> 2008 < NOVEMBER 2008 The anticipated self-titled TERMINATRYX album and TERMINATRYX/NOSFERATU DVD is now available! THE TERMINATRYX ALBUM The album features a dozen enthralling tracks of new breed Industrial-Metal, defying all expectations coming from South Africa order the CD on-line at: www.ONEWORLD.co.za www.KALAHARI.net www.SUBTERANIA.co.za (incl. international CD & T-shirt orders) Full on-line download available soon! THE TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD The TERMINATRYX/NOSFERATU DVD contains the 1922 silent vampire classic with a new original soundtrack as performed live at the 2006 South African HORRORFEST Film Festival screening, by TERMINATRYX and very special guests. Additional material includes music videos, photo galleries, a short film and more. The DVD cover is interchangable to feature either TERMINATRYX or NOSFERATU order the DVD on-line at: www.ONEWORLD.co.za SEPTEMBER 2008 TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD RELEASE The release date for the TERMINATRYX / NOSFERATU DVD will be on Halloween at the South African HORRORFEST (31 October). The DVD will contain the full NOSFERATU feature film with the new, original live soundtrack created for it by Paul & Sonja of TERMINATRYX together with their special guest musicians Simon Ratcliffe & Sean Ou Tim (Lark), Francois Blom (K.O.B.U.S. & V.O.D), and Matthijs Van Dijk (Dawntreader). Other TERMINATRYX material will include music videos, Paul's short film imPERFECTION, photo galleries & more. THE X FEST FILM FESTIVAL Extreme Music Edition 26-28 September @ The Labia Theatre, 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa Exploding from the big screen > killer documentaries & movies on alternative music genres including Metal, Industrial, Punk and Hardcore! Tickets: R25 each - for booking info, e-mail: info@flamedrop.com (line-up below) Official Website: www.XFEST.org Facebook Group: http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7939698591 Facebook Event: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=26999767012 Confirmed Line-Up & Screening Times: Friday 26 September 8pm: HATED – GG Allin & The Murder Junkies Saturday 27 September 2pm: STRAPPING YOUNG LAD Live at Download Festival 4pm: PUNK ROCK HOLOCAUST 6pm: EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN’s Liebeslieder 8pm: GET THRASHED – The Story Of Thrash Metal Sunday 28 September 4pm: RAT SKATES – BORN IN THE BASEMENT 6pm: THROBBING GRISTLE – RE-TG Live 8pm: NEW YORK HARDCORE CD Give-aways incl. the new SLIPKNOT, UNDEROATH, DISTURBED & MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, all the STRAPPING YOUNG LAD albums, ARCH ENEMY, Metal compilations, + WildFire Tattoo & Piercing vouchers! The Labia Theatre is a licensed venue and drinks from the bar can be taken into the cinema! See website for movie details - www.XFEST.org AUGUST 2008 The last weekend of September (26th-28th) the second X FEST Extreme Film Festival will rip a hole through the screen at The Labia Theatre (Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town, ZA) - this time round it will be an Extreme Music Edition, with documentaries and movies related to Metal, Punk, Industrial and Hardcore Genres. www.XFEST.org JULY 2008 In August TERMINATRYX will be supporting two international acts performing live in Cape Town within a single week! TERMINATRYX with SHEEP ON DRUGS @ ROAR - Lower Main Rd., Observatory, CT cell: 072 136 1833 dark.helmet@polka.co.za TERMINATRYX with VNV NATION @ The Goth Industrial Gathering - Tafelberg Tavern, off Hope Street, Gardens, CT www.subterania.co.za Comment on the TERMINATRYX July 4th album launch performance by Jon Monsoon: "Oh yes, it was good! Kudos and max. respect to Paul & Sonja for pushing the boundaries a lil' further out, challenging the perceptions of what a 'live gig' is all about. (It was difficult to remain seated in the theatre as the music definitely leant itself to bodily gyrations of the extreme sort, still it was fun to see people rocking out in their chairs!). Closing song 'Siek + Sat' was brought to vivid life with awesome effect thanks to some simple yet damn effective visuals! This band definitely has many facets; what you hear recorded on CD is just one, live is another... and visually - yet another... sonically this band is next level.... Support them...! Looking forward to seeing what they put together for the VNV Nation show!" TERMINATRYX live with VNV NATION at the Goth Industrial Gathering - 22 August Facebook Event TERMINATRYX album launch - CAPE TOWN Friday 4th JULY @ The LABIA Theatre 68 Orange Street, Gardens, Cape Town 9pm / R30 Friday 4th JULY will see the official Cape Town launch of the long anticipated TERMINATRYX album at the legendary Labia Theatre - on stage and on the big screen! This unique double feature will include a multi-media live performance by TERMINATRYX + a sneak preview of the forthcoming werewolf movie SKINWALKERS, two weeks before its official countrywide Ster Kinekor cinematic release. Seats are limited for this once-off double feature spectacular - booking essential. Booking opens from 1 July at The Labia Theatre (021 424 5927) - or