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Psycodélico
Psycodélico are a Metalcore band who formed in Jackson, Michigan in 2022 when vocalist Kenny Packala approached former guitarist/bassist Olivia Wells, former bassist Gabriel Grantz, and former drummer Andrew Vierik about a local music festival to play at. Since forming, the band has played shows local to south-east Michigan, created demos containing four of their original songs, and have covered Green Day and Rage Against The Machine at live shows.

Early Days And Abandoned Punks
Before Psycodélico, lead vocalist Kenny Packala formed Abandoned Punks, which was an American Pop-Punk/Emo band who formed in Walled Lake, Michigan in 2012 when vocalist/guitarist Packala met bassist Ryan Shaant and drummer Jeremy Dunlap in middle school. The trio started writing songs together and later performed at a Halloween party to gain local attention, they released the songs Thug Life (2015) and Messenger (2015) on Kenny's Youtube channel (before its termination in 2018) which was received with mixed reviews. In result they added rhythm guitarist Alexander Rens shortly before leaving the band on his own terms in late 2015.

Kenny's state of mind, Jeremy's death, and indefinite hiatus (2016)
Packala faced mental issues as admitted on Twitter and Instagram late 2016. He grew into a depressive state due to feeling heavily pressured to writing music, going through the death of his then girlfriend, personal life conflict, and bullying. Packala had stated that he'd felt like he hit an all time low and wanted to quit the band and forget everything in his life. On 24 October 2016, Dunlap was found dead in his home from a self inflicted gunshot wound, after the band was notified they were in total shock and claimed they had no intention of continuing with Abandoned Punks. Packala announced on Instagram "I am sad to announce that Jeremy has passed on to the other side..He will always be in our hearts and never forgotten. The direction that Abandoned Punks will take is quite clear to us, due to this sudden tragedy we've decided to go on an extended hiatus. Until then, thank you so much for the support throughout our years of being active!". Packala had been working in silence on a new song in 2017 that had samples of Dunlap's drums, however nothing was ever released. There was rumors that spread on social media that the band would reform in late 2017 with a new line up, but this was not confirmed.

Breakup and formation of Industrial Academy
In the summer of 2019 Vocalist Kenny Packala had met lead guitarist Ryan Schneider during the South Lyon Pumpkin Festival through a girlfriend Kenny had at the time and decided to form a Post-Grunge / Industrial Metal band named Industrial Academy. According to the lead singer, Packala stated that "The name just came to me one night, it seemed fitting for the music that we're going to put out and thought it was the coolest name ever. I've never been happier then to start this project with Ryan, he seemed like a rad guy when I met him and I could tell he is as passionate as I am for music. The music we put out is something I've been wanting to experiment with in the past, but couldn't do due to creative differences!". The band stated they were in the making of their first album, although the release date was never announced. The bands only ever confirmed members were Kenny Packala and Ryan Schneider.

Indefinite Hiatus and Em¤ K¡d
In early 2019, Kenny created and started posting on a Youtube channel under the bands name, ″Industrial Academy″ with new music he made under his name, which he later confirmed would be the start of his solo project. He adapted the name "Em¤ K¡d" which he later used as a rap name. On April 7th, 2020 Packala released a full length album under the name Em¤ K¡d on the Industrial Academy Youtube channel, the album was met with mostly mixed to negative reviews. In September of 2020, Kenny Packala released a statement discussing the future of Industrial Academy and why no content had come of them saying; "While I would've loved to continue on with Industrial Academy, the pandemic and our personal lives got in the way. Ryan and I haven't even communicated since the last time I promoted the band's rise! I love the guy, but we didn't really have anything in common other than loving one band being Nirvana. I wanted the best for him, I wanted what was best for myself, and for the fans which is something I couldn't do and I'm sorry. From here on out consider Industrial Academy on indefinite hiatus, I don't want to break the band up, but rather regather in the future in hopes we could overcome our past and come out of this stronger and better!". On February 2nd, 2021 Kenny confirmed he'd be back into the music scene with a new lineup and sound. Packala stated; "I'm excited to be given the opportunity to be put back into what I love doing! The sound will be different having inspiration from Mudvayne, Three Days Grace, and Linkin Park while still retaining my original sound. The only thing I'm going to say is that the album name is "Misunderstood"." The album release date has not yet been revealed.

