Mest is an American rock band originally formed by lead vocalist and guitarist Tony Lovato, bassist Matt Lovato, drummer Nick Gigler, and guitarist Jeremiah Rangel. They broke up in 2006 after eleven years, but temporarily reformed in California in 2008 for a "final tour." Tony released “Not What You Expected” in 2013 and it was announced in 2018 that the classic lineup of Mest, with Tony Lovato, Matt Lovato, Nick Gigler, and Jeremiah Rangel, would be getting back together to track Masquerade.
Mo' Money Mo' 40'z was the first body of music ever released by Mest through Dead End Records in 1998. In 2000, Mest released their debut record, "Wasting Time" through Mavrick Records, which contained 14 tracks, including one of their fanbase's biggest hits, "What's The Dillio?". In 2001, came "Destination Unknown", their second studio record, also released through Mavrick, that many fans believe to be their best work, as the album includes "Cadillac", by far, their biggest hit by a long shot. With it's catchy rhythm and Hip-Hop fusion, Cadillac has pulled in over 1.5 million views on YouTube at the time of this article!
Later, in 2003, came "Mest" the band's self-titled album that had 13 tracks. The album was a slight departure from their usual pop-punk style, however it is still considered a cult classic to this day! A few years went along and in 2005, the band had released "Photographs", their last album before they had broken up in 2006. Many years after the band's reunion, Mest released "Not What You Expected" a mixed-received album, but well-needed from fans, as this was the first album they had released in over 7 years since the break-up. Finally, in 2020, Tony Lavato managed to bring the original line-up back together and soon, Mest released their latest album to this current date, titled "Masquerade".
On April 12, 2024, Mest released a new song called "When We Were Young" featuring Jaret Reddick of Bowling For Soup. At this time the band also announced that their upcoming album will be called Youth and is set to be released May 31, 2024.
In January 2006, the band announced on their MySpace blog that they would break-up following a U.S. tour. The tour ran from late January until early March, with support from Allister and Scary Kids Scaring Kids. The break, like any, was a hard one. The fans were rightfully upset, and the future of the band was uncertain. The break-up was caused by a bad mix of creative differences, members starting families, and other members feeling opposed to touring after so many years. The band stayed apart for 2 years until in 2008, it was announced that the band would be coming back together for a reunion tour! and soon after, they would release their first album since the breakup, as well as a European tour in 2012.
Audio Abuse has contacted Hawaiian Express in regards to the band, and they have offered to officially re-release the album if given permission to do so. Further, they have mentioned in our conversation that they do, in fact still have further information regarding the band on archive that they will try to recover and send us, so stay tuned
Amongst this, 8th Grade Teacher was the first and last piece of music NBF released and would go on to be reuploaded onto YouTube through archive channels and be released onto Spotify and Apple Music through Hawaiian Express, that featured two No Bare Feet classics, '8th Grade Teacher' and 'Our Song' on volumes 1 and 2 of their annual release of "Hawaiian Punk: -Punk Rock from the islands of Hawaii", released in 2007 and 2008
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