It's been my online pseudonym on sevenstring.org and metalguitarist.org for a couple of years now, and has been a part of all of just about all of my other pseudonyms online for longer than that (or a variant of it), so I thought it was about time I gave it something more than that.

I do not play live ;) It's just me and a laptop.

I love the internet, I love MP3s and I love the breadth of distribution it brings. The "issues" with illegal downloading are, IMO, moot if you're making music because you love it, and any real fan will support you by buying paid versions or coming to shows as well as having free versions.

Potentially, but only certain labels, and it *really* depends on what the contract is like.

Started with me making crap songs back in 2000 with Sony Acid and loops, then I proceeded to make crap songs using loops and FL Studio in 2004. After a couple of years the sounds got better but the songs remained pretty terrible until I think around 2008 or 2009 when I started "Shotgun Partisan" as a way to get some feedback on the half-decent (and later pretty good, if I may say so) tracks at the time.

Shotgun Partisan is for me to experiment with, to practice and to work with things.

Daemoniac is the new project; a focused experiment with which I hope to bring out this themed EP.

Music in general. I think for this particular instance classical pieces and some of the dark-ambient bands of the 80s are my two biggest influences (Prokofiev's "Peter & The Wolf" is a big classical one, and Coil on the dark ambient front). I'm influenced by a lot though; everything from new wave to metalcore, powernoise to hip-hop to ambient.

I hope it shows.

Melbourne, Australia. I've not really gone far overseas yet, and Melbourne is still home.

FL Studio 9 with a whole crapload of free VSTi plugins, and my laptop. Drums are manipulated free loops or samples.

I hope to get a copy of Superior Drummer 2.0 at some point.