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Angylus formed The Angelic Process in 1999. Following his grandmother's passing, he turned her house into a recording studio and began recording. For much of his career, Angylus said 2001, the year the band's first album was released, was when the band formed, but he amended that statement to
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Angylus' first girlfriend in a 2000 car crash. Angylus's wife Monica Dragynfly joined the band in 2005, and The
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