e-mail for more information (info@flamedrop.com). TERMINATRYX CDs and merchandise will be on sale, and the first 10 CDs sold comes with a WILDFIRE Tattoo or Piercing Voucher. The Labia is a licensed venue and drinks from the bar can be taken into the theatre. The TERMINATRYX album was released by ENT Entertainment in May 2008 - if your record store does not stock it, demand it! Distributed by IRIS - catalog # CDENT 010 Also available form indie stores like High Fidelity (JHB), Mabu Vinyl (CT) and on-line stores including: www.subterania.co.za (incl. international orders) www.kalahari.net www.oneworld.co.za JUNE 2008 New TERMINATRYX T-Shirt Designs (printed by www.BadRabbits.co.za) Order these shirts (and the TERMINATRYX CD) at: www.SUBTERANIA.co.za ADDITIONAL LIVE PLAYERS: Patrick Davidson (guitar) pic by Brett Reynolds Ronnie Belcher (drums) pic by Trevor Charles Miller TERMINATRYX Interview on FireAngelDesign.co.za Check out the TERMINATRYX interview in the latest on-line issue of FireAngelDesign.co.za TERMINATRYX Live at ROAR Friday 6 June Lower Main Road, Observatory, Cape Town - upstairs from Gandalf's A melting-pot of Metal from all corners of South Africa: TERMINATRYX Industrial-Metal (Cape Town) EREBUS Black Metal (Johannesburg) CONTRAST THE WATER Metal (Durban) Facebook Event Link TERMINATRYX Gauteng Album Launch Pix For pix of the 30-31 May Gauteng album launch by Trevor Charles Miller, check out the TERMINATRYX Facebook Group and pix by Dr. Death at the Zeplins Gallery MAY 2008 TERMINATRYX ALBUM LAUNCH DATES May - July 2008: Please Note: The show at the Zeplin's Rock Shack has been switched to ZEPLIN'S THE CLUB Flamedrop- & VanniePadaf Productions will host the co-operative Gauteng shows • Friday 30 May @ ZEPLIN'S THE CLUB - 384 Pretorius Street, Pretoria (with RUNICA and PLASTICOMA, + DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.zeplins.co.za / www.runica.co.za (Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17317446693) • Saturday 31 May @ Back 2 Basix at the edge of Melville, 167 Perth Rd, Corner Kingsway and Lancaster Road, Johannesburg (with RUNICA and DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.back2basix.co.za (Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13995004538) • Cape Town Album Launch - Friday 4th July @ The Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens) – TERMINATRYX on stage and on the big screen in a double feature of a different kind! The show will be followed by a special sneak preview screening of the new werewolf movie Skinwalkers, two weeks before its Ster Kinekor cinematic release! Limited seats - booking essential (booking will be open at the Labia Theatre 1st July – Tel: 021 424 5927 / or e-mail info@flamedrop.com for info (Facebook Event coming soon) • A pre-launch show will happen about a month before the Cape Town event on Friday 6 June with Contrast The Water (Durban) and Erebus (Johannesburg) @ ROAR (Lower Main Road, Observatory, CT). http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14490291771 While not performing at the Metal 4 Africa Winterfest (Klein Libertas, Stellenbosch) on Sat 7 June, there will be a TERMINATRYX presence. Updates will appear here and other profile pages. CDs and merchandise (incl. T-Shirts) will be on sale at the shows. WILDFIRE SPONSORSHIP TERMINATRYX will be sponsored by WILDFIRE Tattoos and Piercing Clinics Is there any other choice? www.tattoo.co.za www.bodymod.za.net The TERMINATRYX album was released in May 2008 thru ENT! TERMINATRYX album front cover featuring lead vocalist Sonja Cover design by Paul The long awaited TERMINATRYX album was released May 2008 release through ENT Entertainment, South Africa - distributed by IRIS (cat. no. CDENT 010) a Flamedrop Production TERMINATRYX (pronounced: "terminaytrix") – a new breed of South African music. The TERMINATRYX sound is a unique one in the South African musical milieu with the combination of striking vocalist Sonja Ruppersberg and the music of extreme music veteran Paul Blom (V.O.D, F8, and SAMA winners K.O.B.U.S.) blending into an Industrial-Metal soundscape rarely found in this country. In addition there are many musical elements subtly filtering through across the diverse songs, from Alternative-, Hard Core- and Punk flavours, to Electronic-, Dark Wave- and Gothic hints. From the start TERMINATRYX never attempted to sound like anyone out there, developing an identity all their own with inspiration coming from cinematic moods rather than other musical references. The undercurrent of the fusion-, symbiosis- and corruption of man & technology is illustrated and supplemented with subjects ranging from socio-political issues, individualism & independent thought, consumerism, a critical tirade in Afrikaans, a love song alternative, biological- and viral infection, alien visitation, instrumentals and more. Reacting on the state of the world (and beyond), there is no mincing of words. With a natural aversion to cheap commercial sentiments and a blind consumer society, TERMINATRYX is truly a unique South African audio adventure, looking at the world with a satirical eye as they take the listener through