Drawing on over three decades of combined musical exploration and experience, the members of Service Animal came together in the beginning of 2012 to create a positive and uber-creative environment with the goal of making beautiful, haunting and inspiring alternative rock music.

Andrew Bailey (vocals, guitars) and Jordan Cassidy (vocals, bass), having gone through the Seattle music scene trenches in various bands, found that their strong relationship, both personally and professionally, invoked a further need to explore different and exciting ways of writing and producing music together. Working together in The Shining Skulls since 2009, they used the experience and knowledge to start crafting what they thought to be their "best practices" to make new music that touched upon the old influences and sought to find something new. Having strong vocal skills and widely varying musical influences, as well as a mastery of their chosen weapons, they have begun traveling down the new path easily and have already produced some really great music.