Roughhausen aka Jeff Stoddard started out playing guitar in local punk rock bands in British Columbia Canada and then relocated to Vancouver. It was during that time he met up with and eventually formed a band with Rhys Fulber, Chris Peterson and John McRae. That band, Will, released two full length albums on the London based label Third Mind Records During that time he also hooked up with legendary EBM powerhouse Front Line Assembly to play guitar on their seminal L.P, “Caustic Grip” which spawned the world wide EBM club classic "Provision" and firmly cemented his place in the lexicon of electronic music. The following year he moved on to Skinny Puppy’s Subcon studio for 4 years. During that time he wrote and recorded the first Decree Album with Chris Peterson, did numerous remixes and productions jobs and studied the art of mixing by playing assistant to the likes of Rave and Ken Hiwatt Marshall.
The project Roughhausen was born out of a series of late night, drug fueled, sonic atrocities against man and God in the