I“The Eternals will be back with you in just a moment...” - The Eternals.

Between the years of 1988 and 1996, Damon Locks and Wayne Montana played in the Chicago band Trenchmouth, a group established upon “a need to create a new sound and style”; who blazed an almost impossibly inventive trail of discordant, structurally shifty post-punk; who toured thiry-four states and six Canadian providences, and who found fans, friends, and cohorts in the likes of At the Drive-In, Fugazi, Lifter-Puller, Babes in Toyland, Tortoise and The Dismemberment Plan, among others.

As all bands are inevitably wont to do, however, Trenchmouth grew apart in the midsts of a punk scene growing ever more stodgy, described by bassist Wayne Montana as “a sha na na type revival... young kids rocking leather jackets and spiky wristbands, sounding like The Ramones but without any spark... or, to be more accurate, like Green Day. It took a little of the wind out of Trenchmouth’s sails.” “There came a time when things stopped making sense,” echoes singer/guitarist Damon Locks. “The musical climate had changed. Fred Armisen, our drummer, was the one to say he wanted to stop. We had all agreed that we four made up Trenchmouth, and if either of us were to go, the band could no longer be Trenchmouth.”

As Armisen dismantled his drumkit to embark upon a series of now-legendary exploits as a character actor/bespectacled prankster on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Locks and Montana found themselves spearheading a new musical endeavor almost immediately - once again with the intention of invention. “I was sitting on a bus thinking of names,” says Locks. “I knew it would have to be a totally amazing name. I thought a name like Nation Of Ulysses was great, and I wouldn’t settle for less. When it popped into my head, I thought the name itself had so much going for it that we would be a couple of points ahead with the name alone.”

Behold, The Eternals.