Members

Name: Mark Mendieta
Location: Brownsville, TX

Favorite Genres: Progressive Rock & Metal, Doom Metal, Power Metal, New Age & Gothic Rock/Metal
Disliked Genres: Death Metal, Rap, Country

Favorite STT Song: Silence Cries

Biography: I have been playing music since the age of 5.  Drums were the first instrument I learned to play while I was in the school band.  When I was about 12 years old, I began writing lyrics.  Around 1997, I got my first keyboard, and that renewed my passion for music.  Then in 1999, I started Subject to Thoughts.  I began this project to make music that is both intellectual & expressive.  I’ve made a total of 5 albums.  2 cassette demos & 3 CD’s (well, the last CD I finally got some help). 

Finally, in 2006, I started Transcend with Time.  This is my Progressive New Age/Ambient project.  I decided to start this project because it provides me with another avenue of music to pursue.  I believe that music can definitely change lives, it certainly has for me. 

Favorite albums: Dream Theater: Images & Words (changed my life), Enchant: Blueprint of the World (excellent), My Dying Bride: Like Gods of the Sun (so beautiful, yet so bleak), Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime (masterpiece), Superior: Behind, Symphony X: V (grandiose), Vanden Plas: The God Thing & Type O Negative: October Rust

Hobbies: Watching sports; especially football & basketball.

Favorite food: Hamburgers, and I detest seafood (I’m allergic to shrimp).

Other Projects: Transcend With Time.

Name: Brandon Strader
Age: 20
Location: Burgettstown, PA

Position: Vocals, guitar solos, sounds.

Favorite Genres: Progressive rock, prog metal, power metal, british rock, death and black metal, jazz, funk, heavy metal, folk / viking metal, comedy, doom, goth rock, techno / trance, electronic, grind, etc...
Disliked Genres: Noise.

Favorite STT Song: Love Forever, Remembering Who I Am, Deepest Regret, Serenity In My Eyes, The Culmination, Closure To The Soul

Biography: Brandon is a 20 year old college student in the tri-state area of PA, WV, and OH. He spends the majority of his time doing assignments on the interactive digital media major. He's interested in digital media, of course, which includes websites, graphics, and animation, et al. His biggest passion, however -- music -- is something he considers to be a living, breathing thing... He has a great time with his Nintendo Wii and his plethora of games!

Favorite albums: I have a lot of albums that I love, but a select few have really changed my perspective on music and life in general. First and foremost was Nobuo Uematsu's work on Final Fantasy VII, which pretty much blew me away before I even knew what music was! After that, there were albums like Opeth's Still Life, and Winterun's self-titled debut. There are a lot of bands that have affected me over the years as well, but they mostly didn't have such a major impact as the aforementioned bands / musicians.

Hobbies: Music... education, video gaming.

Favorite food: After reading this article, I am unsure.

Other Projects: Rainwound, In Staid Grace, Blazar (on hiatus), Rubicon