The Class of 98 is an American rock band from Nashville, Tennessee

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History

The Class of 98 was founded by Steve Wilson in 2004, who had moved to the Nashville area in 1998. (The group's members did not graduate from any educational institutions in 1998.) He made home demos before putting together a four-piece influenced by second-wave emo

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 acts such as Braid

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 and Jimmy Eat World

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. The group played locally in Nashville and opened for John Davis

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 of Superdrag

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 and The Juliana Theory

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 over the next two years. They signed with The Militia Group

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 in 2006 and recorded their debut full-length in less than three weeks. It was released under the title Touch This and Die! in 2006, and won comparisons to Jimmy Eat World, Gin Blossoms

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, and Copeland

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. Songs from the album were featured on E!

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 and The WB television programs.

The group went on hiatus in 2007, with Harms going on to play with The Glorious Unseen

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 and Baumhardt with Thousand Foot Krutch

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. The group returned in 2010 with a download-only EP and announced plans for two further EPs.

Members

• Steve Wilson - guitar, vocals
• Nick Baumhardt - guitar
• Colby Pitts - drums
• Ben Harms - bass

Discography

• Touch This and Die! (The Militia Group
  The Militia Group
  -History:The Militia Group was founded in 1998 by Chad Pearson as a booking agency, booking for artists such as Slick Shoes, Craig's Brother, Dogwood, twothirtyeight, Acceptance, and Element 101. Rory Felton and Chad Pearson partnered in 2000 to turn the booking agency into a record company...
  
  , 2006)
• Eye of the Needle EP (Self-released, 2010)
• Heaven LP (TBR January 11, 2011)