[4][5] He has released 13 studio albums,[4] including Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children (2011), BiTrektual (2012), and Raised by Bats (2014).

[4] In 1997, Voltaire wrote and illustrated the six-issue Sirius Entertainment comic book series Chi-Chian, and created a Flash animated webseries of the same name for the Sci-Fi Channel website.

[3] At the age of ten, Voltaire was inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), and began animating on a super 8 camera.

He says that bands and artists who influenced his music are Rasputina, Morrissey, Tom Waits, Cab Calloway and Danny Elfman.

[9] As an adult, Voltaire formed a band which included a violin, a cello, drums, and himself as the vocalist and the acoustic guitar player.

", a song written for the Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, aired in the episode "Little Rock of Horrors".

He also wrote "Land of the Dead" for Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, which plays in the opening sequence.

[17] As an avid fan of Star Trek, Aurelio Voltaire frequently attends science fiction conventions, and released a four track EP called Banned on Vulcan.

[18] Voltaire performed a musical special for Artix Entertainment in their MMO game AdventureQuest Worlds, altering some of his songs in To the Bottom of the Sea to suit their standards.

On September 2, 2011, Voltaire released his eighth studio album: Riding a Black Unicorn Down the Side of an Erupting Volcano While Drinking from a Chalice Filled with the Laughter of Small Children.

Participating musicians include Rasputina frontwoman Melora Creager on cellos, Brian Viglione on drums, former Bauhaus bassist David J on bass and Franz Nicolay on accordion.

Contrasting with the dark cabaret instrumentation of most of his album, Raised by Bats is more death rock—and gothic rock-inflected, and it counted with guest appearances by Ray Toro of My Chemical Romance, Craig Adams of The Mission, Julia Marcell and much more.

It not only served as a tribute to the late singer, but also acted as a spiritual sequel to Labyrinth, with a plotline spread throughout its twenty songs.

[21] The current lineup is: Voltaire was hired for his first directing job in 1988 with MTV, creating the "MTV-Bosch" station ID in the style of Hieronymus Bosch.

[22][failed verification] This station ID was included in a capsule of 21st[citation needed] century media that was shot into space.

After publishing a six-issue comic book series titled Chi-Chian through Sirius Entertainment, Voltaire created a station ID for the Sci-Fi Channel featuring the eponymous character.

The resulting Flash animated series, Chi-Chian, debuted on the website in November 2000 and concluded in May 2001; a total of 14 episodes were produced.

[citation needed] Appeared on the Discovery Channel series, Oddities, in 2012, buying a "slice of brain" for a music video prop.

[25][26] In addition to Chi-Chian, Voltaire has also produced a comic book series called Oh My Goth!, also known as OMG!, which started as his own eight-page religious tracts inspired by Jack Chick.

(2004), Paint It Black: A Guide to Gothic Homemaking (2005), and "Call of the Jersey Devil", a novelization of a script of the same name.

He is currently writing a novel based on his 2022 album The Black Labyrinth Voltaire married his long-time girlfriend, Jayme, on October 1, 2009, at the Angel Orensanz Center in New York City.

"[30] As of 2022, he is currently engaged to Mexican-Japanese singer, Mayumi Toyoda, [31] Tracks by Voltaire also appeared on these compilation albums, sorted by year.