San Diego's Crash Worship had one of the most exciting -- and dangerous -- live shows in independent music. While the band's three drummers pounded trance and industrial rhythms, other members played music, started fires, ignited fireworks, and drenched the audience in pig blood, water, flour, and fruit. An inspired cult of fans closely followed Crash Worship after the band's founding in 1987. After forming the Alarma label that year, Crash Worship began releasing material with This. Two years later, the band recorded the album The Science of Ecstasy, an EP titled What So Ever Thy Hand Findeth -- Do It with All Thine Might, and the 12" single "Flow." After the 1990 single "Pillar of Fire" and the LP ¡Espontaneo!, the British label Cold Spring released Crash Worship's first CD, Asesinos (1992), a collection of remixed and remastered tracks from the group's initial recordings. (The American label ROIR reissued the album with extra tracks in 1995.) Crash Worship's lineup finally coalesced in 1992 around drummers Markus Wolff, Simon Cheffins, and Dreiky Caprice; Jeff Mattson on guitar; and Fat Jack Torino and JXL on vocals, Moogs, and tapes. The group's first "studio" album, Triplemania II, appeared in 1994 on the Charnel Music label. Crash Worship also released the Inflammatorio video in 1991. The band's last live performance was in San Diego in 1999. ~ John Bush, Rovi