Jon Kinyon

Savage Religion: World of Hurt

In late 1991, I formed an industrial band. I placed an ad in a local music magazine and found my bandmates. I moved into a roommate situation with the keyboard player in the Mission District of San Francisco and set out to write and record an album of original songs. 

There were two local bands we were in direct competition with, trying to outdo each other with the darkest, strongest content. Lyrically (my lyrics) and musically we were soon kicking their asses. And in early 1992, we released a demo version of an industrial song entitled “Septic Think Tank ” which was played in several industrial clubs and was in heavy rotation on college radio stations KUSF, KFJC, & KZSU. 

We finished pre-production on more than a dozen songs for our initial LP “World of Hurt” in less than six month and shopped them around. But disagreements about the direction of the band led to us throwing in the towel. Years later I re-recorded two of the songs in the studio under a new name “Savage Religion” (singles are available on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify).