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This month eP scribe Mark Teppo gets us another glimpse into the inferno of the Damage Manual as he gets behind the curtain and talks with Invisible label head and drummer provocateur Martin Atkins--while Danny Murphy talks with Tassy Zimmerman of Octant about their robots, their music, and the delicious madness that results when you combine these two elements together with a few humans on stage.

After the Labels... The most common question people ask me regarding Earpollution--besides, "Why don't you link to an online store and make yourselves some money?"--is, "Where do you hear about these albums?" I usually have to stop to think; I've spent so much time hunting down avenues of music outside the mainstream that it's at the point where it sometimes seems like the leads really do come out of thin air.