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Sumerian Records
Sumerian Records is an American record label based in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and London. The label was founded in 2006 by Ash Avildsen.VEIL OF MAYA Signs With SUMERIAN RECORDS ", Blabbermouth.net, January 11, 2008, retrieved 27 March 2010FELLSILENT Inks U.S. Deal With SUMERIAN RECORDS ", Blabbermouth.net, October 1, 2008, retrieved 27 March 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ash Avildsen
Ashley Gregory Avildsen (born November 5, 1981) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and the founder and CEO of Sumerian Records and Sumerian Films. The son of director John G. Avildsen, he wrote and directed the film ''American Satan'' (2017) and the scripted series ''Paradise City (2021 TV series), Paradise City'' (2021). Reflux Avildsen was the vocalist of metalcore band The Illusion of Democracy, Reflux in the early 2000s, which also featured Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders) and Evan Brewer (Fallujah, formerly of The Faceless, Animosity (band), Animosity and Entheos). The band released one album "The Illusion of Democracy" album via Prosthetic Records in 2004 before breaking up shortly after. Sumerian Records Sumerian Records (currently located in Nashville, TN) was founded in 2006 by Avildsen. Initially, the label was run out of his one-bedroom apartment in Venice Beach, beginning with the bands The Faceless and Stick to Your Guns (band), Stick to Your G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Omens
Bad Omens is an American Heavy metal music, heavy metal band from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2015 by vocalist and producer Noah Sebastian, guitarist Nicholas Ruffilo, and bassist Vincent Riquier. The band was later joined by guitarist and producer Joakim "Jolly" Karlsson and drummer Nick Folio, releasing their debut Bad Omens (album), self-titled album in 2016 under Sumerian Records. Their second studio album, ''Finding God Before God Finds Me'', was released in 2019, with a deluxe edition released in 2020. Their third album, ''The Death of Peace of Mind'' (2022), spawned the song "Just Pretend (Bad Omens song), Just Pretend", which is the band's biggest hit to date and is certified platinum by the RIAA. History 2013–2015: Early years The idea to form Bad Omens came in 2013 when Noah Sebastian began secretly writing lyrics while also performing guitar duties for a Washington, D.C.–based act named Immoralist. In 2014, Sebastian departed from his former band, with Bad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s. Alternative rock acts achieved mainstream success in the 1990s with the likes of the grunge subgenre in the United States, and the Britpop and shoegaze subgenres in the United Kingdom and Ireland. During this period, many record labels were looking for "alternatives", as many Arena rock, corporate rock, hard rock, and glam metal acts from the 1980s were beginning to grow stale throughout the music industry. The emergence of Generation X as a Culture, cultural force in the 1990s also contributed greatly to the rise of alternative music. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from mainstream or arena rock, commercial rock or pop. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs ( ; short for " discographies") is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''The New York Times'' as "Wikipedia-like". While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, it now includes releases in all genres and on all formats. By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created." As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings. History Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo .... It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Born Of Osiris
Born of Osiris is an American progressive metalcore band formed in 2003 in Palatine, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The band currently consists of drummer and sole remaining founding member Cameron Losch, lead vocalist Ronnie Canizaro, and guitarist Nick Rossi. Born of Osiris has played at various festivals including the Summer Slaughter TourBORN OF OSIRIS . MusicMight. Retrieved July 27, 2009. (2008, 2009, 2015 and 2018) and the Tour 4. The group underwent several name changes before finally settling on Born of Osiris in 2007, basing the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Reign
''The New Reign'' is the debut EP by American progressive metalcore band Born of Osiris. It was released on October 2, 2007 through Sumerian Records. ''The New Reign'' was written entirely by drummer Cameron Losch when he was 14–16 years old and produced by The Faceless guitarist Michael Keene. It is also the last release by the band with guitarist Matthew C. Pantelis. Pantelis went on to join deathcore band Veil of Maya after ''The New Reign''. Track listing Personnel ;Born of Osiris * Ronnie Canizaro - lead vocals * Matthew C. Pantelis - lead guitar * Lee McKinney - rhythm guitar * David Darocha - bass * Joe Buras - keyboards, backing vocals * Cameron Losch - drums ;Artwork and design * Ash Avildsen - art direction, photography ;Production and recording * Michael Keene & Pad Demolish - engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who Invention, invent, design, build, maintain and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodic Hardcore
