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Chelsea Grin is an American deathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formed in 2007, the group is currently signed to Artery
Recordings and havereleased one EP, two full-length albums, the latest being My Damnation, and currently have an EP titled
Evolve EP set for a June 2012 release. Thename of the band is derived from the torture method of the same name.
Chelsea Grin was founded in Salt Lake City during March 2007 by vocalist, Alex Koehler and (former) guitarist Chris Kilbourn.
Prior to being namedChelsea Grin, Koehler and Kilbourn were in local Salt Lake City band named ...read more
Chelsea Grin is an American deathcore band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Formed in 2007, the group is currently signed to Artery
Recordings and havereleased one EP, two full-length albums, the latest being My Damnation, and currently have an EP titled
Evolve EP set for a June 2012 release. Thename of the band is derived from the torture method of the same name.
Chelsea Grin was founded in Salt Lake City during March 2007 by vocalist, Alex Koehler and (former) guitarist Chris Kilbourn.
Prior to being namedChelsea Grin, Koehler and Kilbourn were in local Salt Lake City band named “Ahaziah”, which was the
forerunner band to Chelsea Grin. Ahaziah overtime lost most of their original line-up, leading the group to change their name
to begin something new. In March 2008, the band named themselvesChelsea Grin, naming themselves after the infamous
torture maneuver known as the Glasgow smile or “Chelsea grin”.
New members recruited after the beginning of this new project were bassist Austin Marticorena and lead guitarist Michael
Stafford. Marticorenaintroduced Andrew Carlston to Chelsea Grin and assisted in rewriting their current songs as well as the
creation of new material. This writing processlead to the tracks listed on their first release, Chelsea Grin EP, that was first
streamed and released online through iTunes and then released inCompact Disc format worldwide on July 27, 2008. The band
released the songs “CrewCaBanger” and “LIFELESS” as singles, both of which werereceived by listening audiences very well.
Following the release of the self-titled EP in July 2008, the signing to Statik Factory Records, and a few small successful west
coast tours, in April2009, original drummer, Carlston, decided to return to the band replacing, Shilling, and guitar player, and
original member Chris Killbourn then leftthe band to start his own record label, Matchless Records. Shortly thereafter, the
band nitched Jake Harmond once again as their substitute rhythmguitar player until the band could find a permanent member.
Soon after the band started to write the follow-up to the self-titled EP, they decided to take a new route and switch Davis
Pugh from being bassistinto being a third guitar player after David Flinn joined the band as bassist. The band then was added
to a small, week long Canadian run in June2009 with The Agonist, A Plea For Purging, Arsonists Get All the Girls and Statik
Factory labelmates, Attila. After the successful tour, fill-in guitarplayer Jaek Harmond decided to become a full-time member,
and the band joined into a contract with Artery Foundation representatives, MikeMilford and Eric Rushing whom then booked
studio time for Chelsea Grin to record their debut full-length, Desolation of Eden at Lambesis Studios inSan Marcos, California
during August 2009. The album was produced by As I Lay Dying vocalist and studio founder, Tim Lambesis. One week prior
toheading into the studio, guitar player Davis Pugh decided to leave the band, and was replaced with ex-bandmate of Jaek
Harmond; Dan Jones, ofanother local Salt Lake City band, Hermione. Whilst in the studio the band inked a deal with Artery
Recordings, a label that was imprinted betweenThe Artery Foundation and Razor & Tie.
In August 2010, while the band was in Richmond, Virginia on the Thrash and Burn tour, vocalist Alex Koehler received a
serious injury to his jaw,having it fractured in three places, which required the band to drop off its final week. Koehler was
rushed out of the venue receiving surgery. Despitethis, the band still carried out their two-week tour with Blind Witness and
Attila on during September 2010, which had Koehler substituted with AdamWarren of Oceano.
Two songs that debuted on the band’s self-titled EP; “Cheyne Stokes” and “Recreant”, were re-recorded for Desolation of
Eden. As of December2010, the album has sold over 15,000 copies. There are currently two music videos from the record,
“Sonnet of the Wretched” and “Recreant”.
Chelsea Grin finished writing and recording their second full-length album in June 2011, where the title for it was revealed as
being My Damnation. Itwas released the following month on July 19, 2011. On April 17 Artery Recordings released the title
track, My Damnation, as the album’s lead singleoff the album, having a music video produced for it weeks later. The song “All
Hail the Fallen King” featuring Phil Bozeman, vocalist of Whitechapel,also premiered before the record’s release.
Chelsea Grin are set to play the entire Warped Tour 2012. At the same time of the Warped Tour announcement, plans for
releasing a 5-song EP wereconfirmed. During December of the year, lead guitarist, Michael Stafford left the band. Born of
Osiris (and former All Shall Perish) guitarist, JasonRichardson took up Stafford’s position until further notice. Stafford explained
that he could not bear touring anymore along with other reasons for theexplanation of the departure. Less than a week later,
Richardson was kicked out from Born of Osiris, and then immediately switched his position as asubstitute member for Chelsea
Grin to a permanent member.An EP scheduled for a summer 2012 release has been confirmed. It will contain five tracks of
new, original material. Accordingly it will be titledEvolve EP and will be released June 19, 2012. Artery streamed a song from
the upcoming EP, titled “Lilith” on May 9, 2012.
Andrew Carlston has apparently quit the band in May. Though an explanation has yet to offered up, Carlston recently had a
daughter and seeminglywants to spend more time with his new family. « hide |
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