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Fungus Amongus is the debut studio album by American rock band Incubus, released November 1, 1995, on Stopuglynailfungus Music on Chillum, Incubus' own independent label. It was later re-released under Epic/Immortal on November 7, 2000, after popular demand. Incubus formed in 1991, while its members were still in high school, and recorded several demos over the next few years. In 2017, drummer José Pasillas described Fungus Amongus as "our first concerted effort at putting a group of songs together on an LP". However, guitarist Mike Einziger has said that he views it as a compilation of demos they had recorded while in high school, rather than as a cohesive studio album. He stated in 2017, "making recordings back then was really challenging, especially for a bunch of high school kids. We didn't have access to anything. We didn't have money to make recordings. We didn't have a studio. We didn't have any equipment. We didn't know how to use the equipment. But we slowly began to meet certain people. We ended up working with a producer who owned a recording studio." Einziger also claimed in 2011 that the writing process was different to later records, since the band hadn't done any touring yet at that time. He said, "it's definitely different when you're in kind of a closed environment and writing music for your friends, which is what I think we were doing in our pre-S.C.I.E.N.C.E. days." Incubus had trouble attracting the interest of major labels during their early years, whi
