NOVEMBERS DOOM : MEMBER BIOGRAPHY

PAUL

Full Name: Paul Kuhr
Born: December 4th, 1971
Living: Chicago suburbs, Illinois
Duties in Band: Vocals / Lyrics
Occupation: Metal Head
Relationship status: Married with a Daughter
Favorite drinks: Tea, Coke, Tazo Chai, Kriek
Favorite foods: Vicodin
Enjoys reading: Graphic Novels, Comics
Favorite bands: Coldplay, Trouble, Celtic Frost, Edge of Sanity, Metallica, Hail of Bullets, Ajattara, The Doors, Peter Gabriel
Favorite albums: MDB - "Turn Loose the Swans", MDB - "As the Flower Withers", MDB - "Like Gods of the Sun", The Doors - "Morrison Hotel", Slayer - "Reign In Blood", Metallica - "Ride the Lightning", Sindrome - "Into the Halls of Extermination" (demo), Coldplay - "A Rush of Blood to the Head", Coldplay - "Parachutes".
Greatest musical influence: Duane Rasmussen (Devastation [Chicago]), Troy Dixler (Sindrome), Jorgen Sandstrom (Grave), Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost), Dan Swano (Edge of Sanity), Eric Wagner (Trouble), Jim Morrison (The Doors), Thomas A.G. Jensen (Saturnus)
Equipment used: Shure Beta58
Other bands involved with (past or present): Laceration, Em Sinfonia, Subterranean Masquerade, These Are They
Words to live by: There can be only one!

LARRY

Full name: Lawrence Roberts
Born: January 30th, about a million years ago
Living: Chicago (south side)
Duties in band: Lead and Rhythm guitars, some backing vox
Occupation: professional musician, as well as a security officer
Relationship status: bound to a Poison Girl
Favorite drinks: Cranberry juice, water, Ginger Ale, Barrilitos Grapefruit drink
Favorite foods: Japanese, Chinese, and Italian foods, plus I cook alot so I have all sorts of concoctions I've dreamed up
Enjoys reading: Autobiographies, history books, magazines, comics (Ultimate SpierMan, Battle of The Planets, Amazing SpiderMan, to name a few
Favorite bands: KISS, Cheap Trick, Pyogenesis, Voivod, Atrocity, Katatonia, Zeppelin, H.I.M, Amorphis, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Winter, Trouble, Candlemass, and so on...
Favorite albums: All KISS albums, Pyogenesis "TwinAleBlood", Amorphis "Am Universum", H.I.M "Greatest Love Songs vol. 666", Led Zeppelin "III" , Black Sabbath "Vol.4", Voivod "AngelRat", Pink Floyd "Meddle" and "Dark Side of the Moon", so many more to list.....
Greatest musical influence: All the music I grew up with (70's rock and metal mostly)
Equipment used: Fender Subsonic Baritone, Gibson Explorers, and I rotate between using several different amps, I have an old 50 watt JCM 800 Marshall, an old Carvin 100 watt head, and a new Peavey Ultra Plus 100 watt head.
Effects used: other than effects in the studio, I run pretty much straight into the amp right now, but I experiment with different effects from time to time.
Goal in life: I'm just living day to day, trying to make a living and make people I care about happy, and dealing with the bullshit as it comes.
Other bands involved with (past or present): Past- Shades of Grey, Neurotoxin, Dead Serenade, Tyrants Reign, ZoomClub, many others.... Present- No other projects at this point, I'm always writing and recording music on my own of different styles so maybe someday.
Words to live by: I have nothing profound to say, other than stay true to yourself and what you like and don't worry about what others say or think.

VITO

Name: Vito Marchese
Born: May 3 1982
Living: Northwest suburbs of Chicago
Duties in Band: Guitars
Occupation: I work for an internet company shooting porn, and shipping computer/digital memory products.
Relationship status: Non-Existent
Favorite drinks: Coke, Belgian beer, Bacardi rum
Favorite foods: Giordano's stuffed crust pizza, China Chef in Morton Grove, IL, and Portillo’s
Enjoys reading: Sci-fi books and non-fiction books on ancient civilizations.
Favorite bands: Evergrey, Nevermore, Dream Theater, Rhapsody of Fire, Mercenary, Eidolon.
Favorite albums: Nevermore-all, Dream Theater-Awake/Train of Thought, Death-Symbolic/The Sound of Perseverence, Balance of Power-Perfect Balance/Book of Secrets, Control Denied-The Fragile Art of Existence, Eidolon-Seven Spirits/Nightmare World, Iced Earth-all albums with Barlow, Evergrey-In Search of Truth/Recreation Day, Fear Factory-all, Terminator 2 soundtrack, Nine Inch Nails-The Downward Spiral
Greatest musical influences: Jeff Loomis, Glen and Shawn Drover, Mike Walsh, Tom Hess, and Luca Turilli.
Equipment used: Ibanez MMM-1 baritone, ESP FB-200 baritone, Peavey 6505+
Effects used: No effects here!
Goal in life: To have fun playing incredible music and meeting interesting people along the way. I also want to write a bad ass sci-fi novel, and have it turned into a movie.
Other bands involved with (past or present): Sage4, and Divinity Compromised
Words to live by: The future is not set, there is no fate but what we make for ourselves. Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

CHRIS

Name: Chris Wisco
Born: July, 1970's
Living: Wisconsin
Duties in Band: Bass / Vocals / Quality Control
Occupation: Producer / Engineer
Favorite drink: Absinthe
Favorite bands: KISS, Old Metallica / Megadeth / Slayer / Exodus / Anthrax, Chris Thile, Alison Krauss
Favorite albums: 'This Side' Nickel Creek, 'Forget About It' Alison Krauss, Ride The Lightning, Reign In Blood, Killing is My Business, Spreading the Disease, Bonded By Blood
Equipment used: 1973 Ibanez P-Bass, MonsterPaws
Other bands involved with (past or present): Wrath, Jungle Rot
Words to live by: hum the melody, the words don't mean a thing ... every note I play, will give whatever I've not said away..

SASHA

Full name: Sasha Horn
Born: July 21, 1976
Living: I am. I have to check sometimes, but I am.
Duties in band: Hitting things with sticks, including bandmates.
Occupation: Metal Journalist.
Relationship status: Married.
Favorite drinks: Ovaltine.
Favorite foods: Ethiopian, Thai, and Chicago-style stuffed pizza.
Enjoys reading: These kinds of lists, Guitar tablature.
Favorite bands: My favorite bands make my favorite albums (see below).
Favorite albums: Pestilence - Consuming Impulse, Voivod - Dimension Hatross, Death - Human, Coroner - Mental Vortex, Arsis - We Are The Nightmare, Fugazi - 13 Songs, Deftones - White Pony, Mew - And the Glass Handed Kites, Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks, Excel - The Joke's On You, Failure - Fantastic Planet, Vio-lence - Oppressing The Masses, Soundgarden - all albums, At-The-Drive-In - Relationship Of Command, Quicksand - Manic Compression.
Greatest musical influence: Imagining a hybrid of Matt Cameron and Pete Sandoval, and then striving to be just that.
Equipment used: Trick drums and Trick Pro-V1 pedals.
Other bands involved with (past or present): Trials, the 1999 version of Novembers Doom, These Are They, Meqqa
Words to live by: Live by your words.