[2] Influenced by the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, he acquired his first bass guitar at age 12 and played in various cover bands.

At age 17, after two years of studying Process Engineering at a boarding school, Skold moved into his own apartment and took a factory job making military equipment.

Skold also kept rehearsing with Cody on the weekends, and once out of the army he took on many odd jobs, including working as a library assistant, Volvo employee and gardener at a bathhouse.

[citation needed] During the early 1980s, Skold and Cody formed the glam metal band Kingpin in their native Skövde, Sweden.

The duo drafted vocalist Zinny J. Zan and drummer Stixx Galore a short time later to complete the band's lineup.

Signed by Cliff Cultreri at Relativity Records, Kingpin changed their name to Shotgun Messiah due to a San Francisco-based act holding the rights to the band name.

[4][5] The music videos for the singles "Don't Care 'Bout Nothin'" and "Shout It Out" regularly featured on MTV's Headbanger's Ball.

On Cody's suggestion, Skold switched to lead vocals and the members hired a new bassist, Bobby Lycon from New York City.

Six of the 10 were released on file sharing networks without Skold's permission: "Burn", "Dead God", "I Hate", "Believe", "The Point", and "Don't Pray".

[12] In support of this album, SKOLD began "The Undoing Tour 2016" in May 2016 with the western United States; the live line up featured Tiffany Lowe on keyboards and Eli James on drums.

The setlist spanned Tim's entire career and contained such hits as "Personal Jesus", "Error 404", "Anarchy", "Tainted Love", as well as "Chaos" and "Hail Mary" from his debut album, just to name a few.

In 2018, SKOLD released a cover of the song "White As Chalk" by Leæther Strip on the compilation album Heært Combine.

[20] In 2022 the long-awaited exhumation of (a) 'Dead God' was performed and realised, offering up a proper release and making his proclamations upon the "true" evils of organized religion and idolatry official.

He wrote and sang the song "Anarchy", which became a hit in clubs, and spawned subsequent remixes of the track done by Skold himself.

The band, including Lucia Cifarelli (formerly of Drill), took on a more "futuristic" sound, which contained less of the industrial rock KMFDM was known for, and added a mix of drum & bass, trance and europop, primarily in a production style leaning towards "electronica".

Due to a commitment to produce Marilyn Manson's album The Golden Age of Grotesque, Skold was unable to join KMFDM's 2002 Sturm & Drang tour; he did, however, make two guest appearances at shows in June.

[22] Skold performed a show as a fill-in guitarist with Taime Downe's The Newlydeads on 13 December 2000 at the Pretty Ugly Club in Los Angeles.

At this time, not only was Skold the bassist for the band, but he was also producing, editing, creating artwork, electronics, programming drums and beats, playing guitar, keyboards, accordion and synthesizer bass for the album The Golden Age of Grotesque.

On 9 January 2008, Marilyn Manson posted a bulletin on MySpace which reported that Skold had left the band and former bassist Twiggy Ramirez had returned to take his place.

In 2009, Skold formed the Scandinavian supergroup Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult with Hank von Helvete.

Beginning with the Skold solo project, he has recorded and performed mainly with industrial and heavy metal acts such as Marilyn Manson, KMFDM, MDFMK, ohGr, The Newlydeads and Doctor Midnight & The Mercy Cult.