Egypt Central is an American

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band from Memphis, Tennessee.

History

Formation and debut album (2002–2010)

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. Flom offered the band a record deal after seeing their live performances. Egypt Central's self-titled debut album was recorded with producer Josh Abraham in

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. It experienced many delays, eventually being released by Fat Lady Music on January 15, 2008. Two singles were released to promote the album: "You Make Me Sick" and "Taking You Down". These two tracks also ended up being on the soundtrack of the video game '' WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009''. They have performed with bands like Disturbed,

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, and many others. There is rumored to be an entire second album which never got released due to legal issues with their record label. Two songs meant for this album, "Hate" and "California Dreams" (later reworked as "Citizen Radio" and released on the ''Murder in the French Quarter: Rare & Unreleased EP''), were performed live while on tour in 2008.

''White Rabbit'' (2010–2011)

Egypt Central completed work on their second studio album, entitled ''

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'', in December 2010 with producer

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and released it on May 31, 2011. The album received many positive reviews from many sources. The album's title track was released as the first single on March 1, 2011. The band toured from March–May on the Tour of the American Dream tour with

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and Kopek. The band toured on their Down the Hole headlining tour with Abused Romance and Candlelight Red in June and with Burn Halo and Red Line Chemistry in July. In addition to several festival appearances, the band toured briefly with

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in August. The band supported Pop Evil on a number of shows in September followed by a supporting leg of shows with

and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus in October. The band opened for Staind at the Q103 Thanksgiving Hangover, November 26 at the Washington Avenue Armory in Albany New York. They then joined Puddle of Mudd and Pop Evil on December 9 for the 105.7 The X (WIXO) Nutcracker Eleven at the Expo Gardens in Peoria.

Breakup (2012–2019)

On December 3, 2012, after being inactive for a year, bassist Joey Chicago announced through a letter on

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that both vocalist John Falls and guitarist Jeff James would not be continuing on with the band, thus bringing an end to Egypt Central. In 2014 a post was made to the band's Facebook page, announcing a new EP of previously unreleased songs titled ''Murder in the French Quarter'', that was set for release on August 19, 2014.

Reunion & ''Burn With You'' (since 2019)

On April 1, 2019, a mysterious teaser video appeared on the band's Facebook page. The teaser appears to feature new music along with a cryptic 06 06 19 message. The video was re-posted on May 6, 2019. On June 6, 2019, Egypt Central released "Raise the Gates" as a new single confirming a reunion. On June 18, 2019, another cryptic teaser appeared on both Facebook and Instagram with a new date 07 05 19. On July 5, 2019, Egypt Central released "Dead Machine" on their YouTube channel. On April 13, 2020, Egypt Central released a new single "Over Soon" on all platforms. October 20, 2020, the band announced on their Instagram page the release of a new single "Hunted" set for November 20. Another single, "Let Me Out", was released digitally on April 30, 2021. An EP titled ''Burn With You'' was released on July 9, 2021. On December 5, 2021, the band released a new single, Beautiful Misery with rapper Mikes Dead. On February 22, 2022, the band announced a new single called No Place Like home with a date on their YouTube channel 3-10-22.

Band members

Official members

* Blake Allison – Drums * Joey "Chicago" Walser – Bass * John Falls – Lead Vocals

Former members

* Heath Hindman – Lead Guitar * Jeff James – Rhythm Guitar * Don Wray – Lead Guitar (2001–2004) * Stephen "Worm" Williams – Lead Guitar * Chris D'Abaldo – Rhythm Guitar

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

References

External links

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Egypt Central on MySpace

Egypt Central at Purevolume
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