By now, it should be clear that the climax of "Blue Monday" as a hit for Korn-discovered Los Angeles rockers Orgy is merely the first of what will be many mutiple climaxes for this quintet. Orgy is vocalist Jay Gordon, g-synth playing Amir Derakh, guitarist Ryan Shuck, bassist Paige Haley and v drummer Bobby Hewitt. "It happened fast," says Shuck on the phone from New York, where the group was entertaining journalists from around the world, "but it hasn't happened fast because we've just been sitting around. It's been a lot of work. And it's been with a lot of talented...everyone in the band is really talented."

"Amir was engineer and producing," he continues. "Jay and Amir did [the Coal Chamber debut album]. Amir engineered the Eels record. Jay was producing. Bobby did a lot of stuff with movies and stuff like that. I was a hairdresser. And we all kind of had our stuff together already. Before the band."

"But," he concludes, "we were all in music; we were always in bands. But we had jobs and everything. We didn't need to get in a band and get signed to fulfill our lvies."

Nevertheles, get signed they did, and with no less than the support of multi-platinum superstars Korn, whose Elementree lable inked Orgy as its first group. The world now has a dozen new songs from a group whose fashion sense and attention to visuals shares equal importance with the music they create around that ideal. In order to create that ideal record, the band holed themselves up in one of the remotest places they could, drawing on the confinement of "cabin fever" as they came to call it, to get the record out.

"That was just necessary to get away from L.A., because we didn't want to be influenced and we didn't want to influence anyone when we wrote our record," explains Shuck of the decision to record in a cabin in Lake Tahoe. "We didn't want to hear what any of the other new big bands...'cause we're friends with everyone. You name it-the band-and we're friends with them. So we didn't want to be influenced by anyone who was doing, or who seemed to be recording, their records at the time. So we needed to get away. Now it's like we've kind of got-our things pretty established. Now, we know we sound like us. When we're less worried about that I think we'll probably be a lot more comfortable when we write this next [record]."

So how did the Orgy sound on Candyass come to be then? That's exactly what we wanted to find out here at Circus Magazine, so we thought it would be fun to give Shuck the third degree about the thirteen songs that make up the phenomenon that is Candyass. Here then, for your reading pleasure, is a song-by-song analysis of Candyass. It's done in the order the tuned appear on the CD, so we recommend playing it along as you read the stories behind the music. CIRCUS: You give me the first thing that pops into yuor mind. I'll tell you the song title and you tell me the first thing that pops into your mind.