Formation of Psycodélico
On March 5th 2021, Packala had confirmed he was in the works of forming a new band by the name of Psycodélico and would try pursuing a new album under that name. In a social media post, Packala was asked about the new band and what to expect out of them, he stated the following; "Psycodélico was something new, I didn't want to push the new sound I wanted to create onto the Industrial Academy name. The band name came to me one night and thought to myself "what's something a crowd would be chanting, be wearing on shirts, and roll off the tongue?" Then it clicked and the next day at work I wrote it down, sent it to the band, and within minutes we were all on the same page! It means psychedelic in Spanish, but the meaning goes deeper than that. It means we as a band can be your drug, your outlet when you need to escape, your high, so it doesn't mean we go out and do drugs, we are the listeners drug!". However nothing was released stating the members, any new music, or performances. On March 3rd, 2022 Kenny approached drummer/multi instrumentalist Andrew Vierik and bassist/guitarist Olivia Wells about joining his band along with Adam Gazdag for an upcoming festival, Vierik and Wells agreed and soon Gabriel Grantz was brought into the band as the bassist. Closer towards the time of the festival, guitarist Ashton StAmour was asked to be apart of the band by Wells and Packala which concluded the line up. June 11th, 2022 Psycodélico performed at The Atrium as the closing act and was asked to come back for day two as an opener. June 12th, 2022 sometime before their set, an altercation occurred with Packala and Grantz which lead Grantz to leave the band, Packala made a public statement on Facebook saying; "Hey all, I wanted to make a public statement about what happened this weekend with our bassist in Psycodelico. I really hate making posts like this, but because our name was dropped in a negative light, I just wanted to get the story straight. Saturday was our first performance (and last) with our bassist Gabriel Grantz at the Atrium Music and Arts festival, after the performance we were asked by the person in charge to open at 11-12 Sunday. To where Gabe replied "I can't do that I'm working" I said we could just play without him like we practiced. He presumed to drop an item on the ground and act in panic, he was then reminded that at 12 (remember that time) him and his Metallica cover band was performing, which already made us raise an eyebrow to how he could book a time with them and not us. So we agreed unanimously due to HIS schedule to play later. After the show, he asked who had his mixer...multiple times, to where every time we replied we had it and were gonna bring it. Come the next day, he asks..yet again (for the 4th time in 10ish hours) if we had his mixer, 3/4 of us decided to joke around and say "we left it at the atrium" when we reassured him the day prior we had it. He started to say it wasn't funny and asked...AGAIN, to where we all 3 took pictures of the mixer in the backseat to reassure him AGAIN. I text him around 4 (with the set being at 5) when I could pick him up, he said "anytime, I got off work EARLY" to which made us all question how early and if we could've been at the time asked to come back at. We get to the Atrium and meet up with him to see another band setting up at our designated time, confused and upset, we all walked to talk to the person running it. When walking, Gabe passed by his EX and was extremely rude and hostile towards them getting in her face and grumbling at them, I told him it wasn't ok with his response being "it was my ex, she shouldn't be here", to which I responded "you're a fucking dick dude" as he shrugged it off. We got to one of the staff members to be informed that all the bands times were pushed back because the 12 o'clock band didn't show up until 1. We quickly put 2 and 2 together and were told by an audience member who had been there all day, "thanks to your bassist, y'all got screwed". Upset, we all went to CVS and get drinks to burn time until our set, we get back to the band wrapping up and us starting to get our gear, Gabe comes up to the car and says "where's my mixer? Do you have my mixer?" I replied "yes why wouldn't I? We all sent like 3 photos to you about it" he then took it, took off 5 minutes before the set, said we were in the wrong, and blocked me. Fortunately, that saved me the trouble of having to talk to him later about being replaced due to personal issues on his side, not prioritizing correctly, not putting the days in at work 4 months (when I brought up the festival date) in advance, tried to convince my other band members to quit for his side project, a Metallica cover band (😂), and a plethora of other reasons. Gabe was to be replaced after the show by one of our own guitarists regardless of the outcome due to those above issues and more, thank you for the read. Until next time! ~Psycodelico." Packala stated the band was slating to release more music following the concert. The band released their first single The ″End of Times″ on their ″Psycodélico - Topic″ Youtube channel October 7, 2022 which was received with mostly positive reviews. ″Silence″ and ″Torn Away″ were both released as singles early in 2023.

Vierik and Wells Departure, Temporary Hiatus, And Reformation
In May of 2023, Packala and StAmour made posts on their Facebook and Instagram page hinting at a "Final Psycodelico Show". This was made apparent when at their performance at the Alley Cat Café June 3rd, they had stated Vierik and Wells had left the band due to internal conflict with the band. At the end of the show, Packala performed an acoustic cover of "Good Riddance" by Green Day and said "this is a goodbye" hinting Psycodelico was breaking up. Packala stated he was going to put the Psycodelico name to rest and start over with a new band under the name Less Like You. However, was convinced to keep the Psycodelico name and regroup with new members. In early July, the band started fresh with new social media accounts and promoted their gigs at Potopia Music Festival, Beats In The Park, and another show based in their hometown in Jackson. It had been revealed Angel Kreckler and Rian Midili would be permanently taking over the rolls of bass and drums for the band.

Musical Influences
''″Psycodélico″ is a Hardcore Punk/Metalcore band. Vocalist Kenny Packala has stated Silverstein and ″Linkin Park″ were heavy influences to him going into the band. Other influences included, Three Days Grace, Static X, Mudvayne, System of a Down, Korn, Dayseeker The Amity Affliction, Cold, Rage Against The Machine, and Beartooth. The rest of the band have cited influences like Rush, Lorna Shore, Cannibal Corpse, Poppy, A Day To Remember, and Tool.

Band Members
Members
 * Kenny Packala — lead vocals, lead guitar (2012-2016)(2019-2020)(2021) lead vocals, lead unclean vocals (2022-)
 * Ashton StAmour — lead guitar, backup unclean vocals (2022-)
 * Angel Kreckler – bassist (2023-)
 * Ryan Midili – drummer (2023-)

Past Members (Psycodelico)
 * Olivia Wells — bassist, lead guitar (2022-2023)
 * Andrew Vierik — drummer, multi instrumentalist (2022-2023)
 * Gabriel Grantz — bassist (2022)
 * Adam Gazdag – guitarist (2022)

Past Members (Abandoned Punks)
 * Ryan Shaant — bass, backing vocals (2012-2016)(died 2018)
 * Jeremy Dunlap — drums (2012- died 2016)
 * Alexander Rens — rhythm guitar (2015)
 * Jacob Benson — rhythm guitar (2016)(2018) (died 2018)
 * Mason Smith — Bass, backing vocals (2019)
 * Jake Miller — Drums (2019)
 * Abdulla Hassan — lead guitarist, backing vocals (2019)
 * Kyle Davis — rhythm guitarist (2019)
 * Ryan Schneider — lead guitar (2019-2020)