Orgy

Formed in Los Angeles in 1997 around Jay Gordon, Amir Derakh, Ryan Shuck, Paige Haley and Bobby Hewitt, Orgy occupies a late‑1990s intersection of industrial rock, electronic rock, goth rock and a new wave‑adjacent aesthetic, featuring metallic guitars, taut rhythms and highly melodic choruses. Spotted early on by Jonathan Davis, who signed them to Elementree, the band broke through with Candyass in 1998, propelled by their cover of New Order's "Blue Monday" and the track "Stitches", and followed with Vapor Transmission in 2000, where Orgy pushed their futuristic, synth‑oriented side further on songs like "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)", "Opticon" and "Eva". Present on tours such as the Family Values Tour, Orgy moved between metal, alternative and electronic stages. After Punk Statik Paranoia in 2004, released on the D1 label, the band went on hiatus in 2005. The name Orgy reappeared from around 2010 under the impetus of Jay Gordon, the only founding member to continue the project, while former members went on to develop acts such as Julien‑K and Dead by Sunrise. Since that reboot, Orgy released the single "Grime of the Century" in 2012 and the EP Talk Sick in 2015, maintaining a formula in which chilly electronics remain tied to a heavy, direct rock foundation.