32 Leaves
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32 Leaves was a five-piece hard rock
/post-grunge
music group from Phoenix
, Arizona, United States. After releasing their first full album Welcome to the Fall
in 2005, they were able to attract major label support from Universal Records
. However, plans fell through and they ended up releasing their second album Panoramic
, independently on March 15, 2009.
with Larry "Love" Elyea of Bionic Jive
fame, at The Salt Mine and Mind's Eye Digital. The album included artwork from friend and artist Jon McLaughlin (not the singer from Indiana) inside the album jacket.
In the same year, they also contributed a cover of The Smashing Pumpkins
song Zero
for The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins
.
Welcome to the Fall was released on September 6, 2005 on Double Blind records, a minor record label. In the following years, the band supported the album and toured with such acts as 10 Years, Crossfade
, Dredg
, Evans Blue
, Fair To Midland
, Smile Empty Soul
, and Trapt
.
shortly thereafter, as a preview of what they were working on.
Not much was heard from the band until December 2008, when a number of things occurred. First off, it became known that the band had parted ways with Universal Records. Despite this, they were still determined to release their music, as they decided to continue on without the support of a major record company. The band converted a 3 story house into a recording studio, with singer Greg Norris engineering. The band spent 5 months writing and recording. It has been reported that turmoil within the group began mid process of these "house sessions". Completing the record in December 2008. In an online interview Greg Norris stated "the Universal Records experience was not what we were accustomed to, we had day to day contact with the smaller label, I didn't talk to any Universal people at all".
The band previewed a new song on their MySpace
, titled "Sideways". It was a rough mix of a song for the new album. It was said to be the first song they recorded after completing their 2005 CD Welcome to the Fall. They also had plans to preview one more "rough mix" from the album that month, but those plans fell through. However, the following month they streamed the album version of the track "Human".
Lastly, at the end of the month, they announced that the album had been entitled "Panoramic", inspired by a photo that was included in the rear panel artwork for the record. The album was released March 15, 2009. The album art features a large black beetle crawling on a green leaf. Signed copy pre-orders shipped one or two weeks before. The band had the freedom to do this with releasing the album independently. The track listing showed that the new version of "All Is Numb" was cut from the release", and that the version of "Way Beyond" was an alternate version than the 2007 release, both confirmed with the album's actual release.
While the band toured some in 2009 in support of the album, there is currently no word as to if the band has any future plans on releasing any more music.
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
/post-grunge
Post-grunge
Post-grunge is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged in the mid-1990s as a derivative of grunge, using the sounds and aesthetic of grunge, but with a more commercially acceptable tone...
music group from Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
, Arizona, United States. After releasing their first full album Welcome to the Fall
Welcome to the Fall
Welcome to the Fall is the debut album of Arizona-based hard rock/post-grunge band 32 Leaves, released September 6, 2005.32 Leaves recorded and mixed the album with Larry "Love" Elyea of Bionic Jive fame, at The Salt Mine and Mind's Eye Digital...
in 2005, they were able to attract major label support from Universal Records
Universal Records
Universal Records was a record label owned by Universal Music Group, and it is now owned by Manny Patino and Michael Jackson, and operated as part of the Universal Motown Republic Group.-History:...
. However, plans fell through and they ended up releasing their second album Panoramic
Panoramic (32 Leaves album)
Panoramic is the second studio album from Arizona post-grunge band 32 Leaves. An alternate version of "Way Beyond" had been released on December 17, 2007 to iTunes and other digital retailers...
, independently on March 15, 2009.
Formation and Fikshen EP (2001-2004)
The band formed back in 2001 and played locally in Arizona for their first few years. Their first formal release of music was in 2003 with the Fikshen EP. The release had five tracks; the first three tracks, "Overflow", "Makeshift", and "Sudden Change" would later be reworked and re-recorded later for their first LP Welcome to the Fall in 2005. The other 2 tracks, "Bruised and Break" and "Dissolved" had a different, softer sound than the majority of the rest of their work, and were never reworked. Additionally, the track "Interlude to Addiction", from Welcome to the Fall, is also on the EP, but as an intro to "Makeshift" rather than a separate track by itself.Welcome to the Fall (2005-2006)
In 2005, 32 Leaves recorded and mixed their debut album Welcome to the FallWelcome to the Fall
Welcome to the Fall is the debut album of Arizona-based hard rock/post-grunge band 32 Leaves, released September 6, 2005.32 Leaves recorded and mixed the album with Larry "Love" Elyea of Bionic Jive fame, at The Salt Mine and Mind's Eye Digital...
with Larry "Love" Elyea of Bionic Jive
Bionic Jive
Bionic Jive is an American rap metal group founded in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1998.- Overview :McGregor and Elyea founded the band in early 1998 by recruiting Gartner and Robbins, vocalist Derrick Burrows and multi-instrumentalist Chris Elsnor “TG1”...
fame, at The Salt Mine and Mind's Eye Digital. The album included artwork from friend and artist Jon McLaughlin (not the singer from Indiana) inside the album jacket.
In the same year, they also contributed a cover of The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins are an American alternative rock band that formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1988. Formed by Billy Corgan frontman and James Iha , the band has included Jimmy Chamberlin , D'arcy Wretzky , and currently includes Jeff Schroeder Mike Byrne , and Nicole Fiorentino The Smashing...
song Zero
Zero (song)
"Zero" is a song by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the third single from their third album, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, and was a return to the familiar angsty rock of the first single, "Bullet with Butterfly Wings". This style of their music was called...
for The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins
The Killer in You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins
The Killer In You: A Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins is a 2005 tribute album, featuring a variety of artists covering songs from the American alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins.-Track listing:#"Cherub Rock" by Roses Are Red - 5:04...
