God Lives Underwater

Having spent their formative years in small-town Pennsylvania tinkering with computers and keyboards, Jeff Turzo and David Reilly reached a turning point one evening in 1993 when an industrial/techno track they had made for a party prompted them to launch a band. The pair went on to lay down four more songs and landed an audition with Rick Rubin, president of American Recordings. Impressed by the material, Rubin offered Turzo and Reilly a contract on his Onion label. A self-titled EP appeared in 1995, after which guitarist Andrew McGee and drummer Adam Kary were brought in to support live performances. God Lives Underwater issued its debut album, Empty, later that year, with Life in the So-Called Space Age following in 1998.