Having complete control yet allowing complete artistic license over things has always been an important factor in every single thing I have ever done concerning my own works, or the work of others that I held enough interest in to care about. There is something deeply satisfying about sinking your teeth and fingers into something tangible, something more than malleable, and making it entirely yours, no matter the consequence or the depth of your process. I have always been introduced to things in a very crucial way, and music was no exception.

The following is a brief yet detailed account of HOTH's inception and some of its highlights over the years.

January / February - 2007

A friend and I find an unmarked box in his basement. Inside of this box are four hundred blank cassettes tapes inside of unmarked cases. We share a look, and apparently, a thought. We begin asking around, to our friend's bands (sticking within the realm of black metal / doom / etc.) and such, and soon enough, we single out a handful willing to let us record their practices or a few finished songs onto our cassettes with the shoddy recorder / player we had found in the trash a few days prior. Its buttons stuck and the microphone had a hole in it, but we successfully recorded, packaged, and distributed two hundred and six of the four hundred cassettes. We even sold a few of them. All in all, there were about twenty different albums spread between them, and by now, they are probably all long forgotten, lost underneath basement drawers or the Twilight realm of nowhere, but regardless of all of this, those two months instilled something in me that I have never lost and do not think I ever will - the need to create, not just for myself, but for others.

And then, all was quiet. But just for a little while.

Septembre - 2007

I make various unecessarily extensive and arduous trips across country and states lines due to difficulties and sickness of my surroundings. I land in Washington, and the foot / bus / hitch hiking travel commences. After a few weeks, I ended up in Ohio. I hunker down and by the miracles of wireless internet cards and signal pires, I am able to begin my plotting from the internet. A friend introduces me to the website known as Myspace (I had no idea of the power of its evil at the time), suggesting that I upload my own music, which he had previously heard through the sharing of tapes. I did as he suggested, finding it to be a rather useful tool. That is how 'Bicycle Sighs' came to be. After browsing for a little while, and seeing the many record labels sprouting up all over the place, a memory flashes through me; that incredulous feeling of accomplishment, and the fire is back in brew. I start up the Myspace page for (what I decided to name as) Lightning Paw Media, and end up... doing absolutely nothing for quite a while.

After a slump, I finally begin to approach friends and people whose music spoke to me, and offered my 'services' to them. I begin to build up a slow and steady roster of musicians and bands who have dedicated themselves at least partially to Lightning Paw.

January - 2008

Living in New Jersey now, with fellow musician and good friend James Phillips, ideas are once again had. And once again, they fall through, due to living arrangements and constant difficulties.

Lightning Paw is changed to Domovoi Media.

March - 2008

Domovoi Media is decontructed into four sub categories - Domovoi Records, Domovoi Films, Domovoi Publications, and Domovoi Arts, while keeping under the mother name of Domovoi Media.

August 25th - 2008

Haute Magie Records earns its place in the Domovoi Media family, threading its seeds with the same roots upon which the original label idea began, heavy and extreme music. Domovoi Records becomes the vessel for all other types of music in the Domovoi family.

January 29th - 2009

Landing in Austin, Texas while on tour as Bicycle Sighs, I meet my wife and partner, forever changing my artistic outlook on how things are done with HOTH.

February 17th - 2009

After finally coming to my senses and realising that five labels with too little differentiation are far too many to organise and handle, I ultimately deconstruct Domovoi Media entirely and change the mother label's name to HOTH (He Of The House) Media, with Domovoi Records and Haute Magie Records underneath it.

March 21st - 2009

www.HeOfTheHouse.com proudly launches, putting both Domovoi Records and Haute Magie Records into full effect.

August 23rd - 2009

Haute Magie's first official release appears; Zebulon Kosted's cassette NOVAYA ZEMLYA.

Oktobre 6th - 2009

Domovoi's first (and seemingly last) official release appears; Mike Bruno's CDr In Memory.

Novembre 2nd - 2009

He Of The House and all sub-labels merge with HUMAN.BURIAL tapes and CDs.

Decembre 5th - 2009

He Of The House and all sub-labels merge with TRASHFUCK Records, and all sub-labels.

Decembre 18th - 2009

Domovoi Records is announced dead and buried.

January 26th - 2010

The 3" HOTH sub-label series Butcher's Delight is officially born into the Household.