Biography
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Years Active
2011 – present (13 years)
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Founded In
Greenville, Greenville County, South Carolina, United States
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Members
- Andrew Murphy (2011 – 2014)
- Chris Carvajal (2011 – present)
- Chris Doot (2011 – 2015)
- Eric Frazier (2011 – 2015)
- Erik Shea Pedersen (2017 – present)
Islander is an American alternative metal band from Greenville, South Carolina. The members have been playing together since 2006; they broke up for a few years, and got together under the name Islander in 2011. The group signed with Victory Records and have released an EP, Pains (2013), and a studio album, Violence & Destruction (2014).
Victory Records signed the band in September of 2013, and soon released their first EP, Pains. Their first studio album, Violence & Destruction, was released the next year. The music's material was generally well received by critic, as the first single off the Violence & Destruction, entitled "Coconut Dracula", has since been a very successful active rock radio hit, as it hit number 24 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The group is currently touring with the Mayhem Festival 2014 tour including label acts Emmure, Ill Niño and Wretched.
Their music is similar to the Deftones, Glassjaw, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Mudvayne, P.O.D., and Rage Against the Machine because musically it is alternative metal and rap metal, all the while, having a nu metal sound featuring the subsets alternative rock, hard rock and post-hardcore. Chino Moreno, Daryl Palumbo, Jonathan Davis, Fred Durst, Chad Gray, Sonny Sandoval, Zack de la Rocha are cited as vocal similarities to Carvajal.
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