Matt Vander Ende replaced Dave Chavarri in San Fransisco metallers Laaz Rockit. With the same musicians he also released an album under the name Gack, which was only released in Japan.



Vander Ende is also known as original drummer for thrash act Defiance, which featured vocalist Steve Esquivel, who later joined Skinlab. After an eleven years period of silence Defiance decided to regroup and start again - including drummer Vander Ende.