industrial

Acumen relates to 4 artists: 1. French tech-house producer Antoine Garcin. 2. Prog Rock, Glitch, Post Rock, Ambient, Acoustic, Electro, Experimental producer on Benbecula records. 3. The former name of coldwave band <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Acumen+Nation" class="bbcode_artist">Acumen Nation</a>. "Nation" was added due to a legal dispute over the name. 4. Experimental, Indie, Rock, one-man banded vision that began as a vibration. Then became light. Then became matter. Now misses being a vibration. This is what that sadness sounds like.

Coal Chamber is a Nu-Metal band from Los Angeles, CA, USA formed in 1995. They enjoyed some mainstream success in the mid to late 90's during the nu metal boom which they, along with bands like KoЯn helped create. The band gained a large following early in their career, arguably because they were one of the first 'darker' themed nu metal bands. Coal Chamber signed to Roadrunner Records and recorded their first album (both in 1996) for their self-titled debut in 1997.

MM9 (also known as Many Machines On Nine) formed in 1998, first brought their brand of hard-edged electro-rock to the stages of their hometown of Sydney, Australia and created a groundswell of support that has firmly established them as one of Australia's premier touring acts. Equally at home playing traditional rock venues, mainstream music festivals, dance clubs, or massive underground rave parties; MM9 is a band whose versatility is matched only by the sheer potency of their stage presence.

"Assemblage 23" is a one-man futurepop/ebm project, whose sole member is musician Tom Shear, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. Prior to starting Assemblage 23, Shear experimented with music under the name "Man on a Stage", beginning in the early 1980s. Most of Shear's music at this point was instrumental, as he lacked the confidence to sing; the quality of the music itself was highly questionable by his own admission. Shear eventually began to add vocals to his music; at the same time, Shear was also playing bass in a punk band called the "Advocates".