I Killed the Prom Queen

I Killed the Prom Queen
Jona Weinhofen (front) and Kevin Cameron (back) at the Corner Hotel in Melbourne in August 2005
Background information
Also known as	Child Left Burning, The Rubix Equation
Origin	Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Genres	Metalcore
Years active	2000 (2000)–2007 (2007), 2008, 2011 (2011)–present
Labels	Epitaph, 618, Final Prayer, Missing Link, Resist, Eulogy, Stomp, Metal Blade, We Are Unified
Associated acts	The Red Shore, Parkway Drive, Deez Nuts, Bring Me the Horizon, Confession, Eternal Lord, Bleeding Through, Carpathian
Website	ikilledthepromqueen.com
Members	Jona Weinhofen Kevin Cameron Jamie Hope Benjamin Coyte Shane O'Brien
Past members	Ben Engel Simon O'Gorman Lee Stacy JJ Peters Michael Crafter Leaton Rose Sean Kennedy Ed Butcher

I Killed the Prom Queen is an Australian metalcore band from Adelaide, formed in 2000. The band feature prominently on the Australian live music scene and toured the U.S., Japan and parts of Europe several times. They issued 3 studio albums, When Goodbye Means Forever... (2003) Music for the Recently Deceased (2006) – the latter reached the top 30 on the ARIA Albums Chart and most recently Beloved (2014). The group split up in April 2007 due to the inability to find a permanent vocalist. I Killed the Prom Queen reformed to play a farewell tour in mid-2008 and released a live album and DVD, Sleepless Nights and City Lights, which peaked in the top 50. In May 2011, the band reformed for the Destroy Music Tour with new vocalist Jamie Hope and spent the next two years working on a third studio album, which was released in early 2014.

I Killed the Prom Queen was formed in Adelaide, South Australia in late 2000, with the original line-up of Ben Engel on bass guitar, Simon O'Gorman on guitar, JJ Peters (Josef John W Peters) on drums, Lee Stacy on vocals, and Jona Weinhofen on guitar. Peters, Weinhofen and bass guitarist Leaton Rose had previously been members of local band Cur. Early in 2000, Weinhofen left Cur to form The Fall of Troy with vocalist Michael Crafter and then he formed I Killed the Prom Queen. Originally named The Rubiks Equation, then briefly titled Child Left Burning, the band's first performance was at the Reynella Youth Enterprise Centre in late 2001. The following year, Crafter joined to share lead vocals and soon after Rose replaced Engel on bass guitar.

The band are influenced by late 1990s hardcore bands Poison the Well, Converge, Hatebreed and Earth Crisis and Swedish melodic death metal groups like At the Gates, Soilwork and In Flames. In late 2001 and early 2002, the group recorded a four-track extended play titled Choose to Love, Live or Die, which was produced by Paul Degasperi and the band; with additional guitar supplied by Cain Kapetanakis. Originally slated to contain five songs, a computer glitch caused the fifth to be erased. In 2002, it was issued as an EP by 618 Recordings and re-released by Final Prayer Records label distributed by Missing Link Records. Following this, O'Gorman left to join Day of Contempt and Kevin Cameron joined on guitar late in the year. Choose to Love, Live or Die, was their only release to include both Lee Stacey's vocals and the higher-pitched Crafter vocals, as Stacy would depart from the band later on the same year. The tracks were later re-recorded for their third EP, Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You (2005).