Chrome
Emerging from the American post-punk scene, the band Chrome pioneered industrial
music and the noisier aspects of rock. As a student at the University of the
Arts in San Francisco, multi-instrumentalist Damon Edge (born Thomas Wisse,
guitar, keyboards, drums, vocals, production) was interested in experimental
music and how to combine electronics and rock. Backed by equally versatile
musicians Gary Spain, John Lambdin and Mike Low, in 1976 he formed the group
Chrome, which recorded an acid-rock-influenced debut album, The Visitation, for
its own Siren label, failing to win over Wa...
