Saosin started off as the brainchild of two musicians; Justin Shekoski, a former guitarist in As Hope Dies, and Beau Burchell. They planned to be called "The Gift", but there was another band by that name. They recorded an instrumental demo, with Justin and Beau, and MIDI drums. The first song on this demo was called You're No Angel and had Beau Burchell on vocals. They were trying to find a vocalist and they asked Keith Goodwin from the band Days Away. He said, "I know this guy Anthony". They sent him 2 instrumentals and he recorded vocals over them. The two songs became known as Seven Years and Translating the Name, the first two tracks on the Translating the Name EP. Anthony flew in from Philadelphia and stayed for five days, and recorded the vocals to the EP in about 4 nights.

Translating the Name, was an instant success, especially through online sources. The band was actually approached by numerous record companies before playing their first show due to the soaring popularity of the EP. However, the band's vocalist Anthony Green left after the release of their first EP and later formed the band Circa Survive. Anthony was very homesick and said he was missing his family. He says he felt bad for leaving his friends in a tough situation without a singer, but he "would have gone crazy had he stayed any longer". A public, nationwide audition then took place. Beau Burchell has stated in interviews that, "The main things that we are looking for now, is someone that does not do drugs, someone who can actually sing live, and someone who is good looking and fun to get along with. Oh, and they have to have a really dry sense of humor, because the rest of us do."^[1] After the public audition process and several guest vocalists on demos, Cove Reber, previously the vocalist of the band Mormon In The Middle and Stamp Out Detroit, was announced as their new permanent lead singer and is an adept guitar player.

Cove sent in his demo tape, which was an acoustic demo with "Mookie's Last Christmas" (this demo has leaked to the internet) and is widely speculated to have included a few songs from Translating the Name, which also includes Seven Years and 3rd Measurement in C. When Beau first heard the demo, he thought it was Anthony pulling a trick on them. He said he wanted someone like Anthony but "not to bring in someone that sounded like Creed." According to Beau, "Gabe from Midtown tried to sing a couple songs. Jason Gleason was asked to come out and do it, but he had his own thing going on." Beau said "I would put them in the studio and pull up the ProTools session of Translating the Name, and would mute all of Anthony's vocals and just let the guys sing. And dudes would come in and sound like total Spinal Tap, just so bad. So then I would have to spend about two hours trying to find a nice way to get the guy to just leave, so you would basically sit there and waste your night.". Even through all of this, Saosin said they would have went on with Beau, Justin, and Chris all doing vocals because they were not going to give up.

Bassist Zach Kennedy also parted from the band early on, leaving because of personal issues and to focus on his art career. He went on to play bass in Ashlee Simpson's band, but left her band in 2005. He was replaced in Saosin with Chris Sorenson.

During 2005, the band toured the United States and became part of the Warped Tour. A video to the song "Bury Your Head" recorded during their tours has also been shown on Fuse. The band is currently signed to Capitol Records, and released their full-length debut on September 26, 2006 which sold over 35,000 copies in its first week. On the show "Steven's Untitled Rock Show" that airs on fuse, Justin corrected Steven saying "80,000". Although this statistic hasn't been confirmed. The record saw a change to a softer tone as the band tried to distance themselves from other artists of the same genre.^[2] They were formerly on their own indie record label Death Do Us Part where they released their first EP.

Recently Saosin toured on international Taste of Chaos tour, which Cove Reber and Justin Shekoski had filled in for Fred Maschirino's vocal duties and guitar for Taking Back Sunday, and toured the US with Bleeding Through and Senses Fail. They also participated on the North American 2007 Taste of Chaos tour, headlined by The Used featuring bands: 30 Seconds to Mars, Aiden, Evaline, Senses Fail, and Chiodos.

Early May Saosin headed down-under to Australia to perform in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. The band was supported by A Static Lullaby and featured other Australian local bands including Brisbane's Amity and Sydney's Fifty Sixx.

In the summer of 2007, they were part of the Projekt Revolution tour, headlined by Linkin Park. Other appearances include Placebo and My Chemical Romance.

In a recent interview posted on their website, bassist Chris and vocalist Cove said that they have begun writing their new records while touring with the taste of chaos.

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Theater of the Living Arts, November 3rd 2007

This was probably one of the best concerts I've ever been to, it sounded great, and the bands were all amazing. The TLA is a great venue, worth traveling to, and is right in the middle of South St providing much to do before and afterwards.

-Envy on the Coast

I began listening to them when they released their 5 song demo, and I knew they had a bright future. With their new cd 'Sugar Skulls' they show they have a bright future in rock today. The five piece stretches their instrumentation out over guitars, pianos and synths adding layer after of layer to their songs. Unlike other bands, they pull it off amazingly well for such a young band. The only hiccup in the set was a busted cable, but otherwise flawless.

-Alexisonfire

The fact they were the second band surprised me greatly, but being able to see them sooner was a great plus. The Canadian group is a refreshing view on rock bands today. While many others play with tons of effects and musical oddities, AOF gets straight to the point with straight up rock tunes. They stuck to more of their new tunes off of 'Crisis' as opposed to play nothing from 'Watch Out!' A very solid performance and a band picking up alot of steam in the US as more and more people discover them.

-Norma Jean

This was my first time being able to see this amazing band, who shows being Christian and playing hardcore music is still cool. From the first song they tore you face off and didn't stop until the end. They covered all their albums and played to the crowds favorites, erupting the TLA into a mosh haven.

-Saosin

This was their first major headlining tour, and they took every advantage possible. The set list was perfectly constructed, flowing form song to song cleanly. This was the night they filmed for their new dvd dropping early next year, and it will have plenty of perks. Newly orchestrated intros for 'Voices' were used as well as a ballad version of '3rd Measurement in C'. Calls for 'Show Me Your Bootyhole' went unanswered, but no one went home disappointed. This young band is ready to breakout as the new face of a rock movement bursting with young talent.