I started out playing drums when I was about 16 or 17 years old, I took a music class in high school that exposed me to playing bass, keyboards and guitar. I was in and out of various punk and garage metal bands for several years, but none of them were ever really what I wanted to do, so I decided to start my own project where I would write and record all the songs myself. I bought a 4 track, a drum machine, I had a bass that I bought from my sister and a guitar that was a gift from a girl I was dating at the time, and I borrowed this cheap assed keyboard that belonged to my old roommate and Nilshiphter was created. I did things this way for about 5 years then I moved to Sacramento. I decided it was time to get other people involved in this, to expand the creative spectrum and to make it easier on myself. I was also interested in playing live shows and it was virtually impossible to do so alone. I placed an ad in the paper and recieved lots of calls from people who had not much of an idea of what I was doing. Then I met Bloodstain. Accident prone, self destructive, drunken, angry, psychotic, and bad assed at drum and synth programming. PERFECT! I met Sean at my day job at International Imports and after a bit of harrassment we got him to provide the Metal department of Nilshiphter.