Biography
Thousand Foot Krutch - Creative Team from Canada, existing since 1995 and producing songs in genres alternative rock and metal. The discography of the group includes studio plates that have separated around the world with a circulation of more than 1 million copies.The history of creation and composition
For the first time, the group members gathered in the distant 1995, but under a different name - oddball, releaseing the shutterbug disk. The staff then included Trevor Macnven, Dave Smith, Tim Baxter and Nile Sanderson, also additionally played in the Groundswell group.
A year later, the team collapsed, but already in 1997, the guys were going together again, taking the new striker Kristian Harvey. The updated composition they gave the name Thousand Foot Krutch (abbreviated TFK). According to the leader of the Rock Group Trevor Macnision, this name characterizes the moment in the life of every person when it realizes that it is impossible to hope only for its own strength.
The future TFK frontman began to get involved in music from childhood, and from school bench began to play in groups. Then he lived in the Canadian city of Ontario. The boy brought up on the music of Tribe Called Quest, Beastie Boys and Run D'M'C. By the beginning of the new millennium, Thousand Foot Krutch managed to change 5 guitarists, 3 drummers and 2 bass guitarists.
The music of the group in different periods of creative biography of criticism was treated with such genres as rapcore, new metal, hard rock, hevi metal, postgreasing and punk rock. To teams that influence the formation of Thousand Foot Krutch, it is customary to attribute Korn, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Pearl Jam, Skillet, Creed, Soundgarden, Our Lady Peace, disturbed, Finger Eleven, etc.
A part of TFK fans rank their work towards Christian rock due to the fact that participants sometimes performed on thematic festivals, and their songs and photos were included in the appropriate musical collections. However, Trevor Macnven does not agree with this definition:
"From the point of view of spirituality - we are all Christians and never began to deny it, but as for the music - our team just wants to play, and not preach. We are not a genre, and faith."Music
As Thousand Foot Krutch, the musicians released a debut plate called That's What People DO in 1997. She immediately began to enjoy great popularity, for which the rock band entered the list of "25 best independent musical groups of North America." The soloist of the Trevor Group MacNeeven Readers The Wire Magazine magazine awarded the "Best Vocalist of the Year" award in 1999, and a year of the awards won a number of awards later than Thousand Foot Krutch.By that time, Neal Sanderson, together with other former GROUNDSWELL participants, were reheated, but already under the new name - Three Days Grace. Macnven helped his colleagues with the creation of a demoalbom, and also performed the vocal batch in this Movie composition.
At the end of the autumn of the 2000th Thousand Foot Krutch released the official album SET IT Off on the independent Indie label A & E Studios. In America, the record has acquired more than 85 thousand times. TFK Together with the musicians of Three Days Grace Rock band went to the touring tour, which was able to play on the same stage with such teams like Treble Charger, Finger Eleven, Gob, Econoline Crush, The Tea Party, Matthew Good Band and many other .
At the beginning of the new millennium, the guys signed a contract with an independent DJD Entertainment label located in California. However, the heads of the recording company presented too high demands to musicians, so soon they decided to leave the ranks of this label. After passing about 10 different companies, the artists have chosen on Tooth and Nail.
Hurrying, the participants of the group could not arrange a new material to the end, so a significant part of the work on the second plate went to the studio engineer Aaron Sprink. The release of the release took direct participation of DJ Circa, who worked on P.O.D. At the time of their concert tour FundAmental Element of the South Town. By the time of the album, the metal group left Dave Smith, who married.
In September 2003, the presentation of the Album Phenomenon, which reached the 18th line in the HEATSEEKER rating from Billboard. The first single called Bounce is conveniently located in the charts of Christian orientation and became a hit. Thousand Foot Krutch came to the liberated place of a guitarist, Jam Eplin, who played before this [H] eadspace. In turn, the TFK frontman thanked the team for the musician provided by writing several tracks with them when the guys lost vocalist.
Thousand Foot Krutch managed to play up to three hundred concerts a year and collect thanks to this large-scale fan base on Canada and America. Single Rawkfist was included in the rotation of the MTV2 channel and reached the 28th place of the Billboard rating in the "American Mainstream Rock" section. He also became a soundtrack of the computer game BACKYARD BRAWLERS and was nominated for several musical awards. A year after the release of the record, it was separated by a circulation of 100 thousand copies.
