A year after the Ozzfest both Logan and Whit found themselves without a band, Logan had left Soulfly, and Life Of Agony had decided to enter the studio without Whit. Whit decided to call up Logan and the conversation as he recalls went a little like this:

Whit: "Dude, what's the deal?"
Logan: "It looks like we're in a band."

The following quote taken from Logan gives us some idea of their freindship and how it started:

"I wasn't suicidal" Logan explains "Being on stage was the best high in the world, but when the shows over that feeling goes away. I'm not a very moderate person and I used to look for something to replace and replenish that. I had to check myself and ask if I even wanted to be here, because apart from the support of Whit, I was all alone"

Blunt joined the mix soon after, he had met Logan while supporting Soulfly in his old band 'Dayinthelife', Logan and Blunt would meet after shows and put together bits and pieces of music with the intent of creating a side project. The original Idea was to use a different vocalist for each track they wrote. The following quote was from Loganm about the period after leaving Soulfly:

"Three years ago I was out of Soulfly and that was a rough time in my life. All of a sudden the whirlwind of endless parties and touring came to a screeching halt. Suddenly I was doing nothing; I had no money in my pocket and I didn't know what the fuck to do - all I knew at that point was I nearly died a couple of times through being self destructive"

The band then moved into a house together for the next 18 months to work on the music and define their style and what Medication was to be. The following quote gives us and idea what life in this house was like and their process of creating the music:

"Logan goes to sleep at night, gets up in the morning and does his gym shit while me and Blunt are full nocturnal freaks. Bottom line: Blunt and me would sit up, smoke cigarettes and write riffs and melodies. Sometimes we'd have full songs done as far as acoustic and vocal and lyric and everything. We'd wait up so Logan could program the studio shit with drums and all that. He got up, threw it down and it was done. 'Something New' in particular was like that, just flat out done."

After that, Logan and Blunt moved in Guillermo's house, where they rent some rooms from him (that's one of the places where PV was recorded). Below are some pics of Blunt and Logan at Guillermo's house, Guillermo (aka DJ Vivas) is a well known LA turntablist.

Robert Trujillo helped the band out during these early days offering his opinions, lending equipment and playing on demos.

When the band recruited Roy Mayorga (ex Soulfly) on drums they felt it was time to play their first gig, the place was The Gig on Melrose and their name was Pale Demons. It wasn't long after their first gig that they began to play the whole of the Hollywood circuit.

The next step was for Medication to find a bass player, and when you’re used to playing with the likes of Robert Trujillo those are some pretty big shoes to fill. At the same time Medication were looking for a bass player Kyle Sanders was looking for a band and it when Whit and Kyle both turned to Dan Richardson from Pro-pain and LOA for help that there paths crossed. This is a quote from Kyle about joining Medication and taken from there official website:

"I was living in Atlanta and getting extremely frustrated with the scene so I called Dan and asked him to keep his ears open for me. Within days, Whit called him with the same scenario, saying the band can't find a bass player. It was as frustrating for them not to have a bass player as it was for me not to have a band. One phone call was made, I was on a plane out to L.A. to see what was happening and it was on immediately."

Now that the band were complete they hit the studio for the first time and recorded their debut 5 song EP. It was different to what a lot of people expected, it was extremely moody and dark in stark contrast to the popular nu metal sound of the time.

Once the EP was recorded, but before it was for sale, the band went off to tour the UK for 14 dates, reviews of these shows were very positive and at this stage the band had become extremely tight and really found there sound. The following pics were taken on the UK tour and appear thanks to Hillikus.com

In 2002 Locomotive Music, the international rock label and distributor based in Spain, chose Medication to be their first U.S. signing. The band went into the studio with producer Bill Kennedy (Nine Inch Nails, Jackoff Jill, Monster Magnet, Sepultura, Alice in Chains) who had mixed their EP, and recorded Prince Valium.