Ashley Costello

New Years Day
New Years Day on the Warped Tour in 2013
Background information
Origin	Anaheim, California, U.S.
Genres	Alternative metal gothic metal horror punk post-hardcore hard rock
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Another Century Grey Area Records Century Media Hollywood Waste TVT
Associated acts	Combichrist Get Scared A Static Lullaby Home Grown Motionless in White William Control Escape The Fate The Haxans Rebel Revive
Members	Ash Costello Nikki Misery Jeremy Valentyne Frankie Sil Joshua Ingram
Past members	Keith Drover Eric Seilo Mike Schoolden Adam Lohrbach Dan Arnold Mikey "13" Matthew Lindblad Russell Dixon Nick Turner Jake Jones Anthony Barro Tyler Burgess Nick Rossi Brandon Wolfe Daniel Trixx

New Years Day is an American rock band formed in 2005 in Anaheim, California. After building a reputation strictly through promotion on the social networking website MySpace, the band released its debut self-titled EP in 2006 and their first full-length album My Dear in 2007. Six years after their initial debut, Victim to Villain was finally released, shortly followed by Malevolence in 2015. Malevolence peaked at #45 on the Billboard 200, the band's highest charting thus far.

New Years Day's music is self-proclaimed as "Hauntedmansioncore", a genre categorized by eerie haunted mansion sounds mixed with hard rock music.

New Years Day formed in late 2005, after bassist Adam Lohrbach left the band Home Grown. Lohrbach carried over the many emotional elements present in Home Grown's final 2004 EP When it All Comes Down and cultivated it into new material for New Years Day. Meeting with lead vocalist Ashley "Ash" Costello and guitarist/keyboardist Keith Drover, the three friends wrote and rehearsed songs about their difficult and emotional relationship break-ups. Soon after, the group produced a two-song demo and invited a mutual friend of the group, Eric Seilo, to play bass during their 2005 tours. Ultimately, Seilo left New Years Day at the end of 2005 to pursue higher education. After acquiring former Wakefield guitarist Mike Schoolden and drummer Russell Dixon, the group decided to call themselves New Years Day. The name was chosen in 2005 as a symbol of the fresh start they all hoped and desired for as a band.

The band built a surprisingly strong online presence through showcasing, promotion and posting songs on MySpace. New Years Day was featured on the MySpace Records, Volume 1 compilation CD and on the video game soundtrack for Saints Row. After considering an offer from Pete Wentz's Decaydance Records label, the band decided to sign with TVT Records instead and released their first self-titled EP in 2006. Originally referred to as Razor, the EP was primarily marketed as a digital release accessible through downloading services, although CD hard copies were also sold to fans at live shows. New Years Day performed at the South by Southwest music festival the following year.