Roughhausen aka Jeff Stoddard started out playing guitar in local punk rock bands in British Columbia Canada and then relocated to Vancouver. It was there that he met up with and eventually formed the band WILL with Rhys Fulber, Chris Peterson and John McRae. WILL, released two full length albums on the London based label Third Mind Records.
During his stint in Vancouver Stoddard was asked by legendary EBM powerhouse Front Line Assembly to play guitar on their seminal L.P, "Caustic Grip". That album spawned the world wide EBM club classic "Provision" and firmly cemented his place in the lexicon of electronic music. Stoddard then moved on to work at Skinny Puppy's Subconsciuos studio for 4 years. While there he wrote and recorded the first Decree Album with Chris Peterson, did numerous remixes and production jobs and studied the art of production by playing assistant to the likes of Rave and Ken Hiwatt Marshall... all the while sharpening his skills and refining his craft. The ROUGHHAUSEN project was born out of a series of late night, drug soaked, sonic atrocities against man and God in the bowels of the Subconscious Studios complexe. Those sessions eventually became the material found on the First ROUGHHAUSEN release, "Defenestrated", that album was a grinding screaming descent into sonic and subjective hell. Addiction, madness, withdrawal and death marred the next few years and it was during this time that the ROUGHHAUSEN ethos was focused and refined to what it eventually became... a sarcastic, sleazy, belligerent assault, driven by beats and fuelled by piss and vinegar... Electro Industrial Punk Rock.