From First to Last
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From First to Last was an American rock band based out of Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, originally hailing from Valdosta, Georgia
Valdosta, Georgia
Valdosta is the county seat of Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. It is the principal city of the Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 Census, the city had a total population of 54,518. The Valdosta metropolitan area, according to the 2010 estimate, has a population of 139,588...

 and Tampa, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Tampa is a city in the U.S. state of Florida. It serves as the county seat for Hillsborough County. Tampa is located on the west coast of Florida. The population of Tampa in 2010 was 335,709....

. The band released their first EP titled Aesthetic
Aesthetic (album)
Aesthetic is the debut EP by American emo band From First to Last, released in 2003. It was the band's first release. Original pressings contain the band's original name First Too Last, but later pressings changed when the band added the From to the beginning of their name...

in 2003 with vocalist Phillip Reardon, followed by Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
-Personnel:From First to Last* Sonny Moore – Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Matt Good – Clean vocals, lead & rhythm guitars* Travis Richter – Screamed & clean vocals, rhythm & lead guitars...

in 2004 and Heroine in 2006, both with vocalist Sonny Moore
Sonny Moore
Sonny John Moore is an American electronic dance music producer who is widely known by his professional name Skrillex. Moore is also a former frontman for the American band From First to Last. In late Autumn of 2007 he embarked on his first tour as a solo artist, the Team Sleep Tour with Team...

. Following the departure of Moore in February 2007 to work on his solo electronic project, Skrillex, the band added permanent bassist Matt Manning, and Matt Good moved to lead vocals/guitar. They released a self-titled album
From First to Last (album)
From First to Last is the self-titled third album by From First to Last, released on May 6, 2008. "Worlds Away" is the album's first single, which hit the radio on March 17.-Background:...

 in 2008 on Suretone Records. On August 27, 2009, From First to Last confirmed on DJ Rossstar's Punk Rock Show that they have indeed left Suretone and are now signed to Rise Records. In late 2009, they parted ways with long time guitarist/vocalist Travis Richter
Travis Richter
Travis Brandon Richter is an American musician, music producer, dubstep producer and vocalist. He is known for being the original screamer and guitarist of From First to Last, and the current guitarist and lead vocalist of The Color of Violence and the former lead vocalist for The Human Abstract...

. Their fourth studio album, Throne to the Wolves
Throne to the Wolves
-Personnel:* Throne to the Wolves album personnel as listed on Allmusic.From First to Last* Matt Good – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Blake Steiner – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals...

was released on March 16, 2010. On 28 July 2010, band entered an ongoing indefinite hiatus. According to Matt Good, the band is likely to play music in future.

Formation and Aesthetic (1999–2003)

From First To Last was created in November 1999 in Tampa
Tâmpa
Tâmpa may refer to several villages in Romania:* Tâmpa, a village in Băcia Commune, Hunedoara County* Tâmpa, a village in Miercurea Nirajului, Mureş County* Tâmpa, a mountain in Braşov city...

 by Matt Good
Matt Good
Matt Good is an American guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of post-hardcore band From First to Last from its founding to its hiatus. He was formerly the guitarist of grindcore band The Color of Violence, which featured future From First to...

 and Scott Oord. Matt did not want to play guitar but Scott convinced him to start experimenting and a short time after, Nelms Parker joined as the first drummer for the band, while Matt is responsible for lead vocals & guitar and Scott on bass. Parker quickly left the band and entered his replacement, Steve Pullman. He had been interested in entering the band, and for almost 3 years the band played in small shows in Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...

.

In 2002, Matt joined the grindcore
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

 band The Color of Violence
The Color of Violence
The Color of Violence is an American experimental side project of the post-hardcore band From First to Last. It features From First to Last's drummer Derek Bloom and former guitarist/backup vocalist Travis Richter. The Color of Violence is a way for the members to experiment and have fun with music...

 (at that time, called Slaughter vs Skeleton, Fetus Destroyer), where Matt began to make friends with Travis Richter
Travis Richter
Travis Brandon Richter is an American musician, music producer, dubstep producer and vocalist. He is known for being the original screamer and guitarist of From First to Last, and the current guitarist and lead vocalist of The Color of Violence and the former lead vocalist for The Human Abstract...

