Mutilate Us

VINYL! Brian Michael Sokel - 26 years old, 6 foot 2 inches tall, green eyes, brown hair. Michael RyanParsell - 23 years old, 6 feet tall, green eyes, brown hair. The quickest path between two points is a straight line and sometimes the lightest load is truly that which weighs the least. At 26, Brian Sokel has played in numerous bands throughout the years, but has stuck most notably with the band Franklin. Their brand of rhythm-centric, post punk developed over the course of eight years and branded them genre bending, albeit confusing and elusive. After the recording of what was to be Franklin's final release, Sokel found himself working on four-track recordings of songs that didn't fit the mold of what was, by then, Franklin's sound. Finding himself with several cassette tapes of these four-track demos, Sokel brought on Michael Parsell (a long time friend who has spent time in such bands as Frail, Goodbye, Blue Monday and most recently The Science Of) to add dimension to the t