Finding time, Steve and Trevor created a separate punk project called FM Static, within which the album What Are You Waiting for was released. The reason for the formation of a new group was the presence of several dozen tracks, which did not match the TFK format, but also did not want to abandon the material. In addition, at this time, the vocalist helped with the promotion of another team - Hawk Nelson, writing the composition for them and taking part in the record of one of them.
In 2004, the recording of the SET IT OFF plate was published, which included songs from the demoalbom of That's What People do, as well as a completely new track called EveryOne Like Me. The updated version of the disc was reduced with the support of the popular producer named Hevin Brown from Canada, who gained fame through working with Billy Talent, Three Days Grace, Big Sugar and Thornley.
In the summer of the next year, Thousand Foot Krutch was presented to the ART OF BREAKING record, sprinkled by Arnald Lenny from Sheriff and Frozen Ghost. Music work fell into the top 200 best albums according to the Billboard chart, and the single Move reached the 16th line in the American Mainstream Rock rating. The album also nominated for the Juno Awards Award.
In support of the new disk Thousand Foot Krutch went to a big tour entry tour, entitled Trapt, as well as gave concerts on the same stage with such star colleagues as 30 Seconds to Mars, Korn, Kill Hannah, Taproot, Paramore, Thornley, Three Days Grace, Hawthorne Heights, NEVEREnding White Lights, Dashboard Confessional, AFI and many others. At this time, Trevor released the second plate of his third-party FM Static project.
Upon completion of the long-term work in the studio, together with producer Ken Andrew, in the fall of 2007, the TFK came out the album The Flame in All of US. By this time, the team left Jamie Eplin, whose place came Nick Bumhardt, who received fame thanks to his producer. Musicians often performed with Canadian groups to support new material. In early 2008, they went to a large-scale tour in America and Canada together with Decyfer Down and Skillet, and in the fall - in a small tour with the Daughthry group.
In the same year, the guys from Thousand Foot Krutch won the Taco Bell's Feed The Beat, delivering a prize room with Hit The Lights and Fireflight, for which you got the opportunity to record a new material with a famous producer. On April 7, 2009, the 3rd plate of FM Static was released, and Basist Joel Brier prepared for the work of his new third-party project called The Drawing Room.
On September 8 of the same year, Thousand Foot Krutch presented the Welcome to the Masquerade disc, in creating famous musicians Aaron Sprinkle and Randy Stub, as well as Randy Tores from Project 86, Matt Carter from Emery and Grunge Star of the 90s Peet Stewart From Grammatrain. The title song from the album called Fire It Up was used in a commercial video in support of the artistic picture "Cobra Throw", as well as in some computer games. Earned the popularity and track Take it Out on Me.
10 years later Thousand Foot Krutch released more 3 studio records on independent labels - The End Is Where Begin (Courty Call, War of Change, Be somebody became especially popular), Oxygen: Inhale, Exhale and Untraveled Roads, which fell to taste fans creativity. In 2015-2016, the team members gave concerts in Russia, in the clubs of Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Thousand Foot Krutch now
Now the Canadian rock band continues to record music and ride in touring tours in different countries. While the date of the presentation of the anniversary plate Thousand Foot Krutch is known, but the fans are looking forward to it.
Discography
- 1995 - Shutterbug.
- 1997 - That's What People doo
- 2000 - SET IT OFF
- 2003 - Phenomenon
- 2004 - SET IT OFF
- 2005 - The Art of Breaking
- 2007 - The Flame in All of US
- 2009 - Welcome to the Masquerade
- 2012 - The End Is Where We Begin
- 2014 - Oxygen: Inhale
- 2016 - Exhale
- 2017 - Untraveled Roads
Clips
- 2001 - Puppet.
- 2003 - Rawkfist.
- 2005 - Move.
- 2008 - Falls Apart
- 2008 - Favorite Disease
- 2013 - War of Change
- 2016 - Running WITH GIANTS
- 2016 - Lifeline.