a juxtaposed range of sonic intensity and calm, merging technology with the organic in a David Cronenberg vs. H.R Giger trip. Produced by Paul, the track elements were re-recorded in February 2008 at Flamedrop Productions (with many of the original segments recorded since 2003 retained). All of the songs are original creations with Sonja and Paul also acting as executive producers. Early March 2008 Paul entered Sound & Motion Studios to accompany Simon "Fuzzy" Ratcliffe across a 10-day period to mix the album. The final mastering was done late-March. Fuzzy also guests on the instrumental track ABSINTHIUM with upright bass and a variety of exotic flutes, adding an organic emotional element to the predominantly electronically programmed backbone of the track. Another guest includes original guitarist Tom Somers with lead segments on SLEEPWALKERS and WE COME IN PEACE. Jenna Bird added a few well-placed bars of piano on SIEK+SAT. A German nursery rhyme narrated by Christina Storm opens the song MIDNIGHT. Exclusive audio samples of selected new recordings from the album (as well as demo versions) can be heard at these on-line destinations: SIEK+SAT > www.MyNoise.co.za/terminatryx (the only Afrikaans song – translated: Sick + Tired) VIRUS > www.MySpace.com/terminatryxxx CONsume > www.ReverbNation.com/terminatryx SLEEPWALKERS > www.LoadTheShow.com/show/TERMINATRYX MIDNIGHT (music video) > www.YouTube.com/terminatryx The album cover pictures were shot by Graham Abbott (of One Productions), with design, art-direction & post-production by Paul. The video clip MIDNIGHT is included as an enhanced CD segment on the album (as well as a web link). The video features clips from F.W. Murnau’s silent German classic Nosferatu. TERMINATRYX also created an original soundtrack for Nosferatu with collaborators from Lark, performed live to the screen at the 2006 South African HORRORFEST Film Festival (a DVD of which will be released in October 2008). At the 2007 Fest they gave The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari the same mood-drenched treatment, while the TERMINATRYX live soundtrack for the 2008 HORRORFEST will be the legendary Häxan - Witchcraft Through The Ages (again with special guests – www.HORRORFEST.info ) The Midnight video clip (and others) are also at www.YouTube.com/terminatryx. Two versions can be found here, with either the new audio track or the older demo version. Album launch shows are set for May 2008: Flamedrop- & VanniePadaf Productions will host the co-operative Gauteng shows • Friday 30 May @ Zeplins Rock Shack - Centurion (with RUNICA and PLASTICOMA, + DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.zeplins.co.za / www.runica.co.za (Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17317446693) • Saturday 31 May @ Back 2 Basix at the edge of Melville, Johannesburg (with RUNICA and DJ SINISTER JOE) - www.back2basix.co.za (Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=13995004538) • Cape Town Album Launch - Friday 4th July @ The Labia Theatre (68 Orange Street, Gardens) – TERMINATRYX on stage and on the big screen! Incl. a sneak preview screening of werewolf flick SKINWALKERS (two weeks before its theatrical release). • A pre-launch show will happen a week before the main Cape Town event on Friday 6 June with HORROR CAST and others @ ROAR (Lower Main Road, Observatory, CT). http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=14490291771 While not performing at the Metal 4 Africa Winterfest (Klein Libertas, Stellenbosch) on Sat 7 June, there will be a TERMINATRYX presence. Updates will appear on the website and other profile pages. CDs and merchandise (incl. T-Shirts) will be on sale at the shows. While Paul handled all of the album’s instrumentation, additional musicians will be incorporated for live shows, with a synched-up video projection accompanying the music set to give the audience a unique audio-visual experience. TERMINATRYX: SONJA: Lead & Backing Vocals PAUL: Guitars, Bass, Drums & Programming, Keyboards, Backing Vocals PATRICK: Guitar for live performances (from Mind Assault) RONNIE: Drums for live performances (ex-Grämlich) In a televised talent show-, and mock reality drenched commercial media decline, TERMINATRYX is not merely a breath of fresh air, but a long awaited new direction out to rattle the cage just enough to make a saturated public stand still and think, "hey, there's more to it than this..." - even if for only a moment. But as we know, a moment can be a multitude of infinities - depending on the way you look at it. Foreign distribution and licensing is underway. For more info: www.TERMINATRYX.com Contact / Press / Media / Hi-Res Images / Booking / Merchandise / Info : info@flamedrop.com TERMINATRYX chooses WILDFIRE Tattoos & Piercing (www.tattoo.co.za) TERMINATRYX Album Track Listing: 1. Venus Rising (2:17) 2. Consume (4:53) 3. Virus (4:05) 4. Midnight (3:31) 5. SleepWalkers (3:15) 6. Tabloid Android (3:18) 7. Symbionik (2:37) 8. We Come In Peace (3:42) 9. Up To You (2:57) 10. The Love Song (3:51) 11. Siet + Sat (3:52) 12. Absinthium (2:28) Enhanced CD segment includes music video for Midnight and a web link.

