Bleed the Dream

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Bleed the Dream
Press photo of all four of the original members of Bleed the Dream
Press photo of all four of the original members of Bleed the Dream
Background information
Origin Flag of United States Los Angeles California, USA
Years active 2003 - present
Label(s) Warcon
Website http://www.bleedthedream.com
Members
Mark Holmes
Dave Aguilera
Keith Thompson
Tom Breyfogle
Former members
Brandon Thomas
Scott Gottlieb
Touring Only Members
Aaron Edmonds
Aaron Cohan

Bleed the Dream is an American rock band from Southern California.

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[edit] Biography

On New Years 2003, Bleed the Dream was just as their name reads, the pieces had not yet come together, the concept in dream state. Keith Thompson had left Baltimore a year earlier to follow his musical dreams. A month into 2003, Brandon Thomas left Baltimore to check out what Keith had been raving about to his friend back east. By Spring, Bleed the Dream was a reality. Four musicians who had come together by their common love of expression through musical poetry.

Learning from their pasts as members of big bands in small scenes, the leap to LA for the two east-coast boys was their chance to be heard. If you want to make it in the music business, you need to tour, you need fans. For the next year, the band polished their sound and piled in a van, working their way from city to city. This effort paid off and garnered them a spot on the Warped Tour through old-fashioned networking and without an album under their belts. They were asked back to join Warped Tour officially in 2004 and 2005.

In 2004, Bleed The Dreams's Dave Aguilera created his own label, Maphia Records and subesquently released 2 EPs: rock-driven "Awake" on Noize Pollution, the unplugged and acoustic "Asleep". They followed both released with a DVD "No Apologies" reminiscent of the CKY videos. The DVD was edited by Scott Gottlieb from pieces of tour footage and behind the scene fan cameras.

Their success and rapid-growing fan base was noted by Warped Tour creator, Kevin Lyman. Realizing that Bleed the Dream was onto something, Lyman created his own label, WARCON Enterprises LLC and signed the band and released Bleed The Dream's first full-length album, "Built By Blood" in May 2005.

Spring of 2005 landed them on the Taste of Chaos tour featuring The Used and My Chemical Romance. Scott was unable to take the rough life of touring on the road. So the band played on and dedicated each show to his recovery. Unfortunately, as their star was rising, Scott became sick and weak. A year earlier, Spring 2004, while on a national tour, he fell down during a performance. The band cut their set short to rush him to the hospital. Scott was diagnosed as having leukemia. He lost his short battle with cancer on April 10, 2005. Only two weeks before the band released "Built by Blood". Their CD release party at the Ottobar in Baltimore, Maryland on April 23, was tearful and triumphant in the same breath. Friends and Family came out to pay their respects to Scott and support the band in the next phase of their life without him.

Bleed the Dream finished out 2005 by joining Taste Of Chaos Europe with headliners "The Used" and Story of the Year. In December, the band took some time off to write and audition new drummers. They now have a permanent drummer, Tom who had recently entered the band. Brandon Thomas was soon let go from the band. Mark Holmes, former lead singer of the now-defunct band Like Yesterday, has now permanently entered the band as the new lead singer.

In August 2006, the band released 2 demos on their Myspace page. The intent was to show off their new singer and let the fans get a sneak peak of their new material. The songs were posted for only a few days.

[edit] Changing of the guard

In January 2006, Tom Breyfogle, originally from Ohio, joined the band as their new drummer. His first two tours with the band took place in select cities stateside and in Canada with Hawthorne Heights for the first part and Funeral for a Friend for the second half. After which, they returned to Canada for their own headlining tour.

Breyfogle then followed the band out to the U.K in April 2006 supporting their Taste of Chaos friends Story of the Year alongside hardcore punk band Stretch Arm Strong. They then joined bands Never Heard of It, Army of Freshmen, & Crowned King on tour in Japan.

On May 24, 2006, the Band released an official press statement announcing the departure of lead vocalist Brandon Thomas. Since then, Mark has been announced as the new vocalist. In September 2006, Brandon confirmed he had a new project, Phantom Communique, based back in Baltimore with former Bleed the Dream touring drummer, Aaron Cohan.

[edit] New direction

In late 2006, the band finished filming a music video for the song "Closer," the first single off their new album, "Killer Inside" due out April 10, 2007. The video shows the aftermath of a terrible car-wreck, leaving the band members bloodied and hospitalized. The album will also feature tracks "It Takes A Fall," "Tell Someone Who Cares," and "Vampires Don't Kill For the Money."

[edit] Line-up

[edit] Current members

[edit] Past members

[edit] Influences

[edit] Notable appearances

The band has appeared on such tours as the Taste of Chaos Tour and the Van's Warped Tour. They are also featured in a Warped Tour documentary, Wake Up Screaming. Their song, "Streets of Baltimore," was played for a national audience during a FOX broadcast of a Baltimore Ravens' football game on November 19, 2006. Recently, they appeared on Japanese rock band Dir en grey's INWARD SCREAM TOUR 07, which kicked off on February 1, 2007 in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. [1]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Full-length

Killer Inside CD / LP (Warcon 2007)

  • Voices — A killer Inside — You'll Have To Lie To Be Honest — Vampires (Don't Kill For The Money) — Closer — Beaten And Blindfolded — Drowning Is Painless — It Takes A Fall (10 To 1) — This Parking Lot's A Murder Scene — Tell Somebody Who Cares — Stay The Hell Away — Considering, This Time It Was Me — Tongue Tied

Built By Blood CD / LP (Warcon 2005)

  • Legends Die — Should Have Known — Confessions — Who's Killing Who — Just Like I Remember — Taste the Change — Emotion Regression — Say G'night — Black Sky's — Broken Wings — Destroying Something Beautiful

[edit] EPs

Awake CD / EP (Noize Pollution 2003)

  • Villain — Overcrowded Room — Solace — Sarcastic Farewell — Be There — 'Pop' Song

Asleep CD / EP (Maphia 2004)

  • Should Have Known — Shattered Memories — Broken Wings — A Smile For Judas — Streets Of Baltimore — Big Mouth Strikes Again

[edit] DVDs

[edit] Soundtracks

[edit] Compilations

[edit] Other

They will be a supporting act (with Fair to Midland) for Dir en grey for TOUR07 INWARD SCREAM.

[edit] External links

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