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Negative Eye is a experimental metal band, who formed in mid 2007 in San Diego, California. The band was originally started with more of an industrial style of music in mind but quickly transformed it's focus as it's first songs were being written. Singer Steve Adams was looking for members for a Nine Inch Nails influenced act when he met Drummer Bill Scheid in early of 2007 and Guitarist Josh Scholnick later that year. The members vast music taste gave them the energy for unique approach at something aggressive but still experimental. Primary influences include: Tool, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, A Perfect Circle, Pearl Jam, and P.O.D.

Traditional and electronic sounds are used in their music as well as samples from time to time. The band thrives on intense raw energy. Songs can be characterized by heavy but melodic guitar lines, extremely technical rythmic drumming, hard screaming vocals, non-traditional song structures, and there are often frequent changes in time signature.

Negative Eye recorded their first demo in the summer of 2007 just months after forming. The 3 song demo was never released by a label and was recored in a home studio.

[edit] History

[edit] Formation Bill Scheid was originally born in Ohio and moved to San diego ****?. Steve Adams was a Baltimore native and moved to San Diego in late 2006 while Josh Scholnick was born and raised in Bonita, California.

Scheid was pursing becoming a Blue Man and met Steve Adams while taking a recording class at the studio where he was working. The two immediately noticed they had a lot in common in life and music and decided to work on Steve's original industrial/electronic focused project. In June of 2007, Adams was introduced to Josh Scholnick in hopes that the two could work together on a few songs that Scholnick had been working on. Within an hour of meeting the two had written the rough draft of their first song "Submission". A week later Scheid, Scholnick, and Adams got together to fully lay out the structure of "Submission". From that writing session on - the band's direction and focus shifted from Adams' prior workings to something new and neccessary.

The band remained nameless until Feburary of 2008 when Adams awoke one night with the words "Negative Eye" in his head. From that moment, Negative Eye was offically accepted as the name for the band.

[edit] (Nameless) During the summer of 2007 Negative Eye wrote and recorded roughly 6 songs but only 3 made it on to their unreleased demo. The cd included the songs: "Differential Diagnosis of Coma", "False Sense of Hope" and the Ayn Rand inspired "Sanction of the Victim". Although "Submission" was the first song they wrote, it was not included on the demo as well as "Hear me" and "The Third".

In Feburary of 2008 Negative Eye played their first show at the Whisky-A-Go Go in Los Angelos and then took a short break to work on new material and to build a fan base. During the summer of 2008 Negative Eye played 3 more shows and recorded their first professional EP.