This story begins around closing time at the Round Table Pizza in Cameron Park CA, Halloween night, 1994. Delivery Drivers Ernie Womack, Travis King, and Joe Petunis, were talking about the same thing that they were always talking about: Music. Although drummer Ernie, bassist Travis, and guitarist Joe had been friends for quite some time, they had never played together. Now, after saying for many months that they should get together some night and jam, they finally decided to do it, and they resolved to meet up at Travis' house after work. They closed the restaurant for the night, and all went home to pick up their equipment. Even though he was running late (as usual) Ernie stopped by Dennys to pick up some dinner on his way. While he was waiting for his food, a guy he knew named Jason Fralish, walked in and they got to talking. Ernie and Jason had played acoustic guitars together a couple of times, and Ernie knew that Jason had a great voice, but they had never jammed together seriously. Well, to make a long story short, as soon as the food was ready to go, Ernie and Jason walked out together and both drove up to where the other two were waiting.

Jason, Ernie, Travis, and Joe jammed until about 5:00 in the morning in Travis' living room, Playing cover songs like Am I Evil, Smells Like Teen Spirit, and that Offspring "Keep 'Em Separated" song. Everyone had a great time and they decided to do it again soon. Jason mentioned before he left, that he worked with a guy named Kelly who played guitar, and everybody decided that he should bring him to the next jam. About three days later, all five guys got together at Ernies house. Coincidentally as it turned out, Ernie and Kelly knew each other from high school. After jamming for a few hours, they decided that they all played together pretty well, and that they should make this a regular thing. And after some discussion, they all decided on a band name: DOWN.

About nine months later, They played their fist show as DOWN at a local club called THE SOUNDWAVE in Rancho Cordova, CA. Then, about nine months after that, just as things were starting to pick up, and their name was starting to get around, Phil Anselmo from Pantera, and Pepper Keenan from C.O.C. released an album under the name DOWN (dicks). So, after playing as DOWN for the better half of a year, Jason, Kelly, Ernie, Travis and Joe, had to come up with a new band name. After about two months of considerations, the name: THOUSAND YARD STARE was in place.

They played two shows as THOUSAND YARD STARE, both of which were at a local club/music store called THE ATTIC, in Placerville. At this point, the band decided to take a month or two, and write some new material. During this "month or two" the band and Joe Petunis went their separate ways. Now, the "month or two" for writing new songs, became the "year or so" looking for a new guitarist to take Joe's place. Although they looked for about a year, none of the new guitarists that they jammed with seemed to fit like Joe had. After some discussion, it was decided that instead of getting a new guitarist, the band would re-write all of their songs to work with only one guitar. Sometime during this period, Ernie was shopping at a record store, and while browsing, came across a CD by a band from Europe named (you guessed it) THOUSAND YARD STARE. A couple of months, and several arguments later, the band settled on its final name: BRAND X SAVIOR, which was also the title of one of their earlier songs (the copyright package went in the mail about two seconds later)!

About this time, Travis was getting ready to move to Humboldt for college. Now the band faced the dilemma of finding a new bass player. In the winter of 1996, Dan McCann, a long time friend of the band, stepped in. Dan was a guitarist, but decided to join the band as the bass player until they could find a permanent replacement for Travis. Although Dan was in the band for over a year, BRAND X SAVIOR never played a live show with him. During this time, the band was spending all of their free time in the studio working on their first EP (which once finished, was never released). By the time that their EP was done (late 1996), the band had caught the "recording bug" and headed straight back into the studio to begin working on a full-length album. At the end of the first night back in the studio, Dan announced that he was unhappy with the direction of the music, and He was leaving to work on his own solo project. Although he would be around to finish the recording of the tracks they had just laid down, this would be the end of his time with the band. Jason, Kelly, and Ernie continued to play together every chance they could, and never gave up hope that they would find a suitable replacement.

In the early part of 1999, a friend in one of his college courses introduced Jason to bassist Andy Rusanoff. About two weeks later, Andy was welcomed into the band. Within two months of having Andy in the band, BRAND X SAVIOR, along with 20 other local bands (including PAPA ROACH (DreamWorks) was chosen to be on the 98 Rock annual compilation album "Sac Rocks" (volume 6, Beyond The Muzak).

This gave Andy about a month to learn all of the bands songs and be ready to play live at the concerts to help promote the 98 Rock album (he pulled it off better than anyone had hoped!). In August of 1999, about a month after being selected to appear on the 98 Rocks CD, Jason found out that his father was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And although the band did play 2 shows, and made an appearance on Local Licks (98 rock talk show which at the time was hosted by Kylee Brooks) to help promote the album, Jason had to take time out of the band to help with his family, and with his father's condition. In June of 2000, his father passed away, and in the following weeks, Jason put closure to his family's tragedy.

After a time of mourning, the band was soon back in full swing. Since then, they have played shows at venues including CAFÉ PARIS, CROSSROADS, THE BOARDWALK, BO JANGLES, ROAD HOUSE, and they appeared on live T.V. on the ROSEVILLE CABLE CHANNEL 8 show: ROCK N' ROLL LIFESTYLE and Local Access in Grass Valley through BOSS 7 PRODUCTIONS. BRAND X SAVIOR is looking forward to many shows and further promoting their passion.

Brand X Savior was selected to appear on Sac Rocks Vol. 8 - "A Family Tradition", in the summer of 2001. This marked the second time the band had appeared on the prestigious Northern California compilation. Brand X Savior continues to show their unrelenting drive towards mainstream exposure by being recognized as one of NorCals premier metal-hybrid bands.

In the late winter of 2002, Brand X Savior parted ways with Andy after he was diagnosed with Carpel Tunnel in both hands which left him unable to play the bass. As fate would have it, another bass playing "Travis" had emerged onto the scene at that same time. Having played shows with Travis's band Blue Star Creeper, Brand X Savior was quite familiar with his bass playing abilities and asked him to join the band.

Brand X Savior was once again selected to appear on a variety of compilation CD's in 2002. Brand X Savior appeared on Deafinit Records "Boy, I wish I was in a Boy Band" compilation with their version of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. BXS also was once again selected to appear on 98 Rock's local music CD: "Sac Rocks Vol. 9 - Who's Next" with their song "Broken", as well as Sac Rocks Vol. 10 - A Decade to Remember with the classic version of Big Brother. Finally, Brand X Savior was selected to appear on Pus Cavern's Christmas compilation:"Elves Built My Hotrod". The band's contribution was their version of "Let it Snow".

Throughout the band's ten years of members coming and going, name changes, and family crisis', BRAND X SAVIOR has evolved into one hell of an original, musically diverse, emotionally charged, powerhouse of a band. And they have proven to themselves, as well as their many fans, that BRAND X SAVIOR can, and will endure throughout anything that comes their way. BRAND X SAVIOR is finally nearing completion of an album that began in early 1997; it is slated for official release in mid/late 2006. They can also be found playing at various venues in Sacramento and the surrounding area.