Biography and Interview Materials

Let us start from the top, shall we? My name Is Justin Redemann, I go by the alias "Thagirion" online/onstage. I am 29 years old, nearing 30. I am currently pursuing my musical ambitions as a life long quest to expose my jumbled thought-patterns on to a largely unsuspecting world. For the most part I have succeeded. I play all the instruments. I write and perform all the lyrics. I designed this website from the ground up teaching myself alot of things along the way. I love DIY. just show me the info, and I'll take it upon myself to learn it. Enough about the only member though, Cyclophenia is much more than just one person. (although the term has been distorted, it comes from a medical dictionary referring to the inverse clockwise contraction of muscles around the base of the eye, causing a spiral of motion.) The ideas espoused in the music, are based on my own feelings of dissatisfaction and general dislike of the pattern of events that shape our existances. I hope that maybe I can invoke these feelings in you as well, as a form of primitive Catharsis or Exorcism. By all the hate and anger and sorrow and frustration and insanity, we musicians evoke states of mind not unlike shamanistic trances. Indulge me and you will go on a ride, though you might not always like what you see....

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Cyclophenia was born around 1993. At that time I had purchased a $50 les paul copy and a $79 fender practice amp, so my friend and I could jam on Nirvana and Pearl Jam covers. This lasted a few weeks, and I spent some more cash on a karaoke machine that recorded two tracks. I also popped out for a distortion pedal, the same one i use today. I play drums as well, and we took turns playing guitar and playing drums.We aquired a bass player, but it never went anywhere, although we did a good cover of PJ's Black and Nirvana's Negative Creep. The punk grunge thing didn't last and soon I was doing skin work for a punk band called Gavin Hammer. That was a fun little fiasco. Everything fell apart in that one as well, after a few months. I was finishing up dropping out of high school, and spending most of my time playing video games, D&D and partying. Well, after a while I got hooked up with a blues guitarist, and we had a blues rock thing going on. Circa Styx, Yes, and other bad 70's bands. through him i met Lee, who happened to be my other half in disguise. we jammed on everything we could think of but it always gelled. So we ditched the blues man, and struck out on our own, forming Sanity Zero, which is still alive to this day, but in a state of GnR album release. In SZ i purchased alot more equipment, mic's, 4 track, processors, pedals, a better guitar (mine was Shit by then), bigger amplifiers. We were off to the big time, and then, like the recurring motif up above, everything fell apart. Lee moved away to go to school, Our singer Zeb disappeared to milwaukee and the bass player took off with the Wah Pedal never to be seen again. fucker. our second guitarist mike stayed on for a while, and me and him jammed after my unsuccesful attempt at secondary education. That lasted a little while, and mike went on to school as well. I moved to iowa, making one mistake after another and after a year of madness and weirdness, i returned to wisconsin, a little wiser. Lee had finished school and SZ was unofficial back in business, as i was tired of jamming with hippies. Throughout all this craziness I wrote about 15 songs, that slowly melted down into the pile that i have today, alot of them were just one or two riffs that got fleshed out, or a vocal hook i had in my head, or just sheer inspiration. The story goes on, and I'm still writing, probably until im old and grey. A few of the tracks are finished now, and I have the capability doing all the work myself, becoming a literal one man band. All the guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, vocals are all me. It took a long time and a lot of miles and alot of pain to get to this point... but in the end i think it was the best way.