Forest of Tongue was founded during a Long Beach summer when singer-songwriter/guitar-shredder Joel Jasper connected with blitzy drummer Zach Mabry and invented their flavor of thrashy loop rock. Joel Jasper embraced his looping pedal as a tool to fill his punchy melodic songs with layered guitars and keyboards. During performances, Jasper looped the textured elements on the spot alongside the innovative and precisely-percussive drumming of Mabry, developing an impressively large sound for two sonically- experimental teenagers.