ASG (band)
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ASG is an American rock
band signed to Volcom Entertainment
, originating from Wilmington, North Carolina
. It is a four-piece band, with Jason Shi on vocals and guitar, Andy Ellis on bass, Scott Key on drums and Jonah Citty on guitar. The band has acquired an underground following, as a number of its songs have been featured in MTV
programs and boardriding videos.
, produced by Matt Hyde. Shortly after completing Feeling Good is Good Enough
, second guitarist, Jonah Citty (formerly of the band Ergot), was added to help recreate the album’s sounds live. John Staton of Star-News
called the album one of the ten best of 2005. In 2008 ASG released their fourth album, Win Us Over
, which was again produced by Matt Hyde
and features vocal guest, Blag Dahlia
, on the track "Palm Springs". In June 2009, ASG released a split E.P. with Black Tusk
entitled, "Low Country", that was recorded live at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC and was produced by Phillip Cope of Kylesa
. The artwork for "Low Country" was done by John Dyer Baizley
from Baroness (band)
.
Tracks from ASG's albums have been played on MTV
shows, including Viva La Bam
, Rob & Big
, Living Lahaina
, Homewrecker, Bam's Unholy Union
, Road Rules/Real World Challenge, Remaking Vince Neil and as background music in numerous surfing and snowboarding videos. Their song "The Dull Blade" from the album Win Us Over
was included in the soundtrack of the popular skateboarding video game Skate 2
and "Dream Song" (also from the album Win Us Over
), will be included in the soundtrack for the new video game, Splatterhouse (2010 video game), that will be released in the Fall 2010.
ASG has toured with bands such as The Dwarves, CKY
and Torche
. The band plays a mixture of punk rock
, southern rock
, stoner rock
and metal
. ASG played the 2007 Volcom Tour. In September 2008, the band was part of that year's Volcom Tour
along with Motörhead, Valient Thorr
and Year Long Disaster
. They were replacing both The Misfits and Airbourne
who had pulled out of the tour. In 2009, ASG opened for CKY
on their summer tour alongside Sweden's Graveyard (band)
.
Vocalist-guitarist Jason Shi is the main songwriter for the band. ASG's influences include Queens of the Stone Age
and Ween
. In a review of the album Win Us Over, Allmusic wrote that the band's sound combines "the best qualities of Kyuss
and Queens of the Stone Age".
In 2010, the band was confirmed as being part of the soundtrack for Namco Bandai Games
' 2010 remake of Splatterhouse.
On June 9, 2011 the band confirmed that recording of a new album will begin sometimes in 2011 via their homepage.http://www.asgnation.com/
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
band signed to Volcom Entertainment
Volcom Entertainment
Volcom Entertainment, officially founded in 1995, in Newport Beach, California, and currently based in Costa Mesa, CA is the brainchild of Volcom founder Richard Woolcott and theLINE's singer/guitarist Ryan Immegart. Ryan being Volcom's first sponsored snowboarder and having a love for music...
, originating from Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington is a port city in and is the county seat of New Hanover County, North Carolina, United States. The population is 106,476 according to the 2010 Census, making it the eighth most populous city in the state of North Carolina...
. It is a four-piece band, with Jason Shi on vocals and guitar, Andy Ellis on bass, Scott Key on drums and Jonah Citty on guitar. The band has acquired an underground following, as a number of its songs have been featured in MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
programs and boardriding videos.
Band
ASG started with the name All Systems Go, but shortened to ASG after finding out another band already had the name. ASG recorded their debut album as a self-titled in 2002. At this time, they signed with Volcom Entertainment and began touring the nation in support of their new album. In 2003, they released their second album, The Amplification of Self-Gratification, and immediately began a tour to promote it, playing portions of the 2003 and 2004 Vans Warped Tour. After the '04 Vans Warped Tour, ASG went to L.A. to record their third album, Feeling Good is Good EnoughFeeling Good is Good Enough
Feeling Good Is Good Enough is a 2005 ASG album. It was their third studio album released by Volcom Entertainment Records. Singles from the album include "John Wayne", "Horse Whipper", and the title track...
, produced by Matt Hyde. Shortly after completing Feeling Good is Good Enough
Feeling Good is Good Enough
Feeling Good Is Good Enough is a 2005 ASG album. It was their third studio album released by Volcom Entertainment Records. Singles from the album include "John Wayne", "Horse Whipper", and the title track...
