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Members

Steve Huante

Lead Guitar & Vocals

Chris Saunders

Rhythm Guitar

Dave Gray

Bass Guitar

Victor Braden

Drums & Vocals

History

Starting out in mid-2004 longtime friends Steve Huante, Victor Braden, and Dave Gray decided to start a new band that would be "noticably different" from any other group to come out of the South Bay. In August of the same year, they decided to bring in another guitarist, Chris Saunders, to help fill in with melodies while Steve worked on intensifying his guitar solos. The South Bay and surrounding regions in Southern California The South Bay is a region in the southwest peninsula of Los Angeles County, California, United States. ...

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In mid-2005 they linked up with friend and Manager Lance Ku, his thriving music management business Needs Company and Endline Records. It was around that time that things really started taking off for them.

Between headlining shows at Hollywood's Key Club, Whisky A Go-Go, and House of Blues, opening up for such acts as Ignite, Fat Wreck Chords recording artists Strung Out, punk rock greats The Circle Jerks and rock & roll legends The Violent Femmes, The Psychedelic Furs and Joan Jett, they found the time to record their debut full length album Hell is for Heroes. The logo of Key Club International Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. ... The Whisky A Go-Go is a nightclub in West Hollywood, California, at 8901 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. ... The House of Blues is a chain of restaurants founded in 1992 by Dan Aykroyd and his friend (and Hard Rock Cafe founder) Isaac Tigrett. ... See also: ignition. ... The company logo of Fat Wreck Chords Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock, which was started by Fat Mike the lead singer and bassist of the punk rock band NOFX and his wife Erin, in 1990. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For the masturbatory practice see mutual masturbation. ... The Violent Femmes are a rock and roll band, originally forming in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the early 1980s. ... The Psychedelic Furs are an influential British post-punk band founded in the 1970s. ... Joan Jett (2003) Joan Jett (born Joan Marie Larkin on September 22, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American rock and roll guitarist, singer, and actress best known for her hit I Love Rock N Roll, which was #1 on the Billboard charts from March 20 to May 8, 1982. ...

More recently they have been nominated "Best Punk Band" for The 2006 Southern California Music Awards.

Discography

Studio albums

• Hell is for Heroes (2005), Released by Endline Records

Compilations and soundtracks

• This is Kaos Vol. 2 (2005) - Destroy Myself
• Felony Fights Vol. 4 (2005) - Destroy Myself
• Felony Fights Vol. 5 (2006) - Man Above
• Felony Fights Vol. 6 (2006) - Felony (Felony Fights Theme)
• The First Annual Southern California Music Awards (2006) - Destroy Myself
• The First Annual Inkslingers Ball Compilation (2006) - Awful Past

External links

• Gabriels Fallen Home Page - The Official Website
• www.SouthernCaliforniaMusicAwards.com