 (guitar) and Joey Antillion (bass), asking them to join at the band. Some time later, Greg Taylor joined as (drums), who wrote about 4 songs, in which the Aesthetic Demos were created. After hearing the demos off their first EP, which was released a year later, Phillip Reardon joined as lead vocalist, as well as Derek Bloom
Derek Bloom
Derek Bloom , also known by his stage name Glitch Killgasm, is an American drummer, known for drumming in metalcore band From First to Last for all of their time as a band, as well as the drummer for his grindcore side-project with Travis Richter, known as The Color of Violence.- From First to Last...

 as a drummer. The band is located in Valdosta, Georgia
Georgia (country)
Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

.

In 2003, the band released their debut EP Aesthetic on Four Leaf Recordings which featured the vocals of Good, Reardon and Richter. After this release the band changed their name to From First To Last. By the end of the year they had signed to Epitaph Records
Epitaph Records
Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independent record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record...

.

Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount (2004)

After the Aesthetic EP, Reardon was missing by the time they were going to record "Dear Diary," however Reardon is still featured on a few tracks from the Dear Diary demos. By this time Jon Weisberg had joined on bass. The band wanted to move Matt Good
Matt Good
Matt Good is an American guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of post-hardcore band From First to Last from its founding to its hiatus. He was formerly the guitarist of grindcore band The Color of Violence, which featured future From First to...

 to lead vocals. However, Good was reluctant to take on both lead vocal and guitar duties. He wanted From First to Last to have a frontman, to connect with the crowd better. Using the social networking site MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

, Good came in contact with a guitarist and singer from California by the name of Sonny Moore
Sonny Moore
Sonny John Moore is an American electronic dance music producer who is widely known by his professional name Skrillex. Moore is also a former frontman for the American band From First to Last. In late Autumn of 2007 he embarked on his first tour as a solo artist, the Team Sleep Tour with Team...

. Moore flew to Valdosta, Georgia, where Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount was being recorded, and was set to be the band's rhythm guitarist. However, when the other band members heard Moore singing "Featuring Some of Your Favorite Words", they decided that he was much better suited for lead singer than guitarist.

Matt Good wrote the album in two weeks. Moore came in after the music was tracked and completed the vocals. Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count
-Personnel:From First to Last* Sonny Moore – Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Matt Good – Clean vocals, lead & rhythm guitars* Travis Richter – Screamed & clean vocals, rhythm & lead guitars...

was released on June 29, 2004.

From late May to mid June 2005, From First to Last participated in the "Dead by Dawn" tour with bands Emanuel
Emanuel (band)
Emanuel is a five-piece rock band from Louisville Kentucky, United States. They formed in 1998 under their lesser-known name Emanuel Nice and appeared on four self-released efforts, before getting signed to Vagrant Records and changing their name in 2004...

, Halifax
Halifax (band)
Halifax is a four-piece rock band from Thousand Oaks, California. They formed in 2003 and currently are signed with Rocket Science Records. On their Myspace page the band announced that they will not be going with Drive-Thru Records on their 2009 release but are shipping the album off to other labels...

 and He Is Legend
He Is Legend
He Is Legend is a hard rock band formed in Wilmington, North Carolina who signed to Tragic Hero Records in 2009. The band consists of vocalist front man Schuylar Croom, guitarist Adam Tanbouz, drummer Steven Bache, bassist Matt Williams....

.

Heroine (2006)

The band went to Radio Star Studios in Weed, California
Weed, California
Weed is a city located in Siskiyou County, California. As of the 2010 Census, the town had a total population of 2,967, down from 2,979 at the 2000 census. There are several unincorporated communities adjacent to, or just outside Weed proper. These include Edgewood, Carrick, Lake Shastina, Rancho...

 to record their second album, produced by Ross Robinson
Ross Robinson
Ross Robinson, son of Byron Katie, is an American multi-platinum music producer, who has discovered successful acts such as Korn, At the Drive-In, Glassjaw, Repeater, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit. Robinson has also worked with Machine Head, Vanilla Ice, The Cure, Sepultura and many others...

. As their previous bassist Weisberg had been formally asked to leave the band due to internal conflicts, producer Ross Robinson asked Wes Borland
Wes Borland
Wesley Louden Borland is an American musician and artist, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well including: Black Light Burns, The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist...

