by RAF KATIGBAK

After obliterating audiences at Foufs in April, 2000, New York's electro-industrial-goth-hardcore-new-wave-techno act the Horrorist is back. In support of his own successful label Things to Come, the controversial artist otherwise known as Oliver Chesler returns to Montreal for the sixth time, with a new electro-tinged sound and a band of musical miscreants (including his brother Acrosome and DJ Satronica) ready to raise harmonic havoc. The Mirror recently rang up Chesler at his NYC studio for a little pop quiz.

Mirror: When you were growing up, did you always want to be the Horrorist? Or did you want to be something more normal, like the Dentist or the Ventriloquist?

Oliver Chesler: No, I can't really think of anything I wanted to be back then. When I was in college I was a political science major. But I think that was kind of by default.

M: Okay, pop quiz. In 1961, Joey Dee and the Starliters had a hit with this dance craze "The Peppermint - "

OC: Oh God, this I'll never… twist!

M: Correct! Someone who believes in peace is a -

OC: Realist?

M: Well, I was looking for "pacifist," but I'll give you double points for "realist." A brand-name nasal antihistamine -

OC: All right, I'm thinking Claritin, Afrin -

M: Starts with a D, ends with "-ist."

OC: Um, there's Dramamine - I don't know! I don't know this one!

M: The name I was looking for was Dristan Mist.

OC: See, that's not fair! We don't have Dristan Mist down here in the States! We've got Afrin, that's the big one here.

M: Right! I forgot about that whole cultural divide thing. I had an English teacher in elementary school that was addicted to the stuff.

OC: You know, the whole the trick with doing nose drugs is to do two shots of Afrin when you're coming down and then you're high again for another hour. I actually went to the hospital to have a deviated septum fixed and the doctor told me that stuff is really bad for you. I guess it can't be worse than snorting crystal meth all the time. Just make sure you don't do both.

With Acrosome, DJ Satronica and DJ Iznogood at Foufounes Électriques on Sunday, April 20, 9pm, $18

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