40 Below Summer

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40 Below Summer
General information
origin New Jersey , United States
Genre (s) Nu metal , rock music
founding 1998, 2011
resolution 2005
Current occupation
Max Illidge
Joey D'Amico
Electric guitar
 David Mondragon
Derrick Klybish
Anthony Devizio
former members
Electric bass
 Peter Savad
Drums
 Carlos Aguilar
Electric bass
 Steve Ferreira
Electric guitar
 Jordan Plingos
Electric bass
 Hector Graziani
Electric guitar
 Ty Fury
Electric guitar
 Ryan Jurhs
Drums
 Ali Nassar

40 Below Summer is an American nu metal and rock band from New Jersey that was formed in 1998 and split in 2005. After the group was occasionally active in the following years, it has been permanently active again since 2011.

history

After singer Max Illidge and drummer Carlos Aguilar already worked together for the band Alien, they founded the band 40 Below Summer in 1998. Illidge was also previously seen in the music video for the Talking Heads song Burning Down the House at the age of twelve and was also active on Broadway stages. After several problems, the two guitarists Joe D'Amico and Jordan Plingos as well as the bassist Hector Graziani came as permanent members in October 2000. The demo Side Show Freaks was released in 1999 and the EP Rain the following year. The group then played various concerts both in New Jersey and in New York State . Through the demo, No Name Management , which had also worked for bands like Fear Factory or Slipknot , became aware of the band and began working with 40 Below Summer. A short time later, the group also signed a recording deal with Sire Records after the group had already negotiated with a dozen labels. With the producer Garth Richardson they recorded the debut album Invitation to the Dance . However, since the album was released on September 11, 2001 , little attention was paid to the phonogram. Since the label also had to declare its bankruptcy, the sound carrier was re-released via Warner Music Group . In March 2002 the band went on the Jägermeister Music Tour together with Drowning Pool , Ill Niño and Coal Chamber . During a tour through New York with E-Town Concrete , the label Razor & Tie became aware in February 2003 and signed the band in June. The second album entitled The Mourning After , which was produced by David Bendeth , was released in the autumn of the same year . In Europe , the album was released on Roadrunner Records in late 2003 . On the sound carrier you can hear the songs Self-Medicate and FE Cristian Machado by Ill Niño as a guest singer. After a tour in October 2003 with Mushroomhead and Motograter , another tour with Motograter and Kittie went in the same month . After Plingon left the band in October 2004, Motograter guitarist Ty Fury replaced the band. In early November 2004 the band started a tour with Drowning Pool, Ill Niño, Flaw and Candiria . Aguilar left the band in spring 2005 before Fury left the band in June to form the band Synthetic Delusion with former Motograter members. After the group broke up with their label, they recorded a demo that contained three songs before the breakup of 40 Below Summer. The band held their last appearance in September 2005. Illidge, D'Amico and Graziani together with the guitarist Ryan Jurhs and the drummer Ali Nassar the band Black Market Hero. At the end of October 2006, the album The Last Dance was released via Crash Music . The release consisted of nine previously unreleased songs and a bonus DVD from the last performance at the Starland Ballroom in New Jersey. There followed a few appearances in the old line-up. At the end of July 2007 the EP Rain was re-released with seven bonus songs and a re-release also took place for the demo Side Show Freaks . In 2010 the band also played another concert, in which the bands With Daggers Drawn, in which Illidge and D'Amico worked together, God Forbid and Dead Men Dreaming took part. The group has been permanently active again since 2011 and released the next album Fire at Zero Gravity in 2013 .

style

According to Mario Mesquita Borges from Allmusic , the band plays edgy hard rock , which is particularly melodic. In addition, strong metal influences can be heard, so that the band can be assigned to Nu Metal. In the band biography on 40belowsummer.com , Max Illidge wrote that the band does not see themselves as a nu-metal band. Rather, they mix elements of Nu and old school metal, with hardcore punk and straight rock and folk . A few elements from jazz and funk can also be heard. Also in his review of The Mourning After , Elmar Salmutter from Metal Hammer wrote that the band hates to be called a nu-metal band. The music is radio-friendly, like that of Sevendust and Trapt , which occasionally reminds us of the 40 Below Summer. On the album, Nu-Metal songs alternate with “softer, commercially usable pieces”. The structure of the songs is very similar, the singing is expressive.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Mario Mesquita Borges: 40 Below Summer. Allmusic , accessed November 1, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Christian Graf: Nu Metal and Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 102 f .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on November 2, 2014 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 .
  4. ^ Joel McIver: The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal . Omnibus Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7119-9209-6 , p. 54 .
  5. ↑ 40 BELOW SUMMER Added To Jagermeister Music Tour. Blabbermouth.net , accessed November 2, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b Biography. 40belowsummer.com, archived from the original on February 23, 2006 ; Retrieved November 2, 2014 .
  7. ↑ 40 Below Summer. laut.de , accessed on November 1, 2014 .
  8. ↑ 40 BELOW SUMMER Announces Reunion Show. Blabbermouth.net, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  9. ↑ 40 Below Summer. ticketrink.com, accessed November 2, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Elmar Salmutter: 40 Below Summer . The Mourning After. In: Metal Hammer . December 2003, p. 104 .