Stonefront was born in mid 2001 from the bands Pain Reaction and Dead Silence, focused since its birth in playing straight rock. Laga, Caguas and Chinfu were in the first band, playing together for a while with other guitar and bass players. Later on, with the break up of Dead Silence, Goofy joined them on bass, but Laga had to leave on personal reasons, being replaced by George. That way, with the idea of seeing themselves as a new band, started rehearsing and composing; then, Micky, who played guitar in Serpiencoatl, was added on guitar giving another structure to the music, but not changing much their sound or basic intentions, and started working harder on new material. By then, with some original songs already written, George decided to leave the band and Laga was back on guitar, Micky came with the name, and Stonefront started playing small venues in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Puerta 22, La Zona Bar and Salón Lagartos), with the firm intention on spread its name and music, while kept on writing material and rehearsing. By the end of 2004 Micky left the band on personal reasons; there were no looking for a substitute, maintaining the line up as it is today. In the first quarter of 2005 Stonefront entered Oigo Estudios (in Guadalajara, Jalisco) to make their first formal record, with Arturo Tuti Perales as engineer, and the result is Weapon of choice, an independent extended play, hoping to reach new grounds with it. The influences in Stonefront —direct and not, in a personal way and as a band—, covers a wide range of groups, mostly the the ones where their music is guitar driven, and they go from Black Sabbath to Alice in Chains, as well as others like Tool, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Audioslave, Blind Melon, L7, The Supersuckers, Soundgarden, Iron Maiden, Sonic Youth, Deftones, The Ramones, Nirvana, Collective Soul, Slayer, Queens of the Stone Age, The Kinks, The Black Crowes and Stone Temple Pilots, among many others for which Stonefront shows a profound and heartfelt respect. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Stonefront">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.