Zitat: Nong Yong comes from Fujian, a coastal southeastern province. He is nearing 30; the other three band members are around 23. He said his childhood growing up in the countryside was happy but difficult. Life was hard in his small and poor village. Nong worked hard at his lessons and helped his parents with farm work. The country life brought him close to nature.
Nong went to high school in the city and, bowing to the influence of Taiwanese pop songs, started playing acoustic guitar. After graduating, he worked as a biscuit salesman and as cook. In the early 1990s, heavy metal became popular in China and bands like Tang Dynasty and Overload inspired him to play rock and change his life. Although many friends thought Beijing too distant, Nong thought of it as the political, economic, and most especially as the cultural center of China. He arrived in Beijing in 1997 with a Yamaha electric guitar he had no idea how to play.
Here he organized a small band and held rehearsals in his farmhouse. He wasn't clear about what music he was going to make, as he was still searching for a musical identity. In 1998, his brother sent him two death metal CDs from abroad. The music's darkness was the channel he had been looking for to express pain and joy.