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Sick (EP)
''Sick'' is the debut EP by American rock band Beartooth. It was released on July 26, 2013, through Red Bull Records for free download and is produced by Caleb Shomo formerly of the band Attack Attack! who sang and recorded all the instruments used on the album. Background Caleb Shomo began writing Beartooth songs while he was still in Attack Attack! as "a different musical outlet" as a way to make fun, punk-rock, hardcore, wild music, play crazy shows and have a good time without pressure from anything. The first release from this album was the song 'I Have a Problem', released on February 6, 2013 along with a live music video. The band was officially announced to be part of the roster for 'Red Bull Records' later that year in June. Later that month, the band released their EP via email subscription, and later toured with City Lights across the US throughout August to promote the EP. Promotion The band released a total of four music videos in promotion of the EP. Before the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beartooth (band)
Beartooth is an American Rock music, rock band founded by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Caleb Shomo in Columbus, Ohio, in 2012. Originally Shomo performed every instrument when in the studio, before being joined by a four-piece band. Beartooth has been signed to Red Bull Records since 2013; its debut EP ''Sick (EP), Sick'' was released on July 26, 2013, followed by the debut full-length album ''Disgusting (album), Disgusting'' on June 10, 2014. Since then, Shomo has released a further three studio albums under the Beartooth moniker: ''Aggressive (album), Aggressive'' (2016), ''Disease (Beartooth album), Disease'' (2018), and ''Below (album), Below'' (2021). The band's fifth studio album, ''The Surface (album), The Surface'', was released on October 13, 2023. History Formation and ''Sick'' (2012–2014) Caleb Shomo began writing Beartooth songs while still a member of metalcore band Attack Attack! (American band), Attack Attack!, to which he contributed a mix of keyboards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metalcore
Metalcore is a broadly defined fusion genre combining elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk, originating in the 1990s United States and becoming popular in the 2000s. Metalcore typically has aggressive verses and melodic choruses, combined with Breakdown (music), breakdowns – which are slow, intense passages conducive to moshing. Other defining traits are low-tuned, percussive guitar riffs, double bass drumming, and polished production. Vocalists typically switch between roaring or Screaming (music), screaming and clean, melodic, emotional singing. Lyrics are often personal, introspective and emotive. In the late 1980s to early 1990s, pioneering bands were founded such as Integrity (band), Integrity, Earth Crisis and Converge (band), Converge, whose hardcore punk-leaning style is sometimes referred to as metallic hardcore. These bands took influence from a range of styles and genres such as hardcore punk, thrash metal and death metal. During the decade, the genre diversifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardcore Punk
Hardcore punk (commonly abbreviated to hardcore or hXc) is a punk rock music genre#subtypes, subgenre and subculture that originated in the late 1970s. It is generally faster, harder, and more aggressive than other forms of punk rock. Its roots can be traced to earlier punk scenes in San Francisco and Punk rock in California, Southern California which arose as a reaction against the still predominant History of the hippie movement, hippie cultural climate of the time. It was also inspired by Washington, D.C., hardcore#History, Washington, D.C., and Punk rock#New York City, New York punk rock and early proto-punk. Hardcore punk generally eschews commercialism, the established music industry and "anything similar to the characteristics of Rock music, mainstream rock" and often addresses social and political topics with "confrontational, politically charged lyrics". Hardcore sprouted underground scenes across the United States in the early 1980s, particularly in Los Angeles, San Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull Records
Red Bull Records is an independent record label headquartered in Los Angeles, California. It is a subsidiary of the energy drink company Red Bull GmbH and has offices in Los Angeles and London. Since its inception, Red Bull Records has been home to artists and bands such as Albert Hammond Jr., Albert Hammond Jr, Blxst, The Aces (indie pop band), The Aces, Awolnation, Debbie McGee, Kofi, Beartooth (band), Beartooth, House of Protection, Morgan, Peter $un, Chris LaRocca, Twin Atlantic and James Vickery. History Red Bull Records was founded founded by Dietrich Mateschitz in July 2007 with the help of Greg Hammer, as an independent label focused on artist development. Red Bull Records expanded its suite of services in 2008 by establishing its Music Publishing, Publishing division, representing songwriters and Record producer, producers such as John Feldmann (5 Seconds of Summer), Charlie Shuffler (Lil Yachty, Trippie Redd), Eric Aukstikalnis (Dolly Parton, Galantis) and LordQuest (Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Shomo
Caleb Joshua Shomo (born December 1, 1992) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer. He is most well known as the lead-vocalist of Beartooth, though he records all studio instrumentals for the band. He is also the former lead vocalist, keyboardist, and early backing vocalist of Attack Attack!, and the owner of Studio Records in Columbus, Ohio. Shomo joined Attack Attack! as keyboardist at 15 years old while maintaining a passion for electronic music and eventually grew into record production by 18. Shomo has been referred to as "one of the current scene’s most beloved figures." Early life Shomo was raised in Westerville, Ohio, since he was ten years old. His dad was a pastor of a church and his mom works as a nurse, who also was a part of a church band. As a result, he grew up going to church, however, he saw "a lot of damage" it had done to people in his life and to his family, and has since moved away from religion. Despite this, he stated that he "will al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disgusting (album)
