All related projects of industrial musician André Schmechta redirect here. For information on projects other than X Marks the Pedwalk, see the side projects section below. X Marks the Pedwalk (sometimes written as X-Marks the Pedwalkhttp://www.xmtp.de) was a German band whose styles ranged from post-industrial dance to electronic body music. X Marks the Pedwalk?s influence in the industrial and electronic music scenes was considerable during the 1990s, as they were one of the first and most popular acts from the now defunct record label, Zoth Ommog. History X Marks the Pedwalk was founded by Sevren Ni-Arb (b. André Schmechta, May 13, 1969) in 1987. Schmechta - himself a classically trained musician - became interested in synthesizers at an early age, and found himself part of several bands after he was able to buy his first keyboard at the age of 16. At that time, with influences