Silverstein (band)
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Silverstein (/ˈsɪl.vər.stiːn/) is a Canadian rock band from Burlington, Ontario, formed in 2000. Their band name is a reference to the famous children's author Shel Silverstein, who the band had admired and whose work they had read as children.[2] They have released a total of 11 studio albums, seven EPs, a compilation album and a live DVD/CD. Their lineup remained unchanged for eleven years from December 2001 to September 2012, then consisting of lead vocalist Shane Told, lead guitarist Neil Boshart, rhythm guitarist Josh Bradford, bassist Billy Hamilton, and drummer Paul Koehler. In September 2012, the band had announced that Neil Boshart had been fired and would be replaced by Paul Marc Rousseau, who also joined Billy Hamilton on backing vocals. The band achieved moderate success with their second studio album, Discovering the Waterfront, which was nominated for a Juno Award and reached No. 34 on the Billboard 200 charts, with the following two albums charting at similar positions.[3] Silverstein has sold over 1,000,000 albums worldwide.[4]
The band left long-time record label Victory Records in 2010. Following a period with Hopeless Records[5][6] and another with Rise Records, they are now signed to UNFD. They released their 10th studio album, A Beautiful Place to Drown, in March 2020.[7] This was nominated for a 2021 Juno award in the “Best Rock Album” category. Misery Made Me, the band's 11th studio album, was released on May 6, 2022.
History
Early years and When Broken Is Easily Fixed (2000–2004)
Silverstein formed in February 2000.
The following January the band went into the studio to record their first full-length debut album, When Broken Is Easily Fixed. It was recorded at Unity Gain and Mount Fairview studios, with producer Justin Koop and was released on 20 May 2003 through Victory Records.[12] Six songs were re-recorded versions from Silverstein's previous EP's; Summer's Stellar Gaze and When The Shadows Beam. When Broken Is Easily Fixed sold over 200,000 copies,[13][14] surpassing the expectations of the band.[15]
Silverstein's Victory debut is a jarring mixture of emo's earnest determination, elements of hardcore, and the heaviest of heavy metal. While vocalist Shane Told delivers lines like "How can I say I love you back, you never made me happy" in a cracked, soaring singing voice, When Broken Is Easily Fixed actually begins with a ragged scream that's as arresting as his singing is plaintive. Musically, the LP is dominated by the dynamic shifts and driving melodies of emo. But Silverstein's membership was derived from existing hardcore, metal, and punk squads, and these fragiles are never very far from view. "Last Days of Summer" begins as a June day ends, with shuffling percussion and gently strummed guitars. But just as the fragile strains of a violin drift in, Told's growling, scarred alter ego appears behind his singing self.[16]
Discovering the Waterfront (2005–2006)
In August 2005 the band's second studio album,
In 2005, the band performed on the Never Sleep Again Tour with bands such as
The band also toured on the 2006
In 2006, Silverstein was nominated for a
In Fall 2006, they headlined the Never Shave Again Tour, along with Aiden, It Dies Today, and He Is Legend.[27]
Arrivals & Departures (2007–2008)
The band's third full-length album,
Upon completion of their third studio album, the band played a few shows in the spring, and then engaged in an all-summer tour with Rise Against. They also toured the United States in Fall 2007 with From Autumn to Ashes and then went on a month-long European tour with Blessthefall.
Following tours of Australia and Japan in January 2008, they played their first "Cross-Canada" headlining tour with
In October and November 2008, the band toured the United States (with a final show in Toronto) with Chiodos, Escape the Fate, Alesana, and A Skylit Drive, during which they performed the newly written song "Broken Stars", also made available as a demo on their Myspace page. The band played a South American tour in February followed by one show in Hawaii and festival dates in Australia.
A Shipwreck in the Sand (2009–2010)
On 14 December 2008, the band announced by Myspace bulletin that their fourth album would be released by 31 March 2009. The name of the new album, On 17 March, the band filmed a music video for "Vices" with director Robby Starbuck. Later, on 23 March 2009, the band posted the full album to stream on their official MySpace page.
A Shipwreck in the Sand was released on 31 March 2009 and sold nearly 17,000 copies in its first week.
