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dablink|For the name, see Aidan (name) .Refimprove|date=July 2008Infobox musical artist|name = Aiden| image = Aidensouthampton.jpg| caption = Aiden plays Southampton, England.| image_size = 250|alias =|background = group_or_band|origin = Seattle , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington , United States|USA |instrument =|genre = Alternative rock , post-hardcore , horror punk , gothic rock |years_active = 2003& ndash;present|label = Control, Riot Entertainment|Riot , Victory Records|Victory , Unfun, Dead Teenager|associated_acts = William Control , Me Vs. Myself, Angel Ibarra Music,cite web|url= http://www.myspace.com/angelseattle |title=Angel Ibarra on Myspace |publisher=Myspace.com |date= |accessdate=2011-09-14 The Rock 'n' Roll Weekend Vampires Everywhere! , Falling in Reverse |website = URL| http://www.aiden.org|current_members = wil Francis|William "wiL" Francis Nick Wiggins Keef West Ian MacWilliams| past_members = Jake Wambold Jake Davison Angel Ibarra Aiden is an United States|American Rock music|rock band from Seattle , Washington (U.S. state)|Washington http://www.staticmultimedia.com/music/reviews/aiden_-_conviction Aiden - Conviction | Music | CD | Reviews | Static Multimediadead link|date=September 2011 that formed in the spring of 2003. The current members are wil Francis|William Francis (vocals & guitar), Nick Wiggins (bass), Keef West (drums), and Ian MacWilliams (guitar).
The genre's band mixture alternative rock , gothic rock|goth-rock , horror punk , punk rock , post-hardcore , melodic metalcore and hardcore punk .
History
The band is named after the character Aiden of the 2002 film The Ring (2002 film)| The Ring . Their first full-length album '' Our Gangs Dark Oath|Our Gang's Dark Oath , was released on Dead Teenager Records in 2004. It was recorded while Jake Davison and Angel Ibarra were still in high school, being released shortly after they had left.
Later in 2005, the band was signed to Victory Records . Their second album and debut for Victory Records titled Nightmare Anatomy , was released October 4, 2005.
In March 2006, Aiden played a US tour supporting 30 Seconds to Mars , and later another US tour supporting the Finnish people|Finnish band HIM (Finnish band)|HIM , during their Dark Light (HIM album)|Dark Light tour. In April 2007, they played with Lostprophets and Taking Back Sunday . Aiden also partook in the Taste of Chaos North American Tour alongside The Used , 30 Seconds to Mars , Senses Fail , Saosin , Chiodos , and Evaline. They played a West Coast tour, followed by a national tour, Confessions in the Dark Tour, with Drop Dead, Gorgeous , Still Remains , and 1997 (band)|1997 . They have completed the International Taste of Chaos tour.
The band's third studio album entitled Conviction (Aiden album)|Conviction , was released on August 21, 2007. It marks a complete change of style in the band's musical direction. The first single off Conviction - " One Love (Aiden song)|One Love ", appears in Resident Evil: Extinction , and their song " We Sleep Forever " is featured in the motion picture Dead Silence . On the 9th of October, 2007, through a MySpace bulletin the band announced that they were filming their next music video, for the song "Moment," thus confirming it as the next single. The band played a show in Anchorage, Alaska in January 2008, introducing their U.S. tour with Madina Lake in February and March 2008. This was the first part of their three-part "World by Storm Tour", the second part of which was a month-long Europe tour with Kill Hannah from late March to late April 2008. The third part, a tour from Massachusetts back to their home base in Seattle, occupied much of May 2008, but the band pulled out of the tour after two shows, according to their web site for "personal reasons." However, the band did reinstate the final two shows, in Spokane and Seattle, near their home base. They played the Bamboozle Festival in East Rutherford, New Jersey in May 2008. Aiden recorded their own version of Ashley Massaro 's theme music "Let's Light a Fire Tonight" for the bonus edition of WWE The Music, Vol. 8 .
On May 20, 2008, the band announced on their website that Jake Wambold was no longer a member of Aiden. They played their first live show as a four piece in Spokane , Washington on May 24, 2008.
