Toolmaker

Toolmaker was an early project of Kurt Joy (bass, programming, samples etc), Christian Pearce (guitar), and Brian Holloway (vocals) in 1993.

Described by Kurt Joy as “Lo-fi bedroom industrial”, Christian Pearce is said to have played guitar through an effects chain made up of six distortion pedals.

The home-recording project morphed into a fully fledged band called Room in 1994, playing syncopated hardcore metal with a drum-machine. Joy says that they “played a couple of gigs for the straightedge kids and freaked them out a bit”.

Pearce and Holloway later went on to form Ghidrah with Greg Broadmore (formerly of Lungfeast) in about 1996, but in the interim Kurt Joy’s next project was Chaos Engine, which also featured former members of Lungfeast.

Kurt’s other projects later included Usine, Nihil (another Greg Broadmore outfit) and Department of Corrections.