ, they sound eerily similar to those book burning televangelists screaming about Def Leopard records being evil. The hypo-pagan sounding like the hypo-Christian!!! To actually defend my work with that point has been one of my greatest moments, as an artist. They were none too happy about it, as you can imagine!!! To be fair, though I’ve spoken with one reviewer who actually apologized for his reviews, and like I said, to really look at what he had said in one of my personal favorites is very revealing. I had ‘shot’ [myself] in the foot’ by sending a disc (that was clearly marked ‘PRESS TEASER&#8221;, meaning it was only for mention that it would be released and what it would sound like, not for a full review) with no other information. What an idiot I was, especially when he compared the music to one of my all time favorite Death Industrial acts, Megaptera!!! He was just trying to be funny, but inevitably paid me one of the best compliments I’ve had. I thanked him for that.</p>
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<p>DMS – Yeah, do it. Creativity is a personal thing, if that’s your means of coping with what life has to offer, do it. Don’t fear the critics, read your manuals and back your stuff up!!!</p>
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<p>DMS – Where should I start? I’m working on a new Order of Melchizedek release that will be coming out on Broken Organ Donor Records, run by Steven Makita of Lockweld fame. I’m also taking on the mastering engineer role for the soon to be released Of Swine and Swill CD. I already mentioned the Melonheads movie and the split with Reichardt van Grieken…, I can’t wait for that, Richard Pflueger is amazing!!!. Also in the works for the Ambimorpheous label are looking at trying to get The 10 Commandments CDr out and releasing a new Lithopædion CDr. I may end up releasing another CDr from 7 SE7EN 7. There are also plans for the Simulacra 3 inch. I guess you could say things are kinda busy around here.</p>
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<p>DMS – Well, I guess I’d say that I obsessively try to live within the boundaries of my compulsions way too much!!! I’m an extremist and a perfectionist, I can be too harsh on the ones that I love and not nearly as harsh on those who deserve it. Oh, wait…, you said just one. Sometimes I talk too much. It’s better to remain silent and be thought the fool than to speak and remove all doubt.</p>
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