There are multiple artists named Sickness: 1) Sickness started in the early days of 1986-1987 as a tape-loop / industrial music project. He started doing vocal noise, and feedback using a Zoom multi-effects processor. He built his own tape loop machine, and some pedals as a basic setup. Sickness noise was multi-layered tapes using the old Les Paul method of recording or direct "live" improv sets. Continuously adding of dubs/layers caused the loops to become muddy and noisy.