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Rival Schools are a Post Hardcore band from New York, formed by members from several influential 80’s and 90’s hardcore bands (including Gorilla Biscuits, Quicksand, CIV, Youth of Today, Burn, Project X, Judge, Moondog, Warzone, Side by Side and Iceburn). The band started from the ashes of a short lived project, World’s Fastest Car which had Artie Shepard of Mind Over Matter and Bad Trip fame involved, but the project went no further than demos. Apparently Walter and Artie had a difference of opinions hence the split. Artie then started Errortype: 11.

* Walter Schreifels - vocals, guitar
* Cache Tolman - bass
* Sam Siegler - drums
* Ian Love - guitar (left in 2002)

The band decided to start a series of EPs where multiple groups form a single band and they looked to Jonah Matranga formerly of Far, New End Original and Gratitude. The lone result was titled Rival Schools United by Onelinedrawing, released on 24th July 2001. Their full-length album titled United By Fate was released on 28th August the same year on Island Records. Shortly after the release of United By Fate, the band released their first single, Used for Glue. The second single released from the album was Good Things. Both releases enjoyed heavy rotation on MTV, both in the US and UK.

Ian Love left the band in 2002, and played as part of an Experimental-Rock band named Cardia, releasing an eponymous album in 2003.

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1	Used For Glue full track	386
2	Travel by Telephone full track	268
3	High Acetate full track	199
4	Undercovers On full track	197
5	Good Things full track	192
6	Everything Has Its Point	158
6	World Invitational full track	158
8	The Switch full track	152
9	My Echo full track	137
10	Favorite Star full track	124
10	Holding Sand	124
12	So Down On full track	117
13	Hooligans for Life full track	97
14	Grunge Model	17
15	Take One for the Team	16

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giraffe_knees wrote:
19 days ago

haha oh MAN. i've not listened to this band since united by fate. hello high school!

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sarina1113 wrote:
last month

When I caught them on tour with Eagles of Death Metal last Aug, the vocals were entirely too low and all I heard was drums and bass... Made me sad. LOVE that dude's voice.

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Cosmonaut_ wrote:
last month

Your art teacher has great taste.

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tidalwave_ wrote:
October 2009

i usually hate this long island scene punk music, but one day my art teacher wore a 'united by fate' shirt and i must admit i really like them

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Fonties wrote:
October 2009

worlds most underrated band

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thirdprofile wrote:
October 2009

one of the best bands ever. all of the b-sides and everything are fucking flawless, too. i remember buying this album when it came out purely off the back of one listen of "used for glue" and the first time i put this in my cd player it became my favourite album of all time. i wouldn't say this is the best album of all time anymore but it sure has a lot of memories close to my heart. walter schriefels is a legend if ever there was one.

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bexxxxxxxxxx wrote:
September 2009

anyone have their cover of 'wonderwall' that they played at reading festival? it was dead good.

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good-byelife wrote:
August 2009

the game and the band are awesome

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robinjfox wrote:
August 2009

play some solo london shows yo!

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irishtim wrote:
August 2009

Do they have an album in the works? I thought they were suppose to release something soon.

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unholyjebus wrote:
August 2009

y are they tagged as emo? there more like an indie, grunge sounding band.

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osmark wrote:
July 2009

wickid. can't wait for the new album. united by faith is pure excellence

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SoulmanUK wrote:
July 2009

Can't wait for nottingham in August its seeing rival schools makes the 6 hours driving there and back well worh it!.. I'll be rocking it right down the front!

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wadds1982 wrote:
July 2009

this is the only reason i'm looking forward to reading this year!

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disasterhead wrote:
June 2009

JAKARTAJAKARTAJAKARTAJAKARTAJAKARTA

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steve_FR wrote:
May 2009

the best thing on the leeds lineup... by lightyears

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topcatrox wrote:
May 2009

I go through periods of just absolute adoration for this band. United by Fate is amazing. Wish I was going to Leeds now :(

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gallymore wrote:
April 2009

Reading festival. Result

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spacematador wrote:
April 2009

When do they tour the states again?

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darshun wrote:
April 2009

I have a live Rival Schools show on my site: http://el1011.com was from late last year

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