ManifestiV

ManifestiV founded as an visual kei industrial duo in Vallejo, California early 2014 by two morticians that met years prior in Dallas, Texas. Paragraph "¶" Taylor, guitarist & programmer, joined forces with Lillith Taylor, vibraphonist & visual artist. They used their instruments in new ways, scoring the imminent end of human civilization with ¶'s baritone guitars & Lillith's electronic vibraphone she built herself, aiming to guide humanity from Earth to explore & build other worlds while possible.

After a live debut at SXSW that same year, Einer Sie Gern, ManifestiV's self-made debut LP recorded in their Vallejo home, spurred extensive DIY touring after its San Francisco release at the tail end of 2014. For years to follow, the duo only stopped US tours for Burning Man & travels to Southeast Asia, Central America & Europe before recording "God is a Martian" at Prairie Sun Studios (where Tom Waits made Grammy-winning records & Les Claypool pops in to track Primus & solo ideas) in Cotati, California. The G.i.a.M. EP was mixed after OctouR (spanning 7 months / 45 shows) by CJ Bills near Austin & released late 2018 back in Dallas at Curtain Club, mere months before its closing.

ManifestiV based back in Dallas for 2019, full circle where they had met on the same decade's other side. After releasing the GiaM counterpart "3vE" in the Spring, the band spent summer expanding live personnel with a stellar rhythm section, dear friends borrowed from fellow Dallas band Secret Of Boris, ¶'s other industrial & more hard rock act: bassist & longtime fellow axe-man Kevin Porter, and drummer & longtime producer Ryan A. After the pandemic began, the four-piece recorded an instrumental reaction to it called "Horsemen" at ¶ & Lillith's east Texas farm.

Glitch electronic artist Lcn1, a collaborator of ¶ & Kevin's from the 20th Century, joined the fold for two subsequent GIVE/TAKE releases: the remix-heavy 2022 EP "The Bitter Truth" & the dirge-ridden 2023 LP "Legacy", which was the first ManifestiV CD with lyrics since the pandemic... only on its first half. A la David Bowie's "Low", the "Legacy" record's last half consisted of fully instrumental tracks, beginning heavily & ending electronically.

Since the two releases made together, the newly modular five-piece live format of ManifestiV makes each performance even more of a wild card than the last. The band experiments with modular personnel configurations & tested new material performing throughout Texas in the 2020s. In 2025, Lillith & ¶ write for new releases abroad in Asia.