Guy 1 met Guy 2 in a bookstore. They both worked there for a while. Sharing a passion for audio and video production, they decided to undergo drastic surgery to have their brains sewn together to double their collective creative power.
The Two Guys and an Effects Box project began in the summer of 2001.
Guy 1 had acquired an effects box on loan from his uncle.
He and Guy 2 started to experiment with it and see what they could come up with.
They recorded a bunch of stuff. It was amazing.
Using Guy 1's computer, appropriately named 'Crashie,' Guy 1 proceeded to digitize, mix, and otherwise make-sound-better many of the recordings they made from their sanity-melting experimentation sessions.
It occured to Guy1 and Guy 2 that there might be a market for their particular brand of auditory assault.
So, Guy 1 proceeded to assemble the tracks they had completed into some semblance of an album. It would be unleashed on the world via that newfangled thing called the Internet.
As of this writing, the album sits unreleased in the private archives of Guy 1. It shall be unleashed soon...very soon.
For no apparent reason whatsoever, Guy 2 vanishes into the wilds of Alberta, unceremoniously ripping his brain half out of Guy 1's head and running off with it. Never to be heard from again. Guy 1 maintained hope that his other half will someday return, with the other half of his brain.
Guy 2 returns from the wilds of Alberta after a year-long absence. Emergency surgery is performed to re-attach the brains of Guy 1 and 2.
No sooner has Guy 2 returned than Guy 1 goes mysteriously missing.
Guy 2 attempts to continue promoting the band on his own, producing a series of short promotional videos and putting them up on the internet.
In the middle of producing one of these promos, Guy 2 suddenly loses his powers and reverts back to his mortal persona. The camera is rolling when this happens, so he quickly gives the video to Zaranyzerak to put up on the internet and rushes off in search of Guy 1.
Guy 2, now just 'Ben,' is last seen frantically running thorugh the city streets asking any passersby if they know the whereabouts of Guy 1.