Ashley Jurgemeyer was classically trained on piano since age six. She got her bachelor's degree in Music Composition and Theory from
Arizona State University and then started her career as a founding member of the band
Abigail Williams in 2005. She appears on the Abigail Williams albums
In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns and
Legend. While with Abigail Williams, in 2007 Jurgemeyer formed the
progressive rock project Orbs with
Dan Briggs of
Between the Buried and Me and Adam Fisher of
Fear Before. The band began as an online project working across the United States in a similar fashion of
The Postal Service. She left Abigail Williams in 2009 after becoming the new keyboardist for
Cradle of Filth, adopting the name Ashley Ellylon and replacing
Rosie Smith. She provided keyboards and vocals on the 2010 Cradle of Filth album
Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa. Also in 2010, Orbs released their debut album
Asleep Next to Science Ellylon left Cradle of Filth in 2011; that year she made a guest appearance on the album
Until I Feel Nothing by
Carnifex. In 2012 she briefly returned to Abigail Williams and appeared on the album
Becoming. Orbs released their second album
Past Life Regression in 2016. ==Discography==