Uphill Battle

Uphill Battle started in early 1999 as a side project for Guitarist/Vocalist Adi Tejada and Drummer Danny Walker, who had recently left their current bands and decided to start a band based on combining various brutal styles of music while respecting songwriting principles. They then recruited the multi-talented Graham Clease (Eat Shit and Die, Fields of Fire, Annihilation Time) to play bass, and Eric Gormley to play 2nd guitar. Right before playing their first show on June 7th 1999, Uphill Battle recorded a demo in late May. The demo, recorded by Dan Weiss on 12 track, contained 6 songs and for a quick 2 day session, the quality turned out really good. As the band started playing out more, the demo sold out of 400 copies. During 2000, the band self-recorded a 2nd demo and then recorded another song with Weiss for a split 7". Due to poor recording quality, the 2nd demo was never released, and the split 7" (with Quest for Quintana Roo) didn't get released for another 9 months due to the flakiness of the "label" involved. At this point the band was becoming more serious, demanded more time, which lead to the departure of Graham, and shortly after Eric. Jehf Jones (Eat Shit an... more...