Choose to Love, Live or Die
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Choose to Love, Live or Die is an EP
by Australian band metalcore
band I Killed the Prom Queen
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The original line-up of I Killed The Prom Queen consisted of vocalist Lee Stacy, guitarist Jona Weinhofen, drummer Josef Peters, bass guitarist Ben Engel and second guitarist Simon O'Gorman. The following year Michael Crafter, now synonymous with I Killed The Prom Queen and Australian Hardcore, joined the group to share the vocal duties. Soon after this Leaton Rose, now of the band The Hot Lies, replace Engel on bass. The group then recorded a four track demo which would become Choose to Love, Live or Die. This demo was later re-released as an EP by Final Prayer Records. All of the songs found on this recording were re-recorded for the bands third EP Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You.
As Michael Crafter
explains on the DVD "Sleepless Nights and City Lights
", there was originally supposed to be a 5th track on the album. But, it was accidentally deleted from the computer in the studio they were using, so they decided to stick with just four.
Extended play
An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
by Australian band metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
band I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen is an Australian metalcore band which formed in 2000 with mainstays JJ Peters on drums and Jona Weinhofen on guitar. The band featured prominently on the Australian live music scene and toured the USA, Japan and parts of Europe several times...
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The original line-up of I Killed The Prom Queen consisted of vocalist Lee Stacy, guitarist Jona Weinhofen, drummer Josef Peters, bass guitarist Ben Engel and second guitarist Simon O'Gorman. The following year Michael Crafter, now synonymous with I Killed The Prom Queen and Australian Hardcore, joined the group to share the vocal duties. Soon after this Leaton Rose, now of the band The Hot Lies, replace Engel on bass. The group then recorded a four track demo which would become Choose to Love, Live or Die. This demo was later re-released as an EP by Final Prayer Records. All of the songs found on this recording were re-recorded for the bands third EP Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You.
Track listing
- "Choose to Love, Live or Die"
- "The Paint Brush Killer"
- "Dream as Hearts Bleed"
- "Upon a Rivers Sky"
As Michael Crafter
Michael Crafter
Michael Crafter is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Confession, and is also a former vocalist for Bands - I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. He also played Bass for Shotpointblank.-Biography:Crafter is a member in the...
explains on the DVD "Sleepless Nights and City Lights
Sleepless Nights and City Lights
Sleepless Nights and City Lights is a live compilation album and DVD by Australian metalcore band I Killed the Prom Queen, released through Stomp Entertainment on 22 November 2008...
", there was originally supposed to be a 5th track on the album. But, it was accidentally deleted from the computer in the studio they were using, so they decided to stick with just four.
Personnel
- Lee Stacy – vocals
- Michael Crafter – vocals
- Jona WeinhofenJona WeinhofenJona Weinhofen is an Australian guitarist and musician from Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently the guitarist for the Australian based band I Killed the Prom Queen, Canine Tricycle Bereavement, and British band Bring Me The Horizon. Jona was guitarist for California based band Bleeding...
– guitar - Simon O'Gorman – guitar
- Leaton RoseLeaton RoseLeaton Rose is an Australian musician who played bass guitar for Adelaide-based Metalcore/Deathcore band I Killed the Prom Queen and then alternative rock band, The Hot Lies .-Biography:...
– bass - J. J. Peters – drums