Zim Zum, the former guitarist for Marilyn Manson, has been busy recently. As we reported in an interview with him last year, he's been working on a new project called Pleistoscene. The band is made up of Nyxon Ashur - known as Tau (701)- (vocals/guitar), Taylor Barrett -known as Nu (450)- (bass/vocals), Tate Channing - known as Sigma (254)- ("Sythesizer"/vocals), Haze Lee Finn - known as Zeta (316)- (drums/vocals), and of course, Zim Zum - known also as Beta (308)- (guitar/vocals).

Zim Zum has been very careful with the band though and he has been trying to make this a completely new kind of alternative music experience. "With Pleistoscene I obviously rejected the "traditional" way of doing things from the start," he said on the Pleistoscene website, "because it just doesn't apply to what I want to accomplish with this band." He went on to say that he actually never meant for the band, which was really an experiment, to release music publicly and was instead just looking for something to share with close friends. Now, things have changed and he's not entirely sure how he wants to proceed at releasing the music they have made - whether through a regular record company or something he creates himself or some other new idea.

In the meantime, while he figures out how to put out the music, he has decided to release one song called, "Who Will Save Us Now?" and as he put it he's "bypassed all of the typical timeline/industry release delays and simply put it on the site as a downloadable MP3 for anyone that's interested." You can find the streaming mp3 on the Downloads page of the site.

Zim Zum explained on the Pleistoscene website a bit about the song: "'Who Will Save Us Now?' was written quite a while ago and I felt it reflected alot of the different directions of Pleistoscene, musically and socially. This song is "released" as the polar opposite of a single because it's not a 2 minute pop song (as those of you who have downloaded it have no doubt figured out). The lyrics were written by Nyxon and myself and all of the music and instruments are just me in a small, yet personally effective, studio here in my Chicago home. The same place where every single one of the songs were written and recorded."