KungFu Rick was formed in 1996 with founding members John Mendola (guitar), Bryan Margner (vocals), Ryan Durkin (vocals), John Biehl (drums), and Eric Kline (bass), who attended high school together in Elmhurst, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.
It was only later that the band evolved into the scene in which it would be more associated with, grindcore / powerviolence, and thrash punk.
Kline later left the band within the next 6months, being replaced by David Rudnik of Seven Days of Samsara (later Get Rad), from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On January 31, 2003, the band played the infamous 924 Gilman Street Club in Berkeley, California.
[5][6] Over the years, the band has played with such notable acts as Melt Banana, Yakuza, and Life's Halt.