So, in January, 2004, a little band called Army Defense was born, the name coming from some old comics Dave created in grade school. The first album was done in a few weeks, and since it was done so fast, they decided to do another in February. This was the foundation of the one-album-per-month phenomenon. By the third month(album), Ferreira from Leisure visited Army Defense and wrote/sang one song.

The sixth album featured Roberts from Leisure with a few submissions.

By the seventh album (Rufcut) Army Defense had expanded into a well-oiled studio machine which featured 5 different singer/songwriters. It is April 2006 and are 75% complete with The World Album.

Army Defense started in 1986 when a young artist named Dave Lehnen created a world of good and evil and a host of characters ranging from Rufgear to the Forgotten to General Roy. For a decade the visual promise of Army Defense lay dormant. But all along the sonic artistry of Macrosonics was waiting to be developed. In 1992, it did, becoming the foundation for Bassett Creek Studios' rapid music deployment.

Dime Theory was formed in 1998 with members Lance Whiteside, Chic Pojar, Chad Estevez, and Pat Totushek (later Jason Roath then Mike Dolbow). The live cock-rock of Dime Theory was bound to implode under the demanding studio scrutiny of one of Mr. Lehnen. The presumptive solution was Rayon, a studio-bound project introduced in 1999 with the addition of Brandon Chitwood.

In the year 2000, Jose Ferreira, Shannon Roberts, and Andy Rauh formed Leisure, a quasi-Bluresque band which favored a studio environment over live perfomance. Leisure bought time at Bassett Creek Studios to record its debut album Low-Life Crisis. Though the project ended, Jose's presence never waned at Bassett Creek.

Nearly simultaneously, two musicians named Barry Hill and Jon S entered the studio to record a host of albums under their moniker, Olympia. Once Barry Hill retired to the counter of Hill's Hardware in Wabasha, Minnesota (home of the film Grumpy Old Men), Jon S was all that was left. Assbird, a band from S's past, was reconvened as an interim solution to a growing need to record lots of stuff really fast. In an attempt to homogenize the various musical approaches at Bassett Creek Studios, National Sex was born. A super-group of sorts, National Sex consists of Leisure's Jose Ferreira, Olympia's Jon S, and Macrosonics' Dave Lehnen. Still in production, the National Sex has been plagued by perfectionism. Its future is in doubt.

But what isn't in doubt is the United Republic of Army Defense. You will find this country on no map. The country is formed solely on the imaginative idealism of its members. It is a country whose landmarks and boundaries are formed by the desire to mass-produce catchy, lovable, but in no way disposable pop music. Army Defense believes in short, 11-track albums with unifying concepts and lots of codas. Army Defense is tolerant towards mini-albums and believes they can fruitfully live side-by-side with their larger counterparts. Hail Atlantis.

Army Defense is Jon S, Dave Lehnen, Brandon Chitwood, Jose Ferreira, and Shannon Roberts, and Barry Hill