During the summer of 1996, Floridian high school friends Scott "Skart" Suldo on guitar/vocals and Dominic "Dom" Maresco on drums/vocals started playing together under the name 'The Supervillains'.
[1] In 2002, the band released their second self-produced studio album, Horseshoes and Handgrenades with new member Jonathan "Smally" Cestero on saxophone.
This was the first time the band worked with producer Brett Hestla who mixed and engineered the album, as well as provided backing vocals on the single "Free".
Wanting to concentrate on programming and production, Dan Grundorf permanently handed over the reins to former Abandon the Midwest bassist B.J.
"[3] Also, in a two-month anticipation of the Drones EP, the band released a stand-alone single titled, "Daisy" in ode to the Vaudeville-era song the operating system "HAL" rebooted to in Stanley Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"[4] They have collaborated with artists such as Jack Ruby Jr. and Jeff Richey of The Toasters, Kyle MacDonald of Slightly Stoopid, and Kris Bentley formerly of Inner Circle.