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HALLELUJAH's story began in August 2001 with a drummer named Joey putting an ad in the classified section of the now defunct PUNCHLINE weekly(Richmond,VA), looking to start a band. Unbeknowest to Joey, his roommate Jason had been letting a strange guy named Bill sleep on his floor for the previous month. Bill (a bass player recently removed from his native Roanoke,VA) was reading through PUNCHLINE looking for a band to play with and was impressed with an ad he came across listing a score of awesome bands for influences. One of Joey's other roommates was like "That's Joey's ad...he lives upstairs, you should jam with him when he gets home." Bill did just that and a two-piece unit, just before their first show became known as ATOMATRON . After a while Bill and Joey decided to let Aaron join the band as noise guy. Then came Mike, as a singer, and out went Aaron to move back to Texas, leaving the three to record their first nine songs at the Glass Hand with sound engineer Mark Miley in March of 2002, three of which would appear on cnpr5 split 7" w/ SUPPRESSION in 2003. After a trying out a few differant guitarists, Joey,Bill and Mike settled with John (who had been making his rounds in the music scene w/ CIRCUIT HALO and The WANGS), and as a four-piece recorded their next 10 songs at John's studio (The Etching Tin) for a CDR titled "It's Your Erection"
in early 2003. After a bit of touring Mike grew tired and left the group, and the remaining three decided to regroup and thought that changing the name would be a good idea (especially with the multitude of tron bands out there). So came Hallelujah! and after a bit of practice and a few songs, Mike saw what he had been missing and rejoined the group and recorded HALLELUJAH! "Open The Door And Rejoice!" CD (cnpr7) (also at the Etching Tin) in late 2004. Mike decided his time would be better spent in school learning the ins and outs of circuitry, and left the band again with no hard feelings. The 3 pressed on and eventually found Joe to fill in where Mike had left off. The future holds a new CD perhaps? contact [email protected] or call (804) 502-5123.
