Disintegration Effect  Disintegration Effect is the third studio album by American hard rock band Lo-Pro. It was released on May 14, 2013. The album was a departure from the prior two Lo-Pro albums, while half of the album retained the band's usual melodic hard rock sound, half contained more screamed vocals more reminiscent of members Pete Murray and Neil Godfrey's prior band, Ultraspank. After releasing two nu metal albums as members of Ultraspank, vocalist Pete Murray and guitarist Neil Godfrey formed a new band, Lo-Pro, in 2002. The band released their debut album, which featured a more mainstream, hard rock sound, "Lo-Pro", on Geffen Records, but were dropped from their contract due to poor album sales. The band would spend seven years writing, recording, and re-recording a follow up, "The Beautiful Sounds of Revenge", which reflected upon the negative side of the music industry and the experience of losing their record deal, in 2010, and focused on a more raw sound, with Murray feeling the original release was overproduced due to record label pressure. After its release, the band changed directions and decided to release an acoustic album, although, as recording progressed, the music took more of an electronic sound as well, resulting in a sound so different from past albums that the band opted to release it under a pseudonym, Life On Planet 9, on their album "Bittersweet" in 2011. By 2012, Murray announced that the band would be returning to work under the "Lo-Pro" name again on a third studio album. However, unlike prior albums, where many songs were premiered months and even years before the album's release, Murray stated that the new album would be another shift in directions, and as such, they would not be releasing music much beforehand". Writing sessions first began upon the band being asked if they would hypothetically be open to the prospect of writing a soundtrack for a "post apocalyptic cyborg type movie". The band, unfamiliar with working under the confine of a soundtrack or concept album mentality, decided to write a few songs and see how they felt about it. While the band would ultimately not do the soundtrack, the band would continue to use tracks from the session, "Soulless", "Wasteland", "Obedience", and "We Are The Ones" for "Disintegration Effect", and similar themes throughout the rest of the album's recording process. The band continued to record throughout 2012, although Murray later admitted that progress was slowed due to band members working on other projects, including concurrently working on a second Life On Planet 9 album, and contributing a few tracks to the "Battlefield of the Mind Soundtrack", the latter being a collaborative music project featuring band members of Staind, Megadeth, and Evanescence.