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Velvet Acid Christ   / artists (V) Real Name: Bryan Erickson Profile: Velvet Acid Christ had their origins in an 80's high school electronics class, where Bryan and Chris would debate the merits of Amiga versus Atari. Bryan and Grigory Bilham (an early member of VAC) were at the time working in a punk/funk band, which, by 1990, was altered to the trio of Bryan, Chris, and Grig. The band's name was originally Cyberchrist, although this was changed within a few months to Velvet Acid Christ, named (so they say) in honor of a bad acid trip. Grig left the band in 1992, leaving the core of Bryan and Chris (although various other people have had revolving door membership in the band). The Current line up is Bryan Erickson, Todd Loomis, and Dan Olson. Vac is head strong, fighting for animal rights, the rights of women, and the rights of homosexuals. Velvet Acid Christ is a media frenzy, no way to describe their sound, its different on every cd. URLs: http://www.velvetacidchrist.com/ http://www.myspace.com/velvetacidchrist Aliases: Bryan Erickson, Disease Factory, Hexfix93 Members: Gary Slaughter Name Variations: All | Velvet Acid Christ | VAC

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DarkSouljah, Jun 05, 2004

VAC is a relatively "popular" one-man electro-industrial act from the US. A lot of his material is really hit-or-miss, and has tended to stagnate over the past several releases. For a first time listen the music will probably sound really cheesy and the lyrics are just bad poetry, but every now and then there's some decent tracks on his albums (nothing really original though). One of the worst aspects of VAC is Erickson's horrible obsession with sampling. Pointless sampling runs rampant in much of his work, and at times it's terribly excessive and annoying. Either a short sample is being repeated 50 times during one song (i.e. most of the COTD album), or longer ones are used between or during songs, which becomes a nuisance to hear everytime you listen to a VAC cd (i.e. "Psycho" on FWN). VAC is a decent stepping stone into the EBM genre, but once you're in you find there's so much more to be discovered. If i had to recommend something, you should check out: Church of Acid, Fun With Knives.

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