There's a lot of violent imagery on Shotgun Messiah's latest album, Violent New Breed. That's because singer/bassist Tim Skold and guitarist Harry Cody, were able to transform their aggressions of losing half their band into making the new album, using the resources of studio electronics and each other's frustrated emotions. The result is a collection of angry industrial metal songs.

Although all the songs have a similar theme, about how violent the world is today, and all the songs sound like they've been impersonalized through machine metal. Cody told us he and Skold have always been into machinery as a musical influence. Since the beginning of their career Shotgun's demos always had an industrial feel, but because of an array of influences and sometimes - admittedly the desire to fit in with whatever was popular - Cody felt their albums had too many styles to really define the band.

Cody says, "In the past there was not one song that told the whole story of Shotgun Messiah. On this album you can say that any song is us."

The Shotgun Messiah fans who work at Hit Parader have chosen because of it's sexual play on words, "I'm A Gun" as our favourite song. Cody says, that song is Shotgun messiah because "it's fast, it's brutal. I envision the song like a huge, metallic art deco train, it's a "Mannish Boy" - that old Muddy Waters blues song that says 'Damn, I'm one bad mother' - for the violent new breed."