Artist: Emery
Genre(s):
Rock
Alternative
Discography:
I'm Only a Man
Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
The Weak's End
Year: 2004
Tracks: 10
The Question
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Like From Autumn to Ashes, Nora, and Hopesfall (barely to turn over three examples), Emery is an alternative pop/rock outfit that has been described as "melodic hardcore." That means that they aren't providing pure, complete hardcore (let alone metalcore) in the traditional sense, simply instead ar melodic alternative pop/rockers world Health Organization contain hardcore elements. That approaching has too been called "screamo" -- in other words, worked up and melodic sensitivity contrastive with the sort of screaming vocals one associates with hardcore and metalcore. And Emery, like many other 2000s bands that have been described as "melodic hard-core," "post-hardcore" or "screamo," definitely thrives on heaven/hell and melody/brutality contrasts. One minute, they're providing lush melodies, introspective lyrics and conventional vocals -- the side by side minute, they'll detour into anguished, torturesome, death-all-over-your-face screaming.
For Emery, however, the formal vocals outnumber the screaming vocals, which is a major difference between their approach and the unrelenting violence of the more than extreme hard-core and metalcore bands of the 2000s -- Emery gives you tortured screaming some of the time, whereas hardcore and metalcore purists volition cave in you anguished screaming one C pct of the time. Without question, Emery's kindness/cruelty collocation is a long way from the unmitigated ferocity and stern barbarism of metalcore bands wish Brick Bath, Hatebreed, and Rotten Sound.
Emery was formed in South Carolina in 2001, when Toby Morrell (lead vocals, guitar), Matt Carter (guitar, keyboards, background vocals), and Joel Green (basso) got together with Devin Shelton (guitar, background vocals), Josh Head (keyboards), and Seth Studley (drums). All of the Southern musicians were recent college graduates, and when they formed Emery, they were determined to constitute music a calling instead of a mere sideline. After talking things over and weighing their options, Emery's members decided that Seattle would be a better environment for them than South Carolina and left hand for the West Coast at around 7:30 a.m. on September 11, 2001 -- the day Al Qaeda terrorists hijacked quaternion airplanes and brutally attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Emery's members didn't find forbidden nearly the attacks until they stopped-up in North Carolina to get something to eat; despite all the horror and chaos, they finally made it to the West Coast and made the Emerald City their new home. In 2002, Emery signed with the Seattle-based Tooth & Nail judge, which united them with producer/engineer Ed Rose (wHO has worked with the Get Up Kids, Todd Newman, the Beautiful Mistake, Shallow, and the Hillbilly Hellcats, among many others). The following twelvemonth, Rose produced Emery's debut album, The Weak's End, which Tooth & Nail released in January 2004. The Question then appeared in August 2005.
