Unbroken (band)

Unbroken
Origin	San Diego County, California, United States
Genres	Metalcore, hardcore punk
Years active	1991–1995, 1998, 2010-2012, 2014-present
Labels	New Age Records Three One G Indecision Records
Associated acts	Swing Kids, Kill Holiday, Narrows, Julia, Some Girls, Cakewalk, Johnny Angel, Stabbed By Words, Over My Dead Body, Crushed On You
Website	http://www.myspace.com/unbrokenca
Members	Dave Claibourn Steven Andrew Miller Rob Moran Todd Beattie
Past members	Eric Allen

Unbroken is a metalcore band from San Diego County, California. They were influential in the Southern California hardcore scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. The band chose the name Unbroken because they wanted to emphasize their dedication to the straight edge philosophy of drug abstinence. However, most of the members have since given up this belief.

In 2008, Alternative Press named Unbroken a band of significant interest in its cover story "23 Bands Who Shaped Punk", citing them as an influence on later groups such as The Hope Conspiracy, Suicide File, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Modern Life Is War, and Bleeding Through.

The band's members were also in the groups Struggle, Swing Kids, Kill Holiday, Julia, Some Girls, Smooth Man Automatic, Johnny Angel, Stabbed By Words, and Over My Dead Body before, during, and after Unbroken's existence.

Guitarist Eric Allen committed suicide 3 years after the breakup of the band. The band reformed soon after Eric's death for 1 show as a benefit to Eric's family.

Rob Moran until recently played in the hardcore group Some Girls and now resides back in San Diego. He has more recently started a band with John Pettibone (former member of Undertow, Nineironspitfire and Himsa), Ryan Murphy (former member of Undertow, Ten Yard Fight, Ensign) and Aram Arslanian (guitarist of Champion, The First Step and vocalist for Betrayed). The band, The Vows, is a straight-edge band that is musically influenced by the old-school hardcore band Judge. The Vows released a CD on Indecision Records in 2006. Rob Moran is in a new band called Narrows with Dave Verellen of Botch and Ryan Frederiksen of These Arms Are Snakes. They have released a S/T 7", an album called New Distances, as well a split 7" with Seattle band Heiress. All releases are on Deathwish Inc. He is also working on other musical projects with friends in San Diego. One of which is a goth band with Gabe Serbian from The Locust.

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