Shinto Records - Roughhausen

bowels of the Subconscious Studio complexes. Those sessions eventually became the material found on the First

Roughhausen release, "Defenestrated" . Addiction, madness, withdrawal and death marred the next few years and it

was during this time that the Roughhausen ethos was focused and refined to what it eventually became., a hardcore beat

driven lamentation of man and machine raging against the pandemic mediocrity that is celebrated in the modern world.

ROUGHHAUSEN spent the next few years traveling in Europe and Asia; surfing, hanging out and exploring; feeding his mind

body and soul to fuel his next musical ejaculation. Did he come back back from Asia with a balanced and peaceful mind...

was his next cd a soft spoken and inner peace filled expression of harmony? FUCK NO! "In DER Arse Fricken" was a raging,

pounding, hate filled collection of hard-beat, cold, industrial rock and phat-bassed technocore. The inner peace and tranquility that infects so many artists after they explore Asia seems to have escaped JS and his tirade against stupidity, zealots and consumerism just got meaner. Eventually he teamed up with John Wu: a veteran of the Taiwanese post-rock scene and a highly acclaimed studio musician, and Miss Peggy Lin: a rock Goddess and mistress of the Asian Death Metal scene. Together they deliver a pounding, relentless live show that is one part spectacle and one part Ass spanking good time. Roughhausen will make you shake your ass if you want to or not !

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