Editing Cubanate (section)

===Initial career===
Graham Rayner originally used the name Cubanate for various one-off shows in the UK during the early 1990s. By 1992 however, the band's lineup became solidified with Marc Heal, Phil Barry, and Steve Etheridge joining Rayner. They released a demo cassette in the summer of 1992, titled ''UK 92''. It featured six songs which eventually found their way to the band's full-length album.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/9292998-Cubanate-UK-92/images |title=UK 92 Credits |publisher=self-released |type=liner notes |access-date=September 1, 2024}}</ref> Cubanate played their first UK tour in November 1992 supporting leftfield UK techno duo [[Sheep on Drugs]]. The group signed to Berlin's [[Dynamica Records]] shortly afterwards. The band's debut album, ''[[Antimatter (album)|Antimatter]]'', saw a UK release in 1993. After the release of the album's lead single, "Body Burn", Rayner and Etheridge departed from the band in order to form K-Nitrate.<ref>{{cite AV media notes |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/180530-K-Nitrate-Hyperphobia/images |title=Hyperphobia Credits |publisher=Synthetic Symphony |id=CD085-61502SPV |type=liner notes}}</ref> The pair were replaced by [[Julian Beeston]] (former [[Nitzer Ebb]] drummer).

In early 1994, the band released the ''Metal'' EP which featured two new songs ("Angeldust" and "Metal") plus a few ''Antimatter'' remixes. In May of that year, the ''Metal'' EP was Single of the Week in ''[[Melody Maker]]'' magazine. Later that year, Cubanate received media attention when they were weirdly paired with [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]] for what turned out to be a notoriously violent UK tour ending in death threats to Heal. There was also an on-air confrontation on the ''[[BBC Radio 1|Radio One Rock Show]]'' with [[Bruce Dickinson]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Joel McIver|title=Nu-metal: the next generation of rock & punk|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|date=2002|page=44|isbn=9780711992092}}</ref> In 1995, ''Antimatter'' was belatedly released in the US with an altered tracklisting.

The second album ''Cyberia'' (1995) spawned the hit single "Oxyacetylene". The album peaked at {{abbr|No.|Number}} 3 on the CMJ RPM Chart in the U.S.<ref name="cmj-02-96">{{cite journal |last=Frampton |first=Megan |title=RPM |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=19 Feb 1996 |volume=45 |issue=462 |page=14 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1996/CMJ-New-Music-Report-1996-02-19.pdf |access-date=12 December 2021 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}</ref> For live work around the ''Cyberia'' tour the band hired Shep Ashton on guitar and Darren Bennett on keyboards. After 1996, Ashton and Bennett were replaced by Roddy Stone (currently fronting UK metal act [[Viking Skull]]) and David Bianchi (who later went on to become manager of rock bands [[The Enemy (UK rock band)|The Enemy]] and [[Boy Kill Boy]]).

The third album, ''Barbarossa'' (1996) continued the crossover format, and despite being name-checked as influences by bands such as [[The Prodigy]],<ref name="Tales of the RIFF - Marc Heal">{{cite web|url=http://snakesixx.com/tales-of-the-riff-marc-heal/|title=Tales of the RIFF – Marc Heal|year=2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903061300/http://snakesixx.com/tales-of-the-riff-marc-heal/|archivedate=3 September 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> the group decided a change was clearly needed.

Signed in the United States to [[Wax Trax! Records|Wax Trax!]] Recordings for the act's fourth and final official full-length album to date, ''[[Interference (Cubanate album)|Interference]]'' (1998) was a departure from Cubanate's earlier techno experiments with a strong [[drum and bass]] influence that alienated some of their traditionalist fans but was heralded as revelatory by others.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.eruptzine.com/rev6.html|title=cyberia for gigakiddies like you|website=Eruptzine.com}}</ref> The album was co-produced by [[Rhys Fulber]].