Ancient History
Webmaster’s note: This page chronicles the first events of the rejuvinated Brainclaw project (when Tara came on board) to the last events of 2003. It starts with the writing of the first song for the Insekt/Angel CD and ends just before the New Year with the production deal between Brainclaw and Carfax. Enjoy a trip down memory lane… The oldest entries start at the bottom of the page and work upward to the December 28, 2003 entry at the top.
December 28, 2003
Brainclaw is officially contracted to help complete the new CD for Philadelphia’s own industrial rockers, Carfax Abbey. Duties include fleshing out four existing Carfax songs and infusing them with some serious Brainclaw flavor. Work on the nearly finished Brainclaw CD continues as well.
December 26, 2003
Graphic artist Pamela Methot begins work on the graphics for the new Brainclaw CD, entitled Insekt/Angel.
December 08, 2003
Unbelievable. Good things are brewing this cold Monday with Brainclaw’s recent domination of the Electrogarden Network Top Forty Electronic Music Chart. Insekt/Angel, When The Dark Rains Come and Incessant Surveillance are in the First, Second and Third spots OVERALL on the entire site. Somebody’s listening! Please feel free to head over there, give the songs a listen, and give a cool review if you feel inspired to do so! It’s a fantastic site for new electronic music talent, give it a good once-over while you’re there.
December 02, 2003
mp3.com is dead, eaten by C-NET.
December 01, 2003
The awesome crew over at Wet-Works Electrozine have published a very positive review of the 2003 Promo CD. You can read the review here. The Brainclaw review is at the top. When you’re done reading the review, poke around and see what Wetworks has to offer the Electromusic enthusiast. It’s a great site.
November 26, 2003
Thigs are getting ridiculous on the MP3.COM site for Brainclaw. the SECT ep is rocketing straight up… The four songs dominate the 3th, 4th, 7th and 8th spots on the MP3.COM Experimantal chart, some with double bullets. The Bodyhorror ep is still kicking butt hanging at #12, #13 and #14 on the Industrial Electronic chart, all with double bullets. Finally, our top performer is Tryst, at NUMBER TWO with a bullet on the Darkwave chart! Definitely Brainclaw’s highest charter EVER on MP3.COM. Oh well, everything that has a beginning has an end…
November 25, 2003
IT IS OFFICIAL. The Brainclaw song When The Dark Rains Come has been selected to appear on the upcoming Matrix Revolutions DVD release. Check back here for more information as things develop. Oh, it’s David’s Birthday as well. Happy B-Day, B-Claw!
November 24, 2003
What a way to go out… It seems that the SECT ep is making some serious waves during MP3.COM’s death throes… The four songs dominate the 5th, 9th, 10th and 12th spots on the MP3.COM Experimantal chart, some with double bullets. The Bodyhorror ep is also kicking butt hanging at #19, #21 and #22 on the Industrial Electronic chart, some with double bullets. Finally, our top performer is Tryst, at Number Four with a bullet on the Darkwave chart. That’s Brainclaw’s highest charter EVER on MP3.COM.
Experimental Chart
Industrial Electronic Chart
Darkwave Chart
November 19, 2003
The four latest Brainclaw songs, including the ultra-brand-spanking-new song Softkill, are all available for download on the new Music page, which has now replaced the link that used to take you to mp3.com. Enjoy, and look for new songs here soon.
November 18, 2003
It’s official. MP3.COM has been eaten by CNET and as of December 2, 2003 will be no more. Thanks to MP3.COM for helping Brainclaw promote its music. Be sure to look here for news on the addition of music mp3s to the Brainclaw Website. Designs and songs are being considered at this time.
November 17, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 15,000 plays on mp3.com.
November 6, 2003
Our new friend dj coVen over at the Canadian-based Bloodlit Industrial Gothic Electro radio station has made Brainclaw their Featured Artist of the Week on their web site. Insekt/Angel is the intro song on this week’s show, anfter a really nice verbal introduction and many compliments. Head over and take a listen to this most excellent radio station! After you’re through listening to Brainclaw, check out the rest of the site, which gives lots of brilliant electro songs to the weekly listener.
November 1, 2003
The super-awesome folks over at the BITE ME! Ezine have given the Brainclaw 2003 Promo CD a stellar review on their web site. You can check out the review here. After you’re through reading the Brainclaw review at the top of the page, check out the rest of the site, which provides some excellent musical content.
October 31, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 14,000 plays on mp3.com.
October 22, 2003
Unbelievable. Good things continue to happen this week, with Brainclaw’s own Insekt/Angel smashing into the Electrogarden Network Industrial Chart at NUMBER ONE. It is also shooting up their Main Page Top Forty Chart and is currently at Number 14. In addition, When The Dark Rains Come is hanging steady at Number 4. Please feel free to head over there, give the songs a listen, and give a cool review if you feel so moved to do so!
October 20, 2003
New BRAINCLAW photos are finally gracing the Images page. Brainclaw is shown cavorting near the Delaware River and the ancient Circle View Farm estate.
