Ted Parsons was the initial drummer in Prong when the trio started in 1986.



In the mid eighties, Ted Parsons was one of the first rock drummers to weave the unflinching relentlessness of a machine, into the fabric of a human groove. That approach to drumming - an aggresive, militant, dead center drive, has since become the rhythmic staple of today's industrial metal, and industrial dance music. Parsons' role at the foundation of those styles is all the more noteworthy when you consider he's done it in relative obscurity.



First with New York underground noise merchants Swans, then Foetus, Prong , Bill Laswell, BucketHead, Of Cabbages and Kings, Twig, Drone.



Ted resides in Oslo, Norway and is currently the main drummer with Teledubgnosis and Godflesh.



He also plays with Jesu, and NIC.