Bishop Dolarhyde was born in 1979 to two Russian immigrants at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. His family has hopscotched across the nation and lived in California, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida. Before their journey to the U.S. Bishop’s parents called Tashkent, Uzbekistan home. (Uzbekistan is just north of Afghanistan and was taken over by the Russians in the 19th century.) MR. and MRS. DOLARHYDE made their way to America via Italy. BISHOP was only a few weeks shy of being born Italian.

His mother, Dina, was sole proprietor of very successful brothel in downtown Tashkent and soon opened another in Moscow. She retired from the business after an incident in which over a dozen KGB agents contracted herpes, as well as a plethora of other STDs.

Alexander, his father, was the son of a book-keeper. His mother, Bishop’s grandmother, was the head of vast network of black market jewelers. Alexander was drafted in 1967 and soon built a reputation and an escape artist. Alexander successfully went AWOL 6 times in 18 months and escaped a Russian military prison on the outskirts of the Siberian tundra 4 times in 9 months. The most famous of his escape stories took place in December of 1970. Alexander earned the prestigious title of Internal Military Enemy No.1 and while on a highly guarded transport to Siberia from Saint Petersburg managed to flee the clutches of 4 armed guards, leap from the train, somehow undo his shackles, and in only 19 hours make it back to Tashkent. 2 KGB agents were sent to find him and all clues led them to Bishop’s grandmother, known at the time as Black Maria. She managed to bribe the two agents into calling off the search with a set of rare star and sword shaped diamonds, the emblem of the KGB. Both agents returned to Moscow empty handed, a firing squad and two graves waiting for them. Needless to say, the next two agents returned with Bishop’s father. You can still visit the Soviet Ministry of Defense museum in Moscow and see the rare diamonds bartered for Alexander’s freedom.

Bishop has a sister ten years his senior named Irene. Being the prodigy of the family, it was only fitting that she joined to Soviet Nuclear Program at the age of 14 eventually developing 13 of the 15 most deadly missiles still hidden in military silos today. After joining her family in the U.S. in 1981 she earned a masters in Nuclear Protophysics from USC and wrote 3 books about the subject including bestseller “Bombs Create Peace: A collection of essays outlining intimidation as a peace tactic”. In 1991 she finally settled down to start a family. She consults part time to the worlds leading energy conglomerates and is the mother of two children. Her son Julian is a regional tennis champion and her daughter Jackie is an award winning poet as well as concert pianist. Both are under the age of 13.

Bishop himself is the black sheep of the family. He dropped out of high school merely days before graduation and still holds the record for Detention to Attendance ratio for his sophomore year (226 detentions in a school year of which he only attended 88 days). He spent a bulk of his youth occupying a bar stool in front of DRAGON'S LAIR, a video game inside an arcade his parents owned in Concorde, California called MR.VIDEO. From 1996-1999 he was the mastermind behind anti-music outfit ACME BAT SUIT and released one failure of an album on Algernon Recordings. In 1999 he enrolled in college for a degree in Database Architecture and Design, he graduated top of his class but never sought a career in the field. In 2000 he started a career as a tour manager and guitar tech which managed to get him all over the United States and Canada. From 2002-2004 he was bassist for Florida industrial band CROSSBREED, leaving the band to pursue other interests. He went on to start the band SAFECRACKER with former Crossbreed drummer Chris Morris which later became CRY HAVOC A.D. (rip).

As of 2005 Bishop has been the on air host for UPN/The CW shoe METAL MASTERS. Metal Masters is a heavy metal music video show on late nights in Florida. Bishop has interviewd many metal artists including Judas Priest, Drowning Pool, Lamb Of God, Devildriver, God Forbid, Dave Ellefson, and many more.

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