Rusty Pacemaker was born in 1974 and lives in Lanzenkirchen, Austria.

He is into heavy music since his childhood and started to make his own music at the beginning of the new millenium.

He never took any lessons on an instrument or joined any musical education. He started to play guitar and in order to complete his first songs he just grabbed a bass and did the vocals.

To stay completely independant and to keep all rights in his hands, he did everything by himself (composing, mixing, mastering, cover artwork,etc.) and finally founded the label SOLANUM RECORDS to be able to publish his debut album 'Blackness and White Light'.

His idea of being an artist is strongly influenced by one of his idols, 'Bathory' - mastermind Quorthon who sadly passed away.


THE Beginning
Rusty first started writing songs in 2003. Very soon he dreamt of writing, recording and producing his own music however, in the end it took him about seven years to complete his debut album Blackness and White Light released in 2010. The first material that could be considered as a song, ended up as the opener of the album, titled cell, and is a very different version from the original of 2003. After having written and recorded 5 songs in a rough demo version, he got to know Franz Löchinger, a professional drummer, who agreed to play the drums on the album. To complete a full length opus, Rusty wrote another five songs and slowly collected recording devices and studio equipment. At that time Rusty (which is the artist‘s nickname) just added the word Pacemaker and hence had his pseudonym as an artist.

The recording of Blackness and White Light was finished in 2009, mixing and mastering happened in 2009 and 2010 in Rusty’s, by then named, White Studio. After all the hard work, Rusty felt it took him a lifetime to complete the album but eventually the release date was set for the 20th of October 2010, published by the new record label Solanum Records.


A New Aera
Right after having finished Blackness and White Light Rusty Pacemaker decided to improve his studio situation as he found the working condition in the White Studio quite frustrating. So just before the album was released, the studio was completely rebuilt to set a new standard and push things forward.

By now Rusty is writing new songs for an upcoming album under the working title Ruins to be released in the year 20??..

Source : www.rustypacemaker.com