No Warning was a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Canada. The band was founded in 1998 under the name As We Once Were by singer Ben Cook and guitarists Matt Delong and Jordan Posner. They released two demos, both in 1998, as As We Once Were. The band subsequently renamed itself No Warning. Their first release under that name was a three-song demo tape. They released their legendary 7" on New York label, Martyr Records in 2001. Later that year, Boston based Bridge 9 Records re-released the 7" on CD with different artwork and the demo tape as bonus tracks. The band continued to play shows across the east coast of the USA and Canada with hardcore punk bands such as Hatebreed, Madball, Cro-Mags, Sick Of It All, Terror and Bane. They also appeared respectively at annual hardcore festivals such as Hellfest (NY) and Posi Numbers Fest (PA). In the fall of 2002, No Warning released what some fans consider to be the band's best work and a monumental album of that era of hardcore, Ill Blood.It Began when a fifteen year-old guitarist named Matt DeLong started trolling his neighborhood for a singer to join his quest for straight up, pissed off hardcore, the way it should be played. He found this in junior high school buddy, Ben Cook. "I'd been in some punk bands," Cook recalls, "but I'd never done any hardcore before. I said 'Fuck it, Delong, we're doing this and we're gonna be the fuckin best". ..t first, the hometown crowd didn't catch on to the explosive potential of No Warning, but by the time the young band added local guitarist Jordan Posner to the line-up they had become local contenders. ..n 2002, No Warning released Ill Blood their first full-length album and backed it up with some touring, gaining a solid fan base in the process. But for all the buzz, the band was already moving in new musical directions. "We got fuckin' bored. Bored of everything. We asked ourselves, 'What else is there?'" says Cook. "We were fans of melodic music, but we could never find a way to put it into what we were doing and yet still keep the aggression and emotion high. We kept hearing all these bands tying to do the same thing, screaming and singing in their songs and it just all straight up sucked, calling it screamo, or hardcore... it really doesn't matter. I wanted to beat my head through a wall every time I heard most of these bands. We knew we could do the hardcore and melody thing RIGHT. " It wasn't until the group took a year off the road to focus on forging their new sound that they were finally able to capture the music they were hearing in their heads.
A four song demo brought the group to the new L.A-based indie, Machine Shop Recordings and they quickly got down to business with a studio schedule that took them from Los Angeles to Toronto and back again over the next year.
The result was Suffer, Survive, a collection of No Warning originals that made a rock solid connection between full-on hardcore and fully melodic songwriting. With a new recording under their belt and summer treks on both the Vans Warped Tour '04 and The Projekt Revolution Tour, No Warning was ready to rewrite the musical rules. "It does feel a little like we're starting from scratch in a way," admits Cook. "But we've never really changed the way we make music. That's not negotiable."
Suffer, Survive, the debut release on Machine Shop Recordings from No Warning, put a whole new slant on hardcore with a sound that mixes melody with mayhem.
Equal parts punk, hardcore and a secret songwriting ingredient all their own, Suffer, Survive features such No Warning originals as "Breeding Insanity," "Dirtier Than The Next," "Hopeless Case," "Back To Life" and "Bad Timing" and is a whole new musical direction from previous album Ill Blood.
No Warning "Short Fuse" Live Video Hellfest 2003
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