[1] In December 2005, it was announced that Stainthorpe would lend his voice and some lyrics to a song with Sarah Jezebel Deva's new band Angtoria.

Stainthorpe has made other guest appearances on Dominion's Interface and Disincarnate's Dreams of the Carrion Kind.

In 2021 he was a guest vocalist on the debut album of the romanian doom metal band Olympus Mons.

Stainthorpe was born in England but moved to Germany when he was six months old, because his British army officer father was stationed in the country.

I think that dwelling on the darker side of life seems much more interesting and evocative than the happier things...I've got somewhere to put my depression and it's called My Dying Bride...I'm generally a happy guy!