Whitechapel (band)

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Whitechapel
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Whitechapel during the Summer Slaughter Tour in July 2011.
Whitechapel during the Summer Slaughter Tour in July 2011.
General information
Genre (s) Deathcore , death metal
founding 2006
Website whitechapelband.com
Current occupation
singing
 Phil Bozeman
Lead guitar
 Ben Savage
Rhythm / lead guitar
 Alex Wade
Rhythm guitar
 Zach Householder
bass
 Gabe crisp
Drums (live)
 Alex Rudinger
former members
guitar
 Brandon Cagle
Drums
 Derek "Woll Smoth" Martin
Drums
 Kevin Lane
Drums
 Ben Harclerode

Whitechapel is a US-based Metal - band from Knoxville, Tennessee .

history

Singer Phil Bozeman

The band was formed in February 2006 by Phil Bozeman, Brandon Cagle and Ben Savage. Guitarist Alex Wade, bassist Gabe Crisp and drummer Derek Martin soon joined them and the first demos were recorded in March 2006 .

2007 Whitechapel signed record deals with the labels Siege of Amida Records in Great Britain and Candlelight Records in North America , where the debut album The Somatic Defilement (with Kevin Lane as drummer) was released in June of the same year .

Since October 2007 the band has been under contract with Metal Blade Records . There the second studio album This Is Exile was released in July 2008 , of which 5900 copies were sold in the first week. It reached number 118 on the Billboard Top 200 . Music videos were made for This Is Exile , Eternal Refuge and Possession .

In May 2008 Whitechapel were on the Summer Slaughter tour and in August 2008 they started with Impending Doom , A Different Breed of Killer and Through the Eyes of the Dead their first tour as headliners . They were also on the Never Say Die! Tour 2008 with Unearth and Parkway Drive .

Her third album, A New Era of Corruption , was released on June 8, 2010. A first song on the album, The Darkest Day of Man , was released on April 12, 2010 on her Myspace page. The band played at the Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals with many other bands such as Slayer and Rammstein . In autumn 2010 they were on tour in Europe as a support with Job for a Cowboy .

On August 9, 2017, Ben Harclerode announced his departure from the band via Twitter.

Band name

The name is derived from the Whitechapel district of London . In this neighborhood, Jack the Ripper brutally killed and mutilated all but one of his victims. They dedicated their first album, The Somatic Defilement , entirely to the serial killer.

Music genre

Whitechapel played a form of Deathcore strongly influenced by Deathgrind on the first two albums , so it was difficult to differentiate between these two genres. Since the album A New Era of Corruption (2010), the band moved away from deathcore and moved more towards modern death metal . In the meantime their music can be ascribed to deathcore again, which is confirmed by the album The Valley (2019).

Discography

Studio albums

year Title
music label 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placementsTemplate: chart table / maintenance / without sources
(Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH US US
2007 The Somatic Defilement
Candlelight Records 		- - - -
First published: July 31, 2007
Re-published in 2013 via Metal Blade
2008 This Is Exile
Metal Blade Records 		- - - US118 (2 weeks)
US
First published: July 8, 2008
2010 A New Era of Corruption
Metal Blade Records 		- - - US43 (2 weeks)
US
First published: June 8, 2010
2012 Whitechapel
Metal Blade Records 		- - - US47 (2 weeks)
US
First published: June 19, 2012
2014 Our Endless War
Metal Blade Records 		DE50 (1 week)
DE 		AT72 (1 week)
AT 		- US10 (2 weeks)
US
First published: April 29, 2014
2016 Mark of the Blade
Metal Blade Records 		DE16 (1 week)
DE 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		CH64 (1 week)
CH 		US72 (1 week)
US
First published: June 24, 2016
2019 The Valley
Metal Blade Records 		DE27 (1 week)
DE 		AT36 (1 week)
AT 		CH46 (1 week)
CH 		US143 (1 week)
US
First published: March 29, 2019

Other publications

  • 2011: Recorrupted (EP, Metal Blade Records)
  • 2015: Brotherhood of the Blade (Live album, Metal Blade Records)

Singles

  • 2014: The Saw Is the Law (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2014: Mono (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2016: Mark of the Blade (Metal Blade Records)
  • 2018: Brimstone (Metal Blade Records)

Music videos

  • 2008: This Is Exile
  • 2008: Possesion
  • 2009: Eternal Refuge
  • 2010: The Darkest Day of Man
  • 2011: Breeding Violence
  • 2012: I, dementia
  • 2012: The Possibilities of an Impossible Existence
  • 2014: Our Endless War
  • 2014: Worship the Digital Age
  • 2015: Let Me Burn
  • 2016: Elitist Ones
  • 2016: Bring Me Home
  • 2019: When a Demon Defiles a Witch
  • 2019: Hickory Creek

swell

  1. ↑ Whitechapel Part Ways with Drummer Ben Harclerode | MetalSucks . In: MetalSucks . August 10, 2017 ( metalsucks.net [accessed January 21, 2018]).

Web links

Commons : Whitechapel  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files