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Cubanate is an Industrial Metal band from London , founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Phil Barry with Graham Rayner and Steve Etheridge . The group became well-known known for its early fusion of distorted Metal guitars, and Techno percussion (later incorporating Breakbeats ) with industrial electronics and vocals. HISTORY Cubanate played their first UK tour in November 1992 supporting left-field UK techno duo Sheep On Drugs . The group signed to Berlin's Machinery Records shortly afterwards. Rayner and Etheridge departed after the first Machinery single, "Body Burn" (1993). The pair were replaced by Julian Beeston (ex - Nitzer Ebb ) drummer. In May 1994 the ''Metal'' EP was Single of the Week in Melody Maker magazine and later that year Cubanate received media attention when they were weirdly paired with Carcass for what turned out to be a notoriously violent UK tour ending in death threats to Heal and an on-air confrontation on the Radio One Rock Show with Bruce Dickinson . The second album ''Cyberia'' (1994) spawned the hit single "Oxyacetylene", which featured on the Mortal Kombat II soundtrack album. "Oxyacetylene" is generally considered Cubanate's creative peak and was later used as the theme tune of the best-selling Sony PlayStation game '' Gran Turismo ''. For the ''Cyberia'' tour 1995 they hired Shep Ashton and Darren Bennett . After '96 Ashton and Bennett were replaced by Roddy Stone (currently fronting UK metal act Viking Skull ) and David Bianchi . The third album, ''Barbarossa'' 1996 continued the industrial metal format, to diminishing interest, and the group clearly decided a change was needed. Signed in the U.S. to Wax Trax! Recordings for the act's fourth and final album to date, '' Interference '' (1998) was a departure from Cubanate's earlier techno experiments with a strong Drum And Bass influence that alienated some of their traditionalist fans but was heralded as revelatory by others. The album was co-produced by Rhys Fulber . However, ''Interference'' proved to be the band's swansong. Although the act is not very well known outside the industrial scene, Cubanate had a brief vogue in Heavy Metal circles. "Body Burn" and "Oxyacetylene" were both Single of the Week in UK rock weekly Kerrang! and a number of early Nu Metal acts have cited Cubanate as an influence. Sometimes referred to as "the last industrial band", no new material has been released by Cubanate since 1998, and the band has not performed live since December 1999, although bootlegs of the unfinished album "''Search Engine''" have surfaced. Four Cubanate songs were used on the hugely successful Sony Playstation 1998 game '' Gran Turismo '' and the single "Body Burn" can be heard at length in episode eighty two of The Sopranos , first aired in May 2007 during the final series of the show. DISCOGRAPHY Albums and EPs Singles EXTERNAL LINKS
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