''Disgusting'' is the debut studio album by American rock band Beartooth. It was released on June 10, 2014, through Red Bull Records and UNFD Records. The single "Beaten In Lips" was released on May 13, 2014, along with the pre-order for the album. Background This album was released a year after the band's debut EP '' Sick'' was released. Before the announcement, the band toured with metalcore band Of Mice & Men in the UK, and also played a headline show in London on April 17, 2014. The album was announced by the band a month prior to its release on May 13 and stated that the album would be released on June 10 through Red Bull Records. The recording process, according to Shomo, was very smooth since he has a studio in his house, and would write songs whenever he was bored or couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. Composition In an interview with the lead singer, Shomo, he explained that the album was written to "...get my head on straight. I’m not trying to write songs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack Attack! (American Band)
Attack Attack! is an American metalcore band from Westerville, Ohio, originally formed in 2007 as Ambiance. After self-releasing their first EP in 2007, the band signed to Rise Records the same year. They released three full-length albums, ''Someday Came Suddenly'', Attack Attack! (album), ''Attack Attack!'', and ''This Means War (Attack Attack! album), This Means War'' all through Rise Records. The band left Rise Records in 2012 and disbanded the following year after a farewell tour. On October 19, 2020, the band announced a re-formation, with a mix of returning and new members. History Formation (2007) Attack Attack! formed in 2007 when Johnny Franck, Andrew Whiting, Nick White and Andrew Wetzel met Austin Carlile while playing in local high school bands. Caleb Shomo joined the band as the keyboardist, and they changed the name to Attack Attack! The band entered a local studio where they recorded material that was put up on Myspace to promote their music. As the oldest mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Lights (band)
City Lights was an American pop punk band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2008. They released two EPs and two studio albums during their six-year tenure; the latest being ''The Way Things Should Be'', released on December 10, 2013, via InVogue Records. The band signed to InVogue in May 2011. The band announced their dissolution on February 13, 2014. One year later on February 13, 2015, they released a third EP titled ''Acoustic EP 2''. They announced that they had no intention of getting back together but if schedules permitted they would still take part in shows and put out music. History Formation and ''Rock Like a Party Star'' EP (2008–2010) City Lights formed in early 2008 in Columbus, Ohio when Zachary LeCompte-Goble got some friends together one night to play Pop Punk instead of Metalcore. The first song the band ever wrote together was "Make A Sound". The original lineup was Zachary LeCompte-Goble, Sean Smith, Joey Kasouf and Hartley Lewis. An old friend of Zachary L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM (magazine)
''HM Magazine'' is a monthly, digital and print on demand publication focusing on hard music and alternative culture of interest to Christians. It is based in Houston, Texas. Originally published as ''Heaven's Metal'', it was renamed to ''HM'' in 1995, and in late 2004 ''Heaven's Metal'' was reissued as a separate publication from ''HM'', with some shared editorial overlap. History In 1985, a journalist Doug Van Pelt started ''Heaven's Metal'' as a fanzine. It changed its name in 1995 to ''HM'', standing for Hard Music, but the Heaven's Metal branding was brought back in 2004 and was released alongside ''HM''. ''Heaven's Metal'' achieved more popularity and became an official publication, with five full-time journalists working for the magazine. In 2000, ''HM'' achieved a regular subscription base of 15,000 readers. During the 1990s, ''HM'' sealed a distribution deal with a major magazine wholesaler that immediately increased its print-run from 13,000 to 22,000 copies, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HM Magazine
''HM Magazine'' is a monthly, digital and print on demand publication focusing on hard music and alternative culture of interest to Christians. It is based in Houston, Texas. Originally published as ''Heaven's Metal'', it was renamed to ''HM'' in 1995, and in late 2004 ''Heaven's Metal'' was reissued as a separate publication from ''HM'', with some shared editorial overlap. History In 1985, a journalist Doug Van Pelt started ''Heaven's Metal'' as a fanzine. It changed its name in 1995 to ''HM'', standing for Hard Music, but the Heaven's Metal branding was brought back in 2004 and was released alongside ''HM''. ''Heaven's Metal'' achieved more popularity and became an official publication, with five full-time journalists working for the magazine. In 2000, ''HM'' achieved a regular subscription base of 15,000 readers. During the 1990s, ''HM'' sealed a distribution deal with a major magazine wholesaler that immediately increased its print-run from 13,000 to 22,000 copies, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Download
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment. Music downloads are typically encoded with modified discrete cosine transform (MDCT) audio data compression, particularly the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) format used by iTunes as well as the MP3 audio coding format. According to a Nielsen report, downloadable music accounted for 55.9 percent of all music sales in the US in 2012."All music sales" refers to albums plus track equivalent albums. A track equivalent album equates to 10 tracks. By the beginning of 2011, Apple's iTunes Store alone made 1.1 billion of revenue in the first quarter of its fiscal year. According to the RIAA, music downloads peaked at 43% of industry revenue in the US in 2012, and has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
