Clamfight officially formed in the Fall of 2002, however its roots can be traced to 1996 when Louis and Andy began playing Korn covers in Andy's basement. Through the blessing of guitar class in high school, Joel was recruited because he could play Nirvana like nobody's business. Soon the trio had written a few jams but was missing a few key parts; lead guitar, vocals, and an awesome name. It seems as though a good vocalist was damn near impossible to find at the time but anyone could play guitar, as evidenced by the addition of Sean. One evening, Andy and Joel were in the audience for a high school guitar recital where Sean was playing Led Zeppelin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." Remembers Andy, "4 minutes in I realized he was going to play the whole song." Sean's self-indulgent rendition solidified his place in the band.

With Sean and Joel now awkwardly trading guitar licks, Louis graciously stepped aside and picked up the four string to carry the rhythm section. Louis also thought it would be a great idea to call ourselves...get ready...Freezerburn. Not only was it immediately shot down but to this day he is reminded of how terrible a band name it was, even for the late 90s. We opted for the obviously superior title of Too Faced, a very clever play on words that still makes me cringe when I hear it.

As a four piece, Too Faced wrote several instrumental songs, as well as lyrics, however we had nobody to sing them. Various singers were auditioned with no success and the Too Faced experiment soon stagnated. Furthermore, the band was at a crossroad. Andy was starting his tenure as a lifetime college student and wasn't around much to practice. Over much deliberation the band decided to bring in another good friend, Kris, to fill the role as drummer. Kris was a ball of fire and brought new life to the band. Soon after, a high school classmate who, as Joel phrased it, "looked like he could be the singer for a band," tried out for vocals. Jon had a great voice for our sound and was an obvious choice to front the band.

Too Faced wrote a handful of songs, but didn't play live for quite some time. All along, Andy was still jamming with us when he came home from school, however, not on the drums. Andy had a lot to say and an amazing vocabulary to say it with. Furthermore, he had a great voice. Andy was able to put the finishing touches on our set and Too Faced went from 4 years without a vocalist to a 2 headed 6 piece monster ready to assault South Jersey.

And assault we did, playing numerous shows throughout South Jersey and Philly for over a year. Unfortunately, the time had come for Jon to move on to the west coast, leaving us as a 5 piece. Andy had grown immensely as a vocalist and was more than up to the task of sole frontman. We continued to play shows and recorded a couple of demos with the hope that Jon would come back and track his vocals, but that dream never came to fruition. The final nail in the Too Faced coffin came when Kris decided to move on from the band. Kris is still a great friend to this day, however at the time the four of us were once again left to make a difficult decision.

With graduate school looming for Sean, and musical tastes evolving, we decided to lay Too Faced to rest. It was a great 6 years but it was also time to move on. We wanted to keep things simple and fun; keep the core of the the band and write songs that we would want to listen to. Andy had the voice and talent to fill 2 roles, drummer and singer, and our new approach to writing allowed us to capitalize on his strengths. There was only one more thing to do...name our new band.

The name Clamfight was conceived while watching an influential nameless movie. I won't get into which movie or what scene, but the important thing is Clamfight encompasses everything we find dear in life, most importantly music.

From its inception in late 2002 to May 2005, Clamfight was able to hone its sound and compose enough songs to begin playing live when Sean returned from the mountains of PA. Starting in May 2005, Clamfight focused on playing live and developing a representative collection of songs for its first album release.

Recording for Volume I began in the winter of 2008 and was released in August, 2010. Why so long you ask? Well we are all a lot older now, with financial, professional, and personal obligations that seem to create an unfortunate barrier to artistic creativity. Plus we are pretty lazy and watch a lot of movies. But we finally buckled down and we're very happy with the final product that can be purchased at our bandcamp page (clamfight.bandcamp.com). Our next album will not take as long to produce, we promise, and we're well into the mixing phase of our yet to be named second release due out on The Maple Forum.

So come see us play, buy an awesome shirt or cd, and bang your head.