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The History Thus Far

Back in 1989, in the small town of Hillsborough, New Jersey, fellow SK pioneers Dante' and Michael first met in the setting of an otherwise monotonous high school algebra class.  Realizing that their commonalities were more than just coincidence (a.k.a. "fate"), they concluded that they were long lost brothers of the non-genetic kind and were soon collaborating on an insane repertoire of original punk rock, rap and metal.  In class, they would write darkly humorous lyrics about such topics as cheesy waste, death by carnivorous ticks, mesquite fetishes, Santa Claus's part-time job as a serial killer, and other such musical gems.  After school, they would converge in Dante's basement to record.  Dante' would pound out the beats on his Pearl kit while Michael screamed the lyrics into a recording boom box.  Within the year they completed their first tape, Mowing My Lawn Nude at Dawn, and distributed it throughout the high school while avoiding intervention from concerned parents, teachers, police and ATF agents.  They called themselves Spaztikolon... a tribute to Dante's freshman year history teacher and more specifically, to the well-versed speeches she gave about the circumstances of her large intestine.

Soon their equally insane and extroverted friends, Chris and Dan, had joined the cause.  Their roles in the machine of Spaztikolon began as backup vocalists, where Chris would contribute his newfound tenor expertise while Dan would scat, free-style and mimic the sounds of rare and often mysterious instruments.  These four self-proclaimed prodigies soon completed a second tape, It's 12:00, Don't Feed the Fish, in 1990.  One year later, they were back at it in Dante's now infamous basement, composing a concept album that pitted characters played by Michael and Dan against one another through songs of chaos and maim.  The recording, Things That Go Maim in the Night, was a hit among friends and mentally unstable teens alike.  Months later, SK graduated high school and went to college...  More >