Hotblack Desiato is the lead singer with the plutonium rock band Disaster Area from the Gagrakacka Mind Zones. Generally regarded as not only the loudest rock band in the Galaxy, but in fact, the loudest noise of any kind at all.

Regular concert goers judge that the best sound balance can usually to be heard from within large concrete bunkers some thirty-seven miles away from the stage, whilst the musicians themselves play their instruments by remote control from within a heavily insulated spaceship in orbit around the planet - or more frequently around a completely different planet.

Many worlds have now banned their act altogether, sometimes for artistic reasons, but most commonly because the band's public address system contravenes local strategic arms limitations treaties.

This has not, however, stopped their earnings from pushing back the boundaries of hypermathematics, and their chief research accountant has recently been appointed Professor of Neomathematics at the the University of Maximegalon, in recognition of both his General and his Special Theories of Disaster Area Tax Returns. It was decided, following advice from the professor, that Hotblack Desiato should spend a year dead to allow the galactic economy to recover. Therefore he sent his sentient corpse deep into the black to explore the galaxy with nothing more than a Cobra Mk3 and a rather fetching suit of titanium and lurex blend.