SubstAnce D

Substance D, the heavy, heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, began its life as a band called Black, which was made up of the three members who remain today: Todd Chaisson on lead vocals and bass, T on drums and "alternate wails", and Michael Parnin on guitars and background vocals. When the band wanted to rename itself shortly after the release of their self-titled first album (released in Europe in 1994), they looked to the work of Philip K. Dick, whose vision of a dark future filled with madness in his book A Scanner Darkly and others seemed to fit the image the ba...