The idea behind OBCT was forged by it's two founding members in early 2003. The goal was to create a band without boundaries and a project worthy of our sweeping imaginations; an Industrial framework that would bend and sway to any number of genres or styles, creating classic compositions steeped in found sound, sampling, sequencing and splicing. 

Quickly the duo of Geoff Makousky and Dan "Booty" Bateman were poised at the throat of modern music and with but a few quick jabs to the trachea had found a way to circumvent the normality of metal, the generic staleness of electro and the rambling linearity of noise into a new musical phase that would springboard the band forward. Grabbing from all across the musical spectrum Boot and Geoff began to handcraft tracks based upon the sample work of Bateman who would lay a sparse framework across a beat for Geoff who would expound upon the different ideas proposed into something new and different they would find within the stacked samples. We called this tactic plunder-phonics, where we'd pull from all over the place and use our keen ears to pick apart and mix and match these ideas until they began to resemble a new and different song. 

From there the two began to connect as songwriters, sharing the written page as well as the lead vocal line the two quickly adapted to each others styles and bolstered each others strengths and softened our weaknesses. Working as co-frontmen the duo took to the local stages in Minneapolis Minnesota, sharing as best they could their epic industrial concepts with help from a thick backing track, a turntable setup and a beat up guitar rig. 

Finding many people in their community to be receptive to their brand of avant garde industrial OBCT set out to create a record that reflected it's surrounding community. With a bevy of guest appearances and almost all of their songs the band released "You Create Industrial Waste" their high water mark for the time, it was a fifteen track adventure through many styles that featured the electropunk acts: Gabber Nullification Project, Little Tin Box, Avenpitch, Drones, Dissociate, Hondo and Fadladder. 

With the release of the disc in August of 2006 came an addition to the band of drummer Mike Johnson. Michael quickly adapted his classic rock style to the breakneck change up's and thundering rhythms of The Obese. Not only had we found a solid drummer, but we had found a kindred spirit and great friend. It would be with the work ethic of Mikey and our collective hunger for bigger and better that we dove into the local live music scene, bringing our brand of industrial plunder-phonics to the stage. While not yet to full scale the band charged forward making plans for a follow up release of all new material. 

We joined forces with a friend of ours Meghan Wendt as our new guitar player, moving Geoff to bass where he could deal even more damage live and solidified as a four piece industrial rock act. The new record yielded some great songs and a live energy to the group that could not be denied. After only two short years we'd found a cast of musicians to execute on stage and we'd sharpened our skills in the studio, creating new songs on a weekly basis. In late 2007 after the release of "Nothing Beats Total Control" a personnel change was made on guitar and we began work with our friend Moyo who played a handful of amazing shows with. 

OBCT then made the key acquisition of Aeryn Emrys to be our keyboard player and backup scream man, Aeryn gelled with our style out of the gate and began to transform our works into the flailing balls-to-the-wall compositions he'd become known for. Before long he'd used his talented ear and bull whip finger tips to transform our upper layer of synth lines into a well choreographed exchange of counter point riffing and lead vocal line harmony and support. Our live shows quickly escalated to an all time high, and with the fun and success we'd been having on stage we took to the studio to craft our first full-on studio production with all hands on deck TOTAL CONTROL is slated to be our 2009 release, with eight of our best live songs, a handful of remixes and even a few one-off jazz interpretations of certain songs. 

While putting in time tracking all the elements for the record in our new studio we've begun work on a whole new sound under the working title "Survived By, OBCT" a collection of new and older songs brutally hand delivered to your eardrums with a touch of cataclysmic doom. Upon spending nearly a year in the studio on a weekly basis we're ready to bust out and return to the stage with some fresh songs and a new roster. Beginning in early 2009 we've begun work with our new guitar player Dave Erickson, who is being charged with the task of learning a whole slew of old material with the goal of developing him into the quintessential OBCT guitar player, one part chops, one part inspiration and one part boundless imagination. With a whole bunch of material bubbling on the stove, and a solid schedule of shows, rehearsal and studio time OBCT has never had quite so much cooking.