Brandon "B-Dogg" Biggs was born May 27, 1985. He grew up in Oceanside, California and moved up to Oregon when he was 11. His dad was a musician and always had several guitars laying around the house. B-Dogg got his first full size acoustic as a christmas present when was 7 years old. B-Dogg also began playing the violin. He played for several years, during which time, he also played trombone. Growing proficient with both instruments, he wanted to expand his musical horizons, so when he was 12 he started getting serious about writing songs and playing guitar. He also picked up very quickly on drums.
After his parents divorce in 1998, B-Dogg found that music was more than just something to listen to. It became his creative outlet and his way of expressing his grief. God used a lot of people to pull him through some of the hardest years of his life after the separation of his family. During that time, B-Dogg didn't have a lot of friends and so he spent most of his time learning Creed, Stabbing Westward, Green Day, Rammstein, anything he could get his hands on. While guitar was prominent in his life, the majority of his time was spent behind a drum kit where he taught himself the ins and outs of alternative drumming.
After playing drums for a couple years, he joined with a band called ThisSideUp. The group went through many personnel changes (including AtM bassist Jesse Myers) over their two year run, and eventually ended up StereoType 957. During that period of time B-Dogg sought to better his songwriting ability and every chance he got would pick up a guitar and just jam out on it.
Soon after ST:957 disbanded, B-Dogg ended up leading the music for a youth group at Berean Baptist Church in Eugene. He led the worship there for about four years, growing closer to God all the while. HEre and there, a few projects were started, including a band with some high school buddies called Suckerpunch but nothing serious ever took root.
In late 2004 B-Dogg left Berean to help lead the youth group for the Junction City First Church of the Nazarene. He and his dad formed the core of the worship team at the church. During that time, B-Dogg wanted to start up another band, and he wanted it to be serious, but there just weren't very many opportunities.
In November 2005, The pastor for the Nazarene Church wanted B-Dogg to throw together a worship band. He rounded up Jake through a mutual friend and bassist Jared Swezey, whom he knew through a ministry at Berean and tossed together a set of cover songs ranging all the way from Jeremy Camp to Todd Agnew and Relient K. After the concert, the guys got together and decided to make something out of it and OnceLost was born. Eventually, Jared left the band to pursue his own music. Jesse came in and OnceLost was transformed into After the Mourning.
B-Dogg takes his faith in God very seriously. Although he does not always make the best example of what a follower of Christ should be, he strives to better himself in any and everything he does. He's been through a lot of brokenness and pain in his life and still has days when he hates the world, but he also has a deep understanding of who God is and why He allows certain things to happen. The creed he lives his life by is found in John 15:18; "If the world hates you, keep in mind it hated me first. If you were the world's own, the world would love you, but I've chosen you out of the world which is why they despise you."
