Who are Cybercide?
Eddie Martin, Rob Ivey (aka Spike) and Barry Carrera, Other people who have assisted or guested include Justin Morey, Stefy Melody and John Martin
Who are the line up for Cybercide live?
Currently Eddie, Rob and Barry although we are slowly recruiting more live members.
When and how did Cybercide get started?
Cybercide was conceived in 1997 in a student living room in Leytonstone, London after he and Eddie discussed the possibility of using guitar based goth to create EBM style song structures. The initial writing started shortly after Eddie left Revolution by Night, to move to Leeds, however things never really took the shape of a band until Eddie and Rob Ivey met randomly at the Wendyhouse club when it was situated downstairs at the Subculture on Wade Lane in Leeds in 2001. “We joked about all the boy bands and short lived commercial disposable pop on the radio, and the possibility of doing something similar and see how far it might get, I guess it kind of backfired and we ended up having fun and giving it a bit too much depth to be commercial.”
Where are Cybercide from?
Contrary to popular belief we are not German, nor Swedish. Cybercide are English, Eddie and Barry live in London and Rob lives in Leeds, their hair colour comes from Jerome Russell peroxide and hair bleach, not from any scandinavian or teutonic heredity.
How do you pronounce ‘Cybercide’
You would be amazed at how many people get this wrong, so the phonetic spelling is as follows:
saI.b∂r- saId.e
What does the name “Cybercide” mean?
In truth, not a lot, the idea came from a period when there were many bands like Dei-cide and Geno-cide, Sui-cide etc all had –cide on the end of their names, it just seemed that Cyber-cide would be the obvious choice. We have since learned it is some kind of computer virus as well as an online murder or something similar, but that was not the initial reason behind it. Those reasons would probably have been more original and interesting than our choice. Maybe it was a bad choice but it is memorable and it has worked so far and we are having fun with it, and, as they say in the army ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’
Who are Cybercide’s musical influences?
In terms of song construction: Fields of the Nephilim, The Mission, Rammstein and Guns and Roses. In terms of more genre specific acts: Funker Vogt, Laether strip, Icon of Coil, Colony 5 and to some degree, Aha and Depeche mode.
What other bands have the members of Cybercide been involved in?
Rob has played in orchestras since he was very young and is a classically trained musician specialising in Piano, percussion and drums. Eddie has been playing guitar ever since he intervened to stop a Spanish guitar being smashed up at school, rather than leave it to gather dust he learned to play it instead. Since then he has been involved with Revolution by Night, Einsteifen, Voices of Masada, and many others who never actually released cds, playing both lead and classical guitar, it was only after John Martin left to have a family in 2007 that Eddie started to take over vocal duties along with some singing lessons and put down the guitar. Before discovering EBM in the form of Nitzer Ebb’s "isn’t it funny how your body works" and Læther strip’s "Don’t tame your soul," Eddie mainly listened to gothic rock. Rob Ivey has always been into music of differing styles maintaining the premise it is better to keep both eyes open rather than narrowing your mind. Barry used to be in a band called Dirt Models who supported KMFDM on the UK tour of the album Hau Ruck, as well as numerous other rock bands. All members of Cybercide have been known to assist other bands as session musicians for their live shows.
Do the members of Cybercide have any side-projects?
Not at the moment, but that doesn’t mean to say that we would ever refuse to work on other projects if we felt they were right for us. Cybercide is all about having as much fun with music as we can, so we don’t believe in being restricted.
Who have you remixed so far?
We have remixed, Deviant UK, Wumpscut, The-Sepia and Combichrist, we will be remixing Uninvited guest, Pretentious moi and several others in the near future. In turn we have remixes of Searchlight due for imminent release by XP8, Coreline, Icon of Coil and a few others.
How can I get Cybercide to remix one of my tracks?
Ask us, just send us an email, our details are listed on our site,
How can I book Cybercide ?
Just drop us an email directly, we love playing live, so that means we are within most people's budgets. We manage ourselves and have no middle-man manager so we can keep the costs down.
Will you release your early demo’s?
They have been floating around over the internet for years, and while we don’t have any intention to revisit old ground, it is a possibility if there is enough demand for it.
What equipment do you use?
Live, everything is re-sampled and re-sequenced into the Korg Triton Extreme. In the studio it depends on the song but over the albums and new songs currently finished and ready for release the list is as follows.
On ‘adrenalin’ we used:
- Eisengrau: Supernova, Roland JV1080, Novation drum station, SR202 freeware drum program, sound samples recorded at the Redout shooting ranges in Kent, & an Amstrad hi-fi radio unit, SA-80 rifles, and an EMU XL1
- Searchlight: Virus, Rebirth, Supernova, drumstation, Access Virus b, EMU XL1, yamaha Cs1x, Police helicopter and civil unrest , summer 2001 Harehills Leeds, Fire drill klaxon St James’ hospital, Leeds.
