| About Bleedsynth | Bleedsynth Bio Bleedsynth is a Chicago local Harsh Terror EBM/Black Metal Industrial project from the south side of Chicago Illinois. The project was started in late 2006 by Frost Oktober. At the age of 16, Frost was introduced to Industrial music and immediately developed a passion for it. Not 2 months after his first experience with the genre, Frost had started writing his own Industrial music. He started with a song called "Black" and continued on making other songs which included the original version of "All Is Dust" and "Eradication." He began development on an album called Leather, Chains, and Black which included the 3 songs stated above as well as 7 others. Frost recorded his own tracks in his bedroom using the microphone on his Phillip's Webcam. The album was never released to the public due to its low quality recordings, however a few copies were given to some of Frost's close friends. Frost Oktober is a self-taught musician capable of playing the electric guitar, the drums, the keyboard, programming, singing, and screaming. He is also somewhat familiarized with the saxaphone, bass, and several other percussion instruments. He is also a self-taught composer as well as a recording engineer and mixer. He started out his musical career in a small power trio Heavy Metal/Alternative band called "Anonymous." The band consisted of Frost as the vocalist/lead/rhythm guitarist, Alex Vegabyrnes as the lead/rhythm guitarist/backup vocalist, and Amber Meade as the drummer/keyboardist. Through the years, a few other people joined and left leaving Frost, Alex, and Amber to be the only consistent members. The band played out once or twice at a guitar studio called World Folk Music in Beverly, Illinois. Nothing really came from the band and Frost decided to move on to something new. Frost had always had an interest in the darker side of life. He grew up watching horror movies such as "The Evil Dead", "The Thing", "Nightmare on Elm Street", and "Creepshow." The movies always caught his fancy as the feeling of being scared was always a thrilling experience. No other genre explores the realms of horror as Industrial does with its use of found objects such as audio sampled directly from horror movies which helped to push him towards Industrial more so. Frost played with another project in late 2008 to early 2009. A self-titled, Darkwave/Ambient project with the purpose of creating music to be used in horror films. He began this project when he was asked by a college friend, David Sherry, to make music for his short film "Cut_Burns." Frost started by making a song called "Safe Home" which could be described as a slow piano and ambient tune heavily influenced by Akira Yamaoka from Silent Hill. As Frost continued through the year, he was asked by David once again to create music for his next short film "Trust the Voices." This project spawned 2 more songs from Frost's imagination; "Acoustica" and "Requiem." He then began working on the songs on his own at home and playing with more ideas. Before he knew it, he had a 10 song album finished and put it up for sale on www.snocap.com as well as www.soundclick.com However, due to his inexperience of using Garageband and Protools some tracks came out off rhythm and no sales were made. Frost removed the majority of his Darkwave/Ambient music from the internet but is currently playing with the idea of re-editing them with his new-found understanding of Protools and Garageband and releasing Bleedsynth's debut album "All Is Dust" as a 2-disc set. The release would feature all of the Terror EBM tracks on one disc and all the Darkwave/Ambient on a second. Over the years, Frost has been in many bands and experimented in different genres including Heavy Metal/Alternative, Punk, Marching, Electronica, Harsh Terror EBM, Darkwave, Ambient, Black Metal, Death Metal, Nu-Metal, Grindcore, Smooth Jazz, Swing, Piano, and several other different forms of Industrial. Currently, Frost is attempting to obtain a deal with a record label for Bleedsynth. He has submitted his demo to several record labels and hopes to hear back from them soon. He is also attempting to start his street team to help spread the word as well as working on his album to set it up for release on Amazon Mp3s and Itunes. |
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