Justin Arman - Crisis
In 2002, Justin Arman (under the pseudonym Dagon) gained public awareness in the controversial industrial metal band, Society 1, upon the release of a record breaking suspension video that successfully drew vast media coverage from all over the world.

• Justin's Kit A. 22x16 bass drum B. 12x10 tom C. 13x11 tom D. 16x16 floor tom E. 14x5.5 snare drum CH2000 boom stand C1000 straight stand x 2 H2000 hi-hat stand S2000 snare stand P2000C pedal TH1000I tom holder x 2

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This video, along with their debut record on Earache Records, commenced extensive national touring, which sent horror through the eyes of the crowd with antics of debauchery and chaos quintessential of the band’s vision. This awareness rippled through the underground, gaining the attention of numerous regional and international media (Features in Metal Edge, Hit Parader, Metal Hammer, Kerrang!, etc. Video rotation on Fuse, MTV Europe/Australia, etc. Singles actively rotated on BBC 1, etc…). News stations in burning conservative cities would even cover the Christian Rite protest against the band outside of venues amid their tour, only ironically fueling the circle of devastation. The culmination of his involvement with Society 1 was for personal reasons that inhibited his travel and naturally refocused his vision which no longer paralleled the band’s.

He spent the next year of his life wrapped in mental turmoil from the hardships of cancer. His mom was fighting for her life at the City of Hope undergoing intense inpatient chemo and radiation treatments that concluded with an agonizing stem-cell transplant, which she so bravely marched through. ‘This tested the limits of my sanity and will to live… Life, itself, became a joke, and purpose became a delusion only felt by those with the neurotic impulse for wanting personal notice in the dusty oblivion.’ Depression sickened him and left him weak; he felt that the ‘plasticity of conscious could only leave one questioning its sacredness. Happiness, Sadness, and all feeling for that matter, are merely circumstantial to the cards you’re randomly dealt. We are all passive receivers walking in a perpetual sleep. The entire life of Man is dependent upon a meaningless single breath.’ Hitherto, the pounding in his mind could only be released atop a Mountain with godlike reverberation, or by the staining of paper.

In the apex of this pain, he found himself screaming with terror as a man in solitary confinement, when ‘reality itself melted into a phantasmagoria of the archaic Tuat of my own egocentrism. I saw this pain physically embodied as a ravenous leech before me, endlessly feeding on the blood of its host. I realized then that all that Is, in this mode of consciousness, is the mere mundane reflection in a vibratory wave projected by the archaic Self. We are all truly asleep, and those whom are reading these lines in this very instant, are my inmates in this prison of consequence.’ He began a Theurgical study pulling him from his cave of depression into the light of theosophy and practice.

Recently, he made acquaintance with none other than the experimental hardcore band, Crisis. He was initially hired as a fill-in, but after his short overseas stint with them, he knew he wanted to be a part of this devastating band. Justin joined Crisis for their World Abomination Tour in 2005.