, former Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit
Limp Bizkit is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 1995, the group's lineup consists of Fred Durst , Wes Borland , Sam Rivers , John Otto and DJ Lethal . The band achieved mainstream success with their second studio album Significant Other, released in 1999...

 guitarist, to play bass on the album. Borland later played several tours with the band. The album was released on March 21, 2006. It opened on the Billboard albums chart at #25, with first-week sales of over 33,000. Shortly thereafter in April, they signed to major label Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...

 after bidding between that label and Warner Bros.
Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., also known as Warner Bros. Pictures or simply Warner Bros. , is an American producer of film and television entertainment.One of the major film studios, it is a subsidiary of Time Warner, with its headquarters in Burbank,...

.

From mid March to mid May the band toured alongside Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy
Fall Out Boy is an American rock band from Wilmette, Illinois, formed in 2001. The band consists of vocalist, guitarist and composer Patrick Stump, bassist and lyricist Pete Wentz, guitarist Joe Trohman, and drummer Andy Hurley. The band released five studio albums from 2003–2008...

, Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001. Their line-up currently consists of lead-singer and rhythm guitarist JT Woodruff, lead-guitarist and vocalist Micah Carli, bassist and backing vocalist Matt Ridenour, and drummer Eron Bucciarelli...

 and The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects
The All-American Rejects are an American rock band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1999. The band consists of lead vocalist and bass guitarist Tyson Ritter, lead guitarist, Nick Wheeler, rhythm guitarist, Mike Kennerty, and drummer Chris Gaylor....

 for the "Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour" in support of their release Heroine.

FFTL then did a short European Tour with various bands. The band then played several dates on the 2006 Vans Warped Tour
Warped Tour
The Warped Tour is a touring music and extreme sports festival. The tour is held in venues such as parking lots or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected. The BMX/skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans, among others, has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, and it is...

, but were forced to drop out due to surgical removal of a nodule
Vocal fold nodule
A vocal cord nodule is a mass of tissue that grows on the vocal folds . Typically, this mass will appear on the junction of the anterior and middle two-thirds of the vocal fold, where contact is most forceful....

 on Moore's vocal cords. He received his second nodule surgery in early July (his first being in May 2005). Following his recovery, From First to Last went out on the "World Championship Tour" supporting Atreyu
Atreyu (band)
Atreyu is an American rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 1998. The band consists of vocalist/lyricist Alex Varkatzas, guitarists Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel, bassist Marc McKnight and drummer/vocalist Brandon Saller...

 along with Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die
Every Time I Die is a metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. Their musical style is rooted in technical hardcore with strong southern metal and mathcore elements, and is also characterised by their cryptic, bitingly sarcastic lyrics. The band announced on July 14, 2008 that they had...

 and Chiodos
Chiodos
Chiodos is an American post hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. Formed in 2001, the group was originally known as "The Chiodos Bros," the band's name was a tribute to filmmakers Stephen, Charles, and Edward Chiodo, responsible for the film Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Chiodos released their...

. While on that tour, Moore once again had vocal cord problems and had to leave the tour. The band had planned to have guitarists Good and Richter cover Moore's vocal duties for the duration of the tour until singer of Chiodos, Craig Owens, insisted that he provide lead vocals for their sets. Atreyu eventually forced From First to Last to drop the tour. The band later explained, "Our plan to enable us to play the rest of the tour was disregarded and as our crew was setting up for the show in Worcester, MA we were informed that we were being kicked off of the tour. Understand that it was not our choice to leave this tour... we were forced to leave." Atreyu then returned a statement about the controversy concerning From First to Last's departure, saying, "They couldn't perform as FFTL and are no longer on this tour."

Borland toured with From First To Last roughly since early 2006. He announced plans for a Fall 2006 tour that never went through due to Black Light Burns needing to find a new record label after Borland left Geffen Records. Borland has discussed plans to write and perform on the next From First To Last album, but he left the band due to Black Light Burns' busy schedule started to pick up, leaving no room for work with From First to Last.

Self-titled album (2008–2009)

In February 2007, lead singer Moore left From First to Last to pursue a solo career. His decision to leave was based on his urge to create his own music, and also due to the fact that singing in the band was putting an immense strain on his vocal cords, resulting in serious damage which needed multiple surgeries in order to be fixed. Moore has posted new recordings on his myspace and is part of a group of artists that form, modernorganic.