MARCH 2008

Sonja accompanied Paul to Sound & Motion Studios to mix the song WE COME IN PEACE, with Simon Ratcliffe. As the session was wrapped, Sonja had a sharp pain in her side. Suspecting the pasta salad, they went home. Half an hour later Sonja was doubling up. Off to the ER - 4 hours and blood tests later, the doctor suggested she stay over-night and check out her appendix the next morning. Noon the next day she was in the theatre and the almost-ruptured appendix came out! It was a matter of hours. She recovered well, but it postponed the TERMINATRYX album launch plans by about a month.

THE X FEST FILM FESTIVAL Paul & Sonja are the creators of the annual South African HORRORFEST, and expanded this concept into an additional film festival, The X FEST (28-30 March 2008), featuring a range of extreme, intense, independent and underground movies, including the only double feature screening in South Africa of Tarantino & Rodriguez's Grindhouse flicks Death Proof & Planet Terror, as well as Pervert!, The XXXorcist, Reefer Madness, Sick, Punk Rock Holocaust, Amateur Porn Star Killer and more. www.XFEST.org

> 2007 <

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Blog review by Something Wicked Magazine Editor Joe Vaz Saturday, November 17, 2007: Having missed last year's HORRORFST Finale of Terminatryx and Lark's original, live soundtrack to Nosferatu, I made damn sure I didn't miss this year's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I'd only ever seen snippets of the film on YouTube and, like all 70+ year old black and white silent movies it looks cheesy, corny and quite silly. But all that changed on the 31st of Oct 2007. Watching a classic like Caligari in a darkened theatre with a live 21st Century soundtrack suddenly brings back the scale of this picture. What a fucking masterpiece - instead of giggling at the screen I found myself suddenly entranced. Hanging on every (written) word. The score, composed and performed by Paul and Sonja from Terminatryx, Sean and Fuzzy from Lark, and The Crackpot Realist was beautifully pieced together, altogether haunting and kickass with a combination of acoustic and electronic sounds with vocal contortions supplied by Sonja and one of The Crackpot Realist's collaborators. What they manage to achieve is to completely revitalise this classic. For the first time I found myself completely enthralled by a silent movie - marvelling at the stylistic approach to the film making, finding the obvious inspirations of such great genre directors as Tim Burton and Sam Raimi. With their soundtrack they managed to make classic breathe again, resurrecting it for a new generation of film-makers to marvel at the magic of the silver screen.

For the 2007 South African HORRORFEST members of TERMINATRYX and LARK (+ others to be confirmed) will be performing an original live soundtrack to the screening of the German classic The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari. It will be the closing show of the festival which runs from 26 - 31 October (at the Labia Theatre, Orange Street, Cape Town). For details and a list of the movies confirmed thus far, check out: www.HORRORFEST.info or www.MySpace.com/SAhorrorfest

Sadly WITCHFEST 2007 planned for Saturday 29 September, Pretoria, South Africa has been canceled... See www.witchfest.co.za for details

