Emery

They made Emerald City their new hometown and signed a record deal with Tooth & Nail Records and wasted no time in heading for the studio to work on their debut album which would later be called “The Weak’s End”. It was produced at the Black Lodge Studio in Eudora, Kansas. It was later released on January 27th 2004. Shortly after, touring extensively, the band headed back into the studio, to work on their following album “The Question”. The project took five weeks to record. It was released on August 2nd 2005, and made it into the US Billboard 200, charting at #45. It became the band’s highest charting album of their career. They re-released the album adding a DVD, which was a documentary film with bonus footage and exerts of Emery performing live songs.

It was whilst the band were on tour in Australia with their contemporaries, Underoath, that Emery announced that they would be releasing a new album. The album “I’m Only A Man” was unfortunately leaked on the Internet before it’s official release on October 2nd 2007. It received mixed reviews. They released a deluxe edition of the album as well, which featured four acoustic songs that were recorded while on the Take Action Tour.

They maintained a certain level of chart success throughout their career with songs such as “…In Shallow Seas We Sail” released on June 2nd 2009, making it into the Christian, Rock, Alternative and Digital Charts as well as the Billboard 200 Chart too. It gave the band their first number one in the Christian Chart. Their subsequent album “What Do What We Want” released on March 29th 2011 followed suit.

The band has made other appearances on compilation albums, most notably a version of “Holding Out for a Hero” originally by Bonnie Tyler featuring on the “Punk Goes 80’s” album.

Originally known as The Chiodos Bros. - a tribute to the filmmakers responsible for the cult classic Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Chiodos have since become one of the most influential post-hardcore bands on the circuit. After a formative few years in which they toured, released EPs and wrote material for a debut full-length, they finally dropped the aptly-titled ‘All’s Well That Ends Well’ in 2005, which they followed up with a well-received slot on that year’s Warped Tour, and support slots to the likes of Atreyu and Cohhed and Cambria.

Upheaval was to lie ahead, though; after the success of album number two, ‘Bone Palace Ballet’, the band fired frontman Craig Owens in 2009, just after a tour with Nine Inch Nails had further helped place them on the map. Their next album, 2010’s ‘Illuminaudio’, was a success within the genre, but a further reshuffle followed once touring duties were completed; both replacement singer Brandon Bolmer and sticksman Tanner Wayne announced their departures in March 2012, with Owens quickly ushered back into the fold - his first recorded contributions since his return can be heard on ‘Devil’, the band’s first record in four years, which was released on April 1st, 2004.