Created in 2001, Blood loss Kansas comes from Burbank, CA, and includes vocalist Ben March, guitarist David Watrous, bassist Jeremiah Bignell, and drummer Daniel Pouliot. Influenced from the early-2000s convergence of hardcore, emo, screamo, and metallic, the quartet documented their 1st EP by using picture acquaintance Kurt Ballou (of Converge), after that adopted it with a complete album, entitled Lifeless Under Decoration, in 2006.