[4] After many early recordings, including split tapes with groups from around the world, Fuck the Facts began developing a name in the underground with fans of grind.
[8] The project remained nameless until featured on a compilation in 1998, when Topon decided on the name Fuck the Facts after a song from the first Naked City album.
then, in September 2000, released another full-length cassette entitled Vagina Dancer on the Slovakian label Where Late The Birds Sang.
Vagina Dancer showcased a more experimental, noise side to Fuck the Facts than the self-titled release, which featured more of a grindcore style.
With the two full length tapes, and the various splits, Fuck The Facts started to gain notoriety in the underground noise and grindcore world.
[12] The three recorded music for a split with Ames Sanglantes, before the addition of vocalist Brent Christoff in April and bassist Shomir Das in May.
Before the end of 2001, the new Fuck the Facts line-up would release Mullet Fever, the full length follow-up to Discoing the Dead.
Mullet Fever, with its catchphrase "37 Songs in 35 Minutes", featured a more punk-influenced grindcore sound, though it still retained some of the noise influence.
[16] The band continued as a three-piece and recorded a series of three splits with Feeble Minded (My Anorexia, 2003),[17] Sergent Slaughter (Overseas Connection, 2004)[18] and Subcut (Eponymous, 2004).
[20] Matt Connell was replaced by drummer Tim Olsen, and Marc-André Mongeon joined as bassist (the first since Shomir had left in 2001).
Mathieu Vilandré and Steve Chartier (aka Esteve Decalisse) were brought on guitar and bass respectively in time for touring in support of Fuck the Fact's next release, Legacy of Hopelessness.
A much more experimental release, Legacy of Hopelessness featured more electronic and ambient elements combined with the usual Fuck the Facts grindcore sound.
Upon return from the Legacy of Hopelessness tour, Mathieu Vilandré and Steve Chartier were brought into the band as permanent members.
[25] In the interim, the Collection of Splits 2002-2004 was released by Great White North Records, and exposed fans to some music that had been difficult to acquire due to limited pressings.
The summer of 2006 was filled with tours of the Maritimes, North-Eastern United States (including a performance at the New England Doom and Grind Festival), Ontario and Quebec.
[28] Following the release of Stigmata High-Five, the band filmed a music video for the song "The Sound of Your Smashed Head",[29] featuring local actors Adam Steptoe, Luke Williams, and Eugene Swain.
Following the final Stigmata High-Five tour in June 2007, the band parted ways with bassist Steve Chartier, then spent two weeks on a road trip to Mexico and back to write the material for their next album.
[32] Polish Relapse Records label mates Antigama and Dutch grindcore band Dr. Doom joined Fuck the Facts for the tour which lasted from February 12 to March 3, 2009.
The biggest change is with the replacement of Brent with Mel Mongeon who has a very distinctive high-pitched shriek which has become the vocal style that the band is most known for.
For example, a common feature will be the use of clean guitar within the context of a grindcore song that creates a radical change in the sound of the piece (an example would be the last half of Gated Community from Mullet Fever).
Topon has stated numerous times that the name Fuck the Facts was chosen, in part, as a statement about his attitude towards the music he wrote.
Though those two genres were prominent during this era of recording, many other styles crept into the music as well including death metal, crust punk, electronic and even as some as diverse as disco and jazz.
When Discoing the Dead was released in early 2001, it retained many of these experimental styles, paving the way for the beginning of the first incarnation of Fuck the Facts as a full band.
When Backstabber Etiquette was recorded in 2002, vocalist Mel Mongeon had replaced Christoff, and her distinctive growl was markedly different than Brent's deep sound.