letlive. is an American Progressive

Progressive

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 post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

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 band from Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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. The band has released three albums and is currently signed to Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records

Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...

. Their third album, Fake History

Fake History

-Personnel:*Jason Aalon Butler – vocal*Jean Nascimento – guitar*Jeff Sahyoun – guitar*Anthony Rivera – drums*Ryan Jay Johnson – bass...

, has been called "a post-hardcore album fit for many of 2010's best-of lists" and representing "their exhilarating brand of progressive hardcore".

Biography

letlive. formed in Los Angeles in 2002. In 2004, their first album Exhaustion, Saltwater, and Everything in Between was released on At One Records. After a lineup change (with only vocalist/writer Jason Aalon Bulter remaining), their second album Speak Like You Talk was released in 2005, also on At One Records. The group gained momentum and after more personnel changes, signed with Tragic Hero Records

Tragic Hero Records

Tragic Hero Records is a record label founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in March 2005 to represent the growing hardcore punk and harder wave of music in North Carolina. The label was founded by Tommy Lacombe, David Varnedoe and Jason Ganthner. Alesana was the first band the label signed...

 in 2009.

letlive. toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada and recorded their third album in 2009. Titled Fake History

Fake History

-Personnel:*Jason Aalon Butler – vocal*Jean Nascimento – guitar*Jeff Sahyoun – guitar*Anthony Rivera – drums*Ryan Jay Johnson – bass...

, it was released by Tragic Hero in April 2010 and received favorable reviews. The band continued touring and after signing with Epitaph Records in February 2011, undertook a brief European tour.
Epitaph re-released Fake History in April 2011 with three additional tracks, including two B-sides and one new song produced by Brett Gurewitz

Brett Gurewitz

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. The re-release has been the subject of several favorable reviews. Starting in June 2011, the band undertook more extensive touring, including appearances at Download Festival

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 and Leeds Festival

Leeds Festival

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, supporting Enter Shikari

Enter Shikari

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 and Your Demise

Your Demise

Your Demise is a five-piece band from St Albans, Brighton and Salisbury in the United Kingdom. They began in 2003 and have shared stages and tours with Biohazard, Comeback Kid, Bury Your Dead, Enter Shikari, The Devil Wears Prada, Miss May I, Parkway Drive and A Day to Remember. On 22 September...

 on their mainland European tour, and, in the United States, supporting Underoath

Underoath

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.

Personnel

• Jason Aalon Butler – vocal (2002–present)
• Ryan Jay Johnson – bass (2005–present)
• Jean Nascimento – guitar (2007–present)
• Anthony Rivera – drums (2007–present)
• Jeff Sahyoun – guitar (2010–present)

Discography

• Exhaustion, Saltwater, and Everything in Between (2004 At One Records)
• Speak Like You Talk (2005 At One Records)
• Fake History
  Fake History
  -Personnel:*Jason Aalon Butler – vocal*Jean Nascimento – guitar*Jeff Sahyoun – guitar*Anthony Rivera – drums*Ryan Jay Johnson – bass...
  
  (2010 Tragic Hero
  Tragic Hero Records
  Tragic Hero Records is a record label founded in Raleigh, North Carolina in March 2005 to represent the growing hardcore punk and harder wave of music in North Carolina. The label was founded by Tommy Lacombe, David Varnedoe and Jason Ganthner. Alesana was the first band the label signed...
  
  ), (2011 Epitaph
  Epitaph Records
  Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...
  
  re-release)