TERMINATRYX on KERRANG RADIO!!! The demo version of the TERMINATRYX track CONsume will be played on Jason X's KERRANG RADIO show THE SLAB, together with a biog!!! It goes out Sunday 3am-4am (3 June 2007), on DAB, SKY, Freeview and FM in the U.K. From Monday it can be heard on-line at the link below: http://www.kerrangradio.co.uk/goout.asp?u=http://www.whatson.com/goto/?type=radio&station=kerrang&show=a_the_slab BATTLE OF THE BANDS & EA AMPLIFY TERMINATRYX is not the kind of commercially slanted project to actively take part in "battle of the bands" concepts, but thought it may be fun to attach to both the Make Some Noise venture as well as the Electronic Arts Amplify project. The choice to support Make Some Noise is due to the fact that they truly support South African alternative, underground and extreme music. To vote for TERMINATRYX, sms BATTLE 136 to 36563 (in South Africa) www.battleofthebands.co.za The EA Amplify project was chosen because a band can win a track on a future EA Game soundtrack. We feel the TERMINATRYX sound is very conducive for such an application, so what the hell! The profile on EA Amplify also features tracks not on the MySpace page: http://www.eaamplify.com/en-za/bands/TERMINATRYX If you like TERMINATRYX (for whatever reason) zip on by and show your support.

TERMINATRYX at RAMFEST 2007 TERMINATRYX will be playing the Ramfest in Worcester, Cape Town 2-3 March 2007. Check out the LIVE page for more details or www.audiomatik.co.za > 2004 - 2006 <

POST EURO TRIP & 2006 HORROR FEST

The European trip was a blast!
It was good to meet up with some old familiar faces in London before we head over to Berlin, Germany. It was a cool experience milling about the Popkomm convention centre and networking with the various labels, vendors, press etc. The Duncker Club show on 21 September ’06 went well and Diccon’s 8-string bass added a very interesting dimension. We’ve known the guys from Half Price for a while and also got acquainted with our other fellow SA bands who played that night - Misled and MyEpic.
On arrival at the club we noticed posters on the walls and flyers with some people who looked kind of familiar. They took a pic from our website of the old TERMINATRYX live line-up to spice up their promo posters for the show!
From there we (Paul & Sonja) went on a holiday trip through Paris, Amsterdam and back through Germany again, before heading through the UK once more for the last few days. All in all it was absolutely brilliant.
On our arrival it was straight into organizing our South African Horror Festacular. This year the HorrorFest film festival included a whole range of added genre variants like comics, PS2 games, a photo exhibition & more.
www.HORRORFEST.info
This year also took extra effort with TERMINATRYX heading the original live soundtrack to the 1922 silent vampire classic Nosferatu. We were joined on stage to a (near) full house by Francois (V.O.D / Kobus! / Die Kruis) on keyboards, Matthijs Van Dijk (Dawn Treader) on electric violin and from Lark, Simon & Sean, with everything from samples and upright bass, to the theremin and Middle-Eastern duduk. It was an awesome experience, for performers and audience alike.
With all of this out of the way, our attention can again be re-directed at getting our recordings sorted. We’ll be doing some re-recording, mixing and mastering. With this being a constant work in progress, a release date is not yet set, but we’ll send word out as soon as there is one.
Have a great holiday & end-of 2006!
> Paul & Sonja



TERMINATRYX HEADS TO GERMANY (& the UK) !

TERMINATRYX has been invited to play the South African showcase at POPKOMM in Berlin, Germany, on 21 September 2006. The venue is the Duncker Club, 9pm sharp (64 Duncker Street, 10439, Berlin, Germany) - Free Entry

The line-up will be the stripped-down TERMINATRYX, consisting of Sonja (vox) and Paul (bass, programming, backing vox), with Diccon Harper (V.O.D, ex-Demoniac, ex-Dragonforce) on 8-string bass. As with the last few shows we won't be using a drummer (the programming taking care of all that). Our guitarist couldn't make the trip, and with Paul's bass mostly acting as a low tuned guitar, Diccon's addition for this rare line-up will prove to be a bassed-up affair in deed!
Labels & press, please e-mail requests for multi-media promo disc - info@flamedrop.com
A pre-Popkomm London show has also been added: Tuesday 19 September, 9pm at The ALMA (95 Church Road, Upper Norwood, SE19 2TA) - Entry is Free.

> stay tuned for more details <

MySpace
TERMINATRYX is now also on MySpace: www.myspace.com/terminatryxxx

Live - August-September 2006
While TERMINATRYX anticipated to do a few live shows before heading to Berlin, it seems as though these will probably be scrapped until they get back from Europe.

T-Shirts
TERMINATRYX silver & red logo on black T-shirts can be ordered at: info@flamedrop.com
Sizes: S / M / L / XL / XXL
South African Price: R75 each (incl. SA p&p)
Foreign Price: $15 each (incl. foreign p&p)

From EYE to WHY - What's in a Name?
Since the group's inception in 2002, we thought the name was quite a cool amalgamation of many Sci-Fi elements for which we have an affinity. But since then the name has been used everywhere across the globe, from clubs to movies. Thus we decided to alter the spelling just a touch to make it more our own. So, from now on it is TERMINATRYX, its pronunciation is unaltered, as with the sound and attitude of the music.

