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Chiodos

Chiodos (Template:PronEng kee-O-dose[1][2]) is a six-member rock band from Davison, Michigan. Originally known as "The Chiodos Bros.," the band's name was a nod to filmmakers Stephen, Charles, and Edward Chiodo, responsible for the movie Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Their second full length album, Bone Palace Ballet, was released in North America on September 4, 2007 and debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200[3] and number 1 on Top Independent Albums.[4]. The international release date for the album was September 24, 2007.

Background

Chiodos started off at the Flint Local 432, a tiny venue in downtown Flint, Michigan and Jamestown Hall. From there, the band started touring extensively, soon becoming "word-of-mouth faves across the nation."[5] Chiodos has toured the United States at least seven times, and have played alongside such bands as Anti-Flag, New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, Pierce The Veil, From First to Last, Coheed and Cambria, Saosin, Armor for Sleep, Atreyu, Yellowcard, The Used, Senses Fail, Aiden, The Devil Wears Prada, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Emery, Every Time I Die, Alesana, My Chemical Romance, Underminded, Night at the Symphony, 30 Seconds to Mars,[6] and Linkin Park. The band is known for their on-stage performances which include controlled, high-pitched vocals from lead singer, Craig Owens. One of their most notorious live sets was at the New Jersey music festival "the Bamboozle" on May 7, 2006, which they played under the alias of "Fluff My Boner." From this set a plethora of videos were released on YouTube almost immediately following the show. The band also performed May 6 at "The Bamboozle" festival under their own name. And at Joppatowne High school in the 2004 battle of the Bands, which they lost to a much worse band.

Their debut album, All's Well That Ends Well was released by Equal Vision on July 24th, 2005. It reached #3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and #164 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.[7] The band's albums and live performances have garnered praise from press outlets.[8][9][10][11][12]

Chiodos headlined some shows on their own before joining Alternative Press's 2006 "Invisible Sideshow" tour, headlined by Armor for Sleep.[13][14] Following that tour, they supported Matchbook Romance on the Sub City "Take Action" tour in Spring 2006. That summer, they toured with Fear Before the March of Flames, as well as appearing on the Warped Tour.In fall 2006, Chiodos appeared on Atreyu's World Championship Tour, alongside From First to Last and Every Time I Die, as well as 3 and 36 Crazyfists. After reports of Sonny from From First to Last having throat/vocal issues, Craig offered to help by filling in for Sonny, although this never went through after From First to Last was kicked off the tour.[citation needed] They also toured with The Used, 30 Seconds to Mars, Saosin, Aiden, Senses Fail and Evaline on the 2007 Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour, in the Winter. In the summer they co-headlined Warped Tour 13, playing on the main stage. In November 2007 they headlined a tour with Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Emery, and The Devil Wears Prada to promote their new album, Bone Palace Ballet.

Chiodos were also scheduled in 2007 to play at the 2008 Soundwave Festival in Australia with The Offspring, Incubus, Coheed and Cambria, Plain White T's (and many others), but withdrew from the festival to play with Linkin Park in the U.S.A. Soundwave Festival producers replaced Chiodos with the band Thursday in early January 2008. The Linkin Park/Coheed and Cambria/Chiodos tour began January 2008. Craig Owens has said in interviews that he is a Christian and was raised in the Lutheran Church and supports various Christian organizations such as the Lowercase People foundation started by Jon Foreman of Switchfoot and Feed the Children.

Music videos

In 2005, Chiodos independently made a video for the song "All Nereids Beware." The video consists of the band playing the rare pre-All's Well That Ends Well version of the song in a parking lot.

In 2006, Chiodos made videos for "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters" and "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek". The "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek" video was included on the 2006 re-issue of All's Well That Ends Well, which added a DVD and three acoustic tracks to the 2005 release.

On November 18, 2006, Chiodos filmed a live video for "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined" at the Bren Events Center in Irvine, California. The band played the song three times in order to get the crowd reaction they wanted.

A video for "Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot With A Monkey Face)" was made which premiered world wide on April 2, 2008 on the social network MySpace. This was the first single of their sophomore album, "Bone Palace Ballet".

Band members

Current members

Previous members

  • Dane Spencer - Guitar
  • Crosby Clark - Drums

Discography

Title Release Date Label Sales
The Chiodos Bros. [EP] 2001 Self-released
The Best Way to Ruin Your Life [EP] June 2002 Self-released
The Heartless Control Everything [EP] January 25, 2003 Search and Rescue
All's Well That Ends Well July 26, 2005 Equal Vision 170,000 [1]
Bone Palace Ballet september 4, 2007 Equal Vision 180,000

Singles

Year Title Chart Positions Album
US Hot 100 US Modern Rock US Mainstream Rock
2005 "All Nereids Beware" All's Well That Ends Well
2005 "One Day Women Will All Become Monsters" All's Well That Ends Well
2006 "Baby, You Wouldn't Last a Minute on the Creek" All's Well That Ends Well
2007 "The Words 'Best Friend' Become Redefined" All's Well That Ends Well
2008 "Lexington (Joey Pea-Pot with a Monkey Face)" Bone Palace Ballet

References

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  4. ^ http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums&model.vnuArtistId=662299&model.vnuAlbumId=1058170
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  14. ^ "IN FOCUS: two bands is trying to break the mold". The Daily Aztec. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessmonthday= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
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