Born as Stian Lindaas Kristoffersen in Porsgrunn, Norway, Stian got his first drum kit at the age of five as a christmas present from his parents. This was the start of an long and winding journey of percussion and drums.



Stian Kristoffersen began beating the drums in Langangen School band as a eight-year old kid and did not leave before he was nearly twenty. The last six years his role was as a drum teacher. Stian Kristoffersen took several proffessional education courses in drum technique, as M1,M2, M3, M4, I1,I2 and D2 at Kvitesund and went to high school on music theory classes from 1989-1991.



At an early age Stian met Steinar Gundersen (Spiral Architecht, Satyricon). He formed his first heavy metal band, Essex, in 1983. Stian and Steinar sticked together through lots of different bands until 1992, when Steinar moved to Oslo and joined Spiral Architect. Their last band was technical metal act King's Quest (1988-1992).



Stian Kristoffersen joined Sunset Strip in 1993 together with Nils and Thorstein, which became Silverspoon and finally Pagan's Mind in 2000. In 1998 Stian also joined prog metal act Trivial Act, in which he still drums as well.



Stian also drummed with many other bands, including Woodstone, King´s Quest, Svette Ballær, Fuck the World, Sunset Strip, Silverspoon, Trivial Act, and DimensionF3H. He joined Black metal band Dimension F3H in 2002, Firewind (led by guitarist Gus G. of Dream Evil and Arch Enemy between 2003-2005), and Jorn (Jørn Lande) in 2003.



He is currently part of the project band Kinrick.



Stian Kristoffersen names Simon Phillipps, Scott Travis, Mike Portnoy,

Dave Weckl, Tommy Lee, Nicholas Barker, J.A. Blomberg,

Virgil Donati and Randy Castillo as his favourite drummers.