Music Video
The video for Midnight has been shot and edited and will be sent out end-July 2006 - not like the TV chickens will actually play it! It features footage from F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, perectly matching the theme and mood of the song.

HORROR FEST ( www.SHADOWREALMinc.com )
In 2005 Paul & Sonja started the annual South African Horror Festacular, a movie festival dedicated to the genre which includes classics, favourites and rare flicks, as well as a short film segment which incorporates South African made movies. Halloween time (late October / early November) 2006 will see another bunch of cool movies on the big scream, with a dress-up competition, collectors' T-Shirts & DVDs on sale plus a load of other cool stuff, including a live TERMINATRYX soundtrack to the silent classic Nosferatu !
The Cape Town venue is The Labia (Orange Str, Gardens), and a JHB venue is being sought. For details on the Fest and other Horror matters, click the logo below:

Live 2005
TERMINATRYX will be performing live with LARK and MITSOO at the MERCURY LIVE on 17 December 2005 as the first chapter in the VENUS RISING shows. Merchandise including new T-Shirts and CDs wil be available at the venue.
(Mercury - 43 DeVilliers Str, Zonnebloem. Tel: 021 465 2106)

Past Live
As a low-key kickstart back into the live arena, TERMINATRYX played a show with Kobus! and The Uninvited at the Hidden Cellar in Stellenbosch.

Live Video
The entire TERMINATRYX performance from the Dream Collector Tour has been edited. Contact Paul on info@flamedrop.com for info on obtaining a VHS, CD-Rom or DVD copy.

Short Film
The completion of a video for the TERMINATRYX track SleepWalkers was postponed with the making of a short film imPERFECTION, directed by Paul and starring Sonja. It was co-produced by the two of them with cinematographer Philip Francis. Other roles feature Dream Collector Tour live drummer Ronnie, ex-co-vocalist Christina and Kobus! / V.O.D / Die Kruis frontman Francois.
TERMINATRYX appears in the short film as a band playing in a club called o3, and features three songs on the soundtrack: AbsinthMinded, SleepWalkers (over the end credit sequence) and an instrumental version of new song, Virus. Footage from this Flamedrop Picture will also be edited down for a music video length TERMINATRYX clip.
The 16-minute flick debuted at the 2005 Horror Fest and will also be sent to similar events around the world.

click logo below to check out details and pix of the movie

The Birth Of A Notion 2003
Mid-2002 Sonja and Christina mused over a mutual fantasy to front a band of extreme sonic persuasions. The two of them (one a make-up artist, the other one of South Africa's most prestigious super models) clicked on a personal, social and professional level, coinciding on many planes - including musical taste. Paul (drummer of South Africa's most influential metal act VOICE OF DESTRUCTION and sole F8 member) set the wheel in motion, devising a concept and writing the songs to fit. Programming many tracks, adding bass guitar and keyboards where needed, the only extra touch required was that of a fearsome guitar. For 6-string duties Tom was called in (filler for V.O.D while Diccon resided in the UK).
With the music shaped, the girls were drawn in to reveal their vocal capabilities. Their clashing vocal types was a perfect counter blast for the multi-layered moods reflected in each song - from a whisper to a scream, they played off one another. Pre-production commenced at Flamedrop Studios (Cape Town, South Africa) in late 2002, winding up around August 2003 - leaving the task of recording proper ahead.

Motivation
TERMINATRYX did not undertake this audio task to please the status quo or appease the masses. The philosophy behind TERMINATRYX has always been a sense of non-compromised non-conformism, creating sounds with which the members can identify and have fun with, not producing a market oriented package. Although the double vision of the two incredibly attractive leads is not something to be ignored, the look and more-powerful-than-the-norm music attached to it may be hard for some to swallow. A wake-up call is never a bad thing (since 2003 Sonja took over as sole vocalist). South Africa's musical environment has always been a hostile one when it comes to extreme music (especially the locally created variety). The female pop "stars" are inevitably bottle blonde puppets with saccharine vacant songs as nauseating as a no-holds-barred trip through Willie Wonka's factory. This technicolour neverland needs a bit of a shaking…and TERMINATRYX are the self-appointed shakers. The South African female perspective has always been a polarized, media friendly showcase - no more.
The idea that it is uncouth for women to be exhilarated by passionate, powerful, extreme music is as outdated as the notion that they cannot maintain their own career and are mere instruments of procreation. As sad as it may seem, these ideas are still very prominent in our multi-facetted societies. Women who appreciate this kind of music are also not limited to the beer guzzling, overweight, motor cycle rally variety - the proof before you.
Some things need to be said and explored. It is not often enough said by the female of the species, let alone in this legendary oppressive part of the globe. Some dinosaurs will simply fume at the thought of two Über-hot, outspoken babes giving them the finger. Fume away…and fade away, why don't you.

