In the Summer of 2018, a vision was had by guitarist Brennen Von Slack. A mutation of melodic distortion with droning clean tone searching for melodies, that vision was Waves of Distortion.

After writing a few licks, Brennen reached out to a few musicians he had played with in the past, as well as the present. First, he reached out to bass player, Glen Evans, from the band they currently played together in, and shared his riffs and vision.  Glen really dug the concept and was all in on this new project. The two then embarked on a drummer search that didn’t last long. Brennen had played with a well known Sacramento drummer, Jonas Wahlstrom, in prior years and was the first person that came to mind. After contacting Jonas, who at the time was on a break from his current band, and hearing the demos, they set up a jam session with the trio. Afterwards, the three decided to embark on this Waves of Distortion journey.

The trio would spend the next year writing and creating a huge catalog of songs that would define the sound of W.O.D.  Now that they had developed a writing style and sound, it was time for a singer search. In walks Josiah Fox, who Jonas had been in another band with for many years, but after coming to a rehearsal Josiah was hooked. The band then began putting words and arranging music around Joe’s creative melodies and outstanding lyrical attack. After locking down 45 minutes of songs the band went in to record their first album in March of 2020.