It all started when two friends Roger Gordon ( Drummer) and Ryan Ramdin (Guitarist), graduated from high school and could finally pursue their dreams of playing in a rock band. They hooked up with Roger Degoo (Vocalist) who just left his former band LIB/PTS and was thinking of putting together a band of their own. The guys then asked Kurt Kerrett, a friend of teirs, to take on the bass guitar duties. The only problem was the guys could not play their instruments properly so they began to practice in earnest. The Flotsam and Jetsam that finally became Brutus was floating around socializing, lisening to music, learning to play their instruments for about a year before they actually came together and give birth to Brutus on the 6th of September 1998. So without any experience or musical knowledge, four friends got together learnt a few cords and...Brutus was born.

The band decided to name itself Brutus because the word, describes their heavy stripped-down style but the history significance of the word was another reason why they chose the name. Brutus made its live debute on December 20th, 1998, playing as a supporting act to PTS (Pearls to Swine) the only other ROCK/METAL band that existed on a "Green" Guyana rock scene. The band played a few more gigs that took them into early 1999 then decided to spend the remainder of '99 rehearsing and composing songs. By early 2000, Brutus was the lone metal band on the local scene but not without changes, a fifth member Mike Lagan had joined the outfit and he took over the bass duties from Kurt who promptly switched to guitar, is real love. The band continued to rock Georgetown with their live proformance.

On April 2000, the band redorded its first demo album, "Poisoned",which composed of seven songs. After a year the local scene grown appreciably. Brutus ended th eyear at a National Street Fair called "Main Street Lime" but destiny had other plans and more changes were to follow. Ryan was asked to step down for lack of interest; Mike Lagan disappeared after a while and was replaced by Trevor, a friend of the band, while Paul Bonar, former PTS member and leader of Tech XXI, offered to perform second guitar duties. Brutus played a few more gigs but soon they were with out a bassist and a second guitarist. Soon Rory was drafted in, who saw the guys played at Main Street Lime. despite th efact that Rory had never played the instrument before, he earnt all the Brutus songs in a short time. He made his debut at Subway on August 25th, 2001. It was evident that Brutus had found their permanent bass man.

Brutus remained as a foursome overcoming all adversity and played in Berbice, West Coast Dermerara and Side Walk Cafe and Jazz Club. On November 30th, 2002, the band recorded their first ever live performance at Side Walk called, "Trippin' at the side". this recording paved the way for the first ever video for the band. The video called "Insanity". On February 27th, 2004, "Trippin' at the side" was finally released.