October 19, 2003
The very cool people over at the Electrogarden Network have created a totally awesome mini Brainclaw page on their web site. They have featured all three songs from the Insekt/Angel Promo CD. You can check out the mini-page here. After you finish checking out the Brainclaw stuff, be sure to check out all of the other awesome resources that the Electrogarden provides.
October 17, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 13,000 plays on mp3.com
October 14, 2003
The wonderful folks over at the Wet-Works Electrozine have published an extremely cool interview that they did with Brainclaw a few weeks ago. They must appreciate the Claw, because they also feature BC on their frontpage as well! You can read the interview here. Just click on the Featured Artists link to the left of the Wet-Works page. The link to the interview is at the top.
October 8, 2003
The Brainclaw song Insekt/Angel gets established on garageband.com.
October 3, 2003
IT CAN’T BE STOPPED! Brainclaw appears to be dominating the MP3.COM Industrial/Electronic chart at positions 20, 24, 26, 37, 63 and 84. Brainclaw is also firmly in control of the NUMBER 1 position on the Hellwire.com Top 100 Industrial Bands chart. Thank you to everyone who is listening. Brainclaw is unbelievably surprised and totally ecstatic that you are supporting them in this way.
October 2, 2003
Good things keep coming, it seems. Brainclaw just blew into the MP3.COM DARKWAVE chart at NUMBER 38 with the song Tryst from the Bodyhorror/Sect CD!Thank you to everyone who is listening. Even OLDER Brainclaw news (see below) or return to the Current News Page October 1, 2003
Brainclaw is NUMBER ONE on the Hellwire.com Top 100 Industrial Bands chart! A HUGE “thank-you” to everyone who voted. Please keep voting, once per day as you have time.
September 26, 2003
Yet another site update has been initiated, as you may have already noticed. It shall unfold over the next week or so…
September 21, 2003
Brainclaw is hanging steady on the Hellwire Top 100 Industrial Bands chart’s TOP TEN at #5! Thank you to everyone who’s helping out! Remember to go to hellwire.com and cast your vote for Brainclaw. You can do it once in a 24 hour period.
September 20, 2003
Brainclaw’s song Dead Monsters re-enters Broadjam Website’s Industrial Top Ten. Go to the Genre tab and select Industrial to check it out.
September 19, 2003
Brainclaw’s song Insekt/Angel slams into the MP3.COM Industrial-Electronic chart at #39 WITH TWO BULLETS.
September 18, 2003
Brainclaw is happy to announce that, at long last, Unsafe is in the can, finished. Look for it soon on mp3.com.
September 17, 2003
Brainclaw slams into the Hellwire Top 100 Industrial Bands chart’s TOP TEN at #7! Thank you to everyone who’s helping out! Remember to go to hellwire.com and cast your vote for Brainclaw. You can do it once in a 24 hour period.
September 15, 2003
Brainclaw breaks into the Hellwire Top 100 Industrial Bands chart at #36 and quickly rises to #15, it’s present position. Remember to go to hellwire.com and cast your vote for Brainclaw. You can do it once a day. You can also write your own review of Incessant Surveillance at this location.
September 08, 2003
Brainclaw gets and incredibly favorable review in the latest issue of Industrial Nation Magazine. Huge thanks to Cage 23 for the fabulous words. The review is in Issue 18, in the Demo Reviews section, page 59. You can read the text of the review on the Reviews page. You can purchase a copy of Industrial Nation Issue 18 at Tower Records and at Digital Ferret in Philadelphia.
September 07, 2003
Brainclaw’s song Dead Monsters re-enters Broadjam Website’s Industrial Top Ten. Go to the Genre tab and select Industrial to check it out.
September 05, 2003
Samples of the newest Brainclaw songs, Deadlife and Unsafe are now available on the Current News page. They are instrumental, 56 kbps mp3 files. More samples are on the way…
September 03, 2003
Some long-needed website changes are in progress. Stay tuned for even more changes and features in the months to come.
August 28, 2003
The brand-new, Brainclaw-remodeled version of Carfax Abbey’s new song Flush To The Floor is in the can, and work has started on the next one, a Clawed-Up version of Carfax’s newest tune, Second Skin.
August 14, 2003
Brainclaw starts fleshing out the 7th new song, tentatively entitled Voluptuosa, while also squeezing in sessions with Philadelphia’s Carfax Abbey to do some collaborative work for a Fall promo release. A tentative release date for the new Brainclaw CD has been set at October 31, 2003.
July 15, 2003
Brainclaw breaks 12,000 plays on mp3.com.
June 27, 2003
Brainclaw is putting the finishing touches on the next three songs, Deadlife, Unsafe and Softkill. Vocal recording will take place next week, so look for new songs on the Brainclaw mp3.com web site very soon.
June 11, 2003
Brainclaw visit Nocturne at Shampoo in Philadelphia and hear When The Dark Rains Come spun by DJ Jon Gill.
June 02, 2003
The newest song being worked on, with a working title of Softkill, has gone into production. This one is shaping up to be harder and faster than usual.
May 25, 2003
The Brainclaw Darkwave BioAnime goes live on the Web. Check out LoopZine.TV for all the details.
