Acceptance (band)

Acceptance
Origin	Seattle, Washington, United States
Genres	Alternative rock
Years active	1998–2006
Labels	The Militia Group Sony Music Columbia Records
Associated acts	Anberlin The Divorce Search/Rescue Wild Orchid Children Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground Thunder Thunder The Spill Canvas Hangnail (Christian band)
Past members
Peter Pizzuto Jason Vena Christian McAlhaney Kaylan Cloyd Ryan Zwiefelhofer Nick Radovanovic Garrett Lunceford Christopher Camp

Acceptance was an alternative rock band from Seattle, Washington, formed in 1998. They released their first EP, Lost for Words, in 2000, followed by Black Lines to Battlefields in 2003 (this EP was also re-released with live bonus tracks). Their only album, Phantoms, was released in 2005.

History

The band toured nationally and shared stages with the likes of The Juliana Theory, Anberlin, Finch, Further Seems Forever, and Seether as well as performing successfully on the Warped Tour and Cornerstone Festival. When the band's debut record, Lost For Words came out on Seattle indie, Rocketstar Records, and quickly approached the 5000 sales mark, the industry at large began taking notice. When the band recorded a new 5-song demo with Aaron Sprinkle, this industry interest turned into serious courting by several major labels.^{[citation needed]} After putting a professional management team in place to help determine the band's course of action, the band made the decision to release the Black Lines To Battlefields EP, produced by Aaron Sprinkle on The Militia Group who had been a long-time supporter of the band.

Acceptance later signed to the larger Columbia Records and released their debut album Phantoms in 2005, again produced by Aaron Sprinkle. The album was one of many included in the Sony rootkit controversy due to its inclusion of the Extended Copy Protection software.

Acceptance broke up in the summer of 2006. Former guitarist Christian McAlhaney posted the following message on their site:

You see, there comes a time in a band member’s life where he must choose between the abnormal life of a gypsy rock musician and the normal life of the common man. Jason, our beloved lead singer, has chosen the latter and decided to take on the yoke of the common man. HOWEVER, the rest of us do not share in this desire for normalcy and have decided to continue in our pursuit of rock stardom. You should all be expecting to hear a new kick ace rocking project from Nick, Kyle, and I, as well as a new project from Kaylan and a bunch of secret people that I can't talk about right now.

At the time of the band's breakup, they had already written and demoed songs for a new album. As a "going away" for fans, the band put the demo for "Not Afraid" up on their Myspace page for download.

Post breakup

• Kaylan Cloyd has joined Ryan Van Wieringen and Bobby Darling of Gatsbys American Dream to form Search/Rescue. The band released their debut album, titled The Compound, in Japan in late 2007 with a US release in early 2008 on Eyeball Records.
• Christian McAlhaney currently plays guitar in Anberlin
• Nick Radovanovic, Christian McAlhaney, and Kyle Flynn started a band called Thunder Thunder with Jerrod Bettis. Their current status is unknown due to McAlhaney's commitment with Anberlin.
• Kyle Flynn currently resides in Los Angeles, CA and is working on a script with his brother Kevin Flynn for Warner Bros. Pictures. It has recently been announced that he will be touring with Anberlin.^{[citation needed]}
• Jason Vena has retreated from the limelight, and is currently working for his family's business in Mercer Island, Washington.^{[citation needed]}
• On May 30 Nick Radovanovic posted a remixed version of the song "So Contagious" on Acceptance's Myspace page
• Drummer Jerrod Bettis (Faster Avenue, OneRepublic) has joined Search/Rescue with ex-Acceptance members Kaylan Cloyd, and Ryan Zweifelhofer.^{[citation needed]}
• On Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Nick posted another demo the band had written before their breakup called "Desperate" and also a blog entitled "Hey guys, Nick here" inside the blog it said:

Just wanted to say hi to everyone and to let you know im throwing up an old acceptance demo we made a while ago titled "desperate". this was during our writing sessions for which was supposed to be our newest record. most of you know we never made it that far. again, this is just a rough demo so bear with the quality. hope you guys like it. take care everyone and thanks for all this support. nickrad

• Jason Vena was featured on the new album "Vessels" from Ivoryline on the song "The Healing". Marking it his first major appearance since the breakup.

Final lineup

• Jason Vena — vocals
• Kaylan Cloyd — guitars
• Ryan Zwiefelhofer — bass
• Nick Radovanovic — drums
• Christian McAlhaney - guitar and vocals

Previous members

• Peter Pizzuto - drums
• Christopher Camp - bass
• Kyle Flynn — keyboards
• Bryan Chalk - drums/backing vocals

Discography

Albums

• Phantoms (2005)

EPs

• Lost For Words (2000)
• Black Lines to Battlefields (2003)
• Undone (Acoustic EP) (2005)
• Sessions@AOL (2005)

Singles

Year	Title	Chart Positions			Album
		US Hot 100	US Modern Rock	US Mainstream Rock
2003	"Permanent"				Black Lines to Battlefields
2005	"Permanent"				Phantoms
	"Different"		#25
	"Take Cover"
2006	"Not Afraid" (not released)

Video games

• In Too Far - NFL Street 2 (2004), MLB 2006 (2005)
• The Sims 2: University, "This Conversation Is Over," redone in Simlish.
• ATV Offroad Fury 3, ATV Offroad Fury Blazin' Trails, "Permanent"

External links

• Acceptance at Purevolume
• [2] chat with Jason Vena post-Acceptance at AbsolutePunk.net