Adel Souto, who took the stage name "Adel 156" in 1990, is an American writer and musician. He is best known for his fanzine-turned-website Feast of Hate and Fear and the metalcore outfit Timescape Zero.
Early life
Adel Souto was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1969, to Mariaestela and Arsenio Souto. After his birth, his parents moved back to Spain until Francisco Franco left power in 1975, at which time the family moved to the United States. Souto went to high school at Hialeah-Miami Lakes Senior High. He attended some college courses at Miami-Dade Community College, but quickly dropped out.
Creative work
Music
In 1985, Souto formed Gangbangang, playing bass, and later joined Mourning Breath, still on bass, while in Miami. Adel replaced the original vocalist in Miami's first straight edge band, Violent Deed, in 1987. In 1991, he began an experimentalnoise project in Denver named Dääb-Soul Destruction. Upon returning to Miami, he replaced the vocalist for Hangman, in 1992, changing their name to Timescape Zero. He formed Shroud in 1992 as an improvisational jazz-doom-punk outfit. He joined metalcore sludge band None Dare Call It Treason, on vocals, in 2001. He began Martini Kulture as an experimental tape collage project in 2003. Souto joined Sound 4 Sound from 2003 to 2007, and again in 2009. He has contributed vocals to a track on DNME's Last of A Dying Breed LP, and played drums on The Goslings’Grandeur of Hair LP and Hunter's MoonEP. Adel currently plays in the industrial junkyard outfit 156, which released a 10" EP in 2016, titled Memento Mori, where the music was made entirely out of human bones, such as skulls, femur, and Tibetankangling.
156 – "The Beehive Suite", 5x7" one song postcard record
156 – "Music For the Bardo", 7" vinyl EP
Writing
Souto began writing for his own fanzine in 1987, with his first being Evolution, and later the more occult-oriented work, To the Left. In 1990, he began publishing the fanzine-turned-magazine Feast of Hate and Fear, which became the FHF website in 2001. Since 1992, Adel has written for several magazines, including Maximumrockandroll, and Psychology Today. He has also been published in the first volume of the Antibothis anthologies. He has published We Shall Not Celebrate the Death of the White God and a collection of Feast of Hate and Fear articles titled Some Words. In 2014, he released a limited-edition art book on a 30-day vow of silence, titled The Least Silent of Men, and, in 2015, released a chapbook of his "throwaway poems", titled Throne Out.
Photography
Souto has also released several books and fanzines containing his photography from 2011 through 2020
Adel appeared four times on the Miami TV show, Kenneth's Frequency, on WAMI-DT 69.
Adel filmed a TV show for Brooklyn public access in 2011 called Brooklyn's Alright… If You Like Saxophones, which airs on BCAT, Brooklyn Public Access, and is currently in season two.
