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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Brandon Boyd releases solo album and INCUBUS heads back to the studio

With a career that's spanned almost two decades, six albums, a handful of EP's and DVD's and a Greatest Hits album which has chronicled it all under his belt as lead singer of the multi-platinum selling band Incubus, Brandon Boyd and Epic Records are pleased to announce the July 6th release of Brandon's first solo album entitled, The Wild Trapeze. Fans can purchase a limited edition CD that ships with a personal letter and T-shirt featuring hand drawn artwork by Brandon at www.thewildtrapeze.com. The album is also exclusively available digitally on the iTunes Store.


 "This group of songs was born of a very different process than the many my band and I have been employing for our almost two decades at work now. The Wild Trapeze began as pot induced meanderings on my dusty acoustic guitar while Incubus was off of the road, and has slowly been morphing into things that I originally could never have imagined," says Brandon Boyd. "So much of my identity, both personally and creatively has been attached to and related to Incubus. For better or worse! And I do believe that every person in every corner of the world asks themselves at some point on their ride, 'Who am I...today?' The Wild Trapeze is an exercise in self reliance." 


In keeping with Brandon's vision to make this album his very own and what Brandon calls "Music for Music's Sake", he controlled the making of The Wild Trapeze. Brandon penned every track off the album and performed practically every instrument heard. He designed the album's artwork and co-directed the video for track, "Runaway Train" (available at music.AOL.com today) with esteemed photographer Brantley Gutierrez. When it came to producing the album, Brandon could think of no one better suited for the task than renowned producer, Dave Fridmann (MGMT, The Flaming Lips) and set forth to record the album in Upstate NY over the past few months.
Up next for Brandon Boyd, another Incubus studio album. The quintet that is Incubus (vocalist Brandon Boyd, guitarist Mike Einziger, bassist Ben Kenney, DJ Chris Kilmore and drummer Jose Pasillas) will head back into the studio later this summer to begin writing and recording a new studio album, tentatively scheduled for a 2011 release.

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Saturday, July 3, 2010

[Lost fm.] The Temper Trap Biography

The Temper Trap is an indie rock band which formed in 2005 in Melbourne, Australia. The band consists of Dougy Mandagi (vocals, guitar), Lorenzo Sillitto (guitar, keyboards), Jonathon Aherne (bass) and Toby Dundas (drums).

The Temper Trap’s story begins with Dougy. Born in Indonesia and immersed in an artistic and musical family, with some  rich influences from singing in church choirs with his aunt and uncle and listening to his dad, a country music fan, play guitar. These influences evolved around Dougy, as he moved consistently from different islands in Indonesia to Hawaii and then eventually to Australia. After moving to Australia, Dougy started working as a portrait drawer at $25 a pop; he also sang for loose change in downtown Melbourne.

Dougy eventually ended up working at the same retail store as Toby.  Dougy had thought of starting a band for years and after a few months of boring work hours and finding out Toby was a drummer and a walking musical dictionary, the first band practice began, minus a bass player.  In one of the coincidences that the band have come to rely on, Jonny worked a couple of stores down and was called in.  He had known Dougy for years, back in the busking days when Dougy first arrived in Melbourne. Jonny, the 13 year old dreamer and son of a missionary, wanted to learn some guitar and Dougy helped him out.  A brotherly friendship was formed with some sense of common ground, both drawing life from music and their spiritual upbringings, and unaware of the musical union which would be formed 6 years later.

The three of them came together, practised like crazy and played some shows for a year. One, two skip a few (guitarists), ninety nine Lorenzo. An old school friend of Toby’s, Lorenzo had been dancing around bands and playing guitar from the age of 12.  They bonded over skateboarding, but it didn’t take the 2 teenagers long to start jamming covers and writing primitive songs in the garage. Years down the track and in another perfect twist Lorenzo’s previous band called it a day just as the other tempers second guitarist departed and the band was formed.



The Temper Trap, led by frontman Dougy, have been writing and touring Australia, catching the ears of many. With a series of epic new tracks set for release on their much anticipated debut album, the band has conquered adventurous new territory, building on their rich foundations in a natural progression. Legendary Arctic Monkey’s and Kasabian producer Jim Abiss flew over to Melbourne to be at the helm.

