Jared Slingerland

Jared Slingerland was born on January 16, 1984 in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada where his father (Glen Slingerland) was a radio announcer on CKIQ. The family moved to Calgary, Alberta shortly after birth due to his father securing an on air job with a new CHR radio station (AM106). It was in Calgary where Jared was first exposed to the music industry when he attended his first live concert. It was a Canadian band known as the Barenaked Ladies. Another move brought the family to the Metro Vancouver (Abbotsford, BC) area at age 11. He began playing various instruments in his early teen years and started to excel at guitar.

In his late teens he formed a band called Ms. Anne Thropy, a goth nu-metal project that eventually started to work with producer Jeremy Inkel in his home studio. Shortly thereafter Ms. Anne Thropy ended but Jeremy and Jared continued to write music together for various projects including a trip-hop project. In early 2004 Left Spine Down approached Jared and asked him to join the fold and in late 2005 he began working with Front Line Assembly doing album guitar work. Shortly thereafter they asked him to tour North America and Europe as a full band member supporting the Artificial Soldier album.

Jared has continued working with both bands to present, touring North America and Europe again with FLA in 2007, working on the FLA follow up EP Fallout, and finishing up work on LSD's first full length album Fighting for Voltage as well as the follow up already in the works.

Discography

- Mindless Self Indulgence - Straight to Video: The Remixes
- Front Line Assembly - Artificial Soldier
- Front Line Assembly - Fall Out
- Left Spine Down - Smart Bomb
- Left Spine Down - Fighting for Voltage

Upcoming Albums

- Unit 187 - (Fall 2008)
- Front Line Assembly - (tba Spring 2009)
- Delerium - (tba)
- Noise Unit - (tba)
- Life as a Wizard - (tba)

External links

* [http://www.myspace.com/leftspinedown Left Spine Down's MySpace page]
* [http://www.leftspinedown.ca Official Left Spine Down website]