Bury Your Dead

   
Artist: Bury Your Dead

   Genre(s): 
Hardcore
   Rock: Hard-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Alive

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 12


   
 Cover Your Tracks

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 12

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Growing tired of their metalcore band, Hamartia, guitarist Slim (aka Brendan MacDonald) and drummer Mark Castillo began Bury Your Dead as a side throw in late 2001. Drawing influence from Sevendust and Crowbar, the band was used as a vehicle for the pair off to focus more than on mosh-worthy hard-core sort of than the proficient nature of Hamartia. Recruiting bassist Rich Casey (ex-Groundzero) and singer Joe Krewko, the Massachusetts-based kit -- priding itself on blending ferocity with fun -- soon became a full-time gig as the guys began gigging around New England. The fell intensiveness and destructive free energy of Bury Your Dead's live show started gaining them attending in various East Coast hard-core scenes, eventually approach to the involvement of Alveran/Eulogy Recordings. Their debut, You Had Me at Hello, was issued in March 2003 on Germany-based Alveran, just the band imploded around a month prior to the album's release. It was still issued, though the guys went their furcate shipway -- Castillo went to play with North Carolina's Between the Buried and Me; Casey off to screen-printing; Slim played with Blood Has Been Shed.


A few months later, however, Casey haphazardly got in touch with Slim to date about getting the banding back in concert. Though they were the but two to ab initio sign back on, some touring members were collected and the band started playing over again. Down in Florida at the Gainesville Fest, the guys ran into Castillo (world Health Organization was on spell with BTBAM) and asked him to retort, which he did. The rest of Bury Your Dead was finally rounded out by singer Mat Bruso and second guitar player Eric Ellis (ex-Reflux). Re-formed and reenergized, the quintet toured in short, including stints at 2002's Hellfest and Metalfest. Following an specially intense Hellfest set, Chicago hard-core powerhouse Victory Records approached them; the label formally proclaimed the banding connexion their roll in April 2004.


Eat up Your Dead entered the studio that June with Matthew Ellard (Converge, BTBAM) to begin transcription their label debut. The resulting Cover Your Tracks, whose birdsong titles all weirdly boasted the name calling of Tom Cruise movies, surfaced in October. Eulogy reissued the band's debut in May 2005, devising it widely available in the U.S. for the first base time. The CD/DVD Alive followed in July, spell the band fagged the summer on the mo stage at Ozzfest. Aaron Patrick (aka Bubble) following replaced Casey on bass. Produced by Jason Suecof (Trivium, God Forbid), Bury Your Dead's most focussed effort to date -- entitled Beauty and the Breakdown (all song titles this time were faerie story allusions) -- appeared in July 2006. Around the same time, the quintette could be establish on artist Derek Hess' countrywide Strhess Tour, aboard acts like Shadows Fall, Poison the Well, and Throwdown. Bruso left the band in the early days of 2007, forcing Bury Your Dead to dribble turned a European tour with Killswitch Engage to search for his replacement, eventually establish in ex-I Killed the Prom Queen vocalizer Michael Crafter. It was back to the drawing table a few months by and by, however, when Crafter made his release to return to his native Australia.