Members: Tank Profane – Everything that isn’t a guest musician – Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocalisations, Controllers and Performance Capture Devices, Noises, Sampling, Synthesis, Circuit Crushing, Programming and Sound Design.

Sounds Like: Nine Inch Nails, Orgy, Stabbing Westward, Front 242, Machines of Loving Grace.

Influenced By: Trent Reznor, Imogen Heap, Klayton, Blue Stahli, Alan Moulder, Martin Gore, Vince Clark, Gary Numan, Flood, Tim Armstrong, Azam Ali, Josh Freese, Chris Vrenna, Peter Hook, Steve Farris, David Paich, Steve Lukather, Steve Porcaro, Tom Scholz, Daniel Bressanutti, Dirk Bergen and damn near every sound that enters his ears. Oh, and Rum.

Bio: Tank Profane is an electronic musician, sound designer, and electrical engineer from Harrisburg, Pennsyltucky by way of Bayamon, Puerto Rico and a week’s detour in Greenwich Village, NYC. As a child he was fascinated by the Cold War era Space Race. While he admired the US Astronauts, he was a bigger fan of the Soviet Cosmonauts because they were first dog, man and woman into space – that, and they had damn cool names for their rockets and launch vehicles. That childhood love for all things Cosmonaut weighs heavily on the aesthetics of the Tsyklon project. Within the realm of Tsyklon, Tank has taken on the task of arranger and performer of a collection of reconstructed 80’s covers named “Launch Sequence”. Tank is also working on “Intergalactic Suite for Scoundrels” – a group of original orchestral and experimental soundtrack pieces that would be at home in any sci-fi/thriller. While his original music leans to the heavy industrial side of the spectrum, he has engineered, mixed, produced and remixed genres as varied as pop, celtic rock, punk, jazz, folk and disco.