With the international success of Periphery, Mansoor still continued to release demos and new music under the Bulb name, but at a lesser frequency than before. After Mansoor founded Periphery in 2005, he would often transfer songs between the two projects. Eventually, Mansoor's reputation as a songwriter and a music producer in the metal scene began to grow. Mansoor would regularly post his music to the Meshuggah, John Petrucci, Andy Sneap Ultimate Metal online forums. While the project ultimately did not work out and the friendship faded, Mansoor adopted the name Bulb as his online alias and continued to post demos to the Bulb SoundClick account. It was here that he and a friend decided to form a band called Bulb, and started posting demos to SoundClick in 2004. Mansoor first seriously started writing and producing music when at college at the University of Toronto. Mansoor attended the University of Toronto, originally majoring in sociology before switching to philosophy, eventually dropping out to pursue his passion for music. Mansoor is Mauritian by descent but was born and raised in the US. Mansoor was born on October 31, 1984, to Ali Mansoor, an economist associated with the World Bank who served a term as Secretary to the Minister of Finance in Mauritius. Mansoor has been named one of the Top 20 best guitarists of the 2010s by Guitar World magazine. With Periphery, Mansoor has recorded, produced, and released seven studio albums: a self-titled debut, Periphery II: This Time It's Personal, Juggernaut: Alpha, Juggernaut: Omega, Periphery III: Select Difficulty, Periphery IV: Hail Stan, and Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre. Mansoor is considered to be one of the forerunners of the djent movement and is often erroneously attributed with the invention of the word itself (whose invention he attributes to Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal). He is also a part of the projects Haunted Shores and Four Seconds Ago, and Of Man, Not of Machine. Misha Mansoor (born October 31, 1984), also known as Bulb after the name of his solo project, is an American musician, best known as the founder of and one of the three guitarists in the progressive metal band Periphery.
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