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Saosin was founded in 2003 in Newport Beach, California by rhythm guitarist Beau Burchell, lead guitarist Shekoski, bassist Zach Kennedy, and vocalist Anthony Green. Within a couple months of their formation they released their debut EP “Translating the Name”. The album spread like wildfire through Internet blogs and social media websites like MySpace. This release was praised on various forums for its original approach on emo and became a near instant success shooting to No. 27 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers.
Later that year drummer Pat Magrath (who allegedly was only the band’s studio musician) and bassist Zach Kennedy (later member of Ashlee Simpson’s backing band) left the group and were replaced by Alex Rodriguez and Chris Sorenson respectively. Once the lineup coalesced, Saosin began performing their material live to ecstatic reviews. Their energetic and heartfelt performance punctuated with intense screamo outbreaks garnered comparisons to the visceral punk group Glassjaw. Once Rodriguez officially joined, the group graduated from gigging around local venues to a nation wide tour with bands like Boys Night Out and Anatomy of a Ghost.
Saosin experienced their biggest lineup change in early 2004, losing their vocalist/frontman Anthony Green. Feeling excluded from the writing process and losing interest in the band’s style Green formed his own group, Circa Survive. Saosin was still on tour during Green’s departure and subsequently hired Story of the Year’s Philip Sneed to complete the remaining dates as lead singer.
The group held auditions for a new lead singer following their tour and shortly after chose Detroit musician Cove Reber to take the position. Reber was only 19 years old at the time, but impressed the members with the demo “Mookie’s Last Christmas” a recording Burchell mistook as the work of Anthony Green.
Though their were some hesitations among Saosin fans if Reber would be a good fit, most doubts were cleared once the band hit the road and showcased their new frontman at gigs like Warped Tour and Taste of Chaos.
Saosin was signed to Capitol Records in 2005 and issued their self-titled EP in the Summer of that year. The band kept busy touring and continually expanded their audience, opening for big name acts like Avenged Sevenfold and Coheed and Cambria.
After competing their co-headlining dates with Anberlin the group hit the studios to record their debut feature length. Their self-titled debut came out on 26 September 2006 and following it was a seemingly endless tour. They played shows across the US with Bleeding Through, Senses Fail, The Sleeping, Senses Fail, and Alexisonfire among many others. In 2007 the band would hit venues in Europe, Australia, Japan, and Indonesia.
Once Saosin returned to their home in the US they followed up their international touring with more touring, which would last until mid 2008, starting a 9 month break from live shows. Once the break was up they embarked on a tour with Underoath and The Devil Wears Prada in October 2008. The “Grey EP” came out that month and was sold during the tour.
Their sophomore studio album “In Search of Solid Ground” came out on 9 September 2009. The album was produced by Butch Walker and John Feldmann and was released through Virgin Records. However the band departed from Virgin not long after they joined and went in a more “DIY” direction.
Saosin has been relatively inactive since 2010, but have reportedly recorded new material during this period. In 2014 former lead singer Anthony Green re-joined the group to play a show for Saosin’s 10th year anniversary.
Críticas en vivo
Today, the term “cult act” usually refers to a band able to enjoy a thriving career with a dedicated fan base without much mainstream recognition, and Saosin are nothing if not a perfect example of a “cult act” in that sense but they’re also a perfect example of the other definition. This definition seems to be when a bands lifeblood and reason for being is their fan base and vice versa. That their fan base is one so dedicated that on the surface it might look like their reason for being is this post-hardcore band from Newport Beach, California. Needless to say this dedication from the audience makes a Saosin concert a must see even before one takes the performance into account. There’ are fewer sights more invigorating than a room full of people in utter rapture at the sound of their favourite band and a Saosin concert has this in spades. It of course helps that eleven years’ experience of near constant touring has made them a live at to be reckoned with. The guitarists and founders of the band Beau Burchell Justin Shekoski are almost telepathic in their chemistry and original vocalist Anthony Green fitting back into the band so well it’s like he never left. As I said, they have eleven years of touring experience behind and they’re not letting up any time soon, so with a new chapter of the bands history opening, now is the best time that’s ever been to see this most beloved of bands where they were born to be found.
william-howard-2
'Twas a Friday night, I looked up as music started to play and Anthony green there the microphone stand with mic and all into the air and caught it ever so gracefully. Timing it just right to begin singing with his amazing voice as the saosin band plays ever so badassly. It only took a few moments of this organized chaos for me to think to myself, oh snap it's lit fam. Tottaly worth my $60 bucks and I didn't even care about the headliner, saosin... We dem boys... We dem.. Boys
missedinjections
Saosin sounded terrible, the sound was muddy and anthony green sang the wrong parts and the bass player who sang was way off, there were cool moments however, like cove reber the old singer came onstage and sang voices and 7 years with anthony green. Overall the venue was good, the opening band was good, the second band was amazing they were mostly instremental but they kicked ass.
israelweaver28
This was the first concert for both myself and my husband. He went in expecting not to have a great time as I'm the huge Saosin fan. 30 seconds into Hydra Melody's set he was done for. We both had the greatest time. Anthony Green is so spectacular. All of the bands were exceptional.
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