After vocalist Moore's departure, From First to Last faced a crisis. Their label, Capitol Records, had dropped them due to financial problems. Without a vocalist, label, permanent bassist, or any money, the band almost split. Guitarist/Vocalist Matt Good, however, decided to take on lead vocals while still providing a backup guitar role. The band also quickly picked up Matt Manning to become full-time bassist .The band then spent their remaining money on a studio in which to continue work on their already-written third album.

The remaining members of From First to Last finished a headlining tour from July 21 through August 5 with guests Alesana
Alesana
Alesana is an American rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2004, the group is currently signed to Epitaph Records and have released one EP and four full-length studio albums...

, Vanna
Vanna (band)
Vanna is an American post-hardcore band from Boston, MA. Their first full length album, Curses, was released on April 24, 2007.-Early years :...

, Brighten, and Four Year Strong. Shortly before recording another album, the band played for a portion of the Show Must Go On tour with Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights
Hawthorne Heights is an American rock band from Dayton, Ohio, formed in 2001. Their line-up currently consists of lead-singer and rhythm guitarist JT Woodruff, lead-guitarist and vocalist Micah Carli, bassist and backing vocalist Matt Ridenour, and drummer Eron Bucciarelli...

, Secondhand Serenade
Secondhand Serenade
Secondhand Serenade is an American acoustic rock band, led by vocalist and guitarist John Vesely. Vesely has released three studio albums to date under the name Secondhand Serenade: Awake in 2007, A Twist in My Story in 2008 and Hear Me Now in 2010...

, Powerspace
Powerspace
Powerspace was a five-piece power pop band from Chicago, Illinois. They are signed to Fueled by Ramen. The band released their debut album, The Kicks of Passion produced by Marc McClusky, on July 31, 2007. Drummer Kevin Kane announced the band's break up on February 17, 2010.-History:The band first...

, and Brighten
Brighten
Brighten is a pop rock band from Chico, California, consisting of brothers Justin and Jimmy Richards, and Alex Draper . The band has recently been on tour with This Providence, Cute Is What We Aim For, Eisley, and All Time Low. In 2007, their debut album, King vs...

, but later cancelled their dates on the last part of the tour to open for Deftones
Deftones
Deftones are an American alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, founded in 1988. The band consists of Chino Moreno , Stephen Carpenter , Chi Cheng , Frank Delgado , and Abe Cunningham . Currently Sergio Vega is standing in on bass while Cheng recovers from a car accident...

 on a separate Canadian tour.

After completing a full mix of their new material, From First to Last was picked up by Suretone Records
Suretone Records
Suretone Records is an American record label established in 2006 as a joint venture by Jordan Schur, former CEO of Geffen Records, and Interscope Records, to release alternative rock music...

. Shortly after, they re-entered the studio to record their album again, this time with a professional crew and better quality. The band recorded this time in Los Angeles, with producer Josh Abraham
Josh Abraham
Josh Abraham is a Grammy-winning record producer and co-owner of Pulse Management and Check Your Pulse Publishing. He has produced songs and albums for many of the industry's most successful artists such as Velvet Revolver, 30 Seconds to Mars, Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson and Courtney Love...

 and seasoned engineer Ryan Williams. At midnight on November 14, 2007, they released the first single from the album, Two as One, on their Myspace account, and they later played that song live on the Jimmy Kimmel show. A video was made for the song Worlds Away which was highly publicized. Although this record was widely promoted and the band had one of its biggest years ever, they personally feel the album was a failure in that it did not portray the true band as it was meant to be portrayed. Currently, they rarely, if ever, play any songs off this album, the only occasional one being the song "Deliverance".

From First to Last began their fall headlining tour, RATHER BE SLAYIN' N00BZ, starting November 1 with guests blessthefall
Blessthefall
Blessthefall is an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, currently signed to Fearless Records. The band was founded in 2003 by guitarist Mike Frisby, drummer Matt Traynor, and bassist Jared Warth. Their debut album, His Last Walk, with original vocalist Craig Mabbitt, was released April...

, A Skylit Drive
A Skylit Drive
A Skylit Drive is an American post-hardcore band from Lodi, California. The band released one DVD, one EP and three studio albums: Wires...and the Concept of Breathing on May 20, 2008, Adelphia on June 9, 2009, and most recently Identity On Fire on February 15, 2011. Michael Jagmin has provided...

