I started out in a metal band called Grievance Honor (GH). We played around the Midwest for about five years. Many of my ‘firsts’ were experienced during the GH years. The first time you hear one of your songs on the radio, the first time you get to play out live, or the first time you sell one of your own band t-shirts – all of these were first experienced in GH.

After about five years I outgrew the GH sound and began yearning to create more emotional music so I left the band and started a small folk band called “Porch of an Angry Grasshopper.” We wrote a few songs and fell apart pretty quickly. I was really into the goth/post punk scene (especially Fields of the Nephilim and Bauhaus) and wanted to explore that style.

It was then that I started Sombrance (around 1997) and we began to evolve our sound. Much of the goth sound has fallen off yet I am still a big fan of goth music. I am very pleased with the personality that Sombrance has developed.

I have also kept busy with an ambient side project called Ishur Ninku. I think that I listen to ambient/world beat music more than anything else and this is a chance to express that side of myself.

Many years ago I wrote a bunch of pop songs that my band-mates at the time in Sombrance rejected as being too happy.  So I released them as a solo record called “Wallpaper Sky“. 

In 2024, I released a silly, fun side album under the name Crag of the Wild Goats called Mark of the John. This is a humorous record about some guy named John the Bradbarian. In this same year, I’ve continued to release singles under my name as they come.

If you are so inclined, you can check out some stuff that is available for streaming, purchase, or download here.