, second guitarist, Jonah Citty (formerly of the band Ergot), was added to help recreate the album’s sounds live. John Staton of Star-News
Star-News
Star-News is the daily newspaper for Wilmington, North Carolina, and its surrounding area . It is owned by The New York Times Company....
called the album one of the ten best of 2005. In 2008 ASG released their fourth album, Win Us Over
Win Us Over
Win Us Over is the fourth and, to date, the most recent studio album by hard rock band ASG. The album was released on September 11, 2007.- Track listing :*All Songs Written & Arranged By ASG.#Right Death Before #Dream Song...
, which was again produced by Matt Hyde
Matt Hyde
Matt Hyde is an American producer, engineer, mixer and musician.From 1982-1985 he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. While still at Berklee he started to get experience in Pyramid recording studio in Boston...
and features vocal guest, Blag Dahlia
Blag Dahlia
Paul Cafaro , better known as Blag Dahlia, is an American musician, producer, and author.-Music career:Cafaro is a native of Highland Park, Illinois, and is most well known as the front-man of Dwarves, a punk rock band. With the Dwarves he has written and produced 10 full length records over a span...
, on the track "Palm Springs". In June 2009, ASG released a split E.P. with Black Tusk
Black Tusk (band)
Black Tusk is an American heavy metal power trio from Savannah, Georgia. The band was formed in 2005, when its members were all living on the same street...
entitled, "Low Country", that was recorded live at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC and was produced by Phillip Cope of Kylesa
Kylesa
Kylesa is a metal band that was formed in Savannah, Georgia. Their music incorporates experimentalism with sludgy riffs, drop-tuned guitars and elements of psychedelic rock. The group was established in 2001 by the former members of Damad, with the addition of guitar player Laura Pleasants who is...
. The artwork for "Low Country" was done by John Dyer Baizley
John Dyer Baizley
John Baizley is a painter and musician based in Savannah, Georgia. He is notable for his album cover art and t-shirts for artists including Kylesa, Pig Destroyer, Darkest Hour, Daughters, Skeletonwitch, Torche, Cursed, Black Tusk, Kvelertak, Vitamin X, Flight of the Conchords, The Red Chord,...
from Baroness (band)
Baroness (band)
Baroness is a band from Savannah, Georgia whose members grew up together in Lexington, Virginia.-Formative years:Baroness formed in mid-2003, founded by former members of the punk/metal band Johnny Welfare and the Paychecks...
.
Tracks from ASG's albums have been played on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
shows, including Viva La Bam
Viva La Bam
Viva La Bam is an American reality television series that stars Bam Margera and his friends and family. The show was a spin-off from MTV's Jackass, in which Margera and most of the main cast had appeared...
, Rob & Big
Rob & Big
Rob & Big is an American reality television series that follows the lives of professional skateboarder/actor/producer Rob Dyrdek and his best friend and bodyguard Christopher "Big Black" Boykin...
, Living Lahaina
Living Lahaina
Living Lahaina is a reality series produced by Jesse Ignjatovic for MTV. The show, filmed over a three month period on location in Lahaina , focused on a group of twenty-something surf instructors and their father-figure-boss at the Royal Hawaiian Surf Academy...
, Homewrecker, Bam's Unholy Union
Bam's Unholy Union
Bam's Unholy Union is an American reality series that aired on MTV and MTV Canada. It follows Bam Margera and his fiancee Missy Rothstein as they plan their wedding...
, Road Rules/Real World Challenge, Remaking Vince Neil and as background music in numerous surfing and snowboarding videos. Their song "The Dull Blade" from the album Win Us Over
Win Us Over
Win Us Over is the fourth and, to date, the most recent studio album by hard rock band ASG. The album was released on September 11, 2007.- Track listing :*All Songs Written & Arranged By ASG.#Right Death Before #Dream Song...
was included in the soundtrack of the popular skateboarding video game Skate 2
Skate 2
Skate 2 is a sandbox skateboarding video game developed by EA Black Box and distributed by Electronic Arts as a sequel to the 2007 game, Skate. Skate 2 was released in January 2009 on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.-Plot:...
and "Dream Song" (also from the album Win Us Over
Win Us Over
Win Us Over is the fourth and, to date, the most recent studio album by hard rock band ASG. The album was released on September 11, 2007.- Track listing :*All Songs Written & Arranged By ASG.#Right Death Before #Dream Song...
), will be included in the soundtrack for the new video game, Splatterhouse (2010 video game), that will be released in the Fall 2010.
ASG has toured with bands such as The Dwarves, CKY
CKY (band)
CKY is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Centred around core members Deron Miller , Chad I Ginsburg and Jess Margera , the band shares its name with a skateboarding and stunt video series produced by Bam Margera, brother of drummer Jess...
and Torche
Torche
Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or sludge metal.-Biography:The group was formed in 2004 by Steve Brooks , Juan Montoya , Jonathan Nuñez and Rick Smith Torche is a band from Miami, Florida, whose sound is often described as stoner metal, or...
