Biography

Cheese Factory Massacre was formed in the winter of 1999.  The only member with previous band experience was drummer, Levi Klinkhammer.  After nearly six months of preparing we played our first show on April 19, 2000 at the County Seat Bowling Alley with Staddic from Sioux Falls.  We then played three more shows with the same members.  In July of 2000 our singer, Matt Sage, left the band because his family was moving out of town.  We were then very fortunate to get former Soulforge guitarist Larry Schwab to take over the guitar playing.  Our former guitar player, Lee Feldhaus then switched to singing.  Shane Laible has been playing bass guitar since the beginning of the band, and Levi Klinkhammer has remained the drummer.  With the current members we have played a number of shows over the past two years.  We have played with many local bands from the Sioux Falls area as well as the Minneapolis area.  In April of 2001 we released our first CD "American No Chicks" which was recorded in Watertown, SD.  Then in November of 2001 we released our second CD "Little, Yellow, Different", which was also recorded in Watertown.  We are also planning on soon recording for a third time.  This time we will record at the Cathouse Studio in Sioux Falls.