Thought Industry
American progressive metal band from Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Thought Industry, originally named Desacrator, was an American progressive metal band founded in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1989. The group underwent numerous lineup and stylistic changes over its career, releasing albums on Metal Blade Records and later on other labels. Its final studio album, Short Wave on a Cold Day, was released in 2001.
Quick Facts
- Origin
- Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.
- Genre
- Avant-garde metal
- progressive metal
- thrash metal
- alternative metal
- Years active
- 1989–2001
- Label
- Metal Blade
- Current members
- Brent Oberlin
- Mike Roche
- Jeff Borkowski
- Cam Taylor
- Mark Baldwin
- Past members
- Dan Roe
- Steve Spaeth
- Paul Enzio
- Christopher Lee
- Herb Ledbetter
- Dustin Donaldson
- Jared Bryant
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Other projects
Christopher Lee Simmonds continued performing as a singer/songwriter in the Chicago area through 1996, while also recording with Filter on 1997's Title of Record and producing the debut album by MiLkBabY for his label Moonquake Mobile. He recorded two solo albums, toured the mid-west and east coast through late 2007, and relocated to Baltimore, Maryland that September. There he worked as a studio engineer and producer on projects including Good Charlotte, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Marcy Playground, Underfoot, Filter, Gods & Aliens, and Bullhead, the latter considered a continuation of Thought Industry. Simmonds also performed with The Static Dynamic, based in Boston, Massachusetts, which released a self-titled CD distributed by Tunecore. Brent Oberlin, as singer for Cosmonaut, released Pipebomb Full of Nails in 2004 on Swollen Lip Records. A Thought Industry reunion with Oberlin, Paul Enzio, Herb Ledbetter, Mike Roche, and Jared Bryant took place on July 18 and 19, 2014 at Shakespeare's Pub and Louie's Trophy House Grill in Kalamazoo.
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