Did You Know . . .

• Grand Island is the Orange County of the Eastern United States?

• the band had several different names before becoming Triumverate? Those include Born From Oblivion and Lake Effect, which are two different songs that Mark wrote.

• Truth was originally a sca song? It was scraped early in the band's history, and then rewritten as a heavy punk song. It also features an amazing surf music esque bridge.

• Triumverate has covered songs by Neil Young, Jefferson Airplane, Nirvana, the Ramones, the Offspring, the Doors, the Bangels, Sir-Mix-A-Lot and the Wipers? It's true, and you have to hear some of them to believe it.

• Mark and Christian are long time comic book fans? Mark still collects to this day.

• the songs Spike, Punk Rock Rap, Born From Oblivion, Dead Rock Stars, Give Me Back My Face, Retro Girl, Nice Disguise, and other songs have comic book references in them?

• Triumverate does not like being labeled as a certain type of band? Though Mark will tell you that they are a punk band.

• Triumverate are die hard hockey fans? Mark and Norman's favorite team is the New Jersey Devils, and it has been for many a year.

• Mark also plays drums and Norman also plays bass. Sometimes they switch to play the afroementioned Nirvana and Whipers covers.

• the song Anti-social Tendencies is based on the press' reaction to Woodstock '99.

• the guitar solo in Undecidly Optimistic was originaly written to be played on a trumphet. Since the band's trumphet playing friend never played the song with them, they decided to make it a guitar solo.

• the entire band are avid video game players. The song Arcade Addict is based on this fact.

• Clinging is an old song that the band used to play before Norman was their drummer. They no longer play that song, but the midi file of it is available on this site.

• there was another part to Antem. Believe it or not, but Mark decided to take it out because he felt it made the song too long.

• our number one fan is Mark's cousin Andrew. He's been known to join the band on stage from time to time to dance for a song or two.

• Christian sings/screams sometimes too. His favorite sond to sing is Campy. Other songs include Something To Say, Old Friends, and pop Culture.

• Mark's cheap gimmick is wearing a cowboy hat and then headbanging it off.

• Triumverate does a barber shop tribute to Mr. Ected, a local heavy metal band. It is a vocal medly.

• Norman wears ear plugs when the band plays. However, Mark and Christian don't, because they perfer to suffer some hearing damage.

• Mark plays the piano in Love Song #42. A punk song with piano, you heard it here first.

• Campy earned it's name by Norman's initial reaction to the song? He had gotten the idea from a Simpsons episode that was making fun of School House Rocks.

• Norman's original name was Nick. It's true, it's true.

• the record Hello, Goodbye was almost entitled "It's All About The Creshendo," due to the statement made by Norman in the studio in regards to the cymbol crashes in the chorus of "Exploding Into Dust." However, Christian quickly shot down the idea, and it was all for the best, it's all about the creshendo indeed.

• The song "Why I Killed Retro Girl" is based in part from Brian Micheal Bendis' comic series Powers. The themes represented within the song are taken from the series intial storyline "Who Killed Retro Girl."

• The most often thing referenced in Triumverate's music is Alan Moore and Dave Gibbins classic "The Watchmen." The songs "Dead Rock Stars," "Born From Oblivion," and "Give Me Back My Face" all contain references of some kind from that book.

• It's never summer in the Wasteland?