Indecision was an American hardcore punk band that was started in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn in 1993, and officially disbanded in the summer of 2000 though they still play shows occasionally for charity.
[3][4][5][6][7] Winston McCall, the lead vocalist and lyricist of Australian metalcore band Parkway Drive also has one half of the lyric tattooed down each of his forearms.
[8] The band members—guitarist Justin Brannan, drummer Pat Flynn, bassist Steve Bago and vocalist Tom Sheehan (who was replaced by Artie Phillie in 1998)—met while attending Xaverian High School in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn.
The band added second guitarist Rachel Rosen after having met her while performing live on her infamous WNYU radio show, Crucial Chaos, in 1996.
Over time, a lot of the venues in their neighborhood closed down, which prompted them to take a larger step and lead to the bands integration into the New York City hardcore scene.
Justin Brannan recounts these early days in the liner notes to A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall:[9] Fort Hamilton High School Auditorium in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, New York.
Over the next seven years, Indecision would tally over a dozen 7-inch singles on a number of different labels, including many limited color vinyl and special edition covers.
In 1996 they signed with Exit (a Wreck-Age Records subsidiary) and would release three albums with the label over the next three years: "Unorthodox", "Most Precious Blood" and "To Live and Die in New York City"[citation needed].
In 2023, the band announced they'd be reuniting to support the second night of the Blacklisted reunion show at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia alongside Unbroken, Magnitude, and Scarab.
Inspired by bands like Black Flag, Indecision embarked on voracious trailblazing tours, and it became their trademark usually spending a solid 9 to 10 months a year on the road.
[citation needed] The lyrical content was notably more socio-political with songs questioning the government and health care and conspiracy theories in regard to AIDS and cancer research.
During their first European tour in 1997, after having played a show in Wels in front of a handful of people at an indoor skate park with Flatline and Racial Abuse the band was stopped at the Austrian border on their way to Zagreb.