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Plasmacrash

Plasmacrash

Started at the end of the 2005 Colorado Dark Arts Festival, Plasmacrash was formed by college radio DJ’s Asbestos (then known as Big Tim) and Rivet, with the intention of performing at the 2006 Dark Arts Festival. Plasmacrash was not selected to play Dark Arts 2006 (although Asbestos was selected to DJ), and the festival seemed to be discontinued, but the band refused to be defeated and continued thier purveyance of high quality music.

In 2007 Rivet was activated to go overseas with the National Guard. Thick Noose guitarist Chaotic Weevil, who had played in a band called Winterwulff and the Sexual Harassment Pandas with Rivet and former Plasmacrash drummer Jon, was added to the band to fill in for Rivet. This transitional period saw the band taking a break from playing live shows.

During the hiatus, Asbestos pursued his side project Tantalus Doctrine, with Pseudokiss Masochist of The New Waveforms. Rivet, meanwhile, continued developing his guitar technique and working on Plasmacrash material over the course of his deployment, and played in a cover band called Testocalypse with people from his platoon.

As the band was preparing for it’s return to playing live shows, Asbestos recruited drummer Joey Gunn. Gunn managed to land the band a slot performing at the 2007 Anime Wasabi convention in Denver. The band opened for Japanese Industrial act The Royal Dead. While being one of the largest shows the band had played in terms of crowd and venue, Plasmacrash recieved mixed reviews from the audience.

Rivet returned from his deployment just in time for the band to perform at the 2008 Colorado Dark Arts festival. Having realized their goal of performing at CDAF, Plasmacrash has continued moving on to bigger and better shows, higher profile venues, and larger crowds then ever before.

Presently, the band plays shows with a lineup consisting of Asbestos, Rivet, Gunn, and Weevil.