, and Vanna
Vanna (band)
Vanna is an American post-hardcore band from Boston, MA. Their first full length album, Curses, was released on April 24, 2007.-Early years :...

. Around the middle of the tour, the guests changed to Envy On The Coast
Envy On The Coast
Envy on the Coast was an alternative rock band from Long Island, New York. They released their second album Lowcountry in March 2010.-History:...

, Pierce The Veil
Pierce the Veil
Pierce the Veil is an American post-hardcore band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2006, the group was founded by brothers Vic and Mike Fuentes after the disbandment of the group Early Times which was formed out of the San Diego punk rock scene...

, Four Year Strong
Four Year Strong
Four Year Strong is an American pop punk band from Worcester, Massachusetts, formed in 2001. The group consists of vocalists and guitarists Dan O'Connor and Alan Day, bassist Joe Weiss, and drummer Jackson Massucco...

, Mayday Parade, Mia Medusa, and The Variant.

On November 29, From First to Last announced they were going to be a part of the 2008 Hot Topic
Hot Topic
Hot Topic is an American retail chain specializing in music and pop culture-related clothing and accessories, as well as licensed music on CD. The majority of the stores are located in regional shopping malls. The first Hot Topic store was opened in 1988 by Orv Madden, who retired as CEO in 2000...

 Take Action Tour. They played at the MTV Winter Valencia in Spain on March 6. On December 6, they announced they were going to be part of the 2008 Vans Warped Tour
Warped Tour
The Warped Tour is a touring music and extreme sports festival. The tour is held in venues such as parking lots or fields upon which the stages and other structures are erected. The BMX/skateboarding shoe manufacturer Vans, among others, has sponsored the tour every year since 1995, and it is...

.

On May 6, 2008, From First to Last released their self-titled album, and starting June 20, hit the road on the Vans Warped Tour for its entirety.

On June 28, From First to Last updated their band members section of their MySpace, making Chris Lent
Chris Lent
Chris Lent is an American drummer and keyboardist, who was formerly a member of the post-hardcore band From First to Last, and of the experimental band I Set My Friends On Fire.- By Far the Least/Dead Reckless :...

 a full time member.

From the end of September to October 12, From First to Last played on The Blackout
The Blackout (band)
The Blackout is a post-hardcore band from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, formed in 2003. After some time backing Lostprophets on their Liberation Transmission Tour, along with Dopamine, Covergirl, Kids In Glass Houses, The Guns and Men, Women and Children, they released their first mini-album The Blackout!...

's "Sleep All Day, Party All Night" tour in the UK, along with The Medic Droid
The Medic Droid
-History:The Medic Droid was started in 2005 with Chris Donathon, Hector Bagnod and Johnny Chavez . Bagnod and Donathon first met in 2003, but Donathon moved away from the city after they met, only to return a few years later...

 and We Are The Ocean
We Are the Ocean
We Are the Ocean is a 5 piece post-hardcore band from Loughton, Essex, England.The band has played hundreds of shows since their formation, including several festivals during 2008 such as Slam Dunk, Offset Festival, Middlesbrough Music Live, and Taste of Chaos...

.

Throne to the Wolves (2009 onward)

FFTL stated that they would be on a break from touring in late 2008. Members Travis Richter and Derek Bloom
Derek Bloom
Derek Bloom , also known by his stage name Glitch Killgasm, is an American drummer, known for drumming in metalcore band From First to Last for all of their time as a band, as well as the drummer for his grindcore side-project with Travis Richter, known as The Color of Violence.- From First to Last...

 were focusing on their side project, The Color of Violence
The Color of Violence
The Color of Violence is an American experimental side project of the post-hardcore band From First to Last. It features From First to Last's drummer Derek Bloom and former guitarist/backup vocalist Travis Richter. The Color of Violence is a way for the members to experiment and have fun with music...

, with tours soon after and a full length debut album, Youthanize
Youthanize
- Musicians :The Color of Violence*Travis Richter – lead vocals, guitars, composer*Derek Bloom – drums, guitars, bass guitar, percussion, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, composerGuest musicians...