. The band plays a mixture of punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
, southern rock
Southern rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals...
, stoner rock
Stoner rock
Stoner rock or stoner metal is a subgenre of heavy metal, combining elements of psychedelic rock, blues rock, traditional heavy metal and doom metal. Stoner rock is typically slow-to-mid tempo and features a bass-heavy sound, melodic vocals, and 'retro' production...
and metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
. ASG played the 2007 Volcom Tour. In September 2008, the band was part of that year's Volcom Tour
Volcom
Volcom, Inc. is a designer, marketer and distributor of young men's and young women's clothing, footwear, accessories and related products sold under the Volcom brand name. Volcom is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, United States...
along with Motörhead, Valient Thorr
Valient Thorr
-History:Valient Thorr began playing together in 2000. Their first show was on Easter of 2001. They released two demos, "Raw" and "We Come From The Morning Star"...
and Year Long Disaster
Year Long Disaster
Year Long Disaster is a Stoner rock band from Los Angeles, California.-History:The band had its beginnings in 2003 when guitarist and singer Daniel Davies met bassist Rich Mullins of Karma to Burn in a Hollywood grocery store; at the time Mullins was having drug problems and was homeless...
. They were replacing both The Misfits and Airbourne
Airbourne (band)
Airbourne are an Australian hard rock band formed in Warrnambool in 2001. Mainstay members are Joel O'Keeffe on lead vocals and lead guitar, his brother, Ryan O'Keeffe on drums, and David Roads on rhythm guitar and backing vocals. They were later joined by Justin Street on bass guitar and backing...
who had pulled out of the tour. In 2009, ASG opened for CKY
CKY (band)
CKY is an American alternative metal band that formed in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1998. Centred around core members Deron Miller , Chad I Ginsburg and Jess Margera , the band shares its name with a skateboarding and stunt video series produced by Bam Margera, brother of drummer Jess...
on their summer tour alongside Sweden's Graveyard (band)
Graveyard (band)
- History :Joakim Nilsson, Rikard Edlund , Axel Sjöberg, and Truls Mörck formed Graveyard in 2006. When Norrsken disbanded in 2000, guitarist Magnus Pelander went on to form doomy folk metal act Witchcraft and Nilsson and Edlund joined Albatros, a growly blues rock band whose lineup also included...
.
Vocalist-guitarist Jason Shi is the main songwriter for the band. ASG's influences include Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age is an American rock band from Palm Desert, California, United States, formed in 1997. The band's line-up has always included founding member Josh Homme , with the current line-up including longtime members Troy Van Leeuwen and Joey Castillo , alongside Michael Shuman and...
and Ween
Ween
Ween is an American alternative rock group. They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween has a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music...
. In a review of the album Win Us Over, Allmusic wrote that the band's sound combines "the best qualities of Kyuss
Kyuss
Kyuss is a rock band, originally from Palm Desert, California. After forming in the late 1980s and releasing an EP under the name Sons of Kyuss in 1990, the band shortened its name to Kyuss. Over the next five years the band released four full-length albums, and one last split EP in 1997 with...
and Queens of the Stone Age".
In 2010, the band was confirmed as being part of the soundtrack for Namco Bandai Games
Namco Bandai Games
is an arcade, mobile and home video game developer and publisher based in Japan which is the product of a merger between the video game development divisions of Bandai and Namco. Namco Bandai Games is a wholly owned subsidiary of Namco Bandai Holdings and specializes in production and sales of...
' 2010 remake of Splatterhouse.
On June 9, 2011 the band confirmed that recording of a new album will begin sometimes in 2011 via their homepage.http://www.asgnation.com/
Discography
- ASG (2002)
- The Amplification of Self-Gratification (2003)
- Feeling Good Is Good EnoughFeeling Good is Good EnoughFeeling Good Is Good Enough is a 2005 ASG album. It was their third studio album released by Volcom Entertainment Records. Singles from the album include "John Wayne", "Horse Whipper", and the title track...
(2005) - Win Us OverWin Us OverWin Us Over is the fourth and, to date, the most recent studio album by hard rock band ASG. The album was released on September 11, 2007.- Track listing :*All Songs Written & Arranged By ASG.#Right Death Before #Dream Song...
(2007) - Low Country (with Black TuskBlack Tusk (band)Black Tusk is an American heavy metal power trio from Savannah, Georgia. The band was formed in 2005, when its members were all living on the same street...
) (2009)