Tristan Shone, the creative core of Author & Punisher, started the project in 2004, setting out to craft devices (machines) as a force multiplier. That he could control machines to trigger a myriad of sound objects (synths et al.) was not just heuristic but revolutionary. Shone’s mechanical engineering and art background functioned perfectly as a catalyst to his songwriter form. To date, Author & Punisher has seven lauded full-lengths and one EP, the latest of which is Krüller. Shone’s unconventional yet assiduous methods with music and machine have landed crucial collaborations with Perturbator’s James Kent, and Tool’s Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor, who appear on Krüller tracks “Misery” and “Centurion,” respectively.

Self described Torture-Tekk – Chicago’s mindFluxFuneral creates dark dystopian soundscapes

“AUDITOR fuses static noise walls, punishing downtuned industrial beats, black ambient drone, and dead-eyed doom metal into a palpable expression of emptiness.

“There isn’t one drop of hope to be found within, not even a flicker of light to cast a warm glow in this world of despair and confusion.”
-Heathen Harvest

“There are no niceties about it: this music wants to destroy you.”
-Toilet Ov Hell

“… a harrowing black ambient epic, all grinding, pulses, crumbling rib cage rattling rumbles, staticky drum machines, and primitive programmed rhythms, straddling the line between dark and moody, and truly terrifying, ultimately, and seemingly impossibly fusing the two, into something heady darkly hypnotic, and strangely mesmerizing.”
-aQuarius Records”

POLYFUSE is the creative outlet of musician and sound designer Justin McGrath. The spread of music genres under this alias are quite wide and range from the evocative long-form dark ambient piece “One Quiet Moment” to modern Industrial Dance to the jagged, broken-glass-to-your-throat analog Acid of the No One Will Come To Save Us and Output albums, and even a large catalogue of film-score style pieces. Together with Surachai he runs Trash_Audio