, which was released April 7, 2009. Member Chris Lent
Chris Lent
Chris Lent is an American drummer and keyboardist, who was formerly a member of the post-hardcore band From First to Last, and of the experimental band I Set My Friends On Fire.- By Far the Least/Dead Reckless :...

 toured as the drummer for the band I Set My Friends On Fire
I Set My Friends On Fire
I Set My Friends on Fire is an American Experimental group from Miami, Florida. The band was formed in 2007 by Matt Mehana and former member Nabil Moo. The group signed with Epitaph Records before releasing their debut album, You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter, in 2008...

 as well as one of the two drummers for The Color of Violence (along with Jon Syverson of the band Daughters); Lent also confirmed that he is no longer a member of FFTL and is now writing/recording with ISMFOF. FFTL began writing new songs early 2009 and started demoing new songs in March 2009 for their next album, expected to be released March, 2010. A full length demo of a song on the new album was put on their myspace at that time, as well as the previously unheard b-side from Heroine, Save Us. A Second Full Length Demo was added on July 3, 2009, and a message to fans that they would be announcing their recording schedule and tentative label. As of August 6, 2009, the band had begun to track drums for the new record at EarthSound studios in Valdosta Georgia, with Lee Dyess.

In September 2009, Miss May I announced they would be touring with From First to Last in October 2009.

On October 1, 2009 FFTL announced that they would be touring with Greeley Estates and Therefore I Am in October and November, and also that they had signed to Rise Records
Rise Records
-History:Rise was founded in 1991 by Craig Ericson in Roseburg, Oregon. He released a small number of 7" records before putting the label on hiatus to attend college. Ericson didn't release anything further until 1999, after moving to Portland, Oregon. He began issuing small-print 7" records, and...

.
The band toured on the "You’d Be Way Cuter In a Coffin Tour" with Alesana
Alesana
Alesana is an American rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Formed in 2004, the group is currently signed to Epitaph Records and have released one EP and four full-length studio albums...

, The Word Alive, Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria are a British metalcore band from York, North Yorkshire. Founded in 2008 when Ben Bruce contacted his old companions upon returning to the UK after residing in Dubai...

, and Memphis May Fire
Memphis May Fire
Memphis May Fire is an American post-hardcore band currently based in Texas. Since its formation, the band has released two EPs and two full-length albums. Their music has been compared to Underoath and He Is Legend...

 in December 2009. Though recording was supposedly finished, the band was called off the road and was forced to cancel the last two weeks worth of performances — much to the dismay of fans, some of whom began to complain that the band could never finish a tour, and start rumors of a breakup — in order to go back home to Valdosta and put finishing touches on their recording. Matt Good responded to these claims and rumors
From First to Last released a new song off the album, entitled "Going Lohan", on their MySpace in November. The new album title was announced as Throne to the Wolves
Throne to the Wolves
-Personnel:* Throne to the Wolves album personnel as listed on Allmusic.From First to Last* Matt Good – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Blake Steiner – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals...

and slated for release on March 16, 2010.

In late 2009 FFTL went through yet another lineup change with Travis Richter leaving the band; no official announcement had yet been made by the band and no reason was given for his departure. Matt Good and Matt Manning have been taking over Travis's screaming role and Blake Steiner (ex-Mia Medusa guitarist), who recorded on Throne To The Wolves, is his replacement. On December 31 FFTL released the song "I'll Inoculate The World With The Virus Of My Disillusionment" on their MySpace.

On Travis' departure from the band:
On January 20, 2010, From First to Last finally made an official announcement about Travis's departure from the band via Myspace
Myspace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....

.
Travis is now the lead vocalist for the progressive metal band The Human Abstract
The Human Abstract
The Human Abstract is an American progressive metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 2004, the group was originally signed to the independent label Hopeless Records, the band then released the two albums Nocturne and Midheaven before signing to E1 Music and releasing Digital Veil...

.

Beginning on March 13, 2010 From First To Last headlined the Royal Family Tour 2010, supported by Eyes Set To Kill
Eyes Set to Kill
Eyes Set to Kill is an American metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona. Sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez, along with former vocalist Lindsey Vogt started the band in 2003. Lindsey Vogt departed the band in mid-2007 due to issues with management...

