The Color of Violence is an American

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band, currently a side project of the

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band

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. It features drummer

Derek Bloom Derek Bloom (born January 30, 1983, in South Pasadena, California) is an American musician and singer, known for drumming in post-hardcore band From First to Last for all of their time as a band until their revival. He left From First to Last ...

and vocalist/guitarist

Travis Richter Travis Brandon Richter (born November 3, 1981, in Albany, Georgia) is an American musician, Singing, singer and record producer. He is known for being a vocalist and guitarist in the band From First to Last and the lead vocalist of The Color of Vi ...

History

Formation and early history (2002–2006)

The Color of Violence formed in 2002 originally as a full-time band under the name Skeleton Slaughter vs. Fetus Destroyer. The members attempted to make music that resembled

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, specifically the band

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. It featured

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, Joey Antillion and Chad Crews. After changing the name to The Color of Violence then recording and releasing an EP and touring in early 2003, all members but Crews put most of their attention into

(then under the name "First too Last"). Between 2003 and most of 2006, The Color of Violence saw little to no activity. By the end of 2006, Richter and Bloom decided to return to making music as The Color of Violence as a two-piece band. In 2006 they sent a couple of songs to

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, founder and CEO of

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and guitarist for

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band

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. At this time, From First to Last was also signed to Epitaph, but have since switched to

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, and later

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''Youthanize'' (2007–2009)

December 19, 2007, COV released a bulletin via their MySpace, announcing they would be recording next year.

The Color of Violence will be documenting tones and patterns in January of '08. Please don't ask any questions as we have only booked the studio time and have absolutely no idea what we are going to record, just know that its going to be some of the following adjectives, "Brutal" ,"Far out", "Hip" "Gay","Not gay" and then of course "Really gay" Respectively yours, Guy&Glitch The Color of Violence"

Recently, the band posted a re-recorded version of “God Gave Me Deeze Nutzz” on their MySpace page. The album is listed as “Youthanize Demos”. November 10, 2008, FFTL released a bulletin via their MySpace, announcing that an album for COV will be out in 2009.

"CONSTIPATED? relieve yourself with knowing that Derek and I of from first to last are recording our other band The Color of Violence right now and its slated to come out on epitaph in early '09 like march or april.. We had the awesome pleasure of flying in two sick drummers for this recording..JonSyverson fro
Daughters
and Joel Coan fro
The Felix Culpa
. We have 11 songs for this release and are really excited to do some high octane shred! Add us on myspace or facebook! we are trying to build up our fanbase online so we can tour and what not one day!"

From First to Last announced on December 31, 2008, that a new single will be released in January for the band Color of Violence. The song, a cover of the

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' “Rock Music”, was released on February 12, on the band's MySpace page. The Color of Violence played at the 2009 Warped Tour on the Pomona stop on June 26. The Color of Violence also supported From First to Last on their tour in October 2009 with their sign to

. As of late 2009,

parted ways with From First to Last. He then became the vocalist for progressive metal band The Human Abstract.

''New Music'' (2017–present)

Around April 2017, the band's Twitter became active, Travis himself also tweeted out on July 11: "pumped on the new @colorofviolence !! Jams are turning out exciting and refreshing" On February 9, 2018, they released a new single called "Dreadophile". This followed a long period of teases from the band and two official mixtapes.

Band members

; Current line-up *

(Guy Nucleosity) – lead vocals (2002–2003, 2006–2009, 2017–present); guitars (2006–2009, 2017–present) *

(Glitch Killgasm) – drums, percussion (2002–2003, 2006–2009, 2017–present); all instruments (2006–2009, 2017–present) ;Former members *

– lead guitar, vocals (2002–2003) *Joey Antillion – bass (2002–2003) *Chad Crews – rhythm guitar (2002–2003) * Jon Syverson – drums, percussion (2009)

Timeline

Discography

; Studio albums * ''

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'' (2009) ; EPs * ''Winter Tour EP'' (2003) * ''Demo 2005'' (2005) * ''Cholera Violins'' (2020) ; Mixtapes * ''Halloween'' (2017) * ''I Can't Believe It's Not Garbage Vol.1'' (2017) * ''Fright Fiesta'' (2019) ; Singles * ''Dreadophile'' (2018) * ''Miine'' (2020)

References

External links

The Color of Violence
on

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