40 Below Summer
| 40 Below Summer | |
|---|---|
| Origin | New Jersey, United States |
| Genres | Nu metal,alternative metal,hard rock |
| Years active | 1998–2005, 2006, 2010, 2011-present |
| Labels | Crash Music Inc., Razor & Tie, London-Sire, Warner Bros., Super Massive Music Group |
| Website | http://40belowsummer.tumblr.com/ |
| Members | Max Illidge Joey D'Amico David Mondragon Derrick Klybish Anthony Devizio |
40 Below Summer is an American metal band from New Jersey.
Forming in 1998, the band broke up seven years later in 2005. After two small reunions in 2006 and 2010, they permanently reformed in 2011. Their latest album, Transmission Infrared, was released on iTunes on October 16, 2015.
40 Below Summer came together after drummer and Peruvian native Carlos Aguilar met singer Max Illidge in a band named Alien. Joey D'Amico later joined the duo playing guitar. Pete Savad joined soon after playing bass at first, then moving to guitar with the addition of Jordan Plingos on bass. The self-released Side Show Freaks (1999) was recorded with these lineups at their rehearsal location in the Music Building, NYC. Savad left the band as they got close to signing their first record deal. Moving Plingos to guitar, the band added Steve Ferreira who was soon replaced by Puerto Rican-born Hector Graziani on bass. Soon after, Rain (2000) was self-released.
Eventually, a deal was signed with London-Sire Records. Their debut major label album Invitation to the Dance was released on October 16, 2001 (some sources state September 11, 2001), and was produced by GGGarth. Two months after its release, London-Sire went out of business due to a corporate merger. This led to the band being briefly signed to parent label Warner Bros. Records during 2002. Warner subsequently re-issued Invitation to the Dance.
After performing on the Jägermeister Music Tour with Drowning Pool, Coal Chamber and Ill Niño, and then again with Slipknot, Fear Factory, and Chimaira, but only on select dates, they started to write material for their second album. While the band started writing almost immediately after the release of their previous album, they threw out some fifteen songs before coming up with 21 that they reduced down to the final ten (plus a bonus track, "The Day I Died").
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