Vast Minority

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he members of Vast Minority first came together in Sterling Park, Virginia at a rehearsal studio and engaged in a spontaneous jam session. They came together as strangers applying for a position in a band to be manufactured by a Washington, D.C. artist management company who was combing the D.C. area for the best and the brightest in unsigned musicians in 1997 and chose what they thought were the best of the lot. Within a couple of weeks 10 tracks were laid down in a sort of 'alternative rock' style mixed with progressive metal with a melodic twist (actually sounding more like melodic thrash metal) under the influence of Suicidal Tendencies, Bad Brains, Queensryche, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and King Chrimson and made up of J. Fiala (ex-Spunge; vocals), Keith Zulka  (ex-Mystic Angel; guitar/vocals), Joe Gallagher (ex-Third Rail; drums) and Tim Klix (ex-Chapel Perilous; bass/vocals).