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About Me

With an aggressive rock sound, Alive is Dead is a NYC based band known to put on a great show no matter how small the venue. Be sure to take a listen and we hope you enjoy!

Check us out at purevolume.com

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Member Since: 10/16/2005
Band Members: Michael Jurado - Vocals/Guitar
Thomas Becket Escoto - Bass
Ryan D'Angelo - Drums/Keys/Vocals
Influences:Nirvana, Korn, Deftones, Chevelle, Foo Fighters, SoundGarden, Silverchair, Brand New, Poison The Well, From Me To You, Incubus, Utada Hikaru, Cold, Linkin Park, Thrice, From Autumn to Ashes, Dead Poetic, Staind, Method Man, Slipknot, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Pearl Jam, NIN, HIM, CKY, Open Hand, Bach, Circa Survive, Vitreous Humor, Codeseven, Hey Mercedes, sElf, Bluebird, Zao, Vaux, The Smiths, Morrissey, Abandoned Pools, ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Nirvana, Cave In, Led Zeppelin, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, The Cure, Placebo, Nada Surf, The Anniversary, The 101, Braid, Ash, Kreator, Alligator Gun, Rilo Kiley, The Blood Brothers, Fireside, Quicksand, Brand New, Antarctica, Campfire Girls, Coroner, Coheed &; Cambria, Carcass, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Entombed, Lovedrug, Scatter the Ashes, Deftones, Dead Poetic, Year of the Rabbit, Far, National Skyline, Matthew Good Band, Failure, Belly, The Firebird Band, L'Spaerow, HIM, Interpol, Ova Looven, Foo Fighters, Lacuna Coil, Tiamat, Moonspell, Idlewild, Duran Duran, Jawbreaker, The City on Film, Aloha, The Shins, The Get Up Kids, Team Sleep, Spookey Ruben, Bloc Party, The Velvet Teen, The Postal Service, The Accused, Black Sabbath, The Monkees, The Misfits, Sigur Ros, The Bronx, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Cynic, Idiotpilot, Depeche Mode, Metallica, The Beach Boys, Cryptic Slaughter, Fear Factory, The Letters Organize, Hum, KB, Blindside, Saosin, The Receiving End of Sirens, Armor For Sleep, Shadows Fall, Lifegods, Refused, Lifetime, Cursive, The Regrets, Supergrass, Sonic Youth, and many more!
Sounds Like: Chainsaws in metal barrels with explosions and soft whispers wrapped in an atom.
Record Label: 43-11
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

By the end of Winter...

We should be playing a show by the time it is less bitter outside.We haven't played in a long time, so stay tuned because you won't want to miss it.I would go into a lengthy story as to why we haven't...
Posted by alive is dead on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 05:37:00 PST

The Mean Fiddler show was great!

Thank you to all who came out and gave thier support at The Mean Fiddler this past Saturday in NYC. Thank you LES Productions and The Mean Fiddler for setting up the show and letting us play. Thank yo...
Posted by alive is dead on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:14:00 PST

Thanks for all the love at Jimmy's Seaside

Just want to thank everyone for coming to our show at Jimmy's Seaside in Stamford, CT. It was the biggest turn out we ever had! Practically everyone we work with came out. We totally took over the bar...
Posted by alive is dead on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:32:00 PST

Places we've played...

Pussycat Lounge 96 Greenwich Street at Rector, 2nd Floor New York, NY 10001 The Baggot Inn 82 West 3rd St. between Sullivan and Thompson New York, NY 10001 The Underscore 1733 1st Ave. (between 89th &...
Posted by alive is dead on Wed, 30 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

Thank you for making the Don Hill's show the best.

Alive is Dead would like to thank all of our friends, family and fans for coming out last night to our show at Don Hill's. Thank you to Section 8 Cartel for sticking around to catch our set, you guys...
Posted by alive is dead on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:49:00 PST

Constantine and new alive is dead update

During the winter months of hibernation we've been working with Dave, an excellent guitarist with crazy ass skills.. he'll add a nice aggressive lead touch to our sound, we hope to debut him very soon...
Posted by alive is dead on Thu, 10 May 2007 09:08:00 PST

SIBERIA show CANCELLED

Siberia was shut down which led to the cancellation of our show on May 19th.
Posted by alive is dead on Mon, 07 May 2007 03:14:00 PST

Two new songs!

As you may have already know we put up a couple of new songs on the site. The first is "In This Letter". A nice little diddy that does the quarter mile in 10 secs flat. Recorded in Ryan's bed room (it...
Posted by alive is dead on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:58:00 PST

Thank you for rocking out with us at Club Midway

We'd like to thank everyone who came out in the blistering cold this past Friday to watch us play. It was a great turn out and we really appreciate all the support. It was a blast! F...
Posted by alive is dead on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:02:00 PST

Club Midway show FLYER is now available

Print this out and bring it to the show for reduced admission!-Ryan
Posted by alive is dead on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:57:00 PST