The band was formed when guitarist Andrew Orlando and vocalist Carlos Ramirez started talking about getting a new project off the ground that played tribute to many of their grindcore, death metal and thrash roots. They invited their former Black Army Jacket bandmate, Dave Witte, and the drummer was excited to be part of the new endeavor. With three members (bassist/guitarist Pete Ciccotto was also recruited) living in New York and Witte based in Virginia, conventional writing methods weren't a realistic option. So the Orlando sent a CD with the riffs that made up the songs through the mail and after a few weeks met up at a rehearsal studio in New Jersey where they jammed on the five songs for the first time together. The very next day, the basic instrumentals were tracked at Technical Ecstacy studios in New Brunswick with producer Chris Pierce. Ramirez took the rough tracks home and wrote lyrics to the compositions. He went back to the recording studio the next week and laid down his vocals in a two hour session. Additional guitars were recorded with former Anodyne vocalist Mike Hill in Brooklyn a few days later. The songs were mixed and then sent off to be mastered by Scott Hull of the band Pig Destroyer. The resulting EP was entitled Year of the Leper and Inkblot Records released it in 2005.Hope Collapse plan on writing an album's worth of material and recording it in late 2007. New song titles include "Hospital Ballads" and "Carry The Grief."
