Question: Which band was formed first, Stabbing Westward or The Heavy?

Context articles: Christopher Hall (musician)
The Heavy (band)
Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward (album)
The Essential Stabbing Westward
What Do I Have to Do? (Stabbing Westward song)
Darkest Days
The Dreaming (US band)
Save Yourself (song)
Ungod

Christopher Hall is an American musician best known as a founding member and vocalist for the band Stabbing Westward.
 Hall met keyboardist Walter Flakus in 1984 and formed the industrial rock band in Chicago.
 After the breakup of Stabbing Westward in 2002, Hall founded a new band, The Dreaming in 2001.
The Heavy are a British rock band from Bath, Somerset, England, formed in 2007 and signed to Ninja Tune imprint Counter Records and the Bad Son Recording Company.
 The band consists of Kelvin Swaby (vocals), Dan Taylor (guitar), Spencer Page (bass guitar) and Chris Ellul (drums).
 They have released four albums as well as a wide array of singles.
 Their music has been widely used in media, with their 2009 single "How You Like Me Now?
" being used the most and becoming the band's signature song.
Stabbing Westward is an American industrial rock band.
 Christopher Hall and Walter Flakus formed the band in 1986 in Macomb, Illinois, but did not release their first studio album until eight years later.
 The band released three more studio albums before announcing a dissolution on February 9, 2002.
 Stabbing Westward reunited in 2016 to celebrate their 30th anniversary together, and will play more shows in 2017.
Stabbing Westward is the self-titled fourth and final studio album by the American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward.
 It is their first and only album to be produced by Ed Buller and released on Koch Records.
 The album was released on May 22, 2001, and the band later broke up on February 9, 2002.
 The album shows a change in direction for the band.
 The album's songs are much less heavy and aggressive, while the industrial focus has given way to a more melodic sound.
 Before the album was released, Chris Hall (vocals) said in an interview that Stabbing Westward wrote great pop-rock songs, but the band had always ended up making them ugly by adding effects and screaming, etc.
 On this album, he claimed, they decided to write what they wanted, regardless of fan expectation.
The Essential Stabbing Westward is a compilation album by the American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward released on Sony Music as part of their "Essential" series.
 The album was released on April 1, 2003, a year after the band broke up on February 9, 2002.
 It features 14 remastered tracks: 12 from their three albums released in the 1990s, and two from movie soundtracks.
"What Do I Have to Do?"
 is a song by American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward.
 The song was released as the first single from the band's 1996 album "Wither Blister Burn & Peel".
 The song is considered the group's first hit and breakout single.
Darkest Days is the third album released on Columbia Records by industrial rock band Stabbing Westward.
 The album was recorded in L.A. in 1997 and released on April 7, 1998.
 Although the album failed to achieve the same level of success as "Wither Blister Burn & Peel", the album received positive reviews and is often considered the band's best album.
 The band was dropped from Columbia Records following this release.
 The track "Save Yourself" reached number 4 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart (their highest-placing single on that chart) and number 20 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart and remains an alternative rock staple.
The Dreaming is an American rock band founded in the Hollywood area in 2001 by Johnny Haro and Christopher Hall, former lead singer of the band Stabbing Westward.
"Save Yourself" is a song by American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward.
 The song was released as the second single from "Darkest Days".
 The track is one of the band's most well known songs.
Ungod is the debut album released in 1994 on Columbia Records by the American industrial rock band Stabbing Westward.
 The album was recorded in six weeks of 1993 in Chiswick, England, and released on February 15, 1994.
 With adequate album sales and touring with the likes of Depeche Mode a second album was warranted, "Wither Blister Burn & Peel".
 The guitar line in the chorus of the song "Ungod" was later used in Filter's song "Hey Man, Nice Shot."
 Stuart Zechman, who was also playing guitar for Filter at the time, took the riff and showed it to Stabbing Westward who ended up using it as well.
 The song "Nothing" appeared in the "Bad Boys" movie starring Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Téa Leoni, but was not featured on the official soundtrack album.
 The song also accompanied the credits of the film "Johnny Mnemonic" and was included on the film's soundtrack, along with the song "Lost".
 "Lost", "Lies" and "Can't Happen Here" were used in the film "Mortal Kombat", but Stabbing Westward refused to include it in the official soundtrack.
 The "Thread Mix" of "Violent Mood Swings" was included in the Clerks soundtrack.