The band was born in 1996 as a project of
Michael Knott's record label
Ear Candy. They produced an EP that year and held their first show at the 1997
Cornerstone Festival. After producing a demo for the label they were picked up by Tattoo Records and produced their first album,
BrightBlur. The name of the album refers to a line in
C. S. Lewis's
Letters to Malcolm where Lewis describes
God as a "bright blur becoming brighter and blurier". Several other Lewis references appear on the album: to
The Space Trilogy in "Deep Heaven", and quotes from
Mere Christianity in "Unmade". Lyrically
BrightBlur is centered on the struggles faced by humanity, specifically the contrasts that technology introduces to society. The album propelled Massivivid to take the 1998
Dove Award for "Hard Music Album." A review in
HM Magazine was heavily critical of the album, stating that its "fuzz-tone guitar based electro industrial" sound had at best the quality of a demo. One of the songs on
BrightBlur, Gripped, would appear as one of the songs in the OST for the video game, SCORE International Baja 1000. ==Discography==