Let's Look Paramore [Alternative Press Review]


Nobody is in a band to be miserable (except maybe the Ramones). So it should come to no surprise that Paramore’s collective effervescent attitude has rubbed off onto a legion of fans stoked by frontwoman Hayley Williams’ unbridled exuberance. Beginning in 2004 in Franklin, Tennessee, the band—Williams, guitarists Josh Farro and Jason Bynum, bassist Jeremy Davis and drummer Zac Farro—began playing together after bonding over a shared appreciation of everything from Sunny Day Real Estate to Jimmy Eat World to Failure. It wasn’t long before their tight pop-punk melodies—coupled with Williams’ vocal prowess—were gaining traction in a scene where only boys with flat-ironed hair need apply. After several rounds of extensive touring, the band were signed by Fueled By Ramen, who issued their debut album, All We Know Is Falling, in 2005.
The success of that record gave the band the chance to upstream to Atlantic Records for their follow-up disc, 2007’s Riot!. Things started to derail a bit when Bynum’s replacement, Hunter Lamb, left the band in the early stages of the recording, forcing Paramore to make the album as a quartet. Yet Riot! achieved gold-sales status, buoyed by the success of the single “Misery Business.” For the follow-up, 2009’s brand new eyes, Paramore enlisted producer Rob Cavallo and recorded some of their most revealing songs yet, touching on everything from romance (Williams and guitarist Farro kept a relationship hidden from both fans and press for several years) to the working dynamics of the band. After playing with the band as a hired gun for two years, guitarist Taylor York was officially enlisted as a full-time member in June of that year, just as the band were enjoying their opening slot for No Doubt’s reunion tour. “I really think where we are as a band is a result of everything we’ve gone through,” Williams told AP in 2009. “Everything we have gone through has taught us a lot.”

Say Hello To Cobra Starship [Alterbative Press Review]


After his band Midtown quietly called it a day in 2004, bassist Gabe Saporta wondered: Should he settle down and get a straight job? Or was music still ricocheting in that suave noggin of his? Saporta—who once joked to AP that being born of Jewish Uruguayan parents meant, “I can dance, and I’m good with money; what more could you ask for”—decided to leave his emo past behind for a world of dance floor synth-pop. Citing a personal mythology involving being out in the desert high on peyote and having a conversation with a prophetic cobra, he dubbed his project Cobra Starship and began work on what would become his 2006 debut for Decaydance, While The City Sleeps, We Rule The Streets. The disc’s main track “Bring It (Snakes On A Plane)” featured the participation of Gym Class Heroes MC Travie McCoy, the Sounds’ vocalist Maja Ivarsson and the Academy Is… frontman William Beckett, practically forcing fans to deem the project as an “emo supergroup.”
Saporta followed up the disc in 2007 with ¡Viva La Cobra!, enlisting Fall Out Boy frontman Patrick Stump in the producer’s chair, as well as a full-time band—guitarist Ryland Blackinton, bassist/keyboardist Alex Suarez, keytar player Elisa Schwartz and drummer Nate Novarro—to flesh out his slinky dance grooves and smooth lyrics (“Kiss My Sass,” “One Day Robots Will Cry”). In early 2007, Schwartz was fired from the band and replaced by Victoria Asher, daughter of veteran rock performer/producer Peter Asher. Cobra Starship’s 2009 full-length,Hot Mess, featured the participation of everyone from American Idol panelist Kara DioGuardi and hip-hop producer Kevin Rudolf to Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester. Parsecs away from the early days of Saporta and a computer, Cobra Starship have grown into a tight band capable of delivering smart songs and grooves that appeal to both head and hips. What would you expect from a dude who can recall classic New Jersey hardcore records and obscure French techno sides?

Friday, March 5, 2010

Mudvayne Biography

Chad Gray - Vocals
Ray Martinie - Bass
Gregg Tribbett - Guitar
Matthew McDonough - Drums


Straight out of Peoria, Illinois the group Mudvayne formed in 1996 with members Chad Gray (vocals), Gregg Tribbett (guitar), and Mathew McDonough (drums). Ryan Martinie (Bass) replaced the groups original bass two years later. With nicknames in check, Spag (McDonough), Gurrg (Tibbett), Kud (Gray), Ryknow (Martinie), and Garish makeup Mudvayne's hardcore presence became known after their self released album, Kill, I Oughta.

