Jason O'Toole
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Jason O'Toole (Born in 1969) was the vocalist for the influential New York Hardcore band, Life's Blood. Along with Dave Stein and Sam McPheeters he was a leading organizer of the Albany, NY hardcore scene, self-publishing zines and comics and organizing all-ages hardcore shows through Combined Effort Productions. O'Toole is currently a law enforcement officer and part-owner of a tattoo and piercing studio in metro Atlanta. A devout Catholic, he and his family are active in Knights of Columbus of which he is a Fourth Degree member. He is an editor with Garrison Publishing which produces Lamont Weston Harvey's series of true, historical graphic novels Invisible Soldiers, about African-American, Jewish and other disenfranchised soldiers in WWII.
He is the brother of bassist Adam O'Toole who played with Jason in Factory (with Limp Wrist guitarist Mark Telfian), and Intent, the notorious thrash core fore-runner to Das Oath, as well as the Brown Cuts Neighbors.