Sorcerers (alternatively credited as Samurai Sorcerers) is a Grunge and Nu Metal band from Daly City, California.

It is debated in their musical resume and history after Eddie left the band whether or not, Sorcerers became "Renegade" Patrick Lew's solo musician project.

The Sorcerers current members are guitarist/songwriter "Renegade" Patrick Lew and drummer Dave Arceo. The local garage band has changed its roster of musicians since 2005. The band's guitarist Eddie Blackburn departed in 2005 following the publishing of their studio album "Blizzard of Sound" to be replaced by guitarist Mark Hawkins for the "Renegade" version of the Sorcerers on their third album "Revenge." Eddie and bassist Shawn Blacharski rejoined the Sorcerers for a studio recording session for a new studio album, but for one night only to work with other projects.

Early Years:
The musicians in the band all went to various music schools to learn musical instruments (both Patrick and Eddie learned electric guitar at a guitar store solo) and playing music. They also went to the same school and department of education together in San Francisco, called Wallenberg High School.

There are many rumors how the musicians and the musical group in the Daly City music scene were established, including the band's name "Samurai Sorcerers." There's been several debated stories regarding the actual origin of the Sorcerers garage band. Some, including the Sorcerers original bassist and alumni Mayumi, claim the name came from Patrick and Mayumi (the only Asian musicians playing music in the band at the time) to show pride in their Asian pop culture such as music, comic books and video games. The band themselves claim they chosen the name randomly. A long standing rumor is that band was named when Patrick went to a Chinatown VCD store to purchase "bootleg" video discs of Japanese pornography although there is no evidence of this ever happening except a few resources and news articles published on independent music media on the Internet.

As a pre-teen, Patrick Lew found himself an outcast going to music school to get musical education on playing classical musical instruments such as violin and piano. He also also played music (as a classical musician) in a few music school department orchestras. He was an outcast simply for enjoying music and professional wrestling and being a standout artist at school. Though never into classical music, his parents and school encouraged him to take classical music academy, he was always into Grunge music such as bands Silverchair, Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins. He also enjoyed various forms of Heavy Metal music in the local music scene and Metal bands and musicians he watched play music for a show at the Ozzfest music festival. He also had an open ear for electronic and computer music, which definitely influenced his later musical work, and is one of the reasons for the band's rise to fame locally because the Sorcerers were often making their band/music websites on the Internet.

Patrick went to Wallenberg High School, where he met Eddie Blackburn. Eddie gotten into music and playing electric guitar because of his family associates being musicians and having a hobby in music themselves. Patrick asked Eddie if he wanted to start a band with him, and accepted. Patrick brought his friend Mayumi to join the musical project on bass guitar, and created the early version of the band. Originally, they used a drum machine as the instrument for the band's music which Eddie purchased at a guitar store since they had no drummer. In 2002, the Sorcerers was born.

Though Mayumi wasn't in the band for long, the Sorcerers' 4-track demo/mixtape, entitled "Live! Like a Garage Band!" was recorded with her but soon after she left the Samurai Sorcerers to focus on education and college/university. She was however, influential for the Sorcerers recording one of their well-known songs in their musical resume, "Tokyo Pop Princess." Which was essentially about Patrick and Mayumi going to an independent record store called Amoeba Music to see Japanese pop singer Nami Tamaki live for a free concert at the record shop. Eventually, Patrick and Mayumi met the young and famous Japanese girl after the show and got their merchandise autographed from her. Eddie suggested his best friend he knew from Wallenberg High School (whom also knew Patrick) named Shawn Blacharski replace Mayumi on bass guitar. Lew stated that, Blacharski was one of the best bass players he'd knew in the local music scene and tried to emulate his idol Les Claypool from the band Primus and bass guitar virtuoso Billy Sheenan.

The band continued to play live shows locally in Daly City and San Francisco, but their mane attraction was on the Internet through their various band/music profiles were being published such as MySpace.com. The attention which was brought on the Sorcerers website for their band & music eventually led a small record company called Statue Records to sign the Sorcerers.

Psychotic Love:
"Psychotic Love" their first studio recording and album, was released in 2003 on Statue Records. The album fared poorly in the independent music scene/industry at the time of its publishing, although it did earn better audiences steadily over time due to touring and playing live music events locally. It wasn't until the studio and concert version of their song "Tokyo Pop Princess" became associated on Internet radio and became an MP3 file download on their band/music website when they got their music promoted to the conventions of the local music scene which helped bring the Sorcerers to local (and online) rock stardom. They also received a small acting role in the 2004 theatrical school department playwright, "Picking" which gave the band some of their early successes.

The album "Psychotic Love" was known musically for poppy boy/girl love songs fueled with angst-filled lyrics with Patrick's crunchy guitars and Eddie and Shawn's virtuoso talents on their musical instruments which included Eddie's melodic guitar solos showered onto Patrick's bare bones guitar arrangement. This was essential to the Sorcerers musical sound. Improvisation was also a key element to Patrick, Eddie and Shawn's musical instruments when they played their music.

