Templebeat is an Italian industrial rock/electronic body music band, initially active in the 1990s and reformed as Templebeat LTD in 2020.

History

Templebeat formed in 1990 by Michele Benetello, Pietro Zanetti, and Giorgio Ricci. Co-founder Pietro Zanetti had been an active musician since 1979, playing in punk bands such as Alternative Religion since 1982. The band found a primary inspiration in The KLF who they said were the "maximum expression of punk" but with machines.

One of their earliest appearances was in 1990 on the tape compilation Tribute to PTV powered by T.O.P.Y.TV (Italian semi-official branch of Thee Temple ov Psychic Youth) which contained their hardbeat cover of "Ov Power".

The band turn down offers from other labels to work on their debut album, Black Suburbia, produced by Favati for Dune. The band joined Pankow on their last tour in 1992/93. sometimes with a conspiratorial stance. Zanetti went on to form Metal Music Machine with Rudy Dalla Mora.

In 2010, Silentes Minimal Editions, a sublabel of Silentes, released a retrospective compilation entitled The Grey Space containing songs from an early tape version of Interzone as well as several rare compilation tracks. In 2019, the Spanish Aspecto Humano label re-released the entire Interzone cassette as a limited vinyl release.

Discography

Tapes

  • "Ov Power" in Tribute to Ptv (TOPY TV Italy, 1990)
  • "Xperience" in Xybernethnix (TOPY TV Italy, 1991)
  • "Hide and seek" in From thelematics to telepathics (TOPY TV Italy, 1992)

Discs

  • Auto Da Fe 12" (1991)
  • Wargasm (EP, 1992)
  • Black Suburbia (LP, 1994, Dynamica-under license from Sub/Mission)
  • Heidi S. (1994, Dynamica-under license from Sub/Mission)
  • Interzone (1994, Dynamica-under license from Sub/Mission)
  • Wicked (1995, Sub/Mission)
  • Mediasickness (1996, Sub/Mission - licensed to 21st Circuitry for the US only)
  • The Grey Space (Compilation, Remastered, 2010, Silentes Minimal Editions sme 1035 )
  • [ Allmusic]

References