DEATHFIX formed in 2009 after BRENDAN CANTY (FUGAZI) and RICH MOREL (MOREL, BLOWOFF) met while touring in Bob Mould"s band. Having discovered a shared affinity for the sounds of 1972 particularly glam and progressive rock they started getting together to work on music at Canty s warehouse studio space. Two years later, hoping to graduate the band from its studio-shut-in phase to its live ensemble phase, they recruited DEVIN OCAMPO (FARAQUET, MEDICATIONS) and MARK CISNEROS (Medications) to hold down the rhythm section. Both talented multi-instrumentalists and producers in their own right, Cisneros and Ocampo quickly started contributing their own riffs and arrangement ideas. The band s self-titled debut includes seven songs that were recorded throughout 2012 at Canty s studio. During that time, Morel and Canty s demos were torn up and expanded through extensive improv sessions alongside Ocampo and Cisneros. Tracks that started out small and introspective were blown up to a size and volume more befitting of the group s cavernous practice space. The tone is dark, but the lyrics which cover themes covers themes like sickness, breakups, corruption, drugs, fame, and losing ones mind shouldn t be read as straight biography. They re works of fiction; character studies that just happen to touch on topics that are close to home. Deathfix will tour the U.S. throughout spring 2013 and will perform at this year s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.