Posthuman interest

>> Godhead's Jason Miller on life in the Manson family

by LATEEF MARTIN

For those of you sporting runny noses and spewing various colours with chest-ripping coughs, despair not--Montrealers aren't the only ones. Even though Jason Miller, the singing head of Washington-based industrial goth-rock group Godhead, is resting up from touring in Milwaukee, he's got it just as bad. "Luckily we have a day off because the lead singer of Disturbed is sick--it's probably going through the whole troop." Sniffles aside, Godhead, the first act to be signed to Marilyn Manson's label Posthuman, are off to a good start.



Mirror: Being the first on Marilyn Manson's label must be daunting.

Jason Miller: It's a great honour. We've been around for a long time and worked hard. To be recognized by Manson, who's at the top of our genre, makes you feel good that all the hard work has paid off.

M: How did it happen?

JM: When we played Hollywood in '99, his manager came up and got the material to Manson, who really liked it. We hung out for a couple of days and just talked about music, what he wanted to do with his label and what we want to do with our band. It seemed to work out really well.

M: I hear he jumped in on a few songs.

JM: In certain songs he was more active and took a more personal interest, "Let's try this arrangement," or "let's try this there," and it really helped give that push that we wanted.

M: So what's next?

JM: After this tour we join with Static X and then we're on the Ozzfest probably till the fall and then we'll decide what to do next, possibly move to California and start working on the next record there.

M: Why the relocation?

JM: It makes a lot more sense to be where a lot of other musicians are. When I was there recording our album for three months I got to sing backup to the Cure's Robert Smith for Reeves Gabrels' album. Those types of opportunities wouldn't have presented themselves if we weren't there.

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