This week we ask Betty Bonifassi of Beast to feel the third degree burn. [The Third Degree Burn is where each week we subject a different artist to a barrage of random and ofttimes fairly meaningless questioning.]

Hailing from Montreal via France, Beast’s aural assault has been described as Portishead meets Rage Against The Machine with elements of rock, trip-hop and jazz thrown in for good measure.  Released earlier this year, their self-titled debut album has won over the critics and fans alike. We caught up with Beast at the CMJ Music Marathon 2009 in New York City and the group's resident chanteuse Betty Bonifassi shared a few words with us.