In those early high school days, they released three demos of pure hardcore/thrash metal.
Red Tide went on to play the Simsbury High School Battle of the Bands in which they won first place.
This brought the departure of Jeff Bennett and introduction of Andy Dickins on bass.
They continued to incorporate jazz fusion into their brand of aggressive style of metal and went into the studio to record another demo entitled "Hybrid".
In 1997, Red Tide went into the studio to record their first full-length Themes of the Cosmic Consciousness.