Electro Assassin

Founding Member: Kevin Gould.
Past/Present Members: Richard McKinlay, Ian Taylor.
Genre: Electro, Industrial, EBM.
Biography:
Emerging in 1990 from the wreckage of Johnson Engineering Company, Electro Assassin were one of several bands that helped define England’s EBM movement during the early nineties. Founded by Kevin Gould in 1990 as an outlet for his solo compositions, he soon brought Ian Taylor aboard as the band’s vocalist.

Jamming the Voice of the Universe and Bioculture, both released initially on Germany’s Hyperium Records, set the mood for the times. Picking up themes from such artists as Front 242, BiGod 20, and early A Split Second, Electro Assassin combines the hard driving beats and heavy handed sequences that makes the scene such a joy to be a part of. The band themselves refer to their music as “cyberpunk”: a computer and electronic approach to the renegade attitude that created the punk movement of the seventies and eighties.

By 1995,  vocalist Ian Taylor was replaced by Richard McInlay when the band moved over the England’s Cyber-Tec label, releasing The Divine Invasion, a CD filled with literary themes adopted from the highly futuristic author, the late Philip K. Dick. The duo moved to Britain’s Cyber-Tec Records for The Divine Invasion, which was also released in America on Fifth Column.

Album:
• Jamming the Voice of the Universe (1992)
• Bioculture (1993)
• The Divine Invasion (1995)

LINKS:
Homepage: metropolis-records.com/artist/electro-assassin
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/electroassassin
Spotify: spotify.com/artist/Electro Assassin