Concurrently, Murray and ex-bassist John Fahnestock have also started up and released music under a new band called White Noise Owl as well.
In the late 1990s, vocalist Pete Murray and guitarist Neil Godfrey formed and recorded two albums in the band Ultraspank.
[2] After the poor sales of their second album, Progress, the band parted ways with their record label and ultimately disbanded.
[5] Lewis made the band the first to be signed to the label, stating that he felt even the early rough demo sounded "better than 80 percent of the albums released today.
[6] Additionally, John Fahnestock, who had met Murray and Godfrey while touring alongside Ultraspank in the band Snot at Ozzfest 1998, was also recruited as the bassist.
"[9] The band had planned on releasing a second single, bassist Jonathan Fahnestock had even asked the internet community to vote for which track it would be, but it never surfaced.
[15] Despite this, the band confirmed that they were still on good terms with Lewis and Staind, were not disbanding, and were in fact already working on writing and recording more music.
[17] From their Myspace account, they streamed early versions of many songs, including the track "Ingenious" in May 2005,[18] "Breathe" in May 2006,[19] "Blame Me" in June 2006,[20] and "Texas" and "You Lie" in August 2007.
Most notably, he engineered and co-produced industrial rock band Ghost Machine's album Hypersensitive, where he worked with future Five Finger Death Punch vocalist Ivan Moody and The Clay People's guitarist John Stevens.
[22] After completing the album, Murray started up a new band with Stevens, and Walter Flakus of Stabbing Westward, called Chokt.
[27] The band debuted a number of songs that would later be released on future album, including tracks "Letting Go", "Hang On", "Today", and "All I Have".
[30] In an early 2008 interview, Murray detailed the band's progress and future plans: "We really want to release something but we're the most prolific we've ever been so we've been recording like crazy.
The band spent the first half of the year quietly working recording more music, before announcing in May 2009 that they would be part of the "Stimulate This" tour in mid-2009 with Staind, Shinedown, Halestorm, and Chevelle.
[37] Murray mentioned that "Alive" was kept off due to "single potential" for their future full-length album, although the track had already been made available for free download just prior to touring.
[39] After the 2009 touring, the band returned to the studio and completed their second full album, which they would announce to be The Beautiful Sounds of Revenge.
[53] In early 2012, Murray confirmed that the band had started the process of putting together their third studio album, but said that, unlike prior releases, they wouldn't be leaking or streaming tracks beforehand because it sounded "different".
[54] Murray also confirmed that the band would continue to record their more acoustic/electronic material under the "Life on Planet 9" moniker, concurrently with the third Lo-Pro album, and released a new track for it titled "What Would You Say".
By early February, Murray stated that the band had started the mixing process, and that the album release would likely fall into March 2013.
[58] After the release of Disintegration Effect, Murray joined a new band, called White Noise Owl with original Lo-Pro bassist John Fahnestock.
[9] Murray specifically says several bands have influenced his vocals, including Led Zeppelin[60] and U2,[60] and the music of Peter Gabriel.