Blizzard of Sound and Controversy:
Patrick soon graduated from high school and went to community college at City College of San Francisco.

In late 2004, the Sorcerers found major local success as touring and studio musicians. On October 23, 2004, the Sorcerers went to the recording studio to record their follow-up album "Blizzard of Sound." However, the album would be shelved from publishing in the local music scene and through the Internet until May 2005. Resources said that, the Sorcerers were fighting with their record company Statue Records over an unauthorized recording published called "Tokyo Pop Princess" without receiving any royalties from the record. Patrick and Eddie claimed, the master tapes from the studio were stolen and were used for the music on that unauthorized bootleg album of Sorcerers' music. The next controversy wouldn't be with Statue, but with their two concerts at City College of San Francisco sponsored by the Band Originals college music club.

In December of 2004, the Sorcerers were supposed to perform at the Ori-Wave college music festival in support of the "Blizzard of Sound" album. However, promoter Roland Mak told the band they weren't needed for the concert since the local bands from the community college were already booked for the college music event & festival. Patrick was supposedly misused as an usher for the show instead and out of frustration, threw concert programs at an Asian couple who berated Patrick at the festival. In anger, the band handed out flyers instead and subsequently left the theater.

Along with this episode, controversies involving the band member's began to arise. Lew in public became exploited for rumors of drug use, depression and an erratic love life with girls he met on the Internet through social-networking websites such as Findapix.com. In addition, a "record shop" flea market at City College of San Francisco selling used bargain CDs, and lambasted Patrick Lew for allegedly paying for his merchandise with a "fake" credit card by putting up a sign in public. Patrick out of anger, threatened the merchant retailer for posting that flyer. Eventually as of 2007, which Patrick still attends the community college, the flea market is no longer selling their "record shop" at the college.

In the Studio:
Nearly 1 year since recording the album, "Blizzard of Sound" was finally published and sold on the Sorcerers band & music webpage on the Internet as they no longer were on Statue Records. The album continued the musical formula that made "Psychotic Love" a musical resume and history beginning for the Sorcerers. The album however despite being widely anticipated from fan circles, "Blizzard of Sound" earned mixed reviews from critics and fans. In May of 2005, endorsing musical instruments from Best Buy and Guitar Center stores, the Sorcerers entered the recording studio to record their "tentative" third studio album. They recruited Patrick's community college friends Zack Huang (keyboards) and Dave Arceo (drums). They began recording demo versions of the music and jammed in the recording studio on occasions.

Patrick, Zack and Dave had a different musical concept than Eddie and Shawn did in the Sorcerers. Mostly their hobbies in computer music softwares. In the middle of 2005, there were rumors of tensions in the Sorcerers band with Patrick and Zack favoring computer instruments and electronic keyboards over the rock & roll musical instruments that made the Sorcerers famous. In an interview in August 2005, Patrick said Eddie and Shawn decided to leave the band on good terms to play music in other projects and musical outlets. However it was said that, Patrick had a "falling out" with Eddie over the publishing of the studio album "Blizzard of Sound" and "musical differences" such as the usage of computers and MIDI keyboards over electric guitars and drums (typical rock instruments) that signaled their departure.

Revenge:
With Eddie's absence, Samurai Sorcerers began a local audition in 2005 for a new guitarist at various guitar stores and a "musicians wanted" advertisement on Craigslist.org called, "Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is." All musicians who auditioned had to sign contracts and documents to play music in the revised Sorcerers garage band by making a long term musical resume and history by being a musician playing music in that band. Only three guitarists auditioned, and an African-American punk musician named Mark Hawkins got the job as the replacement. As he Hawkins became the Sorcerers new guitarist, Patrick and Zack built a home music/recording studio at Patrick's house and called it Crocker-Amazon Music Studios.

The revised Sorcerers headed to the music workshop for nightly jam sessions to transcribe new music for a new studio album. However, Mark's intentions for the Sorcerers were never realized and was out of the revised Sorcerers musical group after 2 months due to Patrick and Zack's difficulties with Mark in the recording studio. The band laid dormant for nearly a year.

In early 2006, the Sorcerers became known as Band of Asians. They didn't want to be known as Samurai Sorcerers because in their musical resume and history textbook proves, the Sorcerers evolved and were revised from their phase as a high school garage band of musicians. Also, changes in sound were reasons for the musical resume revisions of the Sorcerers. No longer using the typical guitars, bass and drums as musical instruments. They now relied on electronic instruments such as the computer, turntables and keyboards. Zack said in an interview, that the future is in electronic music and it was boring to just play in a rock band with musicians and typical rock instruments. This concluded with a few shows at Skyline College and Serramonte Shopping Mall.

They spent most of the year recording the studio album "Revenge" in various recording studios in the SF Bay using Patrick's canceled Bank of America credit card. They recorded up to 22 songs during the sessions for the "Revenge" album. Around this time, Zack left the revised band known as Band of Asians to pursue a film career. Patrick and Dave finished the recording of the "Revenge" studio album on their own at Bank Studios. The album is scheduled to be release around November 2006 as the band signed a contract and document with online record company for independent musicians, CDBaby.com.