Biography
San Diego outfit Crash Worship mounted some of the most visceral—and perilous—stage spectacles on the independent circuit. Three drummers hammered out hypnotic trance and industrial pulses while the remaining players generated additional music, set blazes, launched pyrotechnics, and soaked spectators in pig blood, water, flour, and produce. A devoted following trailed the group from its 1987 inception. That same year the musicians established their own Alarma imprint and issued their earliest recordings on it. In 1989 they committed to tape the full-length The Science of Ecstasy, the EP What So Ever Thy Hand Findeth -- Do It with All Thine Might, and the 12-inch “Flow.” Following the 1990 single “Pillar of Fire” and the album ¡Espontaneo!, Britain’s Cold Spring put out the band’s debut compact disc, Asesinos (1992), comprising reworked and polished versions of earlier material. ROIR later supplied an expanded American reissue in 1995. By 1992 the roster had settled into drummers Markus Wolff, Simon Cheffins, and Dreiky Caprice, guitarist Jeff Mattson, and vocalists/electronics operators “Fat” Jack Torino together with JXL. The first proper studio effort, Triplemania II, surfaced on Charnel Music in 1994. The Inflammatorio video also appeared in 1991. Crash Worship’s final concert took place in San Diego in 1999.
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