Adema

Videos:. According to Alec Empire, Future of War was noteworthy because of its "left-rooted crtitque of the 'modern' high-tech-war, as we had seen it all some years previously during the Gulf War.". Albums:. In March 2002, ATR's album Future of War (1997) was banned in Germany. Current line up (2004-2005):. Her record label is named Fatal Recordings. Previous line up (2001-2004):. This is because, as she states in interviews, Hanin Elias decided to set up her own record label, where she did not feel oppresed by the mostly male artists.

Caraciolli is from a band called Rewind Yesterday. Endo and Empire have collaborated since but relations between Elias and Empire appear to remain strained despite their mutual business interests. They are planning to release an album on their new label, Earache, in early 2005 with a new vocalist who's name is Luke Caraciolli. Since the collapse of ATR the surviving members have all pursued separate and successful careers. However, Mark Chavez has recently quit the band in September 2004, due to musical differences. His death caused Empire some anguish and made any reformation less likely. When the band was launched, many criticized it for leaning on this relationship to gain attention, though it now seems unwarranted. Carl Crack died a few months later of a drug overdose.

The band's (ex)lead singer, Marky Chavez, is the half-brother of Korn's Jonathan Davis. The group decided to effectively disband in 2000 and to not consider the band's future until 2003. Following the release of Unstable, the band lost its guitarist Mike Ransom, and left the Arista label. According to Magnet Magazine, "Empire's guitar-playing values speed-thrash malevolence, and when paired with Endo's painful skronkage, the album is decidedly denser than its predecessor.". Insomniac's Dream (2002), an EP, sold only about 50,000 albums, while Unstable (2003) sold about 110,000. In 1999 ATR released 60 Second Wipe Out, an album that fazed out all use of sampling and brought on board New York City rappers the Arsonists. The band followed up with two albums that met with limited success. In 1997 ATR was joined by Nic Endo, a Japanese-American noise/soundscape artist during the Beck tour.

Two singles from the album, "The Way You Like It" and "Giving In", helped it sell over 600,000 copies. ATR never delivered a commercially viable demo to Phonogram. Its first album, self-titled Adema, was released in 2001. After signing to Phonogram, a major European label, in 1993 the band received an unusually large financial advance which they duplicitously used to set up their own record label: Digital Hardcore Recordings or DHR. Adema is a Nu Metal group from Bakersfield, California. ATR's early releases (which included songs like "Hetzjagd Auf Nazis!" / "Round Up the Nazis!") were surrounded by controversy in Germany due to the prevailing "no politics on the dance floor" attitude. "Unstable". The group was founded as an attack on the increasingly neo-Nazi influenced German techno scene and consisted of three Berliners - Alec Empire (from Berlin), Hanin Elias and MC Carl Crack.

"Immortal". If "No" is true, then suicide can be as much as an event as pressing the buttons on your remote control." (MEAN Magazine, July 1999). "The Way You Like It". The absolute negation, even to answer one's own existence with a "No". "Giving In". The next step was a shorter one. Unstable (2003). According to Empire, "Digital Hardcore initially meant the final questioning of everything, of the whole.

Insomniac's Dream [EP] (2002). Highly political, they fused left-wing anarchist anti-fascist views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound that was called digital hardcore, which is a term Alec Empire later used in the name of his record company. Adema (2001). Atari Teenage Riot is a German hardcore techno group formed in Berlin in 1992. Dave DeRoo -- Bass. Redifine the Enemy - Rarities and B-Side Compilation 1992-1999 (DHR 2002). Tim Fluckey -- Guitar. Rage (DHR 2000).

Kri Kohls -- Drums. Live at Brixton Academy (DHR 1999). Luke Caraciolli -- Vocals. Too Dead for Me (DHR 1999). Dave DeRoo -- Bass. 60 Second Wipeout (DHR 1999, Beat Records 1999, DHR 2000). Mike Ransom -- Guitar (left in 2004). Revolution Action! (DHR 1999).

Tim Fluckey -- Guitar. 1997 (DHR 1998). Kris Kohls -- Drums. Live in Philadelphia - Dec. Mark Chavez -- Vocals (left in 2004). Destroy 2000 Years of Culture (Interdord 1997, Cortex 1998). Burn Berlin Burn (Grand Royal 1997).