The Players

S.A. Sebastian Gnolfo: vocals, bass, guitars, additional drums, synths, recording bass & guitar

S.A. Sebastian is the founder of Afflicted By Design. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Sebastian is the only official member of Afflicted By Design and remains solely responsible for its direction. Sebastian is a bass player, guitar player, composer, songwriter, producer and recording engineer.

Before moving to Austin, TX in 2009, Sebastian was a fixture of the New York City goth/industrial, rock and metal scenes, playing bass for bands like Otto’s Daughter, King Hell, Pillow Theory, Ray West’s APW in addition to his own bands Cave Penny, NVR and Atomic Brother. Sebastian has toured in 5 countries and recorded bass on upwards of 20 releases. Afflicted By Design is Sebastian’s first solo effort.

Michael J. Carrasquillo: drums

Michael Carrasquillo is the creative force and producer of iSOL8ED, an industrial music project based in NYC and a multi-instrumentalist, director, video editor, podcaster and jack-of-all-trades.

Most notably Michael played drums for Slick Idiot, with En Esch and Gunter Schultz (formerly of KMFDM) and helped with post-production responsibilities along side famed hip-hop music video director Jim Swaffield on the Grammy nominated “Trapped In The Closet” long form music video.

Sebastian and Michael worked together freelancing for a NYC Goth band and in Sebastian’s band Atomic Brother, for which Michael played drums and directed the band’s music video, “Take YouAway”.

Pete Collins: guitars on “Jesus Christ Machine”

Pete Collins is a guitar player, recording engineer and producer, contributing developer to the Mozilla web browser, and leads his own ambient/electronic project called Freedom.

As Freedom, Pete has released 3 albums of ambient electronic music with Celtic and Indian influences, and has a fourth in progress. As a recording engineer and producer, Pete cut his teeth working for studios like the Power Station in NYC.

Sebastian and Pete worked together in their “heavy post-pagan rock band” Cave Penny, releasing a single, an album and an Ep and Sebastian played bass on Angels & Monkeys and Age of Aether by Freedom.

Skunk Manhattan: guitars

Skunk Manhattan is the frontman, guitarist and producer for the band A Good Rogering and guitarist and co-producer for the band Quartershackle.

Skunk also plays classical piano and occasionally does stand up comedy and is an experienced guitar and piano instructor and endorses Tregan Guitars, who make his Signature “Skunk” guitar.

#nameless is Sebastian and Skunk’s first time working together. They know each other from the Austin metal scene.

Rob Hinton: recording vocals & re-amping guitars, mixing

Rob Hinton has been engineering and producing for over 20 years via Dallas, Los Angeles and Austin, where he currently resides and owns & operates Mesa Recording Studios.  His work ranges from major label albums to major motion picture soundtracks to independent albums including both foreign and domestic clients.

#nameless is Sebastian and Rob’s first time working together. They know each other from the Austin metal scene.