The Lazarus Effect came back again and again for more than a decade.  Since their chance meeting in the late nineties in Columbus, Ohio, Shawn Staples and Wulf Downard composed and performed together as a creative team.  

They fought on through hard times, bad luck, and broken lineups to continue to visualize their style and particular brand of storytelling.  When Greg Martinez joined the band, he brought precisely the type of rhythmic soul and backbone that they had always been searching for.  Greg's powerful, yet well finessed style of drumming has hugely contributed to the 'Effect's composition and performing method.

While embroiled in the search for the right bassist, they were working toward writing what they hoped would go beyond a full-length feature album, as well as creative exploits in other media.  In 2008, bassist Brandon Boucher joined the band and brought what was missing from the whole:  the skill, enthusiasm, and raw emotion that would be absolutely essential to the mix.  

Dissatisfied with the often either underwhelming or overly brutish "edge" in much of the music of the last several years, The Lazarus Effect were poised to be a much-needed shot in the arm for post-millenium modern rock.  With their powerful and poignant collection of songs, they brought their powerful grooves, intelligent lyric poetry, and passionate soundscaping that spanned generational and stylistic boundaries.  

The Lazarus Effect finally reached its final rest in 2011 with a number of life changes and moves for its members, ultimately placing them each in four very different corners of the United States--  One in the Pacific Northwest, one in SoCal, one in Florida, and the other silently lost somewhere in the Midwest...

Wulf has recently released his solo album, The Grey Matters, which contains his reworked version of "What Once Was" and a new recording of "Manufactured" that is strikingly faithful to the band's original composition.

However, Brandon and Wulf are currently collaborating on new music that recombines a number of the elements that they prized in their TLE project with a fresh perspective and a new taste of the future on their tongues...  but more about that in due time...

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