Francis has started a website and a MySpace page for a side project called William Control . William Control is a sort of alter-ego to wiL, and the albums consist of dark content lyric-wise, which wiL stated in a Kerrang! interview did not suit Aiden. Aiden also appeared on the soundtrack to Lost Boys: The Tribe with a cover of the theme song " Cry Little Sister ", and did a European tour in October 2008, followed by a U.S. tour in November, called The Suffer Little Children Tour, finishing December 7. On December 14 Aiden posted a blog on their MySpace saying that they are in the studio writing and recording songs for their next album.cite web|url= http://www.myspace.com/aiden/blog/480372617 |title=Aiden KNIVES blog |publisher=myspace.com |date=2009-04-01 |accessdate=2009-04-01 The blog also said that there are about 25 songs that they are working with and William also mentioned he'd written 30 songs for the new record in an Alternative Press podcast.cite web|url= http://altpress.com/podcast |title=Alternative Press |publisher=Altpress.com |date=2009-08-01 |accessdate=2009-08-01
Aiden's fourth full length album entitled Knives (album)|Knives was released on May 12, 2009 (May 11 in the UK).cite web|url= http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Aiden/Discography/album/P658813/R1548250/ |title=Knives Release info |publisher=starpulse.com |date=2009-05-25 |accessdate=2009-05-25 On March 31, 2009, a new single, "Scavengers of the Damned," was made available through iTunes, the second single being Let The Right One In. In April 2009 Aiden announced a UK tour on their MySpace . They stated that they chose the smallest venues that were available. In May Aiden headlined the Music Saves Lives Summer Kickoff Party. While out on the 2009 Van's Warped Tour they did signings for the non-profit organization where they met with fans who gained special access to the band by donating blood. In January and February 2010 the band accompanied Anti-Flag on the 'Economy Sucks, Let's Party!' Tour, where in Chicago they filmed a live DVD and CD entitled From Hell...With Love , which was released on March 16, 2010, as stated in an interview with BareBonesMusic.com.cite web|url= http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=eVzbxXIJ9EA |title=Aiden Interview |publisher=YouTube |date=2010-02-15 |accessdate=2010-02-15 Also in addition they stated on Kerrang that they will be returning to the UK and Europe with Saosin .cite web|url= http://www.alterthepress.com/2010/02/saosin-to-join-aiden-for-uk-tour.html |title=Aiden + Saosin tour |publisher=alterthepress.com After Saosin pulled out, the tour was planned to continue but was later cancelled because of a lack of funds.cite web|url= http://www.kerrang.com/blog/2010/03/saosin_cancel_coheadline_tour.html |title=Saosin cancel co-headline tour |publisher=kerrang.com |date=2010-03-10 |accessdate=2010-03-10 Aiden then toured the UK in November/December 2010 with Support from Francesqa and The Dead Formats.cite web|url= http://www.allgigs.co.uk/search/tourdates/50092/Aiden-1.html |title=Aiden tour dates for 2011 |publisher=Allgigs.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2011-09-14
On February 2, 2011 the title of their new album was announced on their website - Disguises (Aiden album)|Disguises cite web|url= http://www.aiden.org |title=Aiden Disguises |publisher=Aiden.org |date= |accessdate=2011-05-27 which was released on March 29, 2011. The first single released was "Walk Among the Dead" on iTunes.cite web|url= http://aidenuk.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/walk-among-the-dead-first-single-from-new-album-released/ |title=Walk Among the Dead single |publisher=aidenuk.wordpress.com |date=2011-04-14 |accessdate=2011-04-14 A music video for "Hysteria" was released in April, and a music video for "A Portrait of the Artist" was released the last week in June.
On May 9, 2011 Aiden announced that drummer Jake Davison left the band, for reasons of pursuing a new direction in life. According to William in a blog on Myspace, Davison's departure and relationship with the rest of the band did not end badly.cite web|url= http://www.myspace.com/aiden/blog/542889814 |title=Jake Davison leaves Aiden blog |publisher=myspace.com |date= |accessdate=2011-05-09
Aiden released their sixth studio album Some Kind of Hate on October 25, 2011.cite web|url= http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php? t=2415882 |title=Some Kind of Hate release information |publisher=absolutepunk.net |date= |accessdate=2011-08-26 It was the last album released on Victory Records, and the second Aiden album released in 2011. A music video for the first single "Broken Bones" was filmed, and premiered on youtube.
In December 2011, the band announced, via their official web page, that they will be headlining the "Rock Beyond Beliefcite web|url= http://rockbeyondbelief.com/ |title=Rock Beyond Belief festival |publisher=rockbeyondbelief.com |date=2011-12-01 |accessdate=2012-12-01" festival in March.