Shortly after the debut of their first album Mudvayne was signed to Epic Records for a major label release of their album L.D. 50 in 2000. With two million albums sold worldwide recognition for the group could not be denied. The album, going on gold in the U.S., notably lead the group to nab the first ever MTV 2 Video Award at the 2001 VMA's. While touring show after show Mudvayne splashed across the covers of Rolling Stone, Newsweek, Maxim, Spin, World and many other publications.


In 2002 Mudvayne recorded The End of All Things to Come with Tool producer David Bottrill. Touring heavily in Europe in 2002, to promote the album, the band slipped back on home turf just long enough to join the "Summer Sanitarium" tour with rock royalty such as Metallica and Lincoln Park. The year 2005 brought about the release of the third album Lost and Found, and oh yes, we are feeling happy now!



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Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Ramones - Biography

In the mid-'70s the Ramones shaped the sound of punk rock in New York with simple, fast songs, deadpan lyrics, no solos, and an impenetrable wall of guitar chords. Twenty years later, with virtually all of their peers either retired or having moved on to forms other than punk, Joey and Johnny Ramone, the band's core, continued adamantly to parlay the same determinedly basic sound. The cultural importance of the Ramones became most apparent in 2001, when leader Joey Ramone was eulogized not only in the rock press but the New York Timesand other general media.

The group formed in 1974 after the foursome graduated or left high school in Forest Hills, New York. The original lineup featured Joey on drums, Dee Dee sharing guitar with Johnny, and Tommy as manager, but they soon settled on their recording setup. Their name and pseudonym came via Paul McCartney, who had briefly called himself Paul Ramon back when the Beatles were the Silver Beatles. The Ramones gravitated toward the burgeoning scene at CBGB, where their 20-minute sets of rapid-fire, under-two-and-a-half-minute songs earned them a recording contract before any of their contemporaries except Patti Smith.

In 1976 Ramones was a definitive punk statement, with songs like “Beat on the Brat,” “Blitzkrieg Bop,” and “Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue”- 14 of them, clocking in at under 30 minutes. The group traveled to England in 1976, giving the nascent British punk scene the same boost they had provided to New Yorkers. Before the year was out, Ramones Leave Home had been released. As throughout its career, the band toured almost incessantly.

With their next two singles, the group began to soften their sound slightly. “Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” and “Rockaway Beach” made explicit their debt to ’60s AM hit styles such as bubblegum and surf music, and both made the lower reaches of the Top 100. They were included on Rocket to Russia, which also contained their first ballad, “Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.” At this point Tommy quit the group, preferring his behind-the-scenes activity as coproducer, “disguised” as T. Erdelyi (his real name).

His replacement was Marc Bell, henceforth dubbed Marky Ramone. He was formerly one of Richard Hell’s Voidoids and before that a member of Dust, who recorded a pair of albums during the ’60s. His first LP with the Ramones, Road to Ruin, was their first to contain only 12 songs and their first to last longer than half an hour. Despite their glossiest production yet, featuring acoustic guitars and real solos, its two singles, “Don’t Come Close” and a version of the Searchers’ “Needles and Pins,” failed to capture a mass audience. Neither did their starring role in Roger Corman’s 1979 movie Rock ’n’ Roll High School.

As the 1980s began, the Ramones tried working with noted pop producers Phil Spector (End of the Century) and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman (Pleasant Dreams), but commercial success remained elusive. After Subterranean Jungle, Marky Ramone departed, to be replaced by ex-Velveteens Richard Beau. As Richie Ramone, the drummer played on four albums, before Marky returned in 1987. Too Tough to Die, with Eurythmic Dave Stewart producing the pop single “Howling at the Moon,” recaptured some of their ’70s energy, and “Bonzo Goes to Bitburg” offAnimal Boy offered cutting political satire. However, the remainder of the decade too often found them parodying their earlier strengths.

In 1989 the Ramones gained their widest exposure with the title track to the soundtrack for Stephen King’s Pet Sematary, but also underwent their most significant internal shift. Dee Dee departed, first to record, as Dee Dee King, a rap album, Standing in the Spotlight, and then to form the rock groupChinese Dragons. His post-Ramones career included publishing the autobiography Poisoned Heart: Surviving the Ramones and, in the late ’90s, playing with his wife, Barbara, and Marky Ramone in the Ramones spinoff unit, the Ramainz. A heroin addict and substance abuser for 14 years, Dee Dee had been the Ramones’ truest punk (going solo, he also joined AA); his departure signaled the end of an era, if not a style. AWOL from the marines at the time he enlisted in the band, C.J. Ramone infused youthful energy - he was 14 years younger than Joey and Johnny - but the band’s sound remained the same.

