Downthesun was a six-piece music group from Kansas City, Missouri.

The band was formed by bassist Lance "Kuk" Collier and samples operator Nathan Church who were in a band together that opened for Slipknot in mid-1999. This put them in touch with Slipknot's Shawn "Clown" Crahan, who introuced the two to future downthesun members in drummer Danny Spain and co-vocalist SatoneDownthesun, who was once a former Slipknot "Clown Tech". With the further addition of a second co-vocalist in Aaron Peltz and former Ultraspank guitarist Neil Godfrey, the group was formed, referring to themselves as "The Six".

After recording the guitar tracks for their self-titled debut, Godfrey left the band to join first Motograter, and then Lo-Pro with former Ultraspank singer Pete Murray. The band then recruited Bruce Swink to handle the guitar for the band's live shows. Downthesun was briefly signed to London/Sire records before the label foldedDownthesun, leaving the band unsigned for a brief period of time.

They were signed to Roadrunner Records and released their self-titled debut album in 2002. Before the album's release, they shot a video for the song "Medicated", which was aired on MTV2's "Extreme Rock" and Fuse's "Uranium" shows, and can be viewed on YouTube.com. Early 2003, however, saw the band, for reasons unknown, experience a mass exodus of band members, as Aaron Peltz, Satone, Danny Spain, and Bruce Swink all left the band. Kuk and Church soldiered on, however, finding replacements for the departed members, and recording a few demos and playing live shows around the midwest before calling it a day in late 2003. Satone is now in a new band called CDS (Common Diseases Of Swine).

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