Melicious (say mel-ish-us) adj.
1. The highly pleasing combination and/or melding of a malicious little man dealing out punishment via delicious sounds.
2. To make one's ears bleed.

The headman of the Melicious Neo Zeed, Joel “Jivemaster” Bird started programming and experimenting with synths at the tender of 16. In a time and place where everyone was playing guitar and punk rock was considered cool and the in thing (yeah right), Joel’s talents were growing significantly elsewhere. Grabbing inspiration from his various musical idols including electronic-punk legend Liam Howlett, aka The Prodigy as well as Regurgitator, TISM, ON Inc., Sonic Animation, The Zoobombs and MGF to name a few, Joel was determined to bring something new to this already crowded world of rockstar wannabes. Gifted with a natural ear for music and a pure lust for screaming synth rockage, Joel’s music grew from mixed emotions of occasional happiness, frequently arising anger and the need to express the truth while throwing “pop out with the pansies”.

Trying to find his place in between numerous bands without any luck, Joel made the next rational move – going solo. It was at this point that Joel was able to fully unleash his potential without being held back by keyboard-frigid-synth-a-phobes too scared to even feature a synth in a chorus. Extending his existing skills into other areas, including furthering his guitar and bass prowess as well as harnessing the ever-important ability to record, mix and master his own material at a professional level himself, Joel became a self-reliant music machine, with top-notch graphical design abilities to boot. With complete control over his own unique sound and production value, Joel’s music was definitely produced the way it was made to feel.

After several years of occasional composition, beat mixing and lyric writing in between University and other commitments, it all finally came together. With the dream of creating a combination of retro rock guitar with synthesised, break beat driven madness and topping it off with brat rock vocals and a touch of hip-hop, a somewhat bizarre but awfully gorgeous kind of new-age rock-fusion was born. With aggressive power, delicious sounds and semi-comical lyrics which tell nothing but the truth, at least somebody was able to do something right, without holding back. Enter The Melicious Neo Zeed.

More about The ‘Zeed can be found at Joel’s personal website: www.jivemaster.com. You can sample their music on this very website here.