Melodic hardcore is a broadly defined subgenre of hardcore punk with a strong emphasis on melody in its guitar work. The style often includes guitar harmonies, riffs using octave chords, as well as broken chords. Additionally, lyrics tend towards intellectualism, often being politically conscious or narrative, with concept albums sometimes being prominent. Bands in the genre also have a tendency to take influence from a range of genres including emo, post-punk, screamo, pop-punk, metalcore, post-rock and gothic rock. In the early and mid–1980s, bands including the Faith, Descendents, Dag Nasty, Gorilla Biscuits and 7 Seconds were amongst the first hardcore bands to put an emphasis on their melodies. In 1988, Bad Religion incorporated more melodic elements into their music with their third album '' Suffer'', which was widely influential, and reshaped the skate punk genre from its purely hardcore origins into a subgenre of melodic hardcore. During the 1990s, this melodic s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal subgenre that combines death metal with metalcore. The genre consists of death metal guitar riffs, blast beats, and metalcore Breakdown (music)#Heavy metal and punk rock, breakdowns. While there are some precursors to the concept of death metal fused with metalcore and hardcore elements seen in the 1990s, deathcore itself emerged in the early 2000s and gained prominence beginning in the mid-2000s. Some of the genre's earliest examples include Antagony, Despised Icon, and the Red Chord. Deathcore's expansion in the mid-2000s saw bands like All Shall Perish, Through the Eyes of the Dead, Bring Me the Horizon, Suicide Silence, Carnifex (band), Carnifex, Job for a Cowboy, Chelsea Grin and Whitechapel (band), Whitechapel taking off. In the 2010s, deathcore bands began experimenting with an eclectic selection of other genres. The genre is noted for its criticism from longtime heavy metal subculture, fans of heavy metal music, usually for its frequent use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stick To Your Guns (band)
Stick to Your Guns is an American hardcore punk band from Orange County, California. Members of the band include lead vocalist Jesse Barnett, bassist Andrew Rose, guitarists Chris Rawson and Josh James, and drummer Adam Galindo. They are currently signed with SharpTone Records. History Early years, ''For What It's Worth'', and ''Comes from the Heart'' (2003–2008) Frontman Jesse Barnett formed the band by recruiting Casey Lagos (whom he knew from his days on the worship team for Saddleback Church) on drums. After composing a few songs together, the two enlisted Justin Rutherford and Curtis Pleshe on guitars and Noah Calvin on bass. Their style made an impression locally, leading to the release of their first Extended play, EP, ''Compassion without Compromise'', in 2004. The band travelled to Oakland, California to debut their first studio album ''For What It's Worth (album), For What It's Worth'', later released on This City Is Burning Records. The album includes one of their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
For What It's Worth (album)
''For What It's Worth'' is the debut studio album by American melodic hardcore band Stick to Your Guns following their initial self-released 2004 EP titled ''Compassion Without Compromise''. Originally released in 2005 by This City Is Burning Records, ''For What It's Worth'' was re-released on February 20, 2007 by Sumerian Records Sumerian Records is an American record label based in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and London. The label was founded in 2006 by Ash Avildsen. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Faceless
The Faceless are an American technical death metal band from the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. They released their debut album, ''Akeldama'', in November 2006, and a follow-up, '' Planetary Duality'', in November 2008. The band's third album, '' Autotheism'', was released on August 14, 2012. On December 1, 2017, the band released their fourth album, '' In Becoming a Ghost''. History The band was formed in Encino by guitarist Michael Keene and bassist Brandon Giffin in 2004. In the winter of 2005, the band began work on a four-song extended-play album which would become ''Akeldama''. After recording the drum tracks, drummer Brett Batdorf left the band. After a break in the recording process, the band decided to make the EP into a full–length record and recruited several drummers to finish the drum tracks for the remaining songs. Following the release of ''Akeldama'', the band toured extensively with bands including Necrophagist, Decapitated, Nile, and The Black D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akeldama (album)
''Akeldama'' is the debut studio album by technical death metal band The Faceless. It was released on November 14, 2006 as the first release from Sumerian Records. The title of the album is Aramaic for "Field of Blood". It was produced by Michael Keene. Sound and genre ''Akeldama'' is the only album by The Faceless to incorporate a deathcore sound and style. Breakdowns and metalcore riffs are frequent on the release. The band abandoned their deathcore sound after this album.Kapper, Andrew (undated; ''circa'' August 2012)."The Faceless Autotheism Review". Heavy Metal module of About.com. Retrieved February 1, 2013. Track listing Personnel ;The Faceless * Derek Rydquist — lead vocals * Michael Keene — lead guitar, clean vocals, spoken word, vocoder speech * Steve Jones — rhythm guitar * Brandon Giffin — bass guitar * Michael Sherer — keyboards * Brett Batdorf, Andy Taylor, Navene Koperweis, Nick Pierce— drums (see below) ;Artwork and design *Album art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
