Full Blown Chaos

On October 19th 2004 Stillborn Records recording artist Full Blown Chaos released Wake the Demons since then they have taken their legendary and brutal live performances on the road with such acts as HATEBREED, SLIPKNOT, TERROR, SICK OF IT ALL, MADBALL, HIMSA, NAPALM DEATH & many others.

Songs of inner-strength backed with riffage that hug hairpin turns and a dynamite-triggering rhythm section. Full Blown Chaos is a roaring sonic blitzkrieg with more to offer than the tired tough guy mentality! 2005 found the quartet dishing out their blend of bone cracking hardcore with puncturing metal on their first full-length album titled Wake The Demons . The experience is a bona fide thrill ride of chest pounding yet gripping sing-along screams from front man and lyricist Ray Mazzola along with the persuasive guitar megalomania of Mike Facci coupled with grenade popping drums of brother Jeff Facci; and finally, the crushingly infernal live show is crowned by the determined and vivacious bass performance of Mike "Lurk" Ruehle.

Full Blown Chaos is the strong contender for glory in today's extreme music scene. With two EPs under their belts, the self-titled DIY 2001 EP--- later released on Jailhouse Records (Former bassist Ed Conroy's label). Then, in 2003 Jailhouse Records along with Stillborn Records (Hatebreed front man and MTV2 Headbanger's Ball host Jamey Jasta) adopted the New York-based band for the rake-you-over-the- coals forceful Prophet Of Hostility release.

FBC vocalist Ray Mazzola's influences include metal icons Philip Anselmo and Max Cavalera whose inspiration propelled the serendipitous circumstances under which FBC first kicked off their career.

We all knew each for a long time, a couple of years ago my old band and Full Blown were sharing a rehearsal studio, eventually we did a switch of vocalists and I joined Full Blown because I was as serious as they were. In fact, serious is an understatement! Full Blown Chaos raises the bar as far as most bands go in the realm of touring. In 2005 alone FBC played over 200 shows with bands like Superjoint Ritual, Sepultura, Chimaira, God Forbid and even landing a few dates on The Jagermeister Tour with Slipknot and Fear Factory. Ray explains, We have very good breeding musically, I was big into hardcore, big into metal, and that goes for the entire band.

Wake The Demons is a testament to Full Blown's prowess for brazen hard-core breakdowns and walls of cringing metal with Slayer-like speed and agility. Needless to say, that is what celebrated producer Zeuss has harnessed on Wake The Demons and now in 2006 on their bombastic follow up "Within The Grasp Of Titans" producer/engineer Eric Rachel have taken Full Blown chaos to all new heights of sonic brutality with sense of versatility underlined with a guttural, in-your-face execution. The whole direction of the band is to keep a wide range of music, not to necessarily pigeonhole ourselves into metal or hardcore.

As a lyricist, Ray matches the musical intensity with fire-starting integrity and describes it as, Very aggressive", for instance, we have a song called Unlearn,' it's about not having to conform to please other people. Make up your own mind, you don't have to be part of a group to be accepted, I am for unity, but you can be an individual and still be accepted, he sums.