performed at Endfest

In 2001, Dombroski was invited by Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney to jam with him in Seattle , along with bandmate Mike Inez on bass and Queensrÿche guitarist Chris DeGarmo . The supergroup independently recorded and released an EP entitled Microfish under the name Spys4Darwin . They performed at Endfest on August 4, 2001 and continued working together into the following year. Around this time, Dombroski also began performing and recording music with the side project group The Orbitsuns. It was also around this time that members of Crud (Dombroski, Mazzola, Paluzzi, and Graham) began performing as Sponge, but only for a handful of local shows. Dombroski and Mazzola then created a new solidified lineup of Sponge consisting of drummer Billy Adams, guitarist Kurt Marschke , and bassist Tim Krukowski.