Name: Mike Neumeister
Band Position: Guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals
Place of Birth: Fullerton, California
Non-Musical Influences: Life, society, experiences, and people
Musical Influences: Iced Earth, Marillion, Grim Reaper, Death, Nachtmystium, Yes, Mago de Oz
Favorite Bands: Kiss, Iced Earth, Blind Guardian, Municipal Waste, Daylight Dies, Swallow the Sun, Mago de Oz, Jethro Tull, Sentenced, Marillion, Nile, Andrew W.K. and some others as well
Favorite Albums:
Iced Earth - "Night of the Stormrider"
Mago de Oz - "Gaia"
Marillion - "Marbles"
Blind Guardian - "Somewhere Far Beyond"
Kiss - "Creatures of the Night"
The Flower Kings - "Paradox Hotel"
Emperor - "Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire and Demise"
Sear Bliss - "Forsaken Symphony"
Sonata Arctica - "Ecliptica"
Gentle Giant - "In A Glass House"
Cirith Ungol - "King of the Dead"
Destroyer 666 - "Cold Steel...For An Iron Age"
Amorphis - "Eclipse"
Steely Dan - "Countdown to Ecstasy"
Savage Circus - "Dreamland Manor"
Karmakanic - "Wheel of Life"
Death - "Human"
Hollow - "Architect of the Mind"
Nachtmystium - "Instinct: Decay"
Manegarm - "Havets Vargar"
Symphony X - "The Odyssey"
Sentenced - "The Cold White Light"
Mithotyn - "King of the Distant Forest"
Daylight Dies - "Dismantling Devotion"
Type O Negative - "World Coming Down"
Stratovarius - "Destiny"
Immortal - "At the Heart of Winter"
Moonspell - "Wolfheart"
Gear: Line 6 Spider III 2x10 120 watt combo amplifier, Dunlop Tortex 1.14 mm plectrum, Monster S-100 series 12ft and 20ft cables, ESP LTD DV8R guitar, ESP LTD EX-400, D'Addario XL .010 - .046 strings