Tuesday, 3 June 2008
From First To Last
Artist: From First To Last
Genre(s):
Alternative
ROck: Alternative
Hardcore
Discography:
Heroine
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
Music On The Brain, vol. 1
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
[2003] Aesthetic (EP)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
From First To Last - Aesthetic
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Based in Los Angeles (by way of Florida), From First to Last formed in 2002 with guitarists Travis Richter and Matt Good. With a rotating lineup early on, the post-hardcore/screamo outfit released the EP Aesthetic on New York-based Four Leaf Recordings in June 2003 ahead sign language with Epitaph by the closing of the year. After the loss of their original vocaliser, Phillip Reardon, 15-year-old Sonny Moore coupled on as tether vocaliser during the recording of the band's debut full-length. Written in deuce weeks, the radical was rounded out on the album -- 2004's Devout Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount -- with drummer Derek Bloom and bassist Jon Weisberger. Tour dates with Story of the Year, Bad Religion, Halifax, and Emanuel, among many others, followed in front work began on their 2006 review. They parted shipway with Weisberger shortly ahead entering the studio, so producer Ross Robinson (Glassjaw, Slipknot) called upon friend Wes Borland (of Limp Bizkit and Bigdumbface celebrity) to fill in for the guys on sea bass (he later as well played some shows with them). The more than suppurate and ambitious Heroine was issued in March 2006 to positive reviews, and the band supported its entry into the Top 40 on the route with Fall Out Boy, the All-American Rejects, and Hawthorne Heights. From First to Last jumped up to the big league soon after, inking a conduct with Capitol that April. Though impulse continued to build, the ride to the top was not without its bumps. In peculiar, Moore struggled with vocal problems that finally resulted in meek operating theatre and From First to Last beingness constrained to drop cancelled various shows and festivals, including the 2006 Warped Tour and a fall support run with Atreyu. As work began on fresh material, Moore parted ways with the group in early 2007 to centralize on solo act upon, and guitarist Matt Good took over tip vocal duties. Around the same time, From First to Last's deal with Capitol also fizzled. But the guys (at once with fresh bassist Matt Manning for good on board) were determined and pressed on with plans to record and acquittance their next album themselves.