My only thought, care, or interest in this world has always been music.  The anger, pain, disillusionment, fear, confusion, and difficulty of life was only truly expressed and escaped through music.  I began playing guitar in the 5th grade performing Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Soundgarden, Operation Ivy, Smashing Pumpkins, Silverchair, and many other bands of that era. Little concerts in my basement for my mother. 

I quickly moved to the drums, influenced immensely by Jimmy Chamberlain of the Smashing Pumpkins. I always sang in chorus throughout school, often excelling into specialty groups such as Chamber Singers (a small group singing french, complex acapella music) making state chorus and other such groups. I also had some professional instruction and study in singing but not much. I never really enjoyed regiments or lessons, always lost in my own confusion alot of the time. I Started a band Slow Children when i was 15 where I was the drummer and lead singer, I did that for a few years.  I then decided I wanted to be out front and joined a band called bedlam23 where I was the lead vocalist. 

I then moved to AZ out of a need to save my own life, and eventually found 2 of the current member of sicmonic in a band with different members, under a different name. After a few years of lineup changes, countless shows, hours of dedication to what we know we can create, The current and strongest lineup of sicmonic was born.  Music has and always will be the highest form of communication. Rock the fuck on

 
Metal, the word brings up so many different sounds, memories, and inspires such a strong feeling of identiy.  My friend and old guitarist for said band above bedlam23 first turned me on to true complex progressive death metal.  Changing time signatures, grinds, blasts and gutteral to high shrieking screaming vocals.  I fell in love immediately and have stayed that way ever since.  having the utmost respect and adoration for the musicians in such bands but not only, The Red Chord, The Black Dahlia Murder, Job For A Cowboy, Between the Buried and Me, Despised Icon, White Chapel, Ion dissonance, dillinger escape plan, Candiria, and many more that I will soon discover and abuse there recordings endlessly.  Commonly thrown together as noisy, angry, inaudible lyrically, and pointless.   death metal/hardcore, is to me the toughest musically, and most mentally challenging type of music there is.  Put on Job For a Cowboy and attempt to scream just like he does, or buy a drumset and attempt to mimic there drummer.  Now turn on the radio and attempt to recreate vocals and guitar for whatever crap is in the top 10 for heavy rock.  I guarantee you, you can probably get there with not much practice.  Thats because these bands are incredibly skilled, and talented musicians, the fastest and best in the world.  Theyve chosen to pursue a style that takes so much physically, emotionally and mentally to conquer mainly for the fact that they like myself our huge fans of the genre.  Metal will never die because it will never be able to be completely commercialized.  And that is why i believe death metal/hardcore and progressive music to be the purest most intellectually advanced music out there today.  Metal as Fuck!!!

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