Acting as another bizarre side project for the ever busy
J.G. Thirlwell,
Steroid Maximus first came to life at the beginning of the '90s. He assembled several of his favorite underground musicians to help him with the finished albums, both Quilombo and Gondawanaland appeared soon after. But he returned to the
Foetus tag and stuck with it for ten more years, when he finally decided to resurrect
Steroid Maximus. Lured onto Ipecac Records by avid fans/labelheads Mike Patton and Greg Werckman. The resulting
Ectopia continued in the vein of the previous
Maximus albums, blending reverb-drenched "spy" music with manic blaxploitation-style funk. He even managed to put together a
Maximus live show with the help of
Lounge Lizard Steve Bernstein and the UCLA brass ensemble! ~ Bradley Torreano