Misha Mansoor, also known as Bulb after the name of his solo project, is the founder and lead guitarist of the progressive metal band Periphery. He is also part of the studio projects Haunted Shores (featuring Periphery guitarist Mark Holcomb), Of Man, Not Of Machine (a trio consisting of him, ex-TesseracT and ex-Sky Eats Airplane singer Elliot Coleman and Mark Holcomb), as well as Four Seconds Ago (an electronic project with his Periphery bandmate Jake Bowen).