Mondo Bizarro, with a guest appearance by Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid and songs that attacked both drugs and the PMRC’s Tipper Gore, ushered the band into the ’90s, their influence by then apparent in such rowdy outfits as Guns n’ Roses and the Beastie Boys. In 1994 they persevered with Acid Eaters, a tribute to ’60s idols like the Animals and Rolling Stones. With Joey sober since the start of the decade and Marky in recovery from alcoholism, they continued their relentless touring for two more years until their final show in August 1996. Marky formed Marky Ramone and the Intruders and has released two albums to date. Joey went on to manage the Independents, a horror-punk-ska band, to act in the indie film Final Rinse, and, in 1999, to coproduce a Ronnie Spector EP, She Talks to Rainbows. In 2001 he announced he had been diagnosed with lymphoma six years earlier and was undergoing treatment for the disease. He died that year. Little Steven Van Zandt presided over an all-star party on what would have been Joey’s 50th birthday, a month after his death. The U.S. Congress proclaimed May 19, 2001, Joey Ramone Day. After being inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in March 2002, fellow Ramones Dee Dee and Johnny soon passed away; Dee Dee from a heroin overdose on June 5, 2002 and Johnny from prostate cancer on September 15, 2004.


The Rolling Stones

The Strokes - Biography

The Strokes are a five-piece band hailing from New York. They’re made up of Julian Casablancas (Vocals), Nick Valensi (lead guitar), Albert Hammond, Jr. (rhythm guitar), Nikolai Fraiture (bass) and Fabrizio Moretti (drums). Their emergence has been tied to the “Garage Rock Revival” that surfaced in early 2000 (other bands include: The White Stripes, The Hives, The Vines, you get the deal). Ever since their debut back in 2001, The Strokes have been recognized as one of the perennial rock bands of our generation. Their sound is a healthy mix of glaring guitars, backed by speedy percussion and Julian’s facetious, sometimes dejected lyricism. The group’s overall work has progressively grown to be more explosive with every record.

Prior to any relevant exposure, Julian Casablancas, Nick Valensi and Fab Morretti played together during their elementary school days in New York. Julian was also good friends with bassist Nikolai Fraiture around that time, even though Fraiture attended a different school. Casablancas was later sent to a boarding school in Switzerland at the age of 13, to improve his academic performance and his drinking problem (!). It was there where he went on to the-strokes-20070331-233522befriend Albert Hammond Jr. years later, Hammond moved to New York to share a room with Casablancas while both attended an arts college. With the five all knowing each other, they formed a band and played several gigs on the Lower East Side of New York. During a performance at the respected Mercury Lounge, Ryan Giles, the man who booked them for the venue, immediately quit his job to become the group’s manager. From then on, The Strokes rehearsed intensely, notable songs included “Someday,” “Last Nite,” and “The Modern Age.” With the help of Giles, who’s called by the band “The Sixth Stroke,” the group sent their demo to Rough Trade Records over in the UK. The label loved what they heard, and The Strokes went on to release their first collection of songs in The Modern Age EP. The record featured just three songs, (The Modern Age, Last Nite, Barely Legal) with slightly altered lyrics compared to the final recordings. The EP gained critical success, igniting one of the biggest label bidding wars for a rock band in recent history. RCA ultimately signed the band, and the went on to release their first complete album in 2001, titled Is This It.

Is This It was an international success for the group, sparking numerous favorable reviews. The band flexed their garage rock sound, everything glistened. The record led some critics to consider them as “the saviors of The Strokesrock.” The album’s lyrical composition itself was a admittedly a alcohol binged mess of frustration, depression, energy and exuberance. Songs such as “Someday” and “Barely Legal” glare the bearing elements of blues rock. “Alone, Together” and “Hard To Explain” rattle away with superb lyricism by Casablancas. Numbers such as “Last Nite” and “Take It Or Leave It” are played with unparalleled adrenaline during live sets. They went on to tour across the world, holding concerts in New Zealand, Japan, Australia, United States and Europe. Their live sets held staining tenacity. Casablancas would leak strict lyricism before tossing the mic stand before guitar solos, Albert Hammond shuffled his feet in some fluid motion while recklessly strumming, Valensi’s face expressions accompanied by his swift guitar picking some sort-of neo-Jimmy Page outlook, Fraiture held a composed gargoyle posture while consistently laying the bass, and Moretti held a subtle smack to his groove-lead drum pounding. The band was signature, their potential saw no ceilings.