, Confide, Black Veil Brides
Black Veil Brides
Black Veil Brides is an American rock band based out of Hollywood, California. The group is composed of Andrew Biersack , Ashley Purdy , Jake Pitts , Jinxx , and Christian "CC" Coma...

 and Sleeping with Sirens
Sleeping with Sirens
Sleeping with Sirens is an American post-hardcore band from Orlando, Florida currently residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Formed in 2009 by members of For All We Know, Broadway and We Are Defiance...

. That tour concluded on April 10. Eyes Set To Kill dropped off the tour for other engagements a week before.

Throne to the Wolves
Throne to the Wolves
-Personnel:* Throne to the Wolves album personnel as listed on Allmusic.From First to Last* Matt Good – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Blake Steiner – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals...

 was released March 16, 2010. The album was received well by critics and fans alike; getting favorable reviews from Alternative Press, and Absolute Punk. The album debuted at number 24 on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums, and number 45 on The Top Independent Albums. This is the bands first album not to chart the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 since Dear Diary. After spending one week on the charts it dropped off; despite its poor debut, and first week sales of less than 4000, the album has been seen as a fresh start, and a new beginning for the band.

Starting on May 8, 2010 the band toured with Our Last Night
Our Last Night
Our Last Night is a Post-Hardcore band, formed in 2004 by five members, consisting ofTrevor Wentworth , Matthew Wentworth , Alex "Woody" Woodrow , Colin Perry , Tim Molloy , who were "fed up with merely jamming and playing cover songs".-Early years :After a few lineup changes, the group was...

, We Came as Romans
We Came as Romans
We Came as Romans is an American rock band from Troy, Michigan. Formed in 2005, the band signed to Equal Vision Records in April 2009 and have released two EPs, Demonstrations and Dreams , and two full-length albums, To Plant a Seed and Understanding What We've Grown to Be...

, and A Bullet For Pretty Boy on the Welcome To The Circus tour, headlined by Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria
Asking Alexandria are a British metalcore band from York, North Yorkshire. Founded in 2008 when Ben Bruce contacted his old companions upon returning to the UK after residing in Dubai...

. The tour will end on June 9

On June 10, 2010 the band will begin playing dates through June 18 supporting A Skylit Drive
A Skylit Drive
A Skylit Drive is an American post-hardcore band from Lodi, California. The band released one DVD, one EP and three studio albums: Wires...and the Concept of Breathing on May 20, 2008, Adelphia on June 9, 2009, and most recently Identity On Fire on February 15, 2011. Michael Jagmin has provided...

 on the second half of the "Go Fist Pump Yourself Tour", along with Tides of Man and Abandon All Ships
Abandon All Ships
Abandon All Ships is a Canadian rock band from Toronto, Ontario. Formed in 2006, the group is currently signed to Universal Music Group, Underground Operations along with Rise Records and its subsidiary, Velocity...

. I Set My Friends On Fire
I Set My Friends On Fire
I Set My Friends on Fire is an American Experimental group from Miami, Florida. The band was formed in 2007 by Matt Mehana and former member Nabil Moo. The group signed with Epitaph Records before releasing their debut album, You Can't Spell Slaughter Without Laughter, in 2008...

 were originally slated to play, but ISMFOF was forced to back out due to recording delays.

On July 28, 2010 Matt Good announced that From First To Last was going on hiatus:
On July 29, 2010, Craig Owens
Craig Owens
Craig Owens was an American post-modernist art critic, gay activist and feminist.-Biography:Craig Owens was a senior editor of Art in America, a contributor to such scholarly journals as Skyline and October, a graduate of Haverford College, and a professor of art history at Yale University and...

 posted a video on Facebook saying that Matt Good
Matt Good
Matt Good is an American guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of post-hardcore band From First to Last from its founding to its hiatus. He was formerly the guitarist of grindcore band The Color of Violence, which featured future From First to...

 was the guitarist and keyboardist of his new band. On August 18, 2010, Owens announced via his Twitter
Twitter
Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based posts of up to 140 characters, informally known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July...

 account that the band is called Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows. The band's members include vocalist Craig Owens (ex-Chiodos
Chiodos
Chiodos is an American post hardcore band from Davison, Michigan. Formed in 2001, the group was originally known as "The Chiodos Bros," the band's name was a tribute to filmmakers Stephen, