Is blood thicker than water? Two cousins Clayton Thomas (Clayton James Thomas Lisy) 9/17/94 and Frank N. Stein (Franklin Norman Steinway) 12/13/99 are as thick headed and hard nosed as they come.
Knowing of each others' existent as musicians since a young age, however vowing to never work together because of creative differences, that all changed with two things we all cannot escape, time and the repeated failures of our mundane lives. Clayton lost passion for his solo career and Frank's first music project (dog hair) never got off the ground; they then decided to settle their differences with the collaborative band "Reverse Pathogen", sharing the vocals and guitar duties in a Lennon and McCartney-esc fashion. With the help of Frank's younger and more free spirited brother Carl Mark (Carl Mark Steinway) 10/13/00 on the bass, the band was finally formed.
Originally recording all the songs using the same loop drums, with assistance of Los Angeles engineer vet Andrew Schwartz the band was able to land legendary session player Josh Freese (12/25/72) as a stand in for the percussion on their debut album "Attention is the new Heroine". To honor Josh as "the coldest drummer in the game" they have depicted him as a snowman in all media. Despite their differences the 3 were all able to get what they wanted, for Clayton "music with a message", Frank "a unique and powerful guitar sound",
', and Mark
"something better to do than just doing nothing."