- Exocet, Scorpion VST instrument, Emu XL1, Virus b, Reason 2, Sheraton guitar, BC rich guitar, Boss GT6, Crate Amp half stack, Yamaha CS1x
- Further, Access virus b, Emu XL1, JV1080, Supernova, drumstation, Cs1x, novation A station, Sheraton guitar, GT6 fx, refuse compactor lorry, Harehills Leeds.
- Isolate, ancient PPG wavetable synth, JV1080, access virus b, E-bow, empty corona beer bottle, and Sheraton guitar, boss GT6, cs1x, supernova
- Redshift, rebirth, access virus b, Emu XL1, supernova, cs1x, drum station
- Underfire, novation drum station, cs1x, access virus b, supernova, SA-80 rifles,
- Recoil, access virus b, Emu XL1, cs1x, JV1080, supernova, drum station
- Faceless, Cs1x, JV1080, supernova, A station, Emu XL1, drum station, monologue taken from Lew Wallace Ben-Hur reproduced by kind permission.
- On Signals/Protect Your Hardware, album title to be confirmed:
- Velocity, Access virus b, Sheraton guitar, drum station, Korg triton extreme,
- Protect Your Hardware, access virus b, supernova, korg triton extreme, drum station.
Other songs with equipment lists will appear as and when they have been fully recorded and mixed.
Where did you get your samples/sound bites from?
We don’t sample films, the cost of getting clearance is way too expensive. Any spoken word bits were done by Eddie but in such a way as to make them sound as though they may be from a film. Any sound effects we create using either the supernova or the virus.
What do the lyrics to your songs mean?
All the songs have simple definite meanings, the problem is that we have twisted them into bad goth poetry so that they are somewhat oblique, to make them sound cooler. We don’t like to tell people outright what it is because half the enjoyment of listening to lyrics comes from your own mis/interpretation of the lyrics and from figuring it out for yourselves. However if you write to us saying what you think it is about we can confirm or deny it for you.
We can however tell you exactly what inspired each song even if we can’t tell you what each song’s exact meaning is..
- Eisengrau, inspired by an industrial colour.
- Searchlight, the music was written at a time there were full on riots going on outside Eddie’s house in Leeds when he was a student, the lyrics were inspired by going to a night club and the smoke alarms went off in the middle of the night and every one had to stand outside for a bit, all the words just seemed to materialise as we walked back in.
- Exocet, inspired by a missile, used against the British forces during the Falklands conflict, 20 years before the song started to get written.
- Further, originally called ‘further away’ just a simple honest song inspired by the realisation that what the eye doesn’t see, can still hurt you.
- Isolate, Emily Dickinson said it best, that parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell, the inspiration for this song came from the simplest fact of life, which is, that it ends, and there is nothing anyone can do to prevent that lonely ending.
- Redshift, name was taken from the spatial movement of a star and applied to sentiments of misanthropy.
- Underfire, Eddie met a soldier who had completed a tour of duty in a far off land, in which we had little business, and he described what it was like to shoot some body, how it had made him feel, the questions that he was asking himself about the event, even now, and all this echoed back to the poems of Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon from the First World War.
- Faceless, How can we come to terms with dying, and what legacy do we leave behind, this was inspired by the speech from Ben-Hur's mother to the central character while discussing the occupying Roman forces.
- Velocity, inspired by two words, road and rage, but not necessarily road-rage.
- Signals - Protect Your Hardware. It is hard to explain this song without appearing patronising, but it is our slightly tongue in cheek way of trying to communicate that: sometimes the things that need saying are said the wrong way so frequently that we as people get complacent, sometimes the old codes of conduct may be considered outdated, but frequently we find they are just as valid now as they were then.
Where can I buy your stuff, no one stocks it near me?
In the shop section of our website, direct from us, or from a list of suppliers in the links section of our site.
Do you mind if I take a video of you at one of your shows?
Feel free, you can even have an audio recording of the gig if you like us that much, just have a word with us and the engineer before hand and we will see what we can do about getting it recorded for you.
What do you think of MP3's and people downloading?
Doesn’t matter what we think, people will be people and they will down load. We have discount versions of our album on our site as an mp3 release and this means if you don’t want to buy a cd you can still get the music. If you support us, then please don’t steal from us, we already give enough free stuff out on our website.
Please, think about this, while file sharing of Mp3s can be good for promotion, when people start converting audio tracks to mp3s with the intention of uploading that is when the artist actually loses out. We, like most acts on the EBM electro scene, are not rich rock stars and we have to work long hours at our day jobs to find the money to make a cd for others to enjoy.
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