Marietta (band)
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Marietta was an American
emo Emo is a rock music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of and hardcore punk from the Washington D.C. hardcore punk scene, where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered b ...
band from
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History

Marietta began in late 2011. They released a split with
Modern Baseball Modern Baseball (MoBo) was an American emo band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania consisting of Bren Lukens, Jake Ewald, Sean Huber, and Ian Farmer. The band formed in 2012 at Drexel University and released their first album, ''Sports'', on Lame-O ...
in 2012 titled ''Couples Therapy''. In 2013, Marietta released their first full-length album titled ''Summer Death''. In April 2015, Marietta released an EP titled ''Cuts''. On August 17, 2015, Marietta released their second full-length album titled ''As It Were''. In December 2015, Marietta announced on their Facebook page that they were breaking up. On May 1, 2020, Marietta released an EP called 'Summer Demos 2012' containing demos of songs produced when the band first formed.


Band members

*Ben Johnson – bass *Evan Lescallette –
guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...
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lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...
*Andrew Weigel –
drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...
*Ethan Willard – guitar, lead vocals


Discography

Studio albums *''Summer Death'' (2013, Dog Knights Productions) *''As It Were'' (2015, Good Sadie Media, Sorry Girls Records, Near Mint Records) EPs *''Couples Therapy'' (2012, Grandpa's Miscellaneous Media Collection) *″Cuts″ 7″ EP by Marietta 2015 Dogknights *''summer demos 2012'' (2020, Near Mint)


References

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