Founded by Ben Jorgensen

Armor For Sleep was founded by Ben Jorgensen in 2001 in Teaneck, New Jersey . Nash Breen and Peter James “PJ” DeCicco later joined the band after leaving fellow New Jersey band Prevent Falls. Jorgensen stated the name of the band comes from his early experiences of writing music and not being able to sleep. As he recalls, “I guess when I started the band I was kind of, like, retreating in my room and I kind of couldn’t really fall asleep, so I started playing music. I just thought of the name Armor for Sleep, because it was really, the music was keeping me from passing out! Which was something I was procrastinating on.”