Argyle Park is tagged as: industrial, industrial metal, electronic, industrial rock, christian
Argyle Park was an industrial band that released one album, Misguided, on REX Records in 1994. While shrouded in mystery for some time after their album release, it is now known that the band members Dred and Deathwish were aliases for none other than Scott Albert, then of the seminal industrial bands Circle of Dust and Brainchild (and now known as Klayton, the powerhouse behind Celldweller). Buka was the other “real” band member, and in addition to himself and Albert, the album featured various guest vocalists and musicians including Klank, Gyro of Mortal fame, Lauren Boquette of Drown and SIX, J. G. Thirlwell of Foetus, Tommy Victor of Prong and Mark Salomon (then in the band The Crucified) who would go on to form Stavesacre.
Misguided is fondly remembered as a pivotal and widely influential album both within the Christian industrial sub-scene and in the scene at large. The album blended many genres through a solid framework of industrial metal, featuring spoken word, chant, experimental electronica, horns, heavy use of samples, and even ragtime piano. In addition, the album was filled with dark, bitter lyrical themes purportedly written as catharsis for an abuse scandal at the band’s church while growing up. Given the nature of the Christian music indus...
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