Silverstein contributed a cover version of "
After three shows in Ontario, the band embarked on a U.S. tour with
On 15 March 2010, Silverstein announced through their official MySpace blog that they would be filming four exclusive Toronto shows, during which they would be playing their entire discography, to be released as a live DVD,[35] revealed on 23 April to be titled Decade (Live at the El Mocambo) and was released on 8 June 2010.[36][37]
The following summer Silverstein headlined the
Transitions, Rescue and Short Songs (2011–2012)
A quote from Shane Told on 11 July 2010, "We have a new album coming out real soon. We wish we could release it tonight, but are scheduled to release early next year." Told also said that the band has written 16 songs so far for the new record, and that the album will be released at some time next year.[39]
On 8 October 2010, online rumors spread about their new album reportedly being titled Set This All Ablaze, and that it would again be released through Silverstein's long time label, Victory Records.[40] The band later rejected the rumor that the new album will be titled Set This All Ablaze, although they did confirm their departure from Victory.[41] However, as of the first week of October 2010, Silverstein's official website contained a banner stating Set This All Ablaze.[42] On 17 September 2010, Silverstein were confirmed to be playing in Australia, for Soundwave, in 2011.[43][44] This will be the band's second Soundwave Festival.
On 15 November, Silverstein announced on Facebook that they have signed with Hopeless Records in the USA/Europe/Japan and with Universal Music in Canada. They also said that a new EP entitled
On 17 October 2011, the band posted a new video on their YouTube channel about an upcoming release.[52] They announced that are in process of recording a new album called Short Songs with producer Jordan Valeriote, scheduled for release on 7 February 2012. They also said that the EP will contain 22 songs under 90 seconds with half songs being covers of punk songs that influenced them. Silverstein contributed a cover version of "
The band announced that they would be playing 10 shows in August in the United States and Canada supporting Short Songs during which they would play the album in its entirety as well as a greatest hits set. Called the "SHORT TOUR", it ran from 16 to 26 August 2012.
Boshart's departure and This Is How the Wind Shifts (2012–2014)
On the SHORT TOUR, the band began announcing that they would have a new album in 2013. On 25 September 2012, the band announced that Neil Boshart was no longer a member of the band, after 11 years together.[53] He was replaced by former I Am Committing A Sin guitarist Paul Marc Rousseau. Told later revealed that Boshart's replacement was due to many years of growing apart, stating there was very little contribution to Short Songs from Boshart.[54]
On 26 November 2012, the band announced that their sixth studio album would be titled This Is How the Wind Shifts and would be released on 5 February 2013. A few hours later they also released the first single, titled "Stand Amid The Roar".
On 15 January 2013 the band released the lyric video for the song "Massachusetts" from their seventh album.[55]
On 8 March 2013, the band announced they would be playing the entire
On 24 September 2013, Silverstein announced This Is How The Wind Shifts: Addendum and released a new song entitled I Will Illuminate. The re-release was released on 15 October 2013 and brought the total track list of This Is How The Wind Shifts to 21. It contains two new songs, the acoustic songs from the deluxe version of the album, a "voice note" version of Arrivals and a mix of the two songs This Is How and The Wind Shifts.
I Am Alive in Everything I Touch (2015–2016)
Silverstein began 2015 with a 10th anniversary tour in celebration of their 2005 sophomore album Discovering the Waterfront. The tour will be 38-dates from January through February across North America.[56]
The band's seventh studio album On 4 March the band released the second single from the album, Milestone, with a lyric video to accompany the release. On 16 March 2016, Silverstein released the third music video from the album, "The Continual Condition." Later, on 27 July 2016, they released a music video for "Toronto (Unabridged)".
Dead Reflection (2016–2018)
On 13 October 2016, Silverstein announced the streaming "Ghost" on SiriusXM. Later that day, they released the music video on YouTube and the song on iTunes. Silverstein said on social media that the upcoming studio album will be released in 2017.
On 18 May 2017, Silverstein released the second single from the record, "Retrograde", as well as announced the track listing and title of the record, "Dead Reflection", which was released on 14 July 2017.[58]
Dead Reflection was released worldwide on 14 July 2017.[59]
Redux: The First Ten Years and LIVE: When Broken 15 Easily Fixed (2018–2019)
In late 2018, Silverstein embarked on the When Broken 15 Easily Fixed Tour, a tour celebrating the 15th anniversary of the band's debut album When Broken Is Easily Fixed by playing the album in its entirety plus a set of greatest hits. The tour would run throughout the US & Canada from 9 November 2018 to 31 January 2019 with support from Hawthorne Heights, As Cities Burn, and Capstan.[60]
On 18 February 2019, Silverstein announced a retrospective album titled, Redux: The First Ten Years, which features newly recorded versions of selected songs from their first four studio albums. It was released on 12 April 2019.[61]
On 11 November 2019, Silverstein announced a live album,
A Beautiful Place to Drown (2019–2020)
On 27 June 2019, Silverstein released a new single featuring Beartooth's vocalist Caleb Shomo titled "Burn It Down".[63]
On January 8, 2020, Silverstein released another single titled "Infinite", featuring Underoath's clean vocalist/drummer Aaron Gillespie, along with the announcement of their next album.
