- My American Heart
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My American Heart Origin San Diego, California, USA Genres Indie rock, emo Years active 2001–2009 Labels Warcon (2005-2009) Associated acts Geoff Rickly, Paramore, Weatherbox Past members Larry Soliman
Jesse Barrera
Dustin Hook
Jake Kalb
Nick Logan
Steven Oira
Jeremy Mendez
Brian Warren
Clint Delgado
Matthew VanGasbeckMy American Heart was a rock band from San Diego, California. The band's original name was No Way Out, which consisted of Larry Soliman on vocals, Jesse Barrera on bass guitar, Clint Delgado and Jeremy Mendez on guitar, and Steven Oira on Drums. The Band fitted into at first the "emo-rock" scene with their debut album "The Meaning In Make-up" which was released through Warcon Records. It featured elements of screaming or harsher vocals delivered from Jeremy Mendez who eventually left the band. The bands follow up to "The Meaning In Make-up" was called "Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather" also released through Warcon Records, which also featured the bands new line up of Larry Soliman as vocalist, Jesse Barrera as guitarist along with Matthew VanGasbeck, Dustin Hook on bass and Steven Oira on drums after the departure of Jeremy Mendez who featured as a singular guitarist. My American Heart split in October 2009.
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History
My American Heart gained much local fame from many local SoCal venues they played at. Due to some legal troubles concerning their name the band changed it from No Way Out to their current name, My American Heart (which was named after the Piebald song "American Heart"). The band made their first big break winning the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands. As popularity grew, the band was pressured to play at larger venues farther from home, causing Clint Delgado to leave the band to focus on his education. The band played the Taste of Chaos tour in 2005 with a four-piece. Shortly after the tour the band recorded the full length album The Meaning in Makeup with producer Sal Villanueva released on Kevin Lyman's label, Warcon, in fall 2005. While on Warped Tour, the band picked up bassist Dustin Hook.
During the summer of 2006 original guitarist, Jeremy Mendez left the band and joined a project called "Trade Explosions". My American Heart picked up guitarist Jake "The Snake Nailer" Taylor (Original vocalist of Deadbeat) on their last tour at a venue in Cincinnati, Ohio before they went into the studio to record "Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather" with producer James Paul Wisner. Majority of the album was inspired from Snake Nailer's roots in the grudge-core scene. The final track, that was a last minute add on to the album, was entitled Moving On. The track was a song completely composed by Snake Nailer himself telling of his battle through alcoholism and drug addiction from his teen years to his mid twenties, and his decision to "Move on" and better his life.
It was announced on the Soundwave (Australian music festival) tour that Steve Oira would leave the band after tour due to a mutual agreement. Jake Kalb (ex-The Fold/New Atlantic/The Suicide Pact) has replaced him on drums. As of June 2008, Jake "The Snake Nailer" Taylor will be joining the band on guitar permanently per the band's MySpace page.
My American Heart recently announced on MySpace page that they are currently writing for their new album. On April 14, 2008 Jesse Barrera announced on his website (jessebarrera.com) that they were no longer on Warcon Records, "The label that we were on for four years just folded and now we’re currently in the most interesting legal situation ever, which I won’t get into"
In early July 2009, Jesse Barrera announced on his website that he was leaving My American Heart.
In October 2009, it was announced through members of the band that they would be disbanding following a few final shows.
In early October 2009, Jesse Barrera made four demo tracks available on his website. The songs were intended for their third studio album that will now likely never be released. The demos are Unravel, Pain, Lost Inside Of You, and Circa.
Two more demos have been released titled, Heart Attack and Shine Your Light, also thought to be intended for their third studio album.
Discography
No Way Out
- The Courtesy Of Stars (EP) - 2002
- Certainty Kills (EP) - 2003
My American Heart
- My American Heart (EP) - 2004
- The Meaning in Makeup - 2005
- Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather - 2007
Compilation appearances
- Punk the Clock Vol. 1 – 2004 – contributed The Ruins We Hold
- Taste of Chaos - 2005 - Contributed White Lines
- Taste of Christmas - 2005 - Contributed The First Noel
- Punk Goes Crunk - 2008 - Contributed a cover of 2Pac's California Love
- Emaline Media Group and Faceless Present Face The Change Vol. 1 - 2009 - Contributed "There Are More Frightening Things..."
Former Members
- Jesse Barrera
- Larry Soliman
- Jake Kalb
- Nick Logan
- Dustin Hook
- Steven Oira
- Jeremy Mendez
- Keith Rich
- Brian Warren
- Clint Delgado
Side-projects
After the announcement of the band's break-up, Jesse Barrera continued full-time with his acoustic/pop project.
Former member Clint Delgado does remixes and recordings.
Former member Jeremy Mendez is the vocalist of his hardcore/progressive band Reconstruct The Dream.
External links
Categories:- Musical groups from California
- Musical groups established in 2001
- Musical groups disestablished in 2009
- American emo musical groups
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