Damn the Day

Damn the Day was formed by the fortunate events of Grand Rapids bands Kuru and Sadomasichism breaking up, and singer Matthew Brown parting ways with Paradigm. After the demise of Kuru, Kory Kyle and Erik Stroude (guitar and drums) decided it was time to put together a project like they never had before and began writing heavy and most important, unrestrained new songs. Matthew Brown moved to G.R. in the summer of '04 after being in, and parting ways with over the years, Mt. Pleasant and Midland based bands Oddfellow, Faceless, Alaska Sunburn, The Harper Fragment and Paradigm. By pure fate Matthew and Erik crossed paths working at the same job in the summer of '05. Words were exchanged, ideas were brought up and the pieces all fell together. Shortly after we ran into former Sadomasichism bassist, Ray Kandea, who was miserable in his current band situation and was eager to join. Coming to terms that this band should be centered around being ourselves and existing for our common obessesion and love for making music and having fun with it, all members now express themselves as they feel they should, raw, pure, and wreckless.