January 1978

After studying Greek Mythology in 9th grade, Dan Lorenzo picks the name Hades for his band.

March 1978

Hades with Paul Smith on vocals and Dan on guitar start playing shows in Paramus, NJ. They covered songs by Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, KISS, The  Knack and Ted Nugent.

1982

Hades open for Twisted Sister at The Soap Factory. They also record and release Deliver Us From Evil a 72 featuring the songs Girls Will Be Girls and Social Disease. T. Coombs is on drums.

1983

Hades starts playing NJ and NY clubs like The Union Jack, The Cuckoo's Nest and Club 516 in Old Bridge. After playing Club 516 a number of times  the legendary Old Bridge Militia welcomed Hades into their fold with open arms. They began asking them to play Metal Joe's basement where Hades would jam on Priest, Maiden, Saxon and Motorhead covers,  (plus some early originals like Gloomy Sunday and Rogue's March) until 5 in the morning. This was not a club mind you. It was literally Metal Joe's basement! Says Dan Lorenzo, "When Joe first approached me about playing there I thought it sounded stupid." But Joe had a convincing way about him. He told Dan, "If Metallica and Anthrax could do it, so could you!" Looking back Dan  had this to say, "The basement gigs were always great. Tons of food, good pay and the most enthusiastic fans this side of Europe". I think the Old Bridge Militia forced Johnny Z to put Hades on his "Born To Metalize" compilation. Johnny basically left us with a bunch of unkept promises. We were the only band that did not rerecord their songs for the comp. Bassist Lou Ciarlo, Johnny  and I flew up to Rochester to remix our two songs (at the studio where Metallica's Kill Em All was done). We slept on the floor and heard ghosts all night. What a start!

December 1982

After playing covers for the past three years in NY & NJ clubs, Hades, (Dan, Paul and Tom) release a 72 with two originals, Girls Will Be Girls and Social Disease.

1983 - 1984

Hades make two compilation appearances on Metal Blade's Metal Massacre VI and Megaforce's Born To Metalize.

1985

Tecchio, LePage and Schulman join the ranks.

1986

The Cross/Widow's Mite 45 is released.

1987

The band signs to Torrid Records and their debut album Resisting Success is released.

1988

If At First You Don't Succeed is released featuring the debut of new lead guitarist Ed Fuhrman.

1989

Hades tours Europe in May & June in very out-of-the-way venues-The stress begins to mount... After playing for a month throughout four different countries, the band breaks up.

1989

Alan Tecchio joins Texas techno-metalheads Watchtower and flys back to Europe to record vocals on Tower's second cd Control and Resistance.

1989

Dan starts Non Fiction and releases their debut Green EP.

1990

Watchtower play extensively throughout 1990 in their homestate of Texas and even do a few shows in NY/NJ thanks to the booking talents of Dan Lorenzo. Tower tours Europe with Coroner and Alan ends up quitting the band after songwriting ground to a halt due in part, to guitarist Ron Jarzombek's hand affliction. Around the same time Alan was  given the opportunity to work with Lorenzo again in Non Fiction. He moves back to New Jersey and soon after, they record and release their second cd Preface.
 

1991

Hades records a live cd called Live On Location at a successful reunion show.

1992

Non Fiction's In The Know is released on I.R.S. Records.

1993

Non Fiction tours the US and Europe with Overkill.

1994

Non Fiction breaks up up after recording It's A Wonderful Lie.

1995

Hades record and release a reunion record entitled Exist To Resist.

1998

Hades regroups with new drummer Dave Lescinsky, records SaviorSelf and films video for Active Contrition.

1999

SaviorSelf released in January with videos for the songs Y2K and Active Contrition. Hades play their first show in four years to a capacity crowd in their homestate of New Jersey. The Downside is recorded in September & October.

2000

The Downside released. Hades releases the video for Ground Zero N.Y.C. plus a full length home video. Hades official website is also launched - www.hadesusa.com.

2000 March

Original bassist Jimmy Schulman rejoins Hades.

2000 Aug.

Drummer Ron Lipnicki joins the group.

2001

DamNation is recorded in February and released on April 30th in Europe and June 5th in America. The first 3,000 copies released in Europe have a limited edition double CD containing the Hades home video " Inside the Metal".

2004

Hades signs a deal with Mausoleum Records to re-release the first two Hades albums, Resisting Success and It At First You Don’t Succeed, as well as Live On Location, in one package. It will include extensive liner notes, photos and a to-be-announced bonus track that will be recorded this year.