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Falling Sickness (band)

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Genres
  
punk

Labels
  
Hopeless Records

Genre
  
Punk rock

Years active
  
1989–2000

Active until
  
2000

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Origin
  
Riverside, California, United States (1989)

Members
  
Gabe Gil, Fritz Aragon, Zach Howe, Mike Angel

Albums
  
Because the World Has Failed Us Both, Right on Time

Similar
  
Against All Authority, Funeral Oration, Nobodys, Assorted Jelly Beans, Dysentery

Profiles

Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based punk band, consisting of Fritz Aragon (vocals, guitar), Zach Howe (vocals, bass), Gabe Gil (vocals), and Mike Angel (drums). After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995. Their debut record Right on Time was released soon after in January 1996. The record which chronicled the first six years of the band is "about drinking, daydreaming and fucking up; a testament of our youth. After all, when we started [Gabe] was only 17 and Fritz was 14".[1] Their next, and final, record as a band, Because the World Has Failed Us Both was released in February 1998 also on Hopeless Records. 'Because the World Has Failed Us Both' is "about our growing up" and focuses more on worldly politics rather than the teenage politics of 'Right On Time'. In 2000, Falling Sickness disbanded. Since then, Fritz and Angel have formed the band Dogs of Ire 2000-2010. Fritz and his brother, Brenton, are currently in a thrash punk/hc project called MOXIEBEAT on their own label, Ethospine Noise, which has 24 releases to date.

Contents

Lead singer, Gabe Gil, died on September 8, 2015 at the age of 43 due to organ failure.

Albums

  • Right on Time (Hopeless Records, 1996)
  • Because the World Has Failed Us Both (Hopeless Records, 1998)
  • Compilations

  • Hopelessly Devoted to You (Hopeless Records, 1996)
  • Misfits of Ska Volume 2 (Asian Man Records, 1997)
  • Hopelessly Devoted to You Too (Hopeless Records, 1998)
  • Take Action: A Punk Rock Sampler (Sub City Records, 1999)
  • You Call This Music?! Volume 1 (Geykido Comet Records, 2000)
  • Songs

    Sleep It OffBecause the World Has Failed Us Both · 1998
    Seein' StarsBecause the World Has Failed Us Both · 1998
    All That You Paid ForBecause the World Has Failed Us Both · 1998

    References

    Falling Sickness (band) Wikipedia