Chiodos overcomes challenges with success
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Brian Washburn
Issue date: 10/20/08 Section: Lifestyles
Life on the road can sometimes prove too much for bands. Chiodos, a six-piece band from Michigan, has endured several setbacks over the past year, but has been able to overcome and even find success in challenges.
Chiodos, who seem to be categorized in the "Screamo" genre, found mainstream success last year when its sophomore release debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Charts. Since then, the band has been touring constantly without break in an attempt to write for their next effort. A delay in the Chiodos steam ship, however, occurred when frontman Craig Owens overdosed on prescription medication this summer. But this situation did not halt the band for long.
"Everything is the same in the band," said drummer Derrick Frost in a phone interview last week. "Life moves and you live the best you can."
Even though the band -- Frost, Owens, guitarists Jason Hale and Patrick McManaman, bassist Matthew Goddard and keyboardist Bradley Bell -- has rebounded and found itself back on track, its members have not currently started writing for their next album, which Frost hopes to release next year.
"We have some ideas and stuff and have jammed whenever we have had time, but it's hard [to write songs] unless we get an allotted amount of time to plan things out," Frost said. "Our best bet is to start writing now for this next year."
The hardship on the band's free time is possibly because of their grueling touring schedule, which will find Chiodos completing their current U.S. co-headlining tour with Silverstein (which will stop in Tulsa next Tuesday), take them to Mexico before Christmas break and finally send them overseas to perform at a few festivals. But fans who are unable to catch any of these performances will not be left empty-handed as Chiodos plans to re-release Bone Palace Ballet, which will feature seven new songs that weren't featured on the original release, Frost said.
"It's not that the songs weren't chosen to be left off [the original release], but they weren't ready yet," Frost said. "We recorded them at the time [we recorded the album], but a few different parts were not fully completed. We ran out of time in the studio to finish them, but we were able to go back and record them when we wanted to release it."
Chiodos, who seem to be categorized in the "Screamo" genre, found mainstream success last year when its sophomore release debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard Charts. Since then, the band has been touring constantly without break in an attempt to write for their next effort. A delay in the Chiodos steam ship, however, occurred when frontman Craig Owens overdosed on prescription medication this summer. But this situation did not halt the band for long.
"Everything is the same in the band," said drummer Derrick Frost in a phone interview last week. "Life moves and you live the best you can."
Even though the band -- Frost, Owens, guitarists Jason Hale and Patrick McManaman, bassist Matthew Goddard and keyboardist Bradley Bell -- has rebounded and found itself back on track, its members have not currently started writing for their next album, which Frost hopes to release next year.
"We have some ideas and stuff and have jammed whenever we have had time, but it's hard [to write songs] unless we get an allotted amount of time to plan things out," Frost said. "Our best bet is to start writing now for this next year."
The hardship on the band's free time is possibly because of their grueling touring schedule, which will find Chiodos completing their current U.S. co-headlining tour with Silverstein (which will stop in Tulsa next Tuesday), take them to Mexico before Christmas break and finally send them overseas to perform at a few festivals. But fans who are unable to catch any of these performances will not be left empty-handed as Chiodos plans to re-release Bone Palace Ballet, which will feature seven new songs that weren't featured on the original release, Frost said.
"It's not that the songs weren't chosen to be left off [the original release], but they weren't ready yet," Frost said. "We recorded them at the time [we recorded the album], but a few different parts were not fully completed. We ran out of time in the studio to finish them, but we were able to go back and record them when we wanted to release it."
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