Crush 40
| Crush 40 | |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , heavy metal , alternative metal , alternative rock , synth rock |
| founding | 1998 as Sons of Angels |
| Website | www.crush40.net |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Johnny Gioeli |
Guitar, bass |
Jun Senoue |
bass |
Takeshi Taneda |
Drums |
Toru Kawamura |
| former members | |
bass |
Naoto Shibata |
Drums |
Hirotsugu homma |
Drums |
Katsuji |
Drums |
Mark Schulman |
Crush 40 is a Japanese / American hard rock band, which is partly responsible for the songs of the Sonic video games of the Japanese video game company Sega . Songs for the arcade racing game NASCAR Arcade were recorded under the name Sons of Angels ; Due to the same name as an existing band, the name was changed to Crush 40 .
Band history
Crush 40 (also sometimes called C40 for short) is a project by the American singer Johnny Gioeli (known as the singer of Hardline and Axel Rudi Pell ) and the Japanese guitarist Jun Senoue (known as the sound director at SEGA).
Her first song, Open your heart, is the theme song of Sonic Adventure . Senoue had written the song in Gioeli's voice, but had no means of contact. Contact was made through Doug Aldrich (guitarist for the band Whitesnake ), which led to the cooperation. The second song, It Doesn't Matter , was the theme song by Sonic and sung by Tony Harnell (ex-singer of TNT ).
Her next appearance was in the next game, Sonic Adventure 2 . The first song Live & Learn became the theme song. The other song is called Escape From The City and was sung by Ted Poley .
All four songs have not yet been produced under a band name, in the credits all participants were only named by name and not yet associated with Crush 40. It stayed that way until an album of the same name was released in 2003. This includes all four previously published songs from the Sonic games as well as seven songs from the (actually) first record when they were still called Sons of Angels. In the same year, work began on the latest offshoot of the Sonic games ( Sonic Heroes ), in which Jun Senoue again acted as sound director. He began writing songs with the help of other artists such as Julien-K , Kay Hanley , Gunnar Nelson and Johnny Gioeli. Also in this game there were two new songs by Crush 40: the theme song Sonic Heroes and What I'm Made Of …… .
In 2005, SEGA's newest game in the Sonic universe, Shadow the Hedgehog, was released . The theme song was again from Crush 40, I Am (All Of Me) and the ending song Never Turn Back .
In the 2006 Sonic offshoot Sonic the Hedgehog , Crush 40 was again represented with a song. The theme song was His World by Zebrahead . However, there is also a modified version of this song from Crush 40, which can only be found on the soundtrack CD Several Wills .
For the 2009 released Sonic and the Black Knight , Crush 40 produced some songs. In 2009 the best of compilation was also released under the name Super Sonic Songs . This contains almost all the Crush 40 songs that were written for the Sonic the Hedgehog series up to that point , as well as three songs from the Crush 40 album and the new song Is It You .
2010 was released for the Xbox 360 Sonic Free Riders . The theme song is Free , which Crush 40 covered for the soundtrack album.
In 2010, Crush 40 announced that it would also produce music for Sonic games in 2011. In 2011 they played at the Sonic Boom event at E3. They are represented on the 20th Anniversary Edition of the Sonic CD soundtrack together with Alex Makhlouf from the Cash Cash group . There you can hear her version of the theme song of the American version of Sonic the Hedgehog CD , Sonic Boom. December 2011 the benefit single Song of Hope was released , which Senoue wrote after the earthquake in Japan. This was the first Crush 40 release on iTunes . This was followed by a special edition of the Super Sonic Songs compilation, which contained three additional titles.
On January 23, 2012, Jun Senoue published a picture from the recording studio on his Twitter account, which showed the titles of three new songs. These are Sonic Youth , Rise Again and One of Those Days . Sonic Youth and Rise Again were leaked as singles via iTunes on June 21, 2012 and officially released on July 4, 2012 together with One Of Those Days , the Rise Again EP, which includes Sonic Youth , One Of Those Days , Song Of Hope and Rise Again , was released on August 1, 2012 exclusively in Japan. Even before the EP was released, the self-titled Crush 40 EP was sold exclusively at the Summer Of Sonic event on July 7, 2012. This contains the three singles newly released on iTunes, but not Song Of Hope .
On August 10, 2012, Jun Senoue announced the release date of the live CD announced by Johnny Gioeli at the Summer of Sonic via Twitter and Facebook. It was released on October 3, 2012 and is entitled Live! .
With Team Sonic Racing they released their latest track Green Light Ride .
Discography
Soundtracks
- Sonic Adventure Vocal mini-album (Songs with Attitude) (1998, Marvelous Entertainment Inc.)
- Triple Threat: Sonic Heroes Vocal Trax (2003, Wave Master Inc.)
- Shadow the Hedgehog: Lost And Found Original Soundtrack (2006, Wave Master Inc.)
- Sonic the Hedgehog Vocal Traxx: Several Wills (2007, Wave Master Inc.)
- True Blue: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog (2008, Wave Master Inc.)
- Face to Faith: Sonic and the Black Knight Vocal Trax (2009, Wave Master Inc.)
- True Colors: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2 (2009, Wave Master Inc.)
- Sonic Free Riders: Break Free Original Soundtrack (2010, Wave Master Inc.)
- Sonic the Hedgehog CD Original Soundtrack 20th Anniversary Edition (2011, Wave Master Inc.)
Own publications
- Thrill of the Feel (2000, Victor Entertainment), then still under the name Sons of Angels
- Crush 40 (2003, Frontiers Records )
- The Best of Crush 40: Super Sonic Songs (2009, Wave Master Inc.)
- Crush 40 - EP (2012, Crush 40 Records [independent] - Summer of Sonic 2012 exclusive)
- Rise Again - EP (2012, Wave Master Inc.)
- Live! (2012, Wave Master Inc.)
- 2 Nights 2 Remember (2015, Wave Master Inc.)
Singles
- Song Of Hope - single (2011, Wave Master Inc.)
- Sonic Youth - Single (2012, Wave Master Inc.)
- Rise Again - single (2012, Wave Master Inc.)
- One Of Those Days - single (2012, Wave Master Inc.)
Concerts
- On the Tokyo Game Show 2008 with five Sonic songs (four of which were shortened).
- 2010 in London at a Sonic the Hedgehog Convention, the Summer of Sonic .
- 2011 two concerts in Tokyo and at the Sonic Boom event at E3 in Los Angeles .
- 2012 two more concerts in Tokyo, as well as appearances at the Summer of Sonic in Brighton and the Sonic Boom at the San Diego Comic Con .
- Two appearances at the Japan Game Music Festival 2013 in Tokyo, plus appearance at the Sonic Boom event in St. Louis .
- 2014: '2N2R' - 2 concerts in Tokyo.