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Echophobia is an American Hard-Rock/Metal band from Salt Lake City. The Group started in October 2009 and is still active today. Echophobia does not currently have a record label. The band has been touring the Salt Lake City area since April 2010. The bands demo album release date is to be announced.

Preston Black, Tanner Richards, Christian Hanson, Nick Backlin. These are the four sticks of dynamite that come together to form a huge explosion that most people know as Ecophobia. It all started out back around September 2008, when Tanner and Preston first met each other. They found out that they both played guitar and decided to form a band. The idea floated around until Tanner, Preston, and Nick attended the 2008 Silver Rush Battle of the Bands. That is when they got serious. During the performance of the band titled “A.T.I.M.”, Nick had turned to Preston and suggested “Liquid Courage,” to be the first band name. Nick was later recruited as drummer, for such ideas. The name was quickly changed because of its refrence to alcohol and to the fact that the name was already taken, to “Lucidity,” from which Preston stole from Queensryche and their song entitled “Silent Lucidity.”

After a few practices, Nick was let go and Brody Webster was brought in. Still missing a bassist, Lucidity decided to move on anyway. After a few more practices, Tanner left the band because he “didn’t have enough creative outlet.” Preston and Brody went on and continued with Lucidity. Tanner and Nick ended up forming a new band. Tanner being the Lead Guitarist, was basically thrown into the position of being the bands leader, and he still holds this spot today. This was the first solid band that they had played in. The lineup was, Kobi Bergvall, Tanner Richards, Zach Isaac, and Nick Backlin. The name of this band ended up becoming “The Undesired.” Like always, after a few practices, Zach Isaac was let go of. Spencer Brockbank (who is playing in Voluspa) was recruited as bassist. They jammed for a few weeks. After finding out that a person could only play in one band in this competition, Brockbank was released to go to Voluspa, his true calling. This was taking place around September 2009. Around October, things started to slow down, practice hadn’t been held for a few weeks and things looked dim. Kobi left after a while and Preston, who had given up on Lucidity, came back and joined Tanner and Nick.

This is about when the Trio had decided to do Battle of the Bands, Tanner being the leader had a huge part in this decision. This new band (which is basically the early Lucidity) still had the same problem of finding a bassist though. After a few weeks of looking, Nick suggested Christian Hanson. He joined without hesitation. The name was found when Tanner printed off a huge list of “phobia’s,” also know as what people are scared of. Ecophobia was found on the list and that became the name. This is all going on in early November. Eventually the songs for Battle of the Bands were recorded and that is when the practicing began.

Since April 2010 the band has been moderately active in playing shows. Their main place to play is the Fear-Less Zone in Bluffdale, Utah. The band is currently working on their demo album to be announced later this month.