"Falling sickness" was also an archaic term for epilepsy.

Falling Sickness
Origin	Riverside, California, USA
Genre(s)	Punk Rock
Years active	1989 – 2000
Label(s)	Hopeless Records
Members
Angel Ieven Gabe Gil Zach Howe Fritz Aragon

Falling Sickness was a Riverside, California based Punk Rock band, consisting of Fritz Aragon (vocals, guitar), Zach Howe (vocals, bass), Gabe Gil (vocals), and Angel Ieven (drums). After six years of being an unsigned band and playing mostly local shows, Falling Sickness were signed to Hopeless Records in 1995. Their debut record Right On Time was released soon after in January of 1996. The record which chronicled the first six years of the band is "about drinking, daydreaming and fucking up; a testament of our youth. After all, when we started [Gabe] was only 17 and Fritz was 14".^[1] Their next, and final, record as a band, Because the World Has Failed Us Both was released in February of 1998 also on Hopeless Records. 'Because the World Has Failed Us Both' is "about our growing up" and focuses more on worldly politics rather than the teenage politics of 'Right On Time'. In 2000, Falling Sickness disbanded. Since then, Fritz and Angel have formed the band Dogs of Ire.

Discography

Albums

• Right On Time (Hopeless Records, 1996)

• Because the World Has Failed Us Both (Hopeless Records, 1998)

Compilations

• Hopelessly Devoted to You (Hopeless Records, 1996)

• Hopelessly Devoted to You Too (Hopeless Records, 1998)

• Take Action: A Punk Rock Sampler (Sub City Records, 1999)

• You Call This Music?! Volume 1 (Geykido Comet Records, 2000)

References

•  Hopeless Records website biography

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