Biography

After winning critical praise for the post-punk/no wave décollage of 2001’s Other Mathematics and 2003’s Zoo Psychology, remaining EX MODELS Shahin Motia and Zach Lehrhoff retired the scalpel in favor of a torch, enlisting Oneida drummer Kid Millions for 2005’s monolithic, unrelenting Chrome Panthers: “Hands-down one of the year's most compelling and vaguely straight-forward expressions of rock-based white noise-scrawled terror... as deliriously addictive and soul-stirring as only severely damaged atonal reverberation can be.” – Tiny Mix Tapes "Ex Models specialize in a very specific strain of world-smashing dissonance in which jagged shards of high-end guitar and synth riffs are worked into circular patterns and repeated ad nauseum. Sometimes, high-pitched chant-like vocals appear. But, more often than not, the band chugs along without the sound of the human voice. Either way, it's painful to listen to. But it's a sweet kind of pain -- an all-consuming nails-on-the-chalkboard blowout that obliterates everything in its path..." -- Prefix Magazine