Cody Votolato (born 20 May 1982) is a musician from

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, best known for being the guitarist in the post-hardcore band The Blood Brothers. He grew up in the eastside suburbs of Seattle. Cody attended Redmond High School with his bandmates in the late 1990s when the band originally formed, graduating Spring of 2000. His accomplished thrashy and discordant style, exhibited in early Blood Brothers albums and in Head Wound City, has evolved into a more melodic and experimental sound in recent year

Votolato's older brother

Rocky Votolato Rocky Votolato (born March 8, 1977, in Dallas, Texas, United States) is an American indie and folk singer-songwriter. He was also a member of the rock group Waxwing. in 2025, he started a new band called Suzzallo with bandmate Rudy Gajadhar on d ...

is a folk musician and solo artist who played in the band

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with his brother, as well as with Rudy Gajadhar, the older brother of The Blood Brothers' drummer Mark Gajadhar. Votolato also contributed artwork to The Blood Brothers' album '' ...Burn, Piano Island, Burn''. On 4 September 2012, it was announced that Cody has joined

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as touring guitarist.

Bands

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* The Blood Brothers *

Head Wound City Head Wound City is an American hardcore punk Supergroup (music), supergroup consisting of Jordan Blilie and Cody Votolato both of The Blood Brothers (band), The Blood Brothers, Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Justin Pearson (musician), J ...

- a side project involving Jordan Blilie from The Blood Brothers as well as Justin Pearson and Gabe Serbian of

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and Nick Zinner of

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* Jaguar Love - a collaboration with Johnny Whitney from The Blood Brothers and J. Clark of

Pretty Girls Make Graves Pretty Girls Make Graves is a post-hardcore band formed in Seattle in 2001, named after The Smiths' song of the same name (which itself was named after a quote from Jack Kerouac's ''The Dharma Bums''). Andrea Zollo and Derek Fudesco had played ...

- a now-defunct Post-Hardcore Band with his brother, solo artist

on Vocals.

References

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