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What's Left Remains was formed in December 2006 by school friends Michael Reynolds, Sean Green and Daniel Clark. After recruiting a number of drummers, they finally settled on Ryan Wallace, a 12 year-old jazz-trained drummer from their secondary school. Despite their average age of 14 years old, the band set to work writing and rehearsing, often rehearsing four times a week, swiftly writing around 12 songs under the name Heal. By April of 2007, the band were ready to record some demos before gigging, and so, with the help of local engineer James Horwood and ex-Ambervoid guitarist Scooby, recorded their first 4-track demo . The demo helped them land gigs in their local area, with their first gig being attended by some 300 people. Their popularity in the local area attracted some attention from bands in the inner London area, which prompted them to begin playing clubs and bars, most of which they were thrown out of for being too young right after the show! Unfortunately, the band were recognized as sharing a name with another group, so they changed their name to What's Left Remains. In keeping with this name change, the band began to refine their style, dropping many of their earlier nu-metal influences and exchanging sing-a-long choruses for jackhammer riffs and subtle guitar trickery from classically-trained Sean. After an intensive writing process, which involved Sean bringing in an exhaustive number of riffs that were added to by Ryan and Dan, and matched by Michael's e