The formation of Senses Fail started with Buddy Nielsen, who in 2002 started recruiting members through an advertisement on the Internet, a year before the formation of the band. Dan Trapp read the article and though he was only fifteen at the time, brought friends Dave Miller and Garrett Zablocki from a band he had played with previously.
Rage Against the Machine released their debut album Rage Against the Machine in 1992, which became a commercial success, leading to a slot in the 1993 Lollapalooza. The band did not release a follow-up record until 1996, with Evil Empire. The band's third album The Battle of Los Angeles was released in 1999.
CKY (short for Camp Kill Yourself) is comprised of members Deron Miller (vocals, guitar), Chad Ginsburg (guitar), Vern Zaborowski (bass), and Jess Margera (drums). The roots of CKY stretch back to 1994, when friends Miller and Margera formed the group Foreign Objects - issuing the EP The Undiscovered Numbers & Colors on the Distant Recordings label a year later.