.
Welcome to the Fall was released on September 6, 2005 on Double Blind records, a minor record label. In the following years, the band supported the album and toured with such acts as 10 Years, Crossfade
Crossfade (band)
-Studio albums:-Singles:...
, Dredg
Dredg
Dredg is an American rock group formed in 1993 in Los Gatos, California. The band consists of vocalist Gavin Hayes, guitarist Mark Engles, bassist Drew Roulette and drummer Dino Campanella....
, Evans Blue
Evans Blue
Evans Blue is an alternative rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada founded in 2005.- Origins :Evans Blue came together in early 2005. Five musicians, then in three separate bands, met through a local musician's message board...
, Fair To Midland
Fair to Midland
Fair to Midland is an American progressive metal band that formed in 1998 and is based in Dallas, Texas. They are currently signed to E1 Music. According to the band's official website, their name comes from "...an old Texan play on the term 'fair to middling'." The band produced two self-released...
, Smile Empty Soul
Smile Empty Soul
Smile Empty Soul is an American post-grunge band from Santa Clarita, California.-History:Smile Empty Soul formed in 1998, while its original members were attending different high schools in the Santa Clarita area...
, and Trapt
Trapt
Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in August 1997. The group is composed of lead singer Chris Taylor Brown, lead guitarist Robb Torres, bass guitarist Peter Charell, and drummer Aaron "Monty" Montgomery...
.
Panoramic (2007-2009)
Due to the extensive touring in support of Welcome to the Fall, they were able to attract the support of a major record label, Universal Records. 32 Leaves recorded two singles, a new version of "All Is Numb" and a new song, "Way Beyond" in October 2007, collaborating with famed producer Elvis Basquette and released them on iTunesITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....
shortly thereafter, as a preview of what they were working on.
Not much was heard from the band until December 2008, when a number of things occurred. First off, it became known that the band had parted ways with Universal Records. Despite this, they were still determined to release their music, as they decided to continue on without the support of a major record company. The band converted a 3 story house into a recording studio, with singer Greg Norris engineering. The band spent 5 months writing and recording. It has been reported that turmoil within the group began mid process of these "house sessions". Completing the record in December 2008. In an online interview Greg Norris stated "the Universal Records experience was not what we were accustomed to, we had day to day contact with the smaller label, I didn't talk to any Universal people at all".
The band previewed a new song on their MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
, titled "Sideways". It was a rough mix of a song for the new album. It was said to be the first song they recorded after completing their 2005 CD Welcome to the Fall. They also had plans to preview one more "rough mix" from the album that month, but those plans fell through. However, the following month they streamed the album version of the track "Human".
Lastly, at the end of the month, they announced that the album had been entitled "Panoramic", inspired by a photo that was included in the rear panel artwork for the record. The album was released March 15, 2009. The album art features a large black beetle crawling on a green leaf. Signed copy pre-orders shipped one or two weeks before. The band had the freedom to do this with releasing the album independently. The track listing showed that the new version of "All Is Numb" was cut from the release", and that the version of "Way Beyond" was an alternate version than the 2007 release, both confirmed with the album's actual release.
While the band toured some in 2009 in support of the album, there is currently no word as to if the band has any future plans on releasing any more music.
Band members
- Greg Allen Norris – Vocals
- Mike Lopez – Guitar
- Mike Chavez – Guitar
- Aron Orosz – Bass
- Barrett Gardner – Drums
Albums
- Fikshen [EP] (2003)
- Welcome to the FallWelcome to the FallWelcome to the Fall is the debut album of Arizona-based hard rock/post-grunge band 32 Leaves, released September 6, 2005.32 Leaves recorded and mixed the album with Larry "Love" Elyea of Bionic Jive fame, at The Salt Mine and Mind's Eye Digital...
(2005) - PanoramicPanoramic (32 Leaves album)Panoramic is the second studio album from Arizona post-grunge band 32 Leaves. An alternate version of "Way Beyond" had been released on December 17, 2007 to iTunes and other digital retailers...
(2009)
Singles
- "All Is Numb" (2005)
- "Blood On My Hands" (2005)
- "Never Even There" (2005)
- "Way Beyond" (2007)
- "Human" (2009)
Side Projects
- Greg Norris has provided vocals on Kevin MatisynKevin MatisynKevin James Clarkson known professionally as Kevin Matisyn, is the current singer for the rock band Parabelle. He is the former singer for Evans Blue.-Musical beginnings & Evans Blue:...
song "Bad Times". - Norris also produced ParabelleParabelleParabelle is a rock band that initially formed in 2007 as a side project by Kevin Matisyn, the former lead singer of Evans Blue, and Kenneth Nixon of Framing Hanley. Since then, the band has undergone numerous line-up changes. The band's first release was a double album entitled A Summit...
's double album A Summit Borderline/A Drop OceanicA Summit Borderline/A Drop OceanicA Summit Borderline/A Drop Oceanic is a double album from modern rock band Parabelle. It is their debut album. It was released on .-A Summit Borderline:-A Drop Oceanic:- Personnel :* Kevin Matisyn – vocals* Chris "Gio" Giovenco – bass...
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