May 14, 2003
The Brainclaw Group has been established on Yahoo Groups. This free service will provide an easy way to get updates on what Brainclaw is up to.
May 8, 2003
Philadelphia’s Carfax Abbey teams up with Brainclaw in creating a heavily industrialized version of “Cry, Little Sister” (from The Lost Boys soundtrack) for a joint Carfax/Brainclaw release. Several versions will be created.
April 28, 2003
Art Grauer of The Circular Cosmic Spot favorably reviews the Brainclaw 2003 Promo CD. See the Reviews page.
April 23, 2003
Another new song, tentatively entitled Unsafe, has been fleshed out. Brainclaw is considering placing “in-progress” mp3 samples of new songs on the site.
April 18, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 11,000 plays on mp3.com.
April 11, 2003
New photos abound on the official website in the Images and Biography sections and on the mp3.com. site.
April 6, 2003
Photographer Kyle Cassidy does Brainclaw’s second photoshoot in various burned-out buildings and wreckage in Philadelphia.
April 3, 2003
The newest song, tentatively entitled Deadlife, is ready for vocals and soon for final mixdown. Look for it soon on mp3.com.
April 2, 2003
DJ Badger plays Incessant Surveillance on the Synchromesh internet radio show.
March 25, 2003
Synerdata Internet Radio plays Dead Monsters, Tryst, Downsect and Matte Black Smile.
March 16, 2003
The new artwork for the Strange Protection CD goes live on mp3.com.
March 14, 2003
The new artwork for the Bodyhorror+Sect CD goes live on mp3.com.
March 10, 2003
Brainclaw re-records and re-masters 1992’s Execution Style to avoid sample issues on mp3.com.
March 9, 2003
DJ Theonebob OPENS THE SHOW with Incessant Surveillance on WFDU FM, on The Shape Of Things To Come FM radio show.
March 7, 2003
The new artwork for the TREASON CD goes live on mp3.com.
March 2, 2003
DJ Theonebob plays Insekt/Angel on WFDU FM, on The Shape Of Things To Come radio show.
February 28, 2003
The new artwork for the SHRIEKING IN STANDBY CD goes live on mp3.com.
February 23, 2003
DJ Theonebob plays Incessant Surveillance on WFDU FM, on The Shape Of Things To Come radio show.
February 21, 2003
The new artwork for the PAINSELECTIV CD goes live on mp3.com.
February 19, 2003
The new artwork for the INFRASTRUKTURE CD goes live on mp3.com.
February 14, 2003
BRAINCLAW sends out their third wave of press kits to points distant and near like Georgia, Texas, Alaska, Meadville, Pa, Newport Beach and Los Angeles, CA.
February 13, 2003
The BRAINCLAW song Dead Monsters enters the Top Ten on the Broadjam web site.
February 11, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 10,000 plays on mp3.com.
February 7, 2003
DJ MAC spins When The Dark Rains Come on IPM Internet Radio and mentions the song and the band on-air.
January 27, 2003
BRAINCLAW sends out their second wave of new press kits to varying locations like New York, Seattle, Illinois and San Diego.
January 13, 2003
BRAINCLAW sends out their first wave of new press kits to diverse destinations like Norway, Philadelphia, Germany, Minneapolis, California and Belgium.
January 11, 2003
Our good friend DJ Tymothi spins Insekt/Angel and Incessant Surveillance at Darkwave Garden and Therapy in San Diego, CA.
January 3, 2003
BRAINCLAW breaks 9,000 plays on mp3.com.
December 20, 2002
The BRAINCLAW song Downsect is selected to appear on the brand-new Spiderbite Studios compilation CD, entitled Perversions of Industry.
December 8, 2002
DJ Knobhead spins Insekt/Angel at Club Evolution in Philadelphia, PA.
November 23, 2002
DJ Poe spins Insekt/Angel at Ulana’s in Philadelphia, PA. Tara and David hear their new song spun in a club for the first time.
November 21, 2002
DJ Schmitty spins Insekt/Angel during Sin Thursday at Club Conduit in Trenton, NJ, and it goes into rotation all over Philly and New Jersey over the next few weeks.
November 15, 2002
DJ Bat from the band Xorcist is the first DJ to spin Insekt/Angel. He does so at the Bar Sinister in Hollywood, CA.
October 31, 2002
BRAINCLAW releases their first new music in 5 years - the Insekt/Angel promo CD. It contains the songs Insekt/Angel, Incessant Surveillance and When The Dark Rains Come.
August 18, 2002
David and Tara begin work on their third new song, When The Dark Rains Come.
August 16, 2002
Brainclaw is photographed in Studio Auroviral for the first time by Philadelphia phtographer Kyle Cassidy. Brainclaw trades their beautiful, satin-lined, full-size pine coffin for a series of photoshoots, in a move that turns out to be mutually beneficial for all concerned.
May 3, 2002
David and Tara begin work on their second new song, Insekt/Angel.
February 16, 2002
David and Tara begin work on the first new BRAINCLAW song in five years, Incessant Surveillance.
