Jonathan Alan Syverson
(born August 21, 1980) is an American musician and songwriter, best known as the drummer of the
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band
Daughters since 2002. He has also handled drumming duties for As the Sun Sets and
The Color of Violence, and more recently
Unsane
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. Recently Jon also joined up with another Providence band called Snowbird. Snowbird has Jon on drums along with Steve Murphy.
He was the main songwriter for As the Sun Sets and would often record guitars or bass in the studio for technical parts that he had written. When As The Sun Sets disbanded in 2002, he formed Daughters with long-time friend and band mates
Alexis Marshall and Jeremy Wabiszczewicz and was at first the main songwriters for that band. Daughters then recruited Nicholas Andrew Sadler to play guitar and share song writing duties with Jon. Jon and Nicholas had both been guitar players (with Jon later taking over drum duties) in the Providence based band Crippler Crossface which Nicholas joined when he was 15 years old. Crippler Crossface also featured Alexis Marshall as vocalist. For a brief period during his days as drummer for As The Sun Sets, he also played guitar in a band with
Mark Castillo of
Bury Your Dead
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.
Syverson has many projects and bands that are still currently active touring, writing music or doing studio work. He was asked in 2008 to record drums for
The Color of Violence featuring two current members of
From First to Last
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; drummer
Derek Bloom
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and guitarist/backup vocalist
Travis Richter
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.
Discography
As The Sun Sets
* 1999/2004 ''Each Individual Voice Is Dead in the Silence'' (Moment of Clarity/Trash Art/City of Hell)
* 2001 ''Limited Summer'' Tour ''CD-EP''. (Self-Released)
* 2002 ''7744'' (
Undecided Records)
* 2002 ''8949'' (Trash Art)
Daughters
* ''
Daughters'' 7-inch EP (City of Hell, 2002)
* ''
Canada Songs'' LP (
Robotic Empire
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, 2003) – CD/LP
* ''Live From CBGB's'' (City of Hell, 2004 / 2008) – CD
* ''
Hell Songs'' LP (
Hydra Head Records
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, 2006) – CD/LP
* ''
Daughters'' (
Hydra Head Records
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, 2010)
* ''
You Won't Get What You Want'' (
Ipecac Recordings
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, 2018)
The Color of Violence
* Youthanize (
Epitaph Records
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, 4/7/09)
References
External links
VideoDaughters Myspace PageOfficial Daughters SiteHydra Head RecordsColor Of Violence Myspace PageTrash Art!Trash Art MyspaceColor Of Violence at Epitaph
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1980 births
Living people
American male drummers
People from Wrentham, Massachusetts
Drummers from Massachusetts
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