Skot IX

Skot IX, assuming a plethora of names since inception, is the audible manifestation of Central Vermont musician Skot "Skullfukkr" (aka dj.XV1 , Skot Skumm). This pandora's box of processed sound bounces from blackened death metal, to folk, techno, noise and back around its core of industrial and synthgoth. Somehow it all just comes together.

Started in 2001, nine(9) began as a side-project to continue the sound Skot's band with Spanky Payne, Morpheus, had branched away from. Nine(9) established itself as the continuation, exploration and furthering of that core, original Morpheus sound. With the first release Perverse Maleficia (2002, DigitaLucifer.Net), the lo-fi exploration of shadow, disgust, despair and misanthropia manifested as a collection of sounds, beats and processed vocals to die by.

Through the following years, Skot's music explored a darkened folk branch, classic industrial synthing, electronically beaten blackened death metal, and so much more. The project had been redubbed XV1 for the first three releases, the nine(9) project for the following three (including the infamous split album with Arizona anti-goth artist D-Lux) and as Skot IX: ANTITHESIS (2007, DigitaLucifer.Net) and the upcoming Obscene Circuitry.