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Senser

Senser, a politically-charged UK band originally formed in South West London from a group of friends in the late 1980s, shot to a short-lived fame in the early 1990s. Senser's musical style has repeatedly been described as "uncategorisable", but is nevertheless most often classified as Rapcore.

Senser's debut album, Stacked Up (1994), featuring the single "Age of Panic", achieved sales of over 400,000 units; however by the long-awaited second album (Asylum, 1998), Senser had lost three of its members to Lodestar, and failed to make any noticeable impact.

The break-up of Senser came at a time when they were tipped to rule the Dance/Rock cross-over scene, and prior to the emergence of The Prodigy, whom many feel usurped Senser's rightful throne. The responsibility for this is most frequently attributed to lead vocalist Heitham Al-Sayed, who is known to have dominated the group and largely controlled its direction. Al-Sayed attributes the break-up to a conflict in musical style between himself and other members of the band, saying in an interview with Metal Hammer that "About eight or nine months before I actually decided to do a different project, I was starting to feel that the music that we were doing had reached the end in trying to say what I wanted to say in that particular way."

Senser's song "States of Mind" from Stacked Up was also used (illegally) as the soundtrack to the well-known IBM PC demo State of Mind by Bomb.

Recently, Senser has re-formed with their original membership, and recorded a third album, Parallel Charge (2001), which was promised to contain new material along with reworkings of tracks from the first two albums. Eventually, however, no new material was produced and the final production CD contains only the reworkings.

Table of contents
1 Discography
2 Members
3 External Link

Discography

Members

External Link