For over two years now aorta journal has held a strong presence in the underground community of the tri-cities. We wanted to stand out in the crowd and distance our selves from the cookie cutter metal-core sound that has saturated our scene and everywhere else for that matter. As sloppy and tight as we were at times it was still the best we had and no matter what we always gave it our all. Aorta Journal was an experiment and test for all of us of which it think we passed, if only for the passion and cathartic release we emitted. The music was our therapy.

 We started out with only the three of us; Richard (drums), Patrik (samples, noise), and myself on guitar, purely out of the need to play music which had been pinned up in all of us for sometime.  Right off something clicked between us and we decided to try our hand at writing a few songs. The three of us came from a diverse background of which we could all pull from and expand the influence so to express what we felt in the now, but still making an effort to not sound like everyone else. After a few weeks we were offered to play a show with Dysrhythmia and took it, but we all wanted to this faction to have a voice. So in time we found Brandon Moore and immediately we knew that his voice would help carry this band to where we wanted to be.

From there we played many many shows and eventually added bass player John Mcmeen. we had some of our best times with john, but his interest grew thin over time and we lost him after a few months. After that we added bass player Sara Jones. She entered the band with great enthusiasm and talent. With Sara I think we wrote some of our best songs and played some of the best shows too. Not to long after Sara joined the band we lost Brandon to him getting a real job. But we replaced him with old friend Lee Reed from Eat Shit & Die. Lee played his first show out of town which turned out to be an amazing show but has only played a couple shows since.  So as you can see weve had many line up changes and have survived them all, until now.

A few weeks ago Richard admitted that he wasnt interested in the band anymore and wanted to take a break from it all. So now it seems that we are at another junction in our lives and faced with the problem of sincerity as a band. Patrik and I thought it would be best to not go on as Aorta Journal with out Richard. So without burning our selves into nothing weve decided to call it a day for Aorta Journal and leave things on good terms. We plan to play a few more shows at the moment and those will be posted as they are confirmed. We also plan to record an EP this summer which will be released on Chaotic Underworld sometime in the summer/fall.

I want to thank every one whom supported us along the way and to those who gave us the encouragement at times when we seemed to need it the most. I also wanted to thank  Brandon, John, Sara and Lee for riding it out with us as long as you did, without you kids we wouldnt have made it this far.

Thanks to all for listening,

Dustin..