prior to forming daughters, vocalist alexis s.f. marshall, guitarist jeremy wabiszczewicz and drummer jon syverson played in the american grindcore band, as the sun sets. following its disbandment, marshall, wabiszczewicz and syverson went on to form daughters along with guitarist nicholas andrew sadler and bassist pat masterson. as the sun sets' final release, "8949", contained an insert which had a message from the band on it. the message said "...this is as the sun sets' final recording. march 21st, 2002, the sun set for the last time. march 22nd, 2002, we begin anew as daughters". marshall has since revealed that the announcement in "8949" was a mistake and it was not meant to be put into the ep's liner notes, since he saw daughters as a new band and he didn't want people to see daughters as a continuation of as the sun sets.