Mainline

Since 1999 Mainline has developed our unique blend of Southern California styles to bring you our latest work: Notice of Disconnection (2006). We call our genre Southern California melodic tech metal punk, or Mainline for short. We do what we want.

We started in the living room of a townhouse in Hemet, CA shaking our neighbor’s pictures off her wall. Back then it was Bryan, Jeff and myself (Mike). Before then Bryan and Ciamak had been in a couple of different bands together and Jeff had been jamming in bands for about eight years. I was the only person with zero experience; just a few books full of lyrics and an acute inability to sing in key. So we continued jamming and sticking beer bottle caps into the stucco.

Later we added Ciamak in 2000 and went into Park Hill Studio in Hemet to record our first album. Parkhill was a studio which was way too nice for a fledgling band such as ourselves and an inexperienced singer such as myself, but it was a great learning experience and helped us learn about real studio recording. We left the studio with ten songs that we never released except to some friends; it was called Dead Before We Die. A few of those songs ended up rerecorded on the 2003 release of Placebo.

Placebo was recorded at studio nine (then Pamona, now Ontario) by Darrell. Placebo received some nationwide college radio play and was featured as the only independent band on the Never Lift off road video. Mainline also has a song on the Throttle music compilation.

A year or so after we released Placebo we added Jesse Montano to the band. Jesse had played in a couple of bands with Bryan a few years earlier and fit right in. With the new guitarist we locked ourselves away in our practice room for about two years before going to record our next album.

Notice of Disconnection was recorded at Sound Sanctuary in Riverside by Phil O'Keefe. This is our best album yet and we have many more good ones in us. With this album we took our time to really get the best CD possible so people could hear what we're all about. We are currently trying to get this latest effort heard by as many people as possible while we write our next album and hopefully sometime in between we can obtain some studio time and national distribution and tour support.

If you like what you hear then help spread the word and get us heard!

-Mike

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