In January of 2004, Alex Stangl received an email from a girl that was organizing an Adam Scott CVI high school reunion. She asked if it might be possible for Strobic Axe to reunite for the reunion and play a few songs. After a bit of back and forth between the band members, it was obvious it just wasn't going to happen.
After talking with Strobic Axe lead singer Michael Bell, they both decided it might be cool to get together and record some of the old songs from years ago that didn't make it on the Strobic Axe album Hor Einmal Zu! So for several Sundays, in the dead of a Canadian winter, they got together and recorded 10 songs.
Michael came up with the band name N.O.W. & THE-N. , a combination of his and Alex's seperate band names, NumberOneWorld and The Nation.
