Editing Nihil

''Nihil'' was formed in 1995 by guitarist/bassist, vocalist, programmer, songwriter and producer [[Greg Broadmore]] (formerly of [[Lungfeast]]) with the addition of session/live-player [[Kurt Joy]] (a.k.a. [[Chaos Engine]]) on bass. The music featured low tuned guitars, samples and drum-machines, and has been compared to experimental industrial/metal crossover bands such as Godflesh, Scorn and ''Churn''-era Shihad, while experimental forms of electronica such as dub, dark-ambient and downtempo were also prominent features.  Moreover, Broadmore's work with Nihil was characterised by a near-obsessive quest for the lowest, grinding-est, heaviest detuned guitar frequencies possible; one specially modified guitar featured a bass-string famed for destroying amplifiers.  

Nihil won the 1995 [[Contact 89FM]] [[Battle of the Bands]], enabling them to record and release the CD [[Nil]] in the same year.  While the disc was professionally pressed, the packaging was a distinctive card digipack layout, individually printed with stencils designed by Broadmore.  In 1996 the Nihil track ''Seismic'' appeared on the compilation [[BURN]]; Kurt Joy was by this time no longer involved.  There are thought to have been other compilation appearances.

''Broadmore'' was also a founding member of [[Ghidrah]] (on bass), and later relocated to Wellington where he has become by far better known as an artist and designer; while ''Joy'' in '96 went on to form [[Usine]], and performed as a member of [[Department of Corrections]] and began experimenting with a wide range of digital multimedia.  He now works for Waikato University's Screen & Media Studies department.

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