In 2002, the band hit the studio for a pivotal follow-up record. With pockets full and overwhelming expectations, the band were penned to work with Grammy-winning producer, Nigel Godrich. Godrich has worked for other acts such as Beck and Radiohead, but the final outcome of the production was shelved. The group, instead went back to their original producer, Gordon Raphael, stating “[Godrich] made the songs seam soulless.” Room On Fire was then released in 2003, led by the single, “12:51.” By this time, the Strokes were a heavily publicized act and were well-known. Their music videos began to erupt in terms of their creativity, “12:51″ featured a clever Tron concept, while “The End Has No End” included stars, Mila Kunis and Eva Mendes. Julian’s lyricism progressed in the second LP, most notably in tracks such as “Between Love & Hate” and “Automatic Stop.” While the reviews weren’t as stellar as their debut, Room On Fire was a step forward for the group. “What Ever Happened” rubs next to touching emotions, “12:51″ takes a page from the The Cars, “Reptilia” is powerfully original and “Automatic Stop” is just simply a moving track. The band supported the album with a more exotic tour across the world, hitting locales like London, Brazil and Argentina.

The Strokes had begun working on their third record around 2005, the album was recorded over a 10-month period. Initially riding off their home producer, Gordon Raphael until Albert Hammond Jr. suggested producer, David Kahne (Sublime, Paul McCartney, Tony Bennett). The mesh between Raphael and Kahne never worked out, and Raphael ended up stepping down from the albums production. This marked eminent changes for the outlook of the record. The band’s third record, First Impressions of Earth, was then strokes-livereleased in January, 2006. It was their first LP with a “Parental Advisory” label. The overall sound of the record was more crisp, polished and noticeably different from their previous releases. Julian’s lyrics radiate stronger than ever on this record, as does Nick Valensi’s guitar. Fab Moretti’s drum fills are also felt. The record taints the ears much stronger than any other, with songs that smoothly string together, sporadically climaxing in their own respectful timetable. The first track, “You Only Live Once” to “Heart In A Cage” have the band in their most vibrant and loud sound to date. “On the Other Side” and “Vision of Division” pair together nicely, as “Killing Lies” to “Ize of the World” culminate the band’s strongest effort. The group explored many different aspects for the recording of this record. While Casablancas held the bulk of the songwriting, Moretti, Valensi and Fraiture all individually tapped song writing into three different songs. Despite harsh criticism, the record turned out to sound eccentrically well. Fab Moretti’s drumming flourish on tracks such as “Red Light,” and “Evening Sun.” Valensi’s guitar is heard infectiously through the album, peeling shivering guitar solos in “Vision of Division” and “Ize of the World.” Casablancas words are felt all through the record, especially “On the Other Side,” “Killing Lies,” “Fear of Sleep,” “15 Minutes (!),” and “Ize of the World.” The band then went on to tour extensively. Performing 18 sold-out shows in the UK, a tour in the U.S., another tour in Europe before performing another tour in the States. The band then went on to inform their manger, Giles about their much needed break.



During this break, the band has embarked in their own solo projects. Albert Hammond Jr. released two solo albums. The band’s drummer, Moretti showed his flexibility in his own side project called Little Joy, where he plays guitar, bass, piano and sings backing vocals. Nikolai Fraiture released a solo album of his own, mostly consisting of folk-rock. Julian Casablancas then also went on to released his own solo record, saying he wanted to keep himself busy during the downtime of the band. Julian’s solo effort, Phrazes for the Young gained critical success.

As for the plans to reunite for the band’s fourth LP, the band had primarily set a release date for sometime in 2009. They began working on the record in January of the same year. Dispersively continuing more work that same summer and hoping for a release before the end of the year. With fans anxiously waiting, the group hasn’t been able to put the final touches on the record in 2009, with Casablancas revealing that the bulk of the album is done but there’s disagreements between some members as to what songs should make the cut. The band is expected to get together again in early 2010 to try and finalize the record after a four-year hiatus.