On January 1, 2012, lead guitarist Angel Ibarra decided to leave the band.cite web|url= http://www.aiden.org/site/buy_the_ticket_take_the_ride |title=Angel leaves Aiden |publisher=Aiden.org |date= |accessdate=2012-01-01 Despite this, the band partook in the "Something Wicked This Way Comes tour", that took them all over the US west coast in January 2012 with Wednesday 13 and Modern Day Escape.cite web|url= http://www.aiden.org/site/dates_cancelled_and_dates_added |title=Wednesday13 tour announcement |publisher=Aiden.org |date=2011-10-30 |accessdate=2011-10-30 The song "There Will Be Blood" off the 2011 Album " Some Kind of Hate " was used as the theme song for the Total Nonstop Action Wrestling pay per view event Genesis (2012) .cite web|url= http://www.impactwrestling.com/news/item/3259-Before-The-Bell-Genesis-Preview-The-January-8-Pay-Per-View-Event |title=There Will Be Blood featured in TNA Genesis |publisher=impactwrestling.com|date= |accessdate=2012-01-01
In an interview with Under the Gun Review, William stated that they might be writing a new album soon, then possibly release it the next summer.
Controversy
On January 27, 2012, Fox News posted a story involving a controversial promotion of the Rock Beyond Belief concert, a public event organized by atheist members of the military. Aiden agreed to headline the event, promoting the concert using their 2011 music video for "Hysteria" from the album Disguises (Aiden album)| Disguises . Fox News claims the band is promoting church burning in the video, causing controversy in comments on the music video and the group's Facebook page. http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/fort-bragg-to-host-anti-religion-event.html 1 Aiden has stated that the promotion of church burning was not their intentions for the song, but rather the hysteria seen in fundamentalists of all faiths.
Members
col-begincol-2;Current members
Wil Francis — lead vocals , piano , rhythm guitar (since 2003), Bass (guitar)|bass (2003)
Nick Wiggins — bass guitar|bass , vocals (since 2003)
Keef West — drums , percussion (since 2012) http://www.rocksound.tv/artists/article/aiden
Ian MacWilliams — lead guitar (since 2012)
;Touring members
Mike Novak — drums, percussion (2011)
Falling In Reverse|Ryan Seaman — drums, percussion (2011) http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/falling_in_reverse_announce_album_title_preorder_info/
US http:/ / www.billboard.com/ bbcom/ retrieve_chart_history.do? model.chartFormatGroupName=Albums& model.vnuArtistId=613450& model.vnuAlbumId=814976 "Artist Chart History - Aiden - Albums". Billboard. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.
US Indie
US Heat
UK http:/ / www.zobbel.de/ cluk/ CLUK_A.HTM "Chart Log UK (1994–2008) A – Azzido Da Bass". Zobbel. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.
2004
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DeAd Teenager Records
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32
30
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2005
Nightmare Anatomy
Victory Records
196
16
9
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2007
Conviction
54
5
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45
2009
Knives
95
12
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150http:/ / www.zobbel.de/ cluk/ 090523cluk.txt "Chart Log UK (2009) Week 20". Zobbel. Retrieved on May 21, 2009.
2011
Disguises
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2011
Some Kind of Hate
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: A note|1 Our Gangs Dark Oath did not chart until 2006 when it was reissued through Victory Records.
EPs
Year
Album
Label
Chart peaks
US
US Indie
US Heat
UK
2004
A Split of Nightmares
Unfun Records
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2006
Rain in Hell
Victory Records
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23
9
167
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
Live albums
Year
Album
Label
Chart peaks
US
US Indie
US Heat
UK
2010
From Hell...With Love
Victory Records
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"—" denotes a release that did not chart.
Singles
Year
Title
Album
2004
"I Set My Friends on Fire"
Our Gangs Dark Oath
"Fifteen"
2005
"Knife Blood Nightmare"
Nightmare Anatomy
"The Last Sunrise"
"Die Romantic"
2007
" We Sleep Forever "
Rain in Hell
One Love "
Conviction
Moment "
2008
" Cry Little Sister "
Lost Boys: The Tribe
2009
"Scavengers of the Damned"
Knives
"Let the Right One In"
2011
"Walk Among the Dead"
Disguises
"Hysteria"
"A Portrait of the Artist"
2011
"Broken Bones"
Some Kind of Hate
Awards and nominations
Awards won
Kerrang& #33; Awards 2006 - Best International Newcomer
Metal Hammer Awards 2006 - Best Newcomer
Nominations
Kerrang& #33; Awards 2007 - Best Live Band
References
reflist
External links
http://www.aiden.org/ Official Aiden website
http://willaiden.websitetoolbox.com/ Official Aiden message board
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