Feed Her to the Sharks was an Australian

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band from

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, formed in 2008 and disbanded in early 2019. The band has self-released two full-length albums, ''The Beauty of Falling'' (2010) and ''Savage Seas'' (2013), along with a third following their signing to

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, ''Fortitude'' (2015).

History

Since forming in 2010, the band mainly toured Australia as support to

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, and also performing on Warped Tour Australia in 2013. In early 2013 the band released a lyric video for their new single "Memory of You" on

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, followed by the album ''Savage Seas''. In support of their new album the band toured Australia with

, followed by shows in which the band headlined. The band announced via their official social media accounts on 25 March 2014 that they had signed with

. This was followed by an Australian tour with Buried in Verona and

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. Later that summer they also announced on their social media that they were in the process of writing, and would begin recording their third full-length album in October 2014. On 6 January 2015 the band announced the title of the new album ''Fortitude'', along with its release date of 15 February, pre-orders, and a stream for the single "The World Is Yours". On 26 January 2015 KillYourStereo.com premiered the first part in a series of in-studio videos detailing the recording process of the band's new album, ''Fortitude''. On 9 February the official music video for the song "Chasing Glory" premiered exclusively on

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, which was followed by the album release on 10 February. The following month Hysteria released an interview with the band chronicling their signing to

and the process leading up to their album release. On 6 May, the second official music video from ''Fortitude'' was released for the track "Burn The Traitor," which also premiered exclusively on

, along with the announcement that they would be traveling to the US to play the entirety of the 2015

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Members

*Kim Choo – guitar, keyboards, programming *Marinos Katsanevas – guitar *Robert Davies – bass guitar *Andrew 'Stix' Cotterell – drums

Former members

*Andrew Van Der Zalm – vocals, keyboards, piano *Jono – Guitar *Daniel Wardan – Bass *Chris Chapman – Drums

Discography

Demo

*''Promo CD Demo'' (self-released, 2009)

Studio albums

*''The Beauty of Falling'' (self-released, 2010) *''Savage Seas'' (self-released, 2013) *''Fortitude'' (

, 2015)

Singles

*"Memory of You" (2013) *"Buried Alive" (2013) *"Chasing Glory" (2015) *"Burn The Traitor" (2015) *"The World is Yours" (2015)

References

External links

''Feed Her to the Sharks at Victory Records''
* {{Authority control Australian metalcore musical groups Victory Records artists Musical quintets Musical groups established in 2008