Artist description A 5 Piece band out of Queens, Ny training in basements and studios all over. Now spanning around three years of diversity and independent thought.

Music Style Melodic Hardcore

Musical Influences Deftones, Sepultura, Slayer, Kyuss, Black Sabbath, Soulfly

Similar Artists A cross between Slayer's hardcore thrash and Deftones catchy, melodies with straightforward lyrics that tell a tale similar to Sepultura.

Artist History Hard yet melodic, able to take you up and bring you right back down, Against has spanned 3 and a half years... In the beginning, this band was started by a few friends with strong musical influences. Armando (vocals) and Chase (guitar) met freshman year in high school, but it took them a while to find each other again. Armando introduced Chase to his friend David, who would join the original band as the second guitarist. Soon the last piece of the puzzle came into play when long time friend of Armando's Bryan (bass), A.K.A. Dook would join up to become the drummer. When the time came to choose a name, the band then called themselves Narcolepsy, after the sleeping disorder a fellow peer had. Although they showed promise, something wasn't feeling right. Chase found a bassist, a girl he met online named Liz, and asked her if she wanted to play with the band. She did for a while, but all hell started to break loose causing Dave to leave the band for good. In need of a second guitarist for balance, close friend Derek, A.K.A. Dickcheese, joined up and gave guidance to all, mainly Chase. More problems took place causing Liz and Bryan to leave the band, one at a time. The once proud Narcolepsy had been reduced to an uneven three piece. Luckily, close friend Luis (guitar) had no musicians to play with and joined the band to guitar with Chase. Derek put his main calling behind to try his hand at attacking the drums, and Armando learned how to play the bass in 2 short weeks. With Luis and Chase on guitars, Derek on drums and Armando on bass and vocals, a new fire burned within. With the hatred of the past, problems of the present and all around shittyness of the Government, Against was born. Practicing non stop, the band quickly regained strength and faith within each other. Just as things were seemingly alright, tragedy struck again. Derek's parents packed up their entire house, and moved down to Florida, leaving the 2 original members and the new guitarist crippled. Still practicing to keep fresh, the Against trio were in a constant search for a new drummer to take Derek's place. Emails, fliers, the guys stopped at no cost to find a drummer, but in the end the drummer found them. Feeling a little blue because of the rut, Chase pulled out the acoustic and starting playing. Hearing familiar music being played to near perfection, a random guy came up to him and asked if he knew any System Of A Down songs. Of course he did, Soad is one of Chase's favorites, and so he down tuned and played the first two albums of System and various improv for the guy. Being impressed by the playability, Carlos (drums) soon watched the guys practice. Being an intermediate guitarist, Carlos showed his stuff and was really good. He put down the guitar a second and sat behind the drums to mess around a little, no one paid any mind to it. Carlos blew everyone away with his expert playing. Chase soon enlisted Carlos as the new drummer, and Against was complete again. After sorting out his stuff, Dook wanted back in the band, and became the bassist learning the ropes even quicker than Armando did. Practice then bloomed in Carlos' basement in Corona, Queens. The first "gig" the band had was at the Bellerose Jewish Center for a Battle of the Bands, sort of. Being the newest band no one knew about, Against played last after all the others, it was worth the wait. The band went way past anyone's expectations and was soon offered play time locally. And so began the story of booze and music, sane and the sic, pass the bottle and pick...

Group Members Armando-Vocals Chase-Guitar/Vocals Luis-Guitar Carlos-Drums Bryan-Bass

Location Flushing, NY - USA

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