New Jersey Heavy Metal band METAL MESSIAH operated between 1986 and 1987. The group, guitarists Russ Pillsbury and Jason McDermott, bassist Chris Eike and drummer Jeff Stevenson, had evolved from antecedent outfit MOLTEN, adding vocalist Craig Edgington to evolve into METAL MESSIAH. Chris Eike subsequently journeyed on through ASYLUM, LABYRINTH, MIDNIGHT DIVINE and FATAL CHARM before joining Progressive Power Metal band AUTUMN SILENCE to issue the 1991 'Winter's Calling' demo. Both Eike and AUTUMN SILENCE guitarist Rich Logan would also busy themselves with side venture THE RICK LOGAN PROJECT throughout 1994.

During the late nineties Chris Eike would work with BROKEN PEACE, on the 1995 EP 'Remorseful Knowledge', PRIMA DONNA, FINNEUS GAUGE, appearing on the albums 'More Once More' and 'One Inch Of The Fall', and THE HAND FARM. In 2004 Eike, then operating on the live circuit with STONEWATER GROOVE, recorded session work for MASTERMIND.