Until December was a San Francisco

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-based rock band active in the early to late 1980s. The band released four 12" singles in 1985 on 415 Records / CBS. A self-titled album Until December was released in 1986 by 415 Records

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 / CBS

Columbia Records

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, which contained their biggest hit "Heaven". Other notable songs performed by Until December include their song "Until December", "Live Alone In Shame" (B-Side to the 12" of "Until December - The Berlin Mix") and a cover of the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. They toured the U.S. as a headliner and with seminal 80's bands such as New Order

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, Gene Loves Jezebel

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, and Specimen

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. The band was especially popular in the leather subculture

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.

Member Adam Sherburne

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 later formed the band Consolidated

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 in the 1990s. Bryan Weisberg

Bryan Weisberg

Bryan Weisberg is the former bassist for Until December, a San Francisco-based rock band active in the early 1980s. The band released four 12" singles in 1985 on 415 Records / CBS. A self-titled album Until December was released in 1986 by 415 Records / CBS, which contained their biggest hit "Heaven"...

later formed Maximillion's Motorcycle Club. Greg(Auggie)Senzer former drummer owns and operates a motorcycle customizing shop and plays with several bay area bands.

Track listing for "Until December"

• No Gift Refused - 4:19
• Heaven - 4:19
• Sequence Line - 3:46
• Mirrors - 3:49
• Call Me - 3:33
• Forgive and Still Forget - 4:24
• Free Again - 4:46
• Zodiac Drum Solo - 1:18
• Slave - 4:51
• Geisha - 6:26