Joseph Gates was born from a human mother in southern Lousiana in the early part of the 1980’s. After moving to New Orleans as a teenager, he commandeered several musical projects centered there. During this time he traveled the United States as the singer of an erratically disturbed punk/noise-metal outfit monikered “The Faeries,” and was the primary force behind the gno-wave industrial group “The Black Sun.” After the events of Hurricane Katrina, Joseph spent a year in the Washington D.C. area recording with experimental jazz artist Paul Joyner, and then returned to his childhood home in rural Lousiana, where he currently resides.
Joseph’s current project, “Vargr Wulf,” debuted live in Dublin, Ireland in the summer of 2007. Since then, Joseph and his partner Vanessa have started up the tape label “VRT International” to release cassette recordings of their various projects. Future plans include delving further into writing and continuing his efforts into musical composition and improvisation. Joseph loves cats.
