Marc Broude

Marc Broude is an eclectic independent composer and musician whose work encompasses electronic music, experimental noise, ambient music, industrial, and black metal. Broude began in 2005 while residing in a collective of musicians, artists, and squatters in Chicago. In 2006 he formed the grindcore outfit Ed Gein Motherfucker and a black metal group called Zog. Zog consisted of Broude on bass, Chris Anderson and Eric Sepata on guitars, and Danny Cortez on drums; the band released a four-song EP, Revive, but proved short-lived when Cortez died ten months after the group was launched.

In 2006, Broude recorded an industrial-influenced single, "Psychological Warfare" b/w "God Smacker," which earned enthusiastic reviews despite being released only as a 7" single in a limited edition of 50 copies. Broude took a break from music in 2007 to address personal issues, but returned to performing the following year, and in 2009 he released an album-length solo project through his own NoZen Records label, Rites of Zen, a 76-minute ambient piece that crafted found sounds, electronics, and organic instruments into a gentle but sinister soundscape. Another dark ambient album, Medicine, followed the same year, and in 2010 he a split release with Sequences, Medicine/Vespertine: A Tragedy in Several Tones of Grey. In 2011, Broude reissued the "Psychological Warfare" single in a remixed digital edition, and an industrial/black metal influenced single, "Cruel Society" b/w "The Sixth Era."