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Stress Factor 9 - Biography


This band's profile is 'invisible', meaning that it's much less prominent on the site - either because it's incomplete, or maybe doesn't entirely fit MS format.


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2005-

Biography

Spring of 2005, Randy Rampage and Ray Hartmann joined with Kick (Vertical After) and wrote and recorded some demos with the help of Stuart Carruthers (Grip Inc), and Ash Blue (Strapping Young Lad) for new band STRESS FACTOR 9. The tunes ranged from thrash to punk to metal rock with old-school and new-school elements.

Summer of 2005, Frank Fright (Francis Frightful of Singapore's top thrash punk act Opposition Party) was added as guitarist and songwriter. The band continued writing enough songs for a full album, and performed several regional concerts including support for OverKill.

November 2005, Stress Factor 9 headed into Vancouver's world class Greenhouse Studios, with chief of production Shaun Thingvold (Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad, Lamb of God, Bif Naked), and recorded the 12 song debut album 'BrainWarp MindSpin'. Lyrical contributions were made by John Bates, the author of Annihilator's classic hit Alice in Hell. Also making a guest appearance was Anthony Greenham.

Stress Factor 9 then toured europe and UK playing support shows for Armored Saint (John Bush).

Source: http://www.myspace.com/stressfactor9