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Cubanate is an industrial metal band from London, founded in 1992 by Marc Heal and Phil Barry with Graham Rayner and Steve Etheridge. The group became well-known known for its early fusion of distorted Heavy metal music|metal guitars, and techno music|techno percussion (later incorporating breakbeats) with industrial electronics and vocals.
History
Cubanate played their first UK tour in November 1992 supporting left-field UK techno duo Sheep on Drugs. The group signed to Berlin's Machinery Records shortly afterwards. Rayner and Etheridge departed after the first Machinery single, ''Body Burn'' (1993). The pair were replaced by Julian Beeston (ex - Nitzer Ebb drummer).
In May 1994 the ''Metal'' EP was Single of the Week in Melody Maker magazine and later that year Cubanate received media attention when they were weirdly paired with Carcass (band)|Carcass for what turned out to be a notoriously violent UK tour ending in death threats to Heal and an on-air confrontation on the BBC Radio 1|Radio One Rock Show with Bruce Dickinson. The second album ''Cyberia'' (1995) spawned the hit single ''Oxyacetylene'', generally considered Cubanate's creative peak. ''Oxyacetylene'' featured on the 1996 compilation album ''Mortal Kombat: More Kombat'' and was later used as the theme tune of the best-selling 1998 Sony PlayStation game ''Gran Turismo''.
