Music:
Member Since: 9/25/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/jumpingthesharkband
Band Members:
Jay - Vocals
Ian - Guitar/Vocals
Chris - Guitar/Vocals
Taylor - Bass
Nikki - Drums
Influences: www.stuffonmycat.com
Jay - As I Lay Dying, The Bled, Blood Has Been Shed, CKY, Converge, From Autumn To Ashes, Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Poison The Well, The Red Chord
Ian - Hot Cross, Circle Takes the Square, Joshua Fit for Battle, I Hate Myself, mewithoutYou, A Day In Black and White, The Bled, underOATH, Norma Jean, Say Anything, On the Might of Princes, Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Matthew McConaughey.
Chris - Between The Buried & Me, Coheed & Cambria, The Cure, Every Time I Die, Genghis Tron, GlassJAw, The Human Abstract, Machine Head, Saosin, Thursday
Taylor - Against Me!, Circle Takes the Square, City of Caterpillar, The Dead Kennedys, Form of Rocket, The Icarus Line, In Flames, Mogwai, Tunes For Bears to Dance Too, Weezer
Nikki - Circa Survive, Avenged Sevenfold, He Is Legend, Saosin, GILES, Protest the Hero, August Burns Red, Coheed, Radiohead, Zeppelin, The Bled, Besnyo, Danny Elfman, Sphiux
Sounds Like: Jumping The Shark falls somewhere in the grey area between punishing metalcore, anthematic screamo, and melodic indie rock. With a diverse range of influences, Jumping The Shark can't be pidgeonholed into a single genre.
Bands We've Played With: A Candlelight Massacre, A Plea For Purging (Fierce Dragon Assembly Records), A Skylit Drive (Tragic Hero Records), A Stained Glass Romance, Acirema, akissforjersey (Tragic Hero Records), Alert The Sky (Fierce Dragon Assembly Records), Alesana (Fearless / Tragic Hero Records), Ambivalent, Apis Bull (Grayscale Records), As You Were (Downstar Records), ASG (Volcom Records), Ask Mice, August Burns Red (Solid State Records), Beerwolf, Bloodjinn (Tribunal Records), Breaking The Girl, Cast The First Stone, Cloak And Dagger, Cosmorock, Crossbreed (Artemis Records), Cupid Wears My Trophy, Da'ath (Roadrunner Records), Damona Waits, Dead Until Buried, Dreams Never Crash, Edenton, Embracing Goodbye, Emmure (Victory Records), End of Honor, Farewar, Farewell To Freeway (Year of the Sun Records), Folly (Triple Crown Records), Forget About The Stars, From Graves of Valor (Tragic Hero Records), Ghost of A Fallen Age (Tragic Hero Recrods), Graveyard Heart, HeavyHeavyLowLow (Ferret / New Weathermen Records), Holiday Avenue, Kalliber, Knives Exchanging Hands (Tragic Hero Records), Laid To Rest, Lamron, Lanterns (Dood! Records), Legion of Supervillians, Line In March, Lokyata (Indianola Records), Massacre of the Umbilical Chord (Magic Bullet Records), Mendicant Friends, Mickey Blue Eyes, Monarch, Monday In London, My Bitter End, My Hero Is Me (Tragic Hero Records), Narallis, Never Speak Defeat, Nothing Sacred, Of Blessings And Battles, Omniscient, Paris Is Burning, Philmont, Princess And The Criminals, Rapture Cabaret, Ringworm (Victory Records), River Terrace Crew, Scapegoat (Tragic Hero Records), Secret Lives of the Freemasons (Astromagnetics Records), Shiloh, Sibyl Vane, Snatch Apple, Something Like Seven, Strikethrew, Sunset Greets The Moon, Toda Party, The Abernathy Complex, The Avenger, The Blackout Pact (Astromagnetics Records), The Bonnie Situation, The Broken, The Fallen Lie, The Fear of Falling, The Hottness (Tragic Hero Records), The International Drive (Disco Technology Records), The Keep, The Last Regard, The Morning Of (Tragic Hero Records), The Silence Before The Fall, The Winter Mission, Then Came The Plague, This Flood Covers The Earth (History Major Records), This Time It's War, Though He Slay Me, Thousand Year Flood, Time of Cholera (Danceface Records), Unending Blame, Vertigo, Wrath And Rapture, Yosemite Mudflap And The Fireball Wizards, Your Name In Vain (Tragic Hero Records)
Record Label: None [/scoff]. Sign us!
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