Mike, Jon, and Josh had been playing together for almost four years before they met up with an old friend John Stroude that had recently left his current band Steal Rain, where he was there front man. That same week Mike was visiting a friend and heard for the first time the talent of Nate Shipp. Mike knew that’s what they were looking for in a lead guitarist. And so starts what is now known as Last Reaction. Just in the first four months they were together they were ready to go into the studio to make there first demo. It was a first for all the members in a real studio, the trip was a success. And so goes the band onto higher goals.