Brian Chippendale, drummer and vocalist in influential noise rock bands Lightning Bolt, and Mindflayer, as well as an underground comic book artist.
Expressing a profound interest in music from an early age, Russom spent his teenage years exploring drone and feedback using tape loops and mixers and playing in psychedelic noise bands with Michael Kelley (Kelley Polar) and with Brian Chippendale (Lightning Bolt, Mindflayer).