Back in 1996 there were quite a few bands that impressed me enough for me to follow and support. One of which was a crazy gothic-psychedelic-Metal outfit called Sunshine, (which was being led by future Nightmare axeman, Monster). I kept in contact with Sunshine through their vocalist at the time, Ssik and began attempting to set some shows up featuring the two bands. Unfortunately, this never happened being that soon after, Ssik was fired from Sunshine and went on to front another theatric metal band by the name of Krypt VI.

We did manage to put a few shows together with Krypt IV, but it wasn't long until Ssik was again fired from that project as well. He began working on a new project venturing more into electronic sequencing when I offered my services to help him, as he really wasn't much of the computer literate type. After the release of the "...As the Curtain Falls.." CD we began to have our problems with our percussionist drummer, the Jester. As a token of goodwill for the work I had done for the Prophesy, Ssik offered to sit in on the drum throne.

Things started going haywire when his girlfriend left him and developed an interest in me. She started hanging around our rehearsal area and eventually a heated argument evolved which almost went into a physical altercation between Ssik and Dark Cloud. After everything cooled down, we decided it was in our best interest to part ways. Unfortunately, Ssik took this into his own vendetta, and gate crashed one of our shows on the "...As the Curtain Falls..." tour with Pagan Holiday. Ssik made an impromptu appearance playing keyboards for Pagan Holiday and in the middle of their set, grabbed the mic from Pagan Holiday's singer and began verbally bashing us in front of the audience. It was completely unexpected to the members of Pagan Holiday, and to Violent Fury (who also shared that night's bill), who Ssik went on to 'include' into an anti-Zadoc alliance. We were as shocked as Pagan Holiday, Violent Fury, and the remaining audience were to hear this "speech". We received apologies from both bands along with members of the audience who wanted no part of this private scuffle that Ssik had attempted to make public.

Since then I have spoken to Ssik only a handful of times. I still respect him as a wonderful creative musician, but he is too much of an angry loose cannon for me to get any closer again.