Formed back in 1997, GASR began as a response to the stagnancy that plagued industrial music as a genre. With similar musical backgrounds and tastes, Luis Brito and Gary Suarez wanted to write music that could push EBM to new creative levels and still be something they would ultimately want to listen to themselves. Since then, GASR has performed with such acts as Assemblage 23, Attrition, Icon Of Coil, Male Or Female (Front 242), Neuroticfish, and VNV Nation, and has appeared twice at the infamous Dracula's Ball event.
2005 saw the long overdue release of the extraordinarily delayed GASR debut, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, on Nilaihah Records. Featuring storming club hits like "Conspiracy" and "Slavemaster" alongside pensive downtempo cuts like "Private" and "Zero", the album received critical acclaim from countless publications, including Side-Line, Chain DLK, and Gothic Paradise. Dark Realms Magazine went so far as to boldly call the band "the future of underground dance music."
In 2007, GASR released their second album for Nilaihah, entitled REPTILE. A polemic with teeth, the album stepped away from the sunny themes of domestic violence, rape, and murder found on their debut, opting instead for an even darker, uncomfortably intimate record meant as a thoughtful and violent reaction to life in post-9/11 America. Less of a dancefloor-oriented record than its predecessor, it's understandable that it wasn't as well received.
GASR continues to write new music and rework older material, though at a much slower pace. Who knows what the future holds? As if there is much of a future left...
blog comments powered by Disqus


