The Keller home was always filled with music and musical instruments and at a very young age, Lothar, a North Carolina native, was trained classically at home by his parents and he began to play everything available to him. First, it was the recorder and piano, then the trumpet and voice lessons, which earned him a position in the North Carolina Boys Choir, then finally, the guitar. Hours upon hours he would practice with influences like Yngwie Malmsteen, Steve Howe, Brian May and Paul Gilbert. At 14, Lothar’s father took him to see his first Iron Maiden concert and he was hooked. He caught chickens to pay back a loan he got from the bank for a Marshall stack and Fender guitar and as a good child of the eighties would, he became a metal head, listening to everything from Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Queensryche, Savatage, and Metal Church. At 15, he was in his first band called IHS, a Christian based metal band that was most interesting with Lothar at lead vocals and guitar and his father, Pastor Keller on bass. Although Lothar grew up in the church, metal music saw no boundaries for him as he eventually created another band, Disciple 13 in 1995. This band was not associated with Christian rock. It was darker and heavier and it was also the dream that would never die. Disciple 13 once contrived of Lothar only on guitar, was a moderately successful band until it was revamped with a new drummer and Lothar playing and singing lead. It was then that the band found great success and was eventually invited to open and tour with Savatage in 1997. As the band made plans, a member decided to quit. Blindsided by the decision and without enough time to find a replacement, the band had to cancel the tour and they disbanded. Lothar laid down his guitar for the next 5 years. Though the band broke up, Lothar had a plan, and he earned his degree from Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts as an audio engineer and began pursuing his "other career" in audio. He landed a job as an A/V Engineer of mobile television trucks and traveled around the country until finally settling in Chicago. It was here the inspiration to play was born again. Now with more influences from the progressive metal world like Dream Theater, Nevermore and Fates Warning, it was time for him to start recording and combining his love of original metal with his classical music influence and so he began working on a solo project and it was during that recording period that Sacred Dawn was conceived with the primal metal sounds of their past, fused with the edginess and maturity of metal today with a readiness to make it a reality. Currently, Lothar is an audio engineer for the WGN-TV Chicago morning news while writing, recording, engineering and gigging with Sacred Dawn.