“I started playing classical guitar in my youth, short after I turned into the electrical guitar and heavier music. From the very beginning I played with Christopher, the drummer of Rüdiger’s and my longtime band Fallacy (later Paradigm Shift).

Our music at that time was a quite complicated mixture of classical Thrash Metal (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Riot) and the stuff (progressive-) metal bands played in the 80's (Iron Maiden, Fates Warning, etc.).

“I started playing guitar 12 years ago in order to impress girls. That didn't work at all, however I learned a really awesome hobby.

From the beginning I played pop and all that sort of things that daddy's girls love, but when I grew up older and stop being a child, I start turning into heavier and more complex music. When you are 16, you are learning guitar and you watch a Yngwie Malsmteen video, you definitely want to be like him!!

My first band, "Deskozierto" was a joint adventure between friends with different influences but an incredible passion for rock. We tried to merge spanish reinvidicative rock with the metal trash stuff that we listened at that moment. It was a great experience and quite a lot of fun.

“Once upon a time, when I was eight years old and decaying in a Franconian hick town in southern Germany, my parents made me play the hooter, a circumstance that for my part almost ruined any interest in music. Many years later, right in the middle of the eighties, when synthie pop finally subsided and I had gradually discovered metal, I realized that I was different from all those little guitar players.
I was fascinated by the low frequencies itching in the stomach and I was unable to play the guitar with my chubby fingers anyway. So it was bound to happen that I bought my first bass guitar when I was 16 years old.

After my first attempt to form a metal band called Mega-lomania had totally failed, I joined the Kreissägen (circular saws), where I learned a lot about fun punk, indie, silly jokes and childish behaviour.

“I started playing drums in the early nineties, only jamming around with a few people in the beginning which soon led to be my first band called Up Send Minded. After this band split up I joined Arctic Fields and recorded two E.P.`s with 'em. I was involved in some projects as well at that time.

In Summer 2008 I joined Scottish metal act Alestorm as a session drummer for their festival season and played the Wacken Open Air, Graspop, the Metal Camp and other big festivals in Europe.

Since January 2005 I play drums in 2nd Sight.”

“I started playing keyboards at the age of 14 switching to the guitar very soon for I really was into Metallica and Megadeth and wanted to play those songs.

About two years later I met Stellan and we started our first band Fallacy, which emerged into Paradigm Shift a few years later. Unfortunately we never got a proper vocalist so I placed myself behind the mic.