Light Within The Darkness
We walk the line between chaos and order. Behind disaster there is always hope. In part TERMINATRYX explores the dark side while never losing grip of a hope for a better day. There are enough bands, groups & solo artists out there dealing with the illusion of a blissful world devoid of any evil. While we all have the capacity for evil lying dormant inside each of us, some have the rationality to keep it at bay, others not. TERMINATRYX all know their dark sides and are not afraid to face it. An explosive way of expression like this purges the demon. Theirs is not a pessimistic world-view as they reflect the state of things. This dire inherited state is an endowment due to generations of greed and self-gratification at the expense of others - a simply unacceptable predicament. By looking into this abyss, we are reminded of our collective handiwork and need an electrified jolt to re-navigate the course before the entire show is over.
Never before has there been a female fronted extreme musical force in South Africa with outspoken, strong female projection, not afraid to say it like it is, cutting to the bone, exposing the flesh and the mechanics underneath. The no-shit attitude will only be threatening to those of the un-emancipated.

The Name
>We are finding ourselves at the edge of time, the final frontier pushed ahead with each passing second - the past done with, the future a mere second ahead of our present. Man (& most relevant here, woman's) evolution and the effects of technology and its advances is what we are living. Science and technology has advanced our lives, but in the same breath making us capable of bringing it all to a gloriously unglamorous end. Regardless of our progress we are still inherently savages. TERMINATRYX is a mood of the time - past, present and future, a glimpse of time.
>Sometimes the division between science fact and -fiction become blurry. Only a few years ago the thought of a camera on a portable phone was reserved for Sci-Fi B-movies of half a century ago. But film has become our historian - be it factual, fictitious, utopian, frivolous, prophetic, dystopian or doom-laced. Those movies playing with time and an unattained dispensation have always been more stimulating. (Its artistic accomplishment aside), some prominent motion pictures had explored these aspects and hold significance for TERMINATRYX, their spirit incorporated into a single name:

- Ridley Scott's BLADERUNNER ( with its Nexus replicants that are "more human than human" )
- Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS ( a dominated working class in the future with a female saviour who is kidnapped and replaced by a robot )
- Shinya Tsukamoto's TETSUO THE IRON MAN ( live Manga where a man evolves from metal fetishist to iron super-being )
- James Cameron's original TERMINATOR ( a cyborg assassin from the future returning to alter events )
- The Wachowski Bros.' THE MATRIX ( the wool pulled over mankind's eyes, unconscious slaves to the artificial world created by their mechanical superiors )
- The goddess Styx and the deadly Hades river named after her
- And then of course Mamoru Oshii's Manga classic GHOST IN THE SHELL ( from which the Wachowski's borrowed liberally )

Here film transcends mere entertainment and the pop-culture stigma attached to it. Yet, we don't exactly enter the realm of possibility - who knows? Nothing is definite, or infinite - or so we believe. Belief in itself can be a mere evolutionary asset bringing light to some and dread to others. Our world and lives have become cinematic, its impact far too often viewed in this respect, its reality and urgency overlooked. Life and art imitating one another - a symbiotic dream world. We watch wars on TV as though it's an ongoing movie - atrocity passing us by between commercials. In 90% of the above-mentioned films women play pivotal roles in motivation and outcome.

>While men have oppressed (one another and) women for ages, amid this tyranny the dichotomy and need to be dominated by the opposite sex has always been present (for whatever psychological-, fetishistic- or sexual reasons). Only in the ultra prude the image of a dominatrix will fill the observer with disgust - and in most cases this will also be a superficial recoil, the deep dark secrets inside the mind's denial (and behind closed doors) often making a beautiful woman in PVC a singular vision of divinity. Under normal circumstances it will ignite arousal or at the very least, fascination - the fetish clothing, the instruments of submission and discipline...erotically thrilling in its threatening guise. The identification of the two leading ladies in TERMINATRYX with the dominatrix look is both an aesthetic and assertive one - looking good while not allowing to be pushed around. Terminating convention, preconception, closed-mindedness and prejudice.

>The name TERMINATRYX is an amalgamation of all these elements.

>With futuristic sound and vision, coupled with traditional elements, subjects of immediacy are substantiated as universally constant - like time.

