Warship was a post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band formed in Long Island

Long Island

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 in 2008. Former From Autumn to Ashes

From Autumn to Ashes

From Autumn to Ashes was a NY melodic hardcore band that formed in Long Island in 2000. While the band had gone through many line-up changes, the members include Francis Mark , Scott Gross , Benjamin Perri , Brian Deneeve , Mike Pilato , Rob Lauritsen , and Jeff Gretz From Autumn to Ashes was a NY...

 members Francis Mark

Francis Mark

Francis Mark is an American drummer, singer, guitarist, songwriter and artist known as a member of the bands From Autumn To Ashes, Warship, Biology, and Tidal Arms...

 (vocals, drums) and Rob Lauritsen (guitar, bass) formed the band following the From Autumn to Ashes' announced indefinite hiatus on June 9, 2008. Mark chose the name Warship, which came from an instance in 2007 when he was creating paintings on blank worship candles, and a friend questioned what he was doing. Mark replied with "making worship candles", however, the friend believed Mark was creating candles with actual warships depicted on them. Mark explains, "This led me to thinking about the relationship between the two. How discouraging it is when 'worship' begets 'warships.'"

History

Warship debuted two songs "Toil" and "Wounded Paw" available on their Myspace, shorty after opening the page. The band has finished recording their debut release with producer Andrew Schneider

Andrew Schneider

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 in a New York studio. The album, entitled Supply and Depend

Supply and Depend

Supply and Depend is the first full-length release by Warship, the band founded by Fran Mark and Rob Lauritsen, formerly of the now defunct From Autumn to Ashes. It was released on November 4, 2008 on Vagrant Records and features 10 tracks the band recorded with producer Andrew Schneider over the...

, was confirmed for release on Vagrant Records

Vagrant Records

Vagrant Records is an indie rock label based in Los Angeles, California and is home to such artists as The Hold Steady, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Active Child, PJ Harvey, Reptar, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thrice, James Vincent McMorrow, Placebo, and many...

 on November 4, 2008. A tracklisting, album art, and information on the album can be viewed on the Vagrant Records website.

On June 26, the band announced its North American tour which would run from August 20 (Orlando

Orlando, Florida

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, FL

Florida

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) until September 14 (Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania

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). Warship played with Reggie and the Full Effect

Reggie and the Full Effect

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 with Francis Mark on Vocals, Rob Lauritsen on Guitar, Darren Simoes of The Bled

The Bled

The Bled is a hardcore band from Tucson, Arizona. The group formed in 2001, originally under the name "The Radiation Defiance Theory", but changed it because of its length...

 on Bass, and friend Greg March on drums.

On March 10, 2009 lead singer and drummer Francis Mark announced that his collaboration with Rob Lauritsen had come to an end, and stated that Warship was now a trio : "Two weeks before the tour started my collaborative efforts with Rob Lauritson came to a grinding halt and in the short time I reinvented Warship as a trio with Tom Tierney on guitar and Sean Auer on bass." Rob Lauritsen is no longer a studio or touring member of the band.

Francis Mark also announced on that same day that he was working on a European tour :"I'm working on a full tour of Europe that will be announced as soon as all of the details are settled." Indeed this special tour started on May 28, in which the band toured Scotland, England, Netherlands and Germany.

December 30, 2009 Francis Mark put this on the band's official Myspace Blog:

What is happening with Warship?

Hello,

I've gotten a bunch of messages over the last few months with people asking if this is still a band and i apologize for leaving everyone guessing. I didn't know how to respond because when I thought about it I'm not sure if you could call what we did a "band". We did four tours and had four different bass players, three drummers and three guitar players. Rob and I went into the studio and recorded a full length having never played a show and we hoped to fill out the rest of the band after the fact but that never fell into place. We were lucky and grateful to play with so many awesome musicians but it was also stressful and unstable wondering what the cast was going to be as tours approached.

So many things kept working against us. Then some tours came up which Rob could not do and I stubbornly expected him to let all other things in his life fall by the wayside to try to keep Warship on track. Of course this was unreasonable and nearly ended our friendship altogether. With 50% of the creative force of Warship no longer involved I tried to keep it going until summer 09, when I returned from an extremely challenging tour of Europe and my father was in a near fatal motorcycle accident. I spent a lot of time in New York after that with my family and didn't think much about music for a little while.

I'll try to keep this short because I know most are only interested in a yes or no answer as to whether or not Warship is still a band.

A band? No. We will probably never be an active touring band again.

Will we ever make music again? Who knows. I love recording. I would stay in the studio recording new things all year if someone would fund it. Never say never, but don't hold your breath either. Whatever happens, Supply and Depend is something I'm glad we did and proud to have been a part of. At least you'll have that forever.

peace in the new decade,

FM

Final line-up

• Francis Mark
  Francis Mark
  Francis Mark is an American drummer, singer, guitarist, songwriter and artist known as a member of the bands From Autumn To Ashes, Warship, Biology, and Tidal Arms...
  
   – lead vocals, drums (2008–2009)
• Tom Tierney – guitar (2009)
• Sean Auer – bass (2009)

Former members

• Rob Lauritsen – guitar, bass (2008–2009)
• Darren Simoes – bass (2008)
• Greg March – drums (2008)

Discography

Year	Title	Label
November 4, 2008	Supply and Depend Supply and Depend Supply and Depend is the first full-length release by Warship, the band founded by Fran Mark and Rob Lauritsen, formerly of the now defunct From Autumn to Ashes. It was released on November 4, 2008 on Vagrant Records and features 10 tracks the band recorded with producer Andrew Schneider over the...	Vagrant Records Vagrant Records Vagrant Records is an indie rock label based in Los Angeles, California and is home to such artists as The Hold Steady, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Active Child, PJ Harvey, Reptar, School of Seven Bells, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Thrice, James Vincent McMorrow, Placebo, and many...

External links

• Warship interview on Rockmidgets.com