Letlive
| Letlive | |
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.JPG) Letlive. play at the Summerblast Festival 2014 |
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| General information | |
| origin | Los Angeles , California |
| Genre (s) | Post-Hardcore , Progressive Rock |
| founding | 2002 |
| resolution | 2017 |
| Website | www.thisisletlive.com |
| Last occupation | |
| Jason Aalon Alexander Butler | |
| Ryan Jay Johnson | |
| Loniel Robinson | |
| Jess Sahyoun | |
| former members | |
| Christian Johansen | |
| Benjamin Sharp | |
| Omid Majdi | |
Electric guitar |
Keejan Majdi |
Electric guitar |
Jean Francisco Nascimento |
| Anthony Rivera | |
Drums |
Adam Castle |
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Letlive ( spelling : letlive. ) Was a post-hardcore band from Los Angeles , California , United States , formed in 2002 .
The group has released one EP and four studio albums during their career. The Blackest Beautiful , released in 2013, was the group's first album to enter both the domestic charts and the UK . The fourth album If I'm the Devil ... was released in 2016 and entered the German album charts for the first time.
The group toured North America , Europe and Australia several times . Letlive also played festivals such as Soundwave , Southside , Area4 , the Hurricane Festival , the Sunset Strip Music Festival and the Warped Tour . The group has toured with bands such as We Are Defiance , Pierce the Veil , Underoath , Every Time I Die , Your Demise , Enter Shikari and Deftones .
history
Letlive were founded in Los Angeles in 2002 . Today, after several line-up changes, the group consists of Jason Aalon Alexander Butler ( vocals ), Ryan Jay Johnson ( electric bass , background vocals ), Jean Francisco Nascimento ( electric guitar ), Jess Sahyoun (electric guitar, background vocals) and Loniel Robinson ( drums ).
In 2003 the group's only EP to date, called Exhaustion, Salt Water, and Everything in Between , was released via At One . The debut album Speak Like You Talk was released in 2005, also via At One. In 2009 the group switched to Tragic Hero Records , which would later release the band's second album, Fake History . This was released in April 2010. In 2011 there was another change of record company. Through Oliver Sykes from Bring Me the Horizon , the group was signed by Epitaph Records after he made the owner of the label, Brett Gurewitz, aware of them. Fake History was reissued via Epitaph Records . This received mostly positive feedback from the trade press, including Alternative Press , Allmusic , the BBC and Rock Sound . The latter included the album on the 101 Modern Classics list .
Beginning in June 2011, the band toured excessively across several continents. The group played a European tour as the opening act for Enter Shikari and Your Demise and could be seen at both the Download Festival and the Leeds Festival . In 2012 the group played for the first time at the Soundwave Festival in Australia. In addition, the group was in the Kerrang! Awards 2012 in the category Best International Band , which was awarded to My Chemical Romance .
In February 2013, the group announced that they were planning to release a new album this summer. The Blackest Beautiful was released on July 9, 2013 via Epitaph Records . British magazine Rock Sound included the album on their list of 50 Best Albums of 2013 , where it landed in first place. The album also made it to number 62 in the UK album charts. Between June 15 and August 4, 2013, the group played on the main stage of the Warped Tour . On February 10, 2015, guitarist Jean Francisco Nascimento announced that he was leaving the band for unknown reasons. A little later it was announced that Kenji Chan, who was previously active as a touring guitarist for Bruno Mars , was announced as the new session musician. Between February 18 and April 4, 2015, the band toured supporting Taking Back Sunday and the Menzigers . Worth mentioning is the concert on April 3, 2015 in the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista in the state of Florida, where the group was unloaded for initially unknown reasons. About nine months later it was announced that letlive. were banned from performing by the Walt Disney Company , the operator of the House of Blues in Lake Buena Vista. The group thus joined a list of bands such as Skeletonwitch , Exodus and Thy Art Is Murder , which Disney had also banned from performing.
