WE ARE THE FALLEN

I want to share about one of my favorite bands. They are WE ARE THE FALLEN. I took their info from Wikipedia.

We Are the Fallen is an American gothic metal band consisting of former American Idol contestant Carly Smithson, Marty O'Brien and former Evanescence members Ben Moody, John LeCompt, and Rocky Gray. The band's name is an allusion to Evanescence's 2003 album, Fallen, which has resulted in criticism for their similar style to Evanescence.

We Are the Fallen began forming when Moody had discussions with Evanescence band members Gray and LeCompt about the band moving in a different direction than originally planned. Moody felt something had to change in order to preserve their style of music and left due to creative differences with Amy Lee, the band's co-founder and frontwoman. Years later when Gray and LeCompt also left the band.

Moody's roommate showed him videos online of Smithson performing her rendition of Evanescence's "Bring Me to Life" which was coincidentally the song all singers used to audition for Moody and the band. Ben was then introduced to Smithson who was developing a solo album after the tour with American Idol.

Moody and Smithson then discussed what they wanted to do musically and they discovered their needs were "identical". Smithson felt that Idol was for a family audience which wasn't "creatively and musically the best" for her at that time. She also stated that trying to make a solo album was lonely and "now there’s four other people who bring all sorts of different things to the table and musically it's like everything I was trying to do ... heavy rock with great melodies.

Band members

• Rocky Gray – drums
• John LeCompt – rhythm guitar
• Ben Moody – lead guitar
• Marty O'Brien – bass guitar
• Carly Smithson – vocals

Discography

·         Tear the World Down

Release date: May 11, 2010

·         "Bury Me Alive"

·         "Tear the World Down"

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_Fallen