Synapse Infiltration
But, watching Tetsuo, Bladerunner & The Matrix and paging through a book of Dominatrix photography won't give you a total handle on the TERMINATRYX phenomenon. You'll have one incredible night in, that's for sure, but it is more than the clash of beauty and power through sound. If you get it, you do, if you need explanations, explore for yourself and exercise your faculties. What seems complicated can often be right in front of you. Basic, traditional truths have always been with us, a logical extension of our human condition. Yet, the tyranny of those fearing its effects often shift its focus, forcing it underground. TERMINATRYX is humanity, yet not of this earth.

Evolved Regression
We are all part of the game. But it has reached saturation point - overload - too much at one time; regurgitation. We need to step back before we slip into the proverbial heart of darkness where a point of no return becomes very blurry indeed - fashion, food, drugs, cars, music, on-line gratification, money, ego, illusion…Conglomerates force-feeding trends and ideals while nations starve, their leaders' guts busting. Need we ask what's wrong with this picture? Evidently so.
Our collective past is littered with shame, our present offer up embarrassment - what's left is to live into the future, even if it is via fictitious, fantasy and artistic means. Stepping back to look at the disastrous overview in order to push towards a better ideal.
Every day is a revolution - somewhere, for someone. Inside a skyscraper, in a lab basement, a besieged town, a classroom, inside the construction of someone's words or musical notes. Whether it is to expand their thought processes, demand improvements or as simple as not being hungry by nightfall. We are in control - but yet so heedless.

ManFreedomMachineOppression
Choice (within reason) is what makes us human (in part) - but when reason is deleted, our choices can have dire consequences. We see it daily. Zero defect machines are programmed to function optimally. At times our planet's downward spiral makes us feel as though things will be better off if it emulates the well oiled utility of our metallic brothers and sisters. But, part of our choice is not to be zombies - there are too many of them running the world as it is, their sheep populace swaying to their mesmerizing lies, pacified by a diet of consumerism.
Dulled senses are maintained by artificial stimuli within a paranoid 21st century milieu. When things seem like an elaborate conspiracy, that doesn't mean it is not the case. Ultimately TERMINATRYX wants everyone to think and decide for themselves on all levels.
And the machines are part of the consumer cycle, no choice in their utilization - well, not yet. Choice or not, malfunction cannot be avoided - in human and its mechanical creations...

Song Subjects
The lyrical aim of TERMINATRYX was never a set, patterned verbal conveyor belt, and never will be. TERMINATRYX want to speak their mind. Subjects are varied, none claiming to be works of genius.
Alien visitation, world conflict, assertive relationship stance, time, perception & misconception, protest, hope, fear, consumerist traps, the media and of course poetic license.
Within the conditioned mind-frame the public sees female artists as the bringers of love songs to be kept in their place (seeing as they're so helpless, fragile and can't do much else but submit to their overwhelming weaknesses…). Love songs had been written since the dawn of time. All of its emotional / cultural / physical / spiritual angles have been explored. There are some incredible ones out there. Nowadays it is simply too much of the same. No spin is put on proceedings. TERMINATRYX wanted to turn that notion on its head (just a little) with A Fuckin' Love Song. It also serves as an instrument of empowerment to women who feel that way, but never speak out. [It is not based on any real life experience, this hypothetical is one that needs articulation - and it is done so with force].
One cover version from the fabulous 80's period is set to be included while Afrikaans and German lyrics will also feature.

The Album Cover
For the album's cover design TERMINATRYX are working with renowned artist Vernon Swart, creating a provocatively dark vision. It is set to be a controversial atmospheric piece, one that'll have the grannies' lips flapping down at the salon.

Live
With many live ideas and concepts kicking around for future performances, TERMINATRYX are focussing their energies on the matter at hand - generating interest while they finish off the dozen plus songs for public scrutiny, adoration, destruction, scorn and praise.
The first ever TERMINATRYX live performances came in the shape of the band being asked to act as support for German Darkwave legends DIARY OF DREAMS on their South African Tour late-2003. (See LIVE chapter)
At this stage, Christina had already left and never took part in any live shows.

UPDATE
Christina is no longer an active member of TERMINATRYX due to work commitments. She is however behind the band in all of its endeavours and she may appear on the debut album as guest artist. This has changed nothing to the band's sound, attitude or commitment, Christina's selected backing vocals now merely replaced by that of lead vocalist Sonja.
The TERMINATRYX concept has become the prime focus of Paul and Sonja, and when it comes to live performances, the services of musicians fitting the bill will be acquired.

Contact
You can connect with TERMINATRYX at info@flamedrop.com or f8paul@yahoo.com


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