Influences: The corrosive effects of every negative emotion of the human spirit and fickleness of fortune. They teach me that anything can be worse than it is. The power of perception and brutality of unfiltered truth, as well as the balance that everyone chooses to ignore in order to become "themselves". Soundgarden and Sabbath too.

Hopes and dreams: To make people feel, whether by song, or fist in the fucking face.

Michael is one of the founding members of Osiris Rising.

Biography compiled August 2004