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THE BANDThe band StilRize includes Andrew Deprey, Mike Ciardi, Sean Timmins, and Dan Timmins. The band has gone through 2 different singers. At the beginnning, Andrew Deprey was actually the drummer for the band, so it's always been Andrew, Sean, and Dan together. With the original singer not working out, the band decided to try out a female vocalist that we were actually pretty good friends with at the time. She was more along the lines of an R&B singer. But, with a few catchy guitar riffs, it worked out, and it stayed that way for about 2 months. At the end of that period, she decided that R&B was more her taste, and that she wanted to continue pursuing her solo career on her own. Now, we were back to square one all over again. We needed another singer. Then, one day while Sean and Andrew were screwing around on some acoustic music, Andrew began to sing aa song from the band Shinedown called "45." Sean called his brother Dan (the bassist) to come down and take a listen. They both then questioned why Andrew never sang like that before all this. But, it was better now then never at that point. Now, after a long story short in finding out that Andrew could indeed be the new set of pipes, we needed a drummer. One of the managers of the band, Steve Braga, had mentioned something about a young drummer who was amazingly talented, and who actually lived right behind him. We all were hesitant on trying him out, with him being a couple years younger than the band, at the time, precisely 17. But we figured, why not? Might as well try him out before we make any rational decisions. So, he shows up with an insane drum rack. We simply say, "Play for us a little bit, maybe 5 minutes or so just to see what you've got on your own without a band behind you." Sure enough, within a minute or two into his tryout, we were blown away. We then played one of our current songs at the time with him that he learned just by listening to it from a day before. The song went as tight as it could go...we were smiling widely...we didn't want to give it away, but it was obvious we had found our missing piece. That night, we talked about the tryout, and we clearly all were on the same page. We all called Mike, said simply, "are you serious about music? do you have what it takes? can you practice at least 4 days a week?" his reply was simply, "dude, totally!" our reply was, "alright then kid, you'r in the fuckin' band, hahaha"!! So through all this chaos, lack of finding "set in stone" members, a couple of band names, the band needed a name for itself to showcase the new era that had occured. Andrew came up with how we all "still rised" through all of the bull shit, and never giving up. So, why not put the two words together, minus out one "L", and replace the "S" for a "Z" to make it our own unique name? That's exactly what happened. From that point on, something magical occured when practice sessions were taking place...The band wrote songs like never before, and just so happened to write 5 songs, and record them all in one month, which was amazingly quick to do such a thing. The band never looked back, in early 06', the band wrote a 12-track album titled "The Dream..." This album became a showcase of Stilrize's writing talents, in terms of hooks, melodies, and song. It was basically a statement to get the name "STILRIZE" out there. Now, currently working on another record, Stilrize plans on taking the music world by storm... thanks andrew for sharing this with us :)

~~ANXIETY~~(LYRICS)-------lying here awake in bed, all these thoughts inside my head... missing how it used to be, everything was clear to me, and now my faith is swept aside, distancing a better life... can't somebody tell me why, this gets worse as time goes by?... and i wanna be somebody else for awhile, to maybe get a little relief... there's no escape from this relentless hell, feels like it's gotta grip on me... i can feel it coming soon, scared to even leave this room... pressure of my blood just rised, got no help i'm hypnotized, and now i'm panicking inside, heart feels like it's paralyzed, cried so much my eyes are dry... sick of all the fear i'm screamin' i wanna be somebody else for awhile to maybe get a little relief... there's no escape from this relentless hell, feels like it's gotta grip on me...... cuz no one knows just what it's like to live through such anxiety... gotta take a drug for all the pain just to get away from reality... i'm so sick of it all, i just don't wanna die without knowing why it's gotta grip on me, oh why, something's gotta grip on me, yeah..... an uneasy mind, why can't i just live a normal life? with no fear, no burdens that just bottle up inside? and it's like, nothin ever seems to just give in... and i'm here, still with the pain, and still i'm asking why?...cuz no one knows just what it's like to live through such anxiety...gotta take a drug for all the pain just to get away from reality...i'm so sick of it all, i just don't wanna die without knowing why something's gotta grip on me, oh why, something's gotta grip on me....and i wanted to be somebody else......~~Performed by STILRIZE~~, Lyrics By: Andrew Deprey...-----------