Metal Edge Magazine
April 2000 (in stores February 15)
Page 47
"Rock on the Rise"

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URANIUM 235

Band: Shane235 (vocals/guitars), Matt Brown (guitars, backing vocals), Robert Steele (drums), Jimmy McConnell (bass), Chris Bride (keyboards)
Album: Cultural Minority (Mystic Music)
Website: www.uranium235.com
Address: Uranium 235, c/o Legend Artists Management, 12 West 37th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY, 10018
Briefly: A haunting and enchanting synthesis of industrial, Goth and cyber-tech electronica.

A band's sound is created by combining the various musical influences of its members, and a band's integrity is established when those influences are entwined with a piece of each band member's personality and musical style. New York City-based Uranium 235 bursts with integrity and attacks your aural senses with a 56-minute potpourri of guitar-heavy electronica, vocalist Shane 235 describing the band's sound as "the harder side of dance and the guitar side of techno." Combining elements of "Pretty Hate Machine"-era Nine Inch Nails, sisters of Mercy-style Goth, the catchy hooks of mid-'80s Depeche Mode, and hints of Type O Negative, Uranium 235 formed in 1993 and has shared stages with Marilyn Manson, Fear Factory, The Misfits and Life of Agony. Originally released overseas in 1998, "Cultural Minority" made its US debut in February on Mystic Music. Uranium, by definition, is an extremely lethal radioactive element used in the creation of nuclear weapons. "Cultural MInority" is as dangerous as its namesake, yet draws you back for repeated listenings, making the band well worth their atomic weight in gold .... Sales that is!

--Dov Teta