Biography
Band is he was formed in 1999, with the name of "Early Times" for the vocalist / guitarist Victor Fuentes, his brother and baterista Michael Fuentes, the guitarist Joe Tancil and the bassist Mitchell Ballatore.
To a little time to be formed, they threw his first albúm " Not Turning Back ". With this one they managed they become very acquaintances in San Diego's musical scene, realizing his first concerts, after this there were thrown the EPs Untitled EP Roots Beneath Ideals, the last one it came to Equal Vision's hands Records, and being contracted by record this one after seeing them in concert.
After going out of the secondary one, in 2004, members record the albúm To Celebration Of To Ending, under his new name "Before Today", though this name does not appear in the albúm. The band changed name due to problems of copyright and was recorded in the studies DoubleTime in The Booth, California, by the producer Jeff Forrest.
In the middle of 2006, after happening for heavy tours, Joe Tancill and Mitchell Ballatore decide to separate of the band, making alone the brothers Fuentes, though they continued writing songs and material for an algúm of study. Possessing the support of his discography, the band begins to record a new albúm in the city of Seattle, Washington, with the producer Casey Bates.
On June 26, 2007, the duo throws the albúm " To Flair For The Dramatic " to you are heights with Pierce The Veil's name, motivated of a song of the albúm To Celebration Of An Ending.
Three months before the great launch, the band began to touch again live, with the temporary members
Tony Perry (guitarist)
And Jaime Preciado in under...
The band The Devil Wears Prada and Mayday Parade shared scene in these months together with To Day To Remember, Chiodos, From Firts To Last, Emery.
In November, 2007, the band was invited to touch in the Warped Tour, of the following year, since also in the Bamboozle Left of 2008
The band began his first tour, " The Delicious Tour ", between October and November, 2008, with Breathe Carolina, Four Letter Lie and Emarosa.
Also Chows took part in the Taste Of 2009 with Bring Me the Horizon, Thursday, Four Year Strong and Cancer Bats.
The band crossed the world in these two tours, there have won numerous fans of his only style of progressive of Post-Hardcore, have grown like you present so much as musicians and of all these accumulated experiences, during August, 2009, the band announced the recording of his new albúm. They moved to The Angels, California, to record Selfish Machines, with the producer Mike Green.
All the members of the band (Vic Fuentes; Mike Fuentes; Jaime Preciado; Tony Perry) they join to design an album of inventiveness that is sure to defy the perception of the people of the band.
The recording of this album managed to be more complicated of the foreseen initially, but everything ended up by being a disguised Satisfaction. As Vic Fuentes says " Actually it was a very intense process ", with this also it announced that the band will not finish the album in the indicated time, tomandosé an extra of two months.. " Definitively it was necessary to take the time with this disc ", it continues. " We are not going to resolve in any thing with this disc ". Finally it was thrown on June 21, 2010,
Marking #1 in the Billboard Heatseekers Chart.
Of the sensibilidad pop lifts of songs as "Bulletproof Love" to the optimistic aggression of "Caraphernelia" the album shows in the versatile thing into which Pierce The Veil has turned. When they are shouting with all his heart or having care of his souls.
Also we can say that there is a heap of sonorous surprises in Selfish Machines, especially the emotive ballad of piano stimulated " Stay Away From My Friends " where it clarifies in the great growth that musicians have had estós as composers.
" This song was my first opportunity to write in the piano ", makes clear Vic. " I have a piano in my house, so it had been putting in him and he ended up by writing some riffs, which I believe that definitively it gave to him to the album a different touch ". He adds also that will try to implement with the time the keyboards in live actions of the band.
Though Pierce The Veil has been travelling non-stop in the last years, they have be I begin a time last year to be able to write these tracks and at once they were thrown in the process of composition...
" It is very difficult for us to write in the way, because we are of tour in a caravan most of the time with limited spaces, which nothing good presages for the creativity ", Vic recognizes with a smile. " We have a study in my house that I like to spend the moment in, for what, basically, only I shut in myself to going out of the world of three or four months and the whole day happened and the night writing ", it continues. " Every song is a super personnel, they all are very royal of our life and I believe that as soon as the people read them, probably it could see a bit on what is happening with us ".
When they ask Vic to on the title of the album, he explains.. " We all Are in one or other one forms the selfish machines. By no means it is a question of a negative thing, is the human nature. We all have the natural trend to want, to love and continue.
When they ask Vic to on the title of the album, he explains.. " We all Are in one or other one forms the selfish machines. By no means it is a question of a negative thing, is the human nature. We all have the natural trend to want, to love and continue." An example of it is that we all are in constant search of someone whom loving, or even with major desperation, someone that it loves you. It is the human nature removes to his skeleton, not lie, only touched the bottom sincere feelings and the desire. Not trying to be shy, agreeable, or respectable, there treats itself about the "evil" what exists inside us who is not really bad by no means, only it is there and always it will be inside all of us. "
Previously, the band touched in enough concerts, included the Bamboozle Left, South by Southwest, Never Say Never Festival and the Vans Warped Tour. Also there contributed to the Punk Goes Fearless Records's Classic Rock, recording a cover of Blue Öyster Cult, (Don't Fear) The Reaper. The band formed a part of the " Take Action Tour " with Attack Attack!, in New Zealand and Australia, the "Versus Tour" in Japan with Confide and the " This Is to Family Tour " with Emmure, In Fear and Faith, Of Mice and Men and Attack Attack!, in diciembe of 2010. Pierce The Veil touched in the Fox Theater in Pomona as surprise on behalf of Alternative Press's tour together with August Burns Red, Bring Me the Horizon, Polar Bear Club, Emarosa and This Is Hell.
On November 1, the band announced a tour for 2011 with Silverstein, Miss May I, The Chariot and To Bullet For Pretty Boy, in the Winterizer Tour. In March and April, 2011, Pierce The Veil was a part of the Gamechanger's Tour with To Day to Remember, Bring The Horizon and We Came seize Your Romans. Also he contributed in a few dates of the tour " The Dead Masquerade ", organized by Leak The Fate.
After having touched with bands in almost all the subkinds, Pierce The Veil always they have been proud of not bordering to his band for a scene especially or of kind and the songs rich harmony, as " I Don't Care If You're Contagious " they are guaranteed to exhibit to a followers' totally new multitude.
" Every band that I have wanted and admired it has grown constant and every record is a bit different from his way and I believe that it is like a debit to be, since it supports that to establish new goals and to try to change for good, " Vic explains. " This disc is, undoubtedly it is going to take new places to us and after this we are going to continue writing and to try to do that near even better ", it summarizes. " Always we are looking at the future. "
The band revealed in one interviewed Common Revolt that were gliding to write and to record Selfish Machines's continuation, in the second semester of 2011, and that participarian in mas tours for the rest of the year.
The band was confirmed for September 6 in the " Family Day Tour ", to realize in Chile, together with Sum 41, Four Year Strong and Attack Attack!.
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