“We have mortgaged our alternatives to make kick ass music that makes people rise up. Not to rise for some transient bullshit cause but merely to rise to their feet because they can’t help it. We believe that a reaction to and influence by music is one of the only pure things left and truly the great equalizer. “ (RFO, Collectively)

Johnny, Trev, Chad and Jorge make up the high energy, high intensity, kick-your-ass-hard rock band indigenous to Toronto’s “meat market music farm”. They all met in the renowned “Rehearsal Factory” that spawned such talented bands as I Mother Earth, Billy Talent, Three Days Grace and Our Lady Peace. Rise For Order still live, work and dream in the shit-hole rehearsal space, feeling it is the only way that they can do what they know they are meant to live for. “And it is all worth it - regardless of where we end up” (RFO, Collectively).

Rise for Order was spawned through a turbulent chain of events that ultimately brought them all together. Following the shattering of the band Wake; housing what is now the musical blood of RFO, Johnny Goltz entered the collaborative equation. Johnny - now the lead vocalist and co-songwriter - was introduced and accepted by the tide of the former Wake by mere passion alone. Despite already being a close friend of many infamous nights, Johnny was only really exposed as a vital element while caught singing to himself in an empty room in the dark basement of the factory - on what he thought were deaf ears. His shameless performance, to an audience of no-one, is what exposed the passion, ethos and work ethic upon which the band was beginning to unite.

Blood and voice were now in place but they needed a strong heartbeat to make them, and all who listened, rise up like never before. RFO was officially formed when they robbed and transplanted Jorge from just ‘down the hall’. Some would say it was by chance, but they knew that anyone confined within the walls of that musical monastery lived for the same reason as the rest of them. “We all understood our strengths by listening to how people perceived us. This is how we established our unique musical collective. By focusing on our strengths and hiding from our weaknesses we actually created the synergy that makes our sound. Irony in a way - shit happens.” (RFO Collectively)

Rise for Order was officially born from their long incubation in August of 2005 and since then, they have never looked back.

“We are united in purpose, bonded by an infallible belief, and work in unquestioned trust. We will live and work in our shit hole but accept no shit. Listen to our music and if you enjoy it then rise up; if you don’t, we only ask that you respect those who do.” (RFO, Collectively)

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