full scale were formed in 1998 in perth as full scale deflection. by 1999, they consisted of ezekiel the ox on lead vocals, nic frey on drums, chris frey on bass guitar, forrester savell on synthesiser, and jimmy tee on guitar. matt crute (aka crutey) soon replaced nic frey on drums. rob kaay replaced chris frey on bass guitar by 2000. they released the album, "symptoms of chaos", on 11 november 2000. the band dropped the word deflection from their name and then moved to melbourne in 2001. despite playing their original songs for some of their shows, they developed new music.