Touted as 'the next big thing' by the Rock press, Jacksonville, Florida's COLD previously went under the title of a German manufacturing company GRUNDIG. The band, with original guitarist Matt Laughlan, was founded in 1985 but only got around to their debut gig some five years later and by 1992 had relocated to Atlanta, Georgia substituting Laughlan for Kelley Hayes. 16 track demos had been recorded whilst in Atlanta but tired of the music scene there GRUNDIG packed their bags and headed back to Florida in 1995.

GRUNDIG had become friends with LIMP BIZKIT's Fred Durst early on in their career. Indeed, Durst was visiting GRUNDIG rehearsals and gigs many years before LIMP BIZKIT was formed. Recording further demos in Durst's house the band caught the attention of producer Ross Robinson and the band were soon in California recording their debut album for A&M Records subsidiary Flip. However, upon discovery the name GRUNDIG cannot be used LIMP BIZKIT guitarist Wes Borland suggested the title COLD.

COLD toured with both LIMP BIZKIT and KORN in 1997 issuing the album the following year. Further gigs with DEFTONES, ORGY and SOULFLY ensued. The video for the 1998 single 'Give' includes KORN's Jonathon Davis in a cameo role.

Following recording for the Chris Vrenna / Adam Kasper produced second album 'Thirteen Ways To Bleed On Stage' the band re-jigged itself with vocalist Scooter Ward dispensing with guitar and six stringer Terry Balsamo being added to the ranks. COLD's 2002 album, 'Year Of The Spider' produced by Howard Benson, would see guest session appearances from NONPOINT singer Elias Soriano and DOLLSHEAD's Sierra Swan. The initial 300,000 copies of the album included an unaccredited track in ''Gone Away' whilst a second run of the album added an early demo 'Check Please' featuring LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst.

COLD was scheduled to perform as part of the 2003 'Lollapalooza' roving festival but would pull out before the tour got underway. The band soon got back into gear, announcing August US co-headline shows as part of an adventurous new concept blending Rock n' Roll with computer games. The 'Nintendo Fusion' tour allied the band with EVANESCENCE, REVIS, CAUTERIZE and FINGER ELEVEN. In November Terry Balsamo was drawn into the ranks of EVANESCENCE when their founder member Ben Moody went AWOL. He would debut with the band with a performance at the American Music Awards ceremony prior to December US tour dates.

With the announcement in January of 2004 that Balsamo's stay in EVANESCENCE was being made permanent atop revelations that Scooter Ward was in a rehabilitation programme it seemed the future for COLD was a bleak one. However, reports of COLD's demise following quotes from Amy Lee of EVANESCENCE were swiftly denied by the band. Indeed, in February ex-DARWIN'S WAITING ROOM guitarist Eddie Rendini joined the fold. The band parted ways with Geffen Records in March. The tribulation continued for the band as, within weeks, guitarist Kelly Hayes left the fold to join Jacksonville, Florida modern Rock combo ALLELE in union with erstwhile OTEP guitarist Lane Maverick, being temporarily replaced by Matt Laughran, formerly of the pre-COLD outfit GRUNDIG.

Scooter Ward made time to duet with singer Sierra Swan on her Atlantic album 'Queen Of The Valley Girls', the COLD frontman featuring on the track 'You Got A Way'. Meantime, COLD themselves had the previously unreleased acoustic take on 'End Of The World' included on the 'Resident Evil: Apocalypse' movie soundtrack. By July the group had signed themselves over to Atlantic Records, entering Long View Farm Studios in North Brookfield, Massachusetts with former UGLY KID JOE guitarist Dave Fortman acting as producer. In mid November Eddie Rendini revealed that he had been fired. In June of 2005 COLD revealed that a proposed album title of 'The Calm That Killed The Storm' had given way to 'A Different Kind Of Pain'. A lead single, 'Happens All The Time', was serviced to radio in early August.

COLD called it quits in February 2006. Former members Scooter Ward and Sam McCandless set THE WITCH as the name of their new project. By October this endeavour has switched name to WHEN NOVEMBER FALLS. By 2008 Ward was fronting THE KILLER AND THE STAR but in July of that year announced that COLD was to reform for a brand new album. Ward's own SonicStar label also issed an album of B sides and rarities.

The group's fifth opus, entitled 'Epic', was scheduled for an early 2010 release via SonicStar Records.