aiden

Biography

The group formed while its members were still in high school, taking their name from the young boy in The Ring. Their second full-length album, "Nightmare Anatomy", was released in 2005 under Victory Records, while their first full-length was released on Dead Teenager Records "Our Gangs Dark Oath", and later re-released by Victory Records.

In 2004, the band were signed to Victory Records who delivered the group's demo and recommended them to Victory executives. Their second album, and debut for Victory Records, was released October 4 and titled Nightmare Anatomy.

Aiden was part of the Kerrang XXV tour in January 2006. In May-June 2006, Aiden toured with the Finnish band HIM. Their song "Die Romantic" is featured on EA Sports' game NCAA MVP Baseball 2006.

Aiden was also part of the 2006 Kerrang Awards in August. They managed to respectibly take away the award of Best International Newcomer after being pitted against Panic! At The Disco, Wolfmother, Angels and Airwaves and From First To Last.

Music style

Aiden combines post-hardcore and emocore attitudes^[1]. Taking influence from bands such as Avenged Sevenfold, Coheed and Cambria, Thursday^[2]. Aiden has claimed on their official website that they play Horror Rock, however the band do not share the same characteristics as the bands belonging to the horror rock genre, nor the same fanbase.

Criticism

Aiden has received criticism because the group appears to imitate the band AFI. Some are of the opinion that the group dishonors AFI by imitating the sound AFI took over a decade to develop.^[3] However, Aiden receives strong support from media outlets such as Kerrang! who even placed the band on the front cover of its magazine.

Recent events

They contributed a remix of "The Last Sunrise" for the soundtrack to Underworld: Evolution. The band recently finished the 2006 Warped Tour alongside such bands as NoFX and Eighteen Visions. They plan to release an EP title "Rain In Hell" on October 31st, 2006. They will tour with Silverstein in October and November 2006.

Aiden were bottled constantly during both of their UK festival dates; Download Festival 2006, and Reading Festival 2006. The latter of which Francis appeared on stage baiting the crowd "Let’s see what you got, you fucking pussies!", there were apparently few Aiden fans there and the band was subsequently shelled with urine filled bottles.^[4]

Aiden headlined an emocore tour backed by Victory Records, it took place during September across the UK. Aiden were joined by Bayside, theAudition and The Sleeping on this trek.

They are due to release a new EP, Rain in Hell, on Halloween.

Discography

Albums

• A Split of Nightmares (split EP with Stalins War)
• Our Gang’s Dark Oath (2004)
• Nightmare Anatomy (2005)
• Our Gangs Dark Oath Re-Issue (2006)
• Rain In Hell (album) (Halloween 2006)

Singles

• "I Set My Friends On Fire"
• "Fifteen"
• "Knife Blood Nightmare"
• "The Last Sunrise"
• "Die Romantic"

Members

Current members

• Wil Francis (wiL) - (vocals)
• Jake Wambold - (guitar)
• Jake Davison - (drums)
• Nick Wiggins - (bass)
• Angel Ibarra - (guitar)

Former members

External links

• Official Aiden Website
• Aiden Official Fan Site
• Aiden Official Tour Blog
• Victory Records' Aiden profile
• Aiden Lyrics
• Interview with Aiden

References

1. ^ ^a b Aiden is listed on allmusic as post-hardcore and emo.[1]
2. ^ These three bands, among others, were cited as influences during an interview from SoundClick
3. ^ A review from Drowned In Sound
4. ^ "Aiden bottled at Reading. World rejoices." by Paul Savage, Punktastic, August 26, 2006, retrieved August 29, 2006