40 Below Summer - biography
Formed in 1998, 40 Below Summer came together after drummer and Peruvian native Carlos Aguilar met with singer Max Illidge.Invitation to the Dance, 40 Below Summer's first major release.While the band started writing almost immediately after the release of their previous album, they threw out some fifteen songs before coming up with twenty one that they reduced down to the final ten (plus a bonus track, "The Day I Died").The Mourning After, 40 Below Summer's second release.The band would later strike a licensing deal with Roadrunner Records for the album's UK release.Medicate" and "Taxi Cab Confession".The video for the former received a fair amount of airplay on MTV2's Headbanger's Ball.The band negotiated a release from their contract in 2004.After playing 2 shows under the 40 moniker, they decided to rename the project Black Market Hero.Despite breaking up, 40 Below Summer released The Last Dance on October 31, 2006 via Crash Music Inc.However, D'Amico also stated that there was a possibility that 40 Below Summer would record a new album in the future.Rain EP, 40 Below Summer's forthcoming release.On a recent myspace bulletin post, 40 Below Summer posted an image that assured that Sideshow Freaks is coming soon.Pepsi Smash
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Who's Next?Coming from New Jersey, 40 Below Summer delivers a sole and surpassed aggressiveness on their edgy and heavy rock tunes, at the same time supporting it with an indubitable sense of melody.Coming from New Jersey, 40 Below Summer delivers a sole and surpassed aggressiveness on their edgy and heavy rock tunes, at the same time supporting it with an indubitable sense of melody.Below Summer live at Irving Plaza in NYC, 9.Coming from New Jersey, 40 Below Summer delivers a sole and surpassed aggressiveness on their edgy and heavy rock tunes, at the same time supporting it with an indubitable sense of melody.Illidge had a curious show business background, since he made his first TV appearance at the age of 12 as the little boy in Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" video clip.It was also at that time that the crew decided on recording its first demo tape, "Sideshow Freaks."Invitation to the Dance, 40 Below Summer's debut album, hit the record stores in 2001, but their label folded soon after Invitation's release.Below Summer soon announced it would be calling it quits, playing its last show together (with its original lineup) in September 2005 at New Jersey's Starland Ballroom.The remaining members went on to form the group Black Market Hero.DVD The Last Dance in fall 2006 via Crash Music, and the following June 40 Below Summer's out of print debut EP, Rain, was reissued by Crash Music with an additional seven bonus tracks.