On March 3, 2020, the band released another new single titled "Madness", featuring Princess Nokia.[64]
A Beautiful Place to Drown was released on March 6, 2020.
Misery Made Me (2021–present)
On 15 April 2021, the band launched the single "Bankrupt", followed by another single on November 18, 2021, "It's Over".
After a one-week teasing period, the band released another single titled "Ultraviolet" on February 24, 2022. Alongside the single, the band announced their next studio album, Misery Made Me, which was released on May 6, 2022.
On 2 December 2022, a 26-track remixed and remastered version of their 3rd studio album Arrivals & Departures was published to streaming services. Tracks 1-13 are remixed/remastered, and tracks 14-26 are the original mixes. It was originally released on vinyl for the 2022 Record Store Day, limited to 3900 copies.[65]
Musical style and influences
Silverstein has been described as post-hardcore,[66][67][68] emo,[69][70][71][72][1][73][67][74] screamo,[75][76][77] indie rock[70][75] and hardcore punk.[1] Their influences include Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, The Get Up Kids, Sunny Day Real Estate, Mineral, Knapsack, NOFX, Rancid, Lagwagon, and Pennywise.[78]
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Discography
Studio albums
- When Broken Is Easily Fixed (2003)
- Discovering the Waterfront (2005)
- Arrivals & Departures (2007)
- A Shipwreck in the Sand (2009)
- Rescue (2011)
- Short Songs (2012)
- This Is How the Wind Shifts (2013)
- I Am Alive in Everything I Touch (2015)
- Dead Reflection (2017)
- A Beautiful Place to Drown (2020)
- Misery Made Me (2022)
Concert tours
- (2005) Vans Warped Tour
- (2005) The Never Sleep Again Tour
- (2006) Still Not Getting Any... (Europe) with Simple Plan.
- (2006) Vans Warped Tour
- (2006) Taste of Chaos
- (2006) The Never Shave Again Tour
- (2007) The Sufferer & the Witness with Rise Against.
- (2008) The Best Damn World Tour (Japan) with Avril Lavigne.[79]
- (2010) Decade tour (Ten Year Anniversary)
- (2011) Take Action Tour
- (2012) SHORT TOUR
- (2013) Tracing Back Roots Tour with We Came As Romans, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, The Color Moraleand Dangerkids.
- (2013) Vans Warped Tour
- (2013) This Is How The Wind Shifts tour
- (2014) Hollowbodies Tour Blessthefall, The Amity Affliction. SECRETS, Heartist
- (2015) Discovering the Waterfront Tour – 10th Anniversary with Beartooth, Hands Like Houses and My Iron Lung.
- (2015) Vans Warped Tour
- (2015) Silverstein & Senses Fail Tour 2015 Co-Headline with Senses Fail, featuring Capsize, and Hundredth
- (2016) , Rarity, Youth Decay, Cardinals Pride
- (2016) Rise Up Tour- The Devil Wears Prada, Memphis May Fire, Like Moths to Flames
- (2017) Youth Authority – Good Charlotte and Palaye Royale
- (2017) South Bound with The Word Alive and For the Fallen Dreams
- (2017) Vans Warped Tour
- (2018) Get Free Tour- with Tonight Alive, Broadside and Picturesque
- (2019) When Broken Is Easily Fixed 15 Year Anniversary Tour- with Hawthorne Heights, As Cities Burn, and Capstan
- (2019) 10 Years of Constellations - with August Burns Red and Silent Planet
- (2020) 20 Year Anniversary Tour - with Four Year Strong
- (2022) Silverstein & The Amity Affliction Co-Headline with The Amity Affliction
- (2023) Misery Made Made Me Tour
- (2023) THE WIND SHIFTS TOUR 10 years
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