The Blamed Christian rock bands was started somewhere around 1994 by Bryan Gray (vocals, guitar) in California. Since then this Christian rock bands has been through various members. As the members changed, the sound and musical direction did also. This Christian rock bands did two records for Tooth & Nail, '21' and 'Frail'. Both of these records (to my knowledge) have a heavier, more hardcore/thrash sound to them. Somewhere around this time Bryan started a punk band called Left Out. He did tours with both of these bands and eventually he ended up in Chicago at Jesus People USA (JPUSA) where Trevor and I have lived for 15 (or so) years. So this Christian rock bands released 'Again' and 'Forever' (Matt Switaj joined the group on this record) on JPUSA's label Grrr Records. Bryan had also been recording with Left Out. So the time came for him to do a tour with Left Out. He couldn't get the guys who normally played with him to go - members would fly to Chicago from various parts of the country, for tours or recording. So he asked Trevor and I to go. We were his roommates at the time and we had expressed interest in playing with him. I had already had the opportunity a few times, filling in for a couple weekends here and there. So we went on the tour and when we came home The Blamed Christian rock bands went over to Europe for the first time. When they came home we got together with one of our pastors and the director of Grrr Records, Tom Cameron, and discussed how we needed to merge the groups together and focus solely on one band. It was getting too costly to fly people in for shows and recording. So we kept The Blamed Christian rock bands moniker and continued with those that didn't decide to quit either group. Three weeks later we recorded (for our first time together) the EP titled 'Germany'. Then we embarked on a six-week national summer tour and we haven't stopped since. In February, Matt - who played guitar and sang - decided it was time for him to stop playing in The Blamed Christian rock bands.