The band has had problems with concert operators in the past; For example, the group's set was canceled at a gig that took place as part of a concert tour with Bring Me the Horizon and Of Mice & Men in Atlanta , Georgia , after singer Jason Butler climbed a balcony while his band was performing. In September 2015 the band announced the completion of the album work and announced the album for 2016. The title of the album was announced in November. It's called If I'm the Devil… and will be released on June 10, 2016. In November and December 2016, the group will be touring several European countries in the opening act for Pierce the Veil .
On April 28, 2017 the musicians announced their separation and thus the dissolution of letlive. known. Jason Butler founded in July the same year, together with Stephen Harrison , former at The Chariot active and Aric Improta, former Night Verses - drummer , the supergroup The Fever 333 .
Discography
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Albums
- 2005: Speak Like You Talk ( At One Records )
- 2010: Fake History ( Tragic Hero , reissued in 2011 via Epitaph Records )
- 2013: The Blackest Beautiful (Epitaph Records)
- 2016: If I'm the Devil ... (Epitaph Records)
EPs
- 2003: Exhaustion, Salt Water, and Everything in Between (At One Records)
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Allmusic : LETLIVE | Artist | Official Charts
- ↑ Christopher McLallen: Letlive. lound as shit and with some pretty big deal friends, meet the band you'll tell people you saw when they were small . In: The Kane Corporation (ed.): Front . No. 155, London , April 2011, pp. 32-33. ISSN 1464-4053 , OCLC 226099638 .
- ↑ Rock Sound's 101 Modern Classics: 74 - 50 . In: Rock Sound . Freeway Press. June 27, 2012. Retrieved July 10, 2012: “Few albums encapsulate the idea of a modern classic quite as perfectly as this one. The essence of hardcore distilled by five LA lifers, 'Fake History' is at once a howl of vulnerability and a fuck-you-you-will-never-break-me clarion call of utter defiance. Truly, genuinely thrilling. "
- ^ Gregory Heaney: Fake History - Review . In: Allmusic . Rovi Corporation . 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ↑ Mischa Pearlman: Reviews - Fake History . Alternative press . 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ↑ Mischa Pearlman: Letlive Fake History Review . BBC Music . April 6, 2011. Retrieved April 15, 2011.
- ↑ Newbound: Letlive. - Fake History Album review . In: Rock Sound . Freeway Press. April 11, 2011. Retrieved April 12, 2011.
- ↑ Rock Sound : ENTER SHIKARI ANNOUNCE OCTOBER TOUR; YOUR DEMISE AND LETLIVE. TO SUPPORT
- ↑ Sean Reid: Alter the Press! : Enter Shikari European Tour with Letlive and Your Demise
- ↑ James Gill: Metal Hammer : Letlive Announce UK Dates And Discuss The Download Fight… ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Australian Broadcasting Corporation : Triple J : Soundwave 2012 line up
- ↑ Sean Michaels: The Guardian : Kerrang! awards 2012: You Me at Six lead nominations
- ↑ Rock Sound : The 50 Best Albums of 2013
- ↑ a b Chart tracking: UK
- ↑ Tumblr : Band announcements
- ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Taking Back Sunday announce tour with letlive., The Menzingers
- ^ Matt Crane: Alternative Press : Letlive. barred from playing Florida venue
- ↑ Bram Teitelman: Metal Insider : letlive. the latest band to be banned by Disney
- ^ Tyler Sharp: Alternative Press : Thy Art Is Murder barred from playing Disney venues
- ^ Matt Crane, Alternative Press : Issues, letlive. added to Bring Me The Horizon, Of Mice & Men tour
- ^ Matt Crane: Alternative Press : letlive.'s set cut short after singer Jason Butler climbs balcony
- ^ Caitlyn Ralph: Alternative Press : letlive. break up
- ↑ Kelsey Shawgo: Alternative Press : Watch letlive. frontman perform with new band the Fever (Night Verses, the Chariot)
- ^ Scott Munro: Metal Hammer : Ex Letlive vocalist Butler unveils new project The Fever
