Despite containing some of the band's favored live tracks, including "Blown Away", "The Bland Within", "District" and "America", some fans felt alienated by the album's progressive nature and in a recent interview, frontman Lou Koller claimed that the album's cover art probably contributed to its poor reception. The 2000 follow-up Yours Truly was less critically acclaimed. After releasing the "Potential for a Fall" single – for which another video was filmed, Call To Arms was released in February 1999. In 1998, Sick of It All signed to independent record label Fat Wreck Chords, owned and run by Fat Mike of NOFX. The album also marked the end of Sick of It All's contractual agreement with EastWest.
Sick of It All toured with Napalm Death and Sepultura during the album cycle. This record had released a number of live staples for the band, including "Us vs. In 1997, they released their second record on the EastWest label, Built to Last. The fair success of Scratch the Surface allowed the band to tour worldwide. The record was the first recorded with long-time friend and former Straight Ahead, Rest in Pieces, Youth of Today and Agnostic Front bass player Craig Setari, who had replaced Rich Cipriano, in early 1993. They also recorded a video for "Step Down" and the title track "Scratch The Surface". Sick of It All released their record Scratch the Surface on major label EastWest Records. This was followed by the studio/live EP We Stand Alone (1991), and their second studio album Just Look Around (1992). In 1988, Sick of It All signed to Relativity Records and recorded their first full-length, Blood, Sweat and No Tears, which was released in 1989. The band recorded the Sick of It All demo in 1987 and the band began to play Sunday afternoon matinees at renowned venue CBGB's, and soon after released a self-titled 7" on Revelation Records (which was later re-issued on the tenth anniversary of its release, in 1997).
This lineup also played its first show at the Right Track. After this performance, Lamb and McNeely left the band, leading to the brothers hiring Rich Cipriano as bassist and Armand Majidi as a "fill-in" drummer. After hiring bassist Mark McNeely, the band played their first show on Saturday May 17, 1986, just a month after they formed, at the Right Track Inn in Long Island, supporting Youth of Today, Straight Ahead and Crippled Youth. Lou pointed out that another band existed with that name and decided to expand the name to Sick of It All. The Koller brothers originally intended for their first band to be named General Chaos, however Lamb proposed calling the band Sick of All, with the intent to abbreviate it to S.O.A. History Early career (1986–1992) įormed in 1986, the members met while attending Francis Lewis High School in Queens, New York City, the band was formed by Lou Koller on bass and vocals, Pete Koller on guitar and David Lamb on drums. Sick of It All's latest album, Wake the Sleeping Dragon!, was released in 2018 and is the band's first release on Fat Wreck Chords in 15 years. This label released their eighth studio album Death to Tyrants in 2006 to positive reviews (Abacus eventually went out of business, though Sick of It All would remain on Century Media, which released the band's next three albums). The band was dropped from the label in 2005, when they signed to Abacus Records, a subsidiary of Century Media. Despite the success of Built to Last, Sick of It All was dropped from East West and signed in 1998 to Fat Wreck Chords, which released the band's next three albums. Their 1997 follow-up Built to Last was also highly acclaimed. Sick of It All's third and major label debut album, Scratch the Surface, was released in 1994 to critical acclaim and included the singles "Scratch the Surface" and "Step Down" (the video for the latter single would also be featured in the 1995 Beavis and Butt-head episode "Premature Evacuation"). After the release of their second album Just Look Around in 1992, East West Records saw the band's potential and signed them in 1993. Though their 1989 debut album Blood, Sweat and No Tears was a moderate success, Sick of It All did not achieve commercial success until later albums. Sick of It All is considered a major part of the New York hardcore scene, and by 2020, the band had sold at least half a million records worldwide. The band's lineup consists of brothers Lou and Pete Koller on lead vocals and guitars respectively, Armand Majidi on drums, and Craig Setari on bass. Sick of It All is an American hardcore punk band formed in 1986 in Queens, New York City. Revelation, Relativity, East West, Elektra, Fat Wreck Chords, Abacus, Century Media, Woah Dad!
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