The band was started in 1998, when Aimee and Jamie formed Hero, after a short time they changed the name to theSTART after it became known that there was a band was already called Hero. "Shakedown" the 1st album, was released in the summer of 2001, under the lable Geffen , but shortly after the record lable shut down . The band funded the making of "theSTART EP" and with the help of smallstone Records they managed to sell thousands of copies online and on tour. In the fall of 2003 The EP "Death Via Satellite" was released on Nitro records. In the Summer months of 2004 the second full album "Initiation" was released again on the Nitro Records label. The third full album "Ciao, Baby" was released in the summer of 2007 this time on the Metropolis Records label, where they stay today.