The music on God Lives Underwater s latest release, Empty, is a fiery pastiche of techno beats, ominous synthesizer lines, industrial-strength riffs and gloomy, borderline suicidal ruminations. While that may all sound like the product of some dystopian urban wasteland of the future (or present), its origins can actually be traced back to ultra-rural Perkiomenville, PA. With a population of approximately 400, it s hardly a music Mecca; nonetheless, vocalist/co-founder/multi-instrumentalist David Reilly claims that the insular surroundings played an integral part in the band s development.
     
      There s no scene there and really no place to play, he says, but because of that, we weren t out seeing bands every night. There was no place to go, so our only influences were the records that we listened to at home.
     
     
      With no clubs to idle away the hours at, Reilly and bandmate Jeff Turzo
      wood-shedded with their stereos and home recording units in 1992, a collaboration that eventually developed into God Lives Underwater. And though the pair have since inked a d... (More GOD LIVES UNDER WATER Biography)