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Biography : Fatal Agenda

Fatal Agenda is a dark, Gothic, horror band that stands up against organized religion, trying to compare it to many forms of brain washing. They believe that religion is wrong with everything in this world. Most of their songs are about war, death, horror and very protesting towards religious groups or icons.

The following excerpt is a biography that was copied and pasted from the lead singer Caterson Damon's blog. It pretty much tells the whole entire biography of Fatal Agenda.

My band Fatal Agenda is back!

I know I vowed never to ever enter back into that kingdom of madness but I found a guitar player and an awesome studio engineer that are Fatal Agenda/Caterson Damon fans and they have pushed me back into the position of fronting Fatal Agenda once again.

I copyrighted Fatal Agenda as a band name in 2004 after a group of douche bags used my name "Fatal Agenda" after I walked out of the band because they were trying to turn the band into Stone Misery Junior.

"Fatal Agenda" was originally me, Dean Jones, Jerod Edwardson and Mike Foster We were the official and original "Fatal Agenda" in 1998.

We played a few shows in the beginning and later added a guitar player named JD Steele that used to play in Metal Storm with me and my brother.

www.myspace.com/bandmetalstorm

Then the bullshit started happening. Not sure if it was JD or Mike that started plotting a mutiny. I don't care these days anyway. But they were secretly plotting against me and trying to make the band into Stone Misery junior.

Stone Misery was a popular death metal band from Beloit. I will admit they were good but I wasn't going to become a clone of them and I refused to sing in that death metal style. They later evolved into Fogcrawler www.myspace.com/fogcrawler Just not my cup of tea but good musicians.

After I found out what great friends I had (talking behind my back). Instead of coming to me and telling me, "hey Cat. Can you sing like the dude from Stone Misery?" They decided to take shots at me when I left the room and make fun of my singing style which at the time was very similar to King Diamond/Rob Halford and most of you know that back in the 90s, it wasn't cool to sound like that and so I was the butt of a lot of jokes. When Halford "Came out of the closet" alot of homophobes made a lot of jokes about singers with high pitched vocal screams, I was one of many that was accused of being gay or whatever. God, you have to love Wisconsin!!

So, I called up JD Steele (one of the band members that I was sorta still friends with) and got him to confess what was going on by playing some reverse psychology. He told me all about the plans to make Fatal Agenda into Stone Misery Jr.

I called a band meeting and disbanned the whole band. I had all of the little fuckers come to my house and grab their gear. We used to practice in my basement at a house I owned.

Dean later called me trying to patch up the situation. He said he wanted to be friends and hoped maybe we could still collaborate on some new music.

I later found out that those guys brought in some guy named Matt Peak who basically sang like cookie monster. He was the perfect death metal vocalist and JD tried to bribe me with money and stuff to use "Fatal Agenda" since the name was created by me. I let him use the rights to one of my songs called "Deformed" as long as he gave me lyric credits but I did not allow the "Fatal Agenda" name to be used.

It didn't matter. They carried on as Fatal Agenda and Dean Jones later died after committing suicide in his garage after a disagreement with his girlfriend.

So they hired on some guitar player to replace Dean and the doucebags still used "Fatal Agenda" and actually had the stones to release an E.P. The bass player thought if he created a new logo it would make things easier.

Well, that band fizzled out not much longer after that and I took my "Fatal Agenda" name and concept to a lawyer and tried to find ways to get it professionally copyrighted so only I owned the rights to it.

After a long search, a lawyer I met through my Grandfather's lawyer introduced me to a lawyer in Chicago named Clifford Barton and for the measly sum of less then a grand I was able to copyright the name in 2004. I had to lie to my Grandfather to get the loan back then, I told him it was for a truck. I paid it back less then three months anyway, so it is water under the bridge and money well spent I agree.

I kept the "Fatal Agenda" name in my possession until I hooked back up with a guitarist from one my bands called Metal Storm named Aaron Snow. He originally was the bass player and we started writing material for a new "Fatal Agenda."

Aaron converted to a guitar player after writing the guitar riffs with Bobbie Bitch helping out. We were able to bring in drummer Mike Graaw and pretty much redesign a whole new Fatal Agenda in late 2004 early 2005.

We later added Jeremy Gehler on bass and an amazing lead guitarist named Kim Goodwin and we wrote the first official Fatal Agenda CD that was released in 2006 called, "Hell on Earth."

We played everywhere we could get in the southern Wisconsin scene. Most bars were not very excepting of original metal and wanted to pay us less then most bands. So we butted heads with bars and causing riffs in band members who complained alot.

This Fatal Agenda was a good lineup if we could have gotten along but the growing hatred toward the band members and the guitarist Aaron Snow was pushing a divide between his whole entire band. Aaron was annoying and complained about everything and the only thing that mattered to him in the end was getting attention of a washed up and out of shape pole dancer that seemed to like to fuck everyone but him.

It made it very difficult for me because I was originally put in the middle because I wanted the band to succeed. Jeremy Gehler was the first to leave because of Aaron. Aaron wouldn't let Jeremy do anything.

So we hired a stage replacement named Nick Rios. This was sorta the beginning of the end. When I started to agree with the band about Aaron it was the end. Aaron soon realized it and left.

I was so burned out by the end of 2006. I was recovering from a minor car accident and a partial nervous breakdown because of all the live/band antics I just wanted to retire from the business at the time.

I took the whole year of 2007 to write other types of music. To explore new ideas, putting "Fatal Agenda" on hold because it literally drained the living hell out of me.

Eventually in 2008 I found a new guitar player named Allister Dawkins and a new drummer and began working on new Fatal Agenda material. I was not going to slap the "Fatal Agenda" name on the product until that heavy metal original sound was back.

It is. We have a new CD we are working on called, "A Dish Best Served Cold" coming out in 2009.

Of course you can't have the guys you want to play drums like Mike Graaw who played on "Hell on Earth." He had already moved away with his wife who took a job in Arizona.

But who knows what this new "Fatal Agenda" will hold. We are still in the writing process.

You can hear new clips at

www.myspace.com/fatalagenda