Look, in most cases, intro/splash pages suck. That´s why they all have ¨Skip Intro¨ buttons on them. Nobody has been impressed by a band´s logo materializing out of the darkness for at least two and a half years. It was cool for 15 minutes, and then only with the scads of musicians who were also fledgling web designers. Now it´s dumb. But Bay area metal-punk quartet Elysium´s splash page isn´t. It is, in fact, brilliant, acting as both manifesto and warning. Now go take a look, but make sure your kids are somewhere else.
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2004.
