Factrix

Factrix was a pioneering Industrial music group from San Francisco, formed in 1978 by members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs.

As Factrix, the group released a number of subvers

Factrix was a pioneering Industrial music group from San Francisco, formed in 1978 by members Bond Bergland, Cole Palme, and Joseph T. Jacobs.

As Factrix, the group released a number of subversive and 'dangerous' recordings in the early 1980s. The incredible 'Scheintot' LP was a document of morbid, moody, and subtle experimental rock that is as eerily unsettling today as it must have been way back in 1981 when it was initially released. The live LP 'California Babylon' (1982) was a collaboration with Monte Cazazza that remains a rough and violent selection of guitar-noise deconstructions and primitive machine-noise rumblings. Conversely, the 'Empire Of Passion/Splice Of Life' 7" single was a marvelously sinister bit of apocalyptic sound-poetry and industrial soundscaping..."