Signed to Epitaph Records

I Against I was formed by two childhood friends, Ronald van Maren and Jasper Blazer, in the mid-1990s in the Netherlands. Their name comes from the Bad Brains record, I Against I . They signed to Epitaph Records in 1996, the first European group to do so. An EP followed in 1997 and an album in 1998 called Headcleaner , which was recorded in The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado, the studio of Bill Stevenson of All . The group toured Europe and played South by Southwest in 1998. Their sophomore LP titled I’m a Fucked Up Dancer but My Moods Are Swinging followed on Epitaph in 1999, but was released only in Europe. During this time the group toured with, Down by Law , All , and played with several bands like Bad Religion , Pennywise , No Fun At All and Blink-182 . In 2002, the group left Epitaph and released five songs on a split album with Italian punk band MadBones on Ammonia Records which was intended as a demo only, but the label liked the five songs enough to officially release them and send the band on tour in Italy, Germany and Belgium. Finally they released a self-titled LP in 2005 on Moondown Records, mixed once again by Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore.