Mike comes from Delaware County, Pennsylvania known as DELCO. He’s a drummer and has played in several bands in his younger years for about 25 years since graduating high school back in 1993. He says it is always a lot of fun playing hardcore punk rock music because it's fast and high energy like driving down the highway while sitting behind a drum kit! MarkyZ needed a place to stay since he had to get out of the city so he posted on Facebook looking for a place to rent out and stay and Mike had known him for a very long time and he could count on MarkyZ, so he gave him a bedroom to stay in.
So one day as he set up a small recording home studio in his room where Mike heard him playing one of his songs he was writing on the guitar and asked if that song he was working on had any lyrics to it yet MarkyZ replied with no so Mike asked if he could write some lyrics. Mike was always told it best to write what you know and the funniest part for him is knowing what to write about. He always loved poetry and Jim Morrison from The Doors opened my eyes to that world for sure! So he wrote lyrics for a song he called Shut Up! Voices in my Head and gave it to MarkyZ (The Mad Scientist) he would call him and he loved what Mike wrote! I would then overwrite lyrics and then he would arrange them to fit the music he would compose and it worked out great!

A few days later he tells me that he was introduced to Anthony Albanese from his Mental Illness Awareness project called the ZUGU project as Anthony also suffers from mental illness as well and talked about putting the song on a compilation CD for awareness in support of people with mental illnesses so it's really funny how things seemed to work out. So together we really hope and pray this song will help heal and open your eyes to the people out there suffering with these mental illness afflictions in their lives. Mike really prays that this song reduces the stigmatism of people who suffer from these different types of mental illnesses.