After various stints, including prog band Birth Control and underground dance tipple Gina X Performance, he also put out a string of solo releases. "Attack Time", originally released on Aladin in 1981, gave Zeus B. Held the opportunity to experiment sonically outside the mainstream and subversively undermine the hegemonic MTV sound of the early 1980s. Unfortunately, the album was a commercial failure at the time. So it"s all the nicer that it"s now being brought out into the world again with all its supposed contradictions between enraptured New Wave, cosmic electronics and weird rock grooves.