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F8 - pronounced FATE (feit): n. 1. The ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events. 2. the inevitable fortune that befalls a person or thing. 3. the end or final result. 4. death, destruction or downfall. 5. South Africa s only Tekno-Grind band of bizarre proportions with dark ambient, gothic, metal, cheeze, postrock & HC touches... F8 came into being as a result of Pablo Priest (Voice Of Destruction's drummer Paul Blom) buying a bass guitar in the UK while this landmark SA metal band did their European thing between 1995-1997, including the recording of the album Bloedrivier in the UK and a full European tour. The black Hohner / Steinberger bass guitar cost a tasty 90 Pounds (hard flightcase included! – in 2002 one of these f*ckers was spotted in a shop where it was going for a special price of over R4000) This was late 96. This bass was intended as a creator of guideline tunes for Priest and Francois (his brother, V.O.D vocalist, aka Uncle Vinnie and Die Kruis) 6 year anticipated (and procrastinated) project, Priests Of Extreme Sadism - a project which has not been left on the backburner, but will still erupt most definitely, rattling quite a few cages. Returning to SA after a killer Euro-Tour, the rest of V.O.D stayed behind, getting on with this and that, watching Kiss and Ozzy at Donnington, earning Pounds etc. The absence of creating music resulted in plonking about on the bass. V.O.D bassist Diccon was set to give some lessons, but he plays with his fingers. Pablo wanted a more hard core approach and settled for a pick. He also ended up teaching himself - well, not really teaching, merely managing to create sounds that stop short of sounding wrong. Eventually a drum machine was added. Visiting old friends, Werner Offner and Julian Oosthuizen (aka Jules & Vern) at the infamous 50 Bloemstreet, the notorious Hangpoes came to being, a one take 60 minute improvisational disaster with Pablo Priest on bass & backing wails, Jules on keyboards and random drum machine, Vern and Vaughn on rotating vocals. The master tape (and only Hangpoes copy) was sent to Francois in London as a Christmas / New Year gift, complete with 50 and Over porny mag pics as cover artwork - thus the title - a horrorshow! From that session the first real F8 song came: I'm a Booza! Pretty self-explanatory, really. Vern gave it his deep, personal philosophical take on the joys of boozing while Priest and Jules played until they got tired and faded it out. A couple more live quick take tracks were born a few Vodka soaked Saturday afternoons later incl: !!Speeed!!, Dr Faustus, Karnival DeGrind, The Nelly Song and Vernie, Get Me a Drink! With the exception of the 2 drinking songs, the first three tracks became the ep: A D8 WITH F8. After playing bass guitar for only a year or so, Pablo wrote over 50 songs. The break from the physical strain of drumming hard and fast was a welcome breather, though drum patterns still churned forth via the digital programming. And it was more like messing around than actually playing the bass, anyway. RECORDINGS A D8 with F8 (1997 - ep) Pronounced: FATE (1998 - ep) STEP ON IT! (1998 - a collection of the first 2 ep s) ADDICTIONS (1999 - collection of strictly electronic programmed instrumentals) A STAR IS MISCARRIED (2000 - ep) BELIEVE (2001 - a collection of all the F8 trax) 2004 saw the short film imPERFECTION getting a F8 soundtrack. Other F8 affiliations: http://www.TERMINATRYX.com http://www.HORRORFEST.info http://www.VOICEofDESTRUCTION.com http://www.KOBUSmusic.com http://www.SHADOWREALMinc.com http://www.FLAMEDROP.com http://www.PaulBlom.com

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