Despite how frustrating these delays have been to the band’s fans, the Strokes have separated themselves from many modern bands with their originality. Each member of the band are all talented musicians, and have meshed together magnificently to produce an authentic sound. Their return will be the tipping point of the band’s legacy, and will most likely be worth the long wait.



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The Black Dahlia Murder - Biography

The Black Dahlia Murder is a Melodic Death Metal band. Formed in 2000 and some time later established themselves at the forefront of the then-burgeoning U.S. metal scene when they released their full-length Metal Blade debut Unhallowed in June 2003. The release of that critically lauded album, however, was only the beginning of an epic journey that would find this Waterford, Michigan, quintet dealing with personnel issues (founding member drummer Cory Grady was replaced by Zach Gibson) and a nonstop touring itinerary that kept them on the road for nearly two years playing with bands as diverse as The Red Chord, Arch Enemy, Napalm Death and Terror. But those experiences ultimately had a profound effect on their Metal Blade release, Miasma. “The road has been what really made Miasma what it is,” vocalist Trevor Strnad confesses. “Much of the content here is a direct result of our experience in the band.”

It is no surprise, then, that Miasma reflects the insanity of life on the road for five guys, barely over the legal drinking age, who were playing an endless string of shows across North America and Europe. “It’s quite a bit more personal lyrically, ranging from anthems of cheap sex and drug use to more classic Black Dahlia Murder horror style,” says Strnad. “I’ve tried to reinvent BDM lyrically here. It’s still dark. It’s still really evil shit.”

Strnad’s growth as a lyricist is just one of the ways the band expanded its sound on Miasma. Guitarist Brian Eschbach contributed more to the writing process while his counterpart John Kempainen wrote and played solos for every track. As a result, The Black Dahlia Murder—rounded out by bassist Dave Lock—have created an album that reflects the bonds cemented by the band’s two-year odyssey. Recorded and co-produced with the band by Scarlet drummer Andreas Magnusson at Planet Red Studio in Richmond, Virginia, Miasma is a deadly reinvention of The Black Dahlia Murder’s nefariously nasty melodic death metal sound. It is a sound that Kempainen simply describes as “more pissed off.” Strnad sees other improvements, as well, however. “The new songs are much heavier than anything on Unhallowed,” he declares. “We were making a conscious effort to challenge ourselves as players and give each song an identity of its own. And the addition of Zach has enabled us as a unit to write more complex and interesting arrangements.”

Miasma is just the latest chapter in the ever-twisted saga of The Black Dahlia Murder. Like the long-unsolved murder of a young Hollywood starlet that the band took its name from, The Black Dahlia Murder’s appeal is visceral and dark, a terror-filled exploration of extreme sounds and vicious brutality. And it is a step closer to the apex the band is still aiming its sights for. “I feel that we are yet to reach our prime,” says Strnad, “but Miasma is many steps closer to where we want to be. We have a better band in 2005 and now a record to show for it.” 

Their new album, Nocturnal, was released on September 18th, 2007.

In May 2009, The Black Dahlia Murder released their first DVD, “Majesty”. The DVD contains a documentary and live footage from the Summer Slaughter tour and their tour supporting Children of Bodom in late 2008. The DVD also contains all of their music videos and behind the scenes footage.[10]

The Black Dahlia Murder has set Deflorate as the title of its new album, due on September 15 via Metal Blade Records. On July 7 The Black Dahlia Murder gave a exclusive sneak peek of Deflorate with the song “A Selection Unnatural” to Revolver[2] magazine

On July 7, 2009, their single “What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse” was made available as a downloadable track for Rock Band.

Current line-up:
Brian Eschbach: Guitar
Ryan Knight: Guitar (ex-Arsis)
Trevor Strnad: Vocals
Bart Williams: Bass (ex-Today I Wait)
Shannon Lucas: Drums (ex-All That Remains, Mensrea)

Past members:
Nick Combs - Vocals
David Lock - Bass
Jon Deering - Bass (From the Shallows)
Cory Grady- Drums (Premonitions of War)
Zach Gibson (Abigail Williams, Gutrot, ex-Mutilated, In Battle Array)
Pierre Langlois - Drums
John Kempainen - Guitar


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