A coldwave industrial rock act from the wasteland.

Society Burning is:

Daveoramma – Vox, Keys & Programming 

Boom chr Paige – Guitars, Keys & Programming 

John “SigInt” Holder – Bass, Keys, Prog. & Guitars

Duffy “Duffman” Laudick –Keys, Guitars & Prog.

Brian McGarvey - Guitars & Moxie

David “DJ Twitch” Secore – Programming & IT

Sean “Satyr” Tracy – Guitars & Programming

Featuring:

Cha Connor - Vox

Billy Elliot - Cello

Tara Saavedra – Vox

ORIGINS

Daveoramma began recording music in 1991 under the name "Watchmen" while at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM. As an instructor of recording arts at the university, Dave had unfettered access to the university's 16-track recording studio where he met Boom chr Paige who was recording for a band called Your Mother. Boom provided guitar work and other musical support during the production of Watchmen's first release, Is God in Showbusiness Too?.

That first release resonated with fans of electronic music near and far, including San Diego’s Chase (then of Cargo Records, soon to be overlord of the seminal Re-constriction label). Chase included the track ‘Merciful Release’ on the Cyberflesh Conspiracy compilation from If It Moves… Records, which began a partnership that would span over the next decade.

Boom officially joined the band and the duo continued to explore new sounds, this time in the form of the release Plague in January 1992. While the band’s work was getting more attention in the electronic underground, the band’s name was already in use by other acts. Opting for a change, the band landed on “Society Burning” (ripped from a quote from a Denver, Colorado newscast) to better portray the increasingly aggressive sound that the band was honing.

In the first years of the 1990s the band utilized emerging technologies alongside their music, from promotion via Usenet and via internet as early as 1991, to being one of the first bands with a Web site as the World Wide Web emerged in 1994. In 1993, before the Web, Boom programmed and distributed 3.5" floppy discs containing multimedia samples of the band's work in packages they called "noise letters." The band's multimedia expressions continued beyond the nineties with Dave's own company, Prescient Thought Productions.

Frustrated by the constraints of rental studios, the duo built a home studio to write and record. It was during this period they locked on to the sound they wanted like a cruise missile, working furiously late nights and weekends to bring it to life. In 1997, after 10 CD appearances and a Pre-Mix CD, they released their debut album, Tactiq.

Over the next two years, the musicians worked mostly independently: Dave worked with John Holder and a cast of voices to create the parody/tribute album Cyberpunk Fiction, while Boom worked as remixer for artists including Leæther Strip, Purr Machine, THD, Urania, Hexedene, and Battery. In 1998, CyberPunk Fiction - A Synthcore "Soundtrack" was released featuring six songs and seven mock film dialog sequences.

The band parted ways in 1999, following the closure of Re-Constriction. After completing a degree at the Colorado Institute of Art, Dave relocated to Los Angeles, California, while Twitch remained in Denver, Colorado, and Boom relocated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The band regrouped 2007, writing material for a new release on their own Audiocomm International Publishing label in addition to finalizing and releasing their previously unreleased 1994 album State of Decay in late 2009.

In early 2010 Dave relocated back to New Mexico and opened a production studio in Taos, NM and October 2010 saw the release of their sixth album Internal Combustion. It was quickly followed by the release of their first music video, Nausea ad Nauseam. In 2011 they released a digital only maxi-single for Nausea ad Nauseam featuring remixes by Boom and a collaboration with Eric Gottesman of Everything Goes Cold entitled “My Hell Bleeds over to You”.

The next several years brought refinements to the creative process allowing the band to branch into the visual arts with music videos and exploring interactive gaming. Musically, they continued their work on remixes for other bands while writing new songs, as well as releasing several original tracks. Most notably “I Am the Man” (2012), “Memory” (2016), “Bleed for Me” (2018) and “Under Your Skin” (2020) their contributions to Electronic Saviors, a cancer benefit CD series that has brought together the entire Industrial music community. By 2015 they released the EP D3L3TE Up10aD on signed CDs. The music video for the single “Deleting Me Again” was featured at the Berlin Short Film Festival in 2016.

To celebrate their 25th anniversary in 2016, they released Rotor 25, a best-of instrumental compilation that was re-rendered using a virtual NES and sold exclusively on 3 ½” floppy disk until 2017 when it was offered digitally.

INTO THE NOW

In 2017 Dave and Twitch enlisted the help of two long-time friends, John Holder and Duffy Laudick, to begin performing live shows in the Denver, CO area. They quickly proved themselves to be invaluable creative partners in the studio and co-writing material and became full time members of the band.

2019 saw the release of Synthcore Dreams Vol 1 & 2, a benefit comic book and Soundtrack, featuring the song “Stand in L1ne” and a fictionalized Dave, Boom and Twitch alongside dozens of other industrial musicians locked in a slapstick battle with a post-apocalyptic recording label.

During the COVID-19 quarantine of 2020 there was finally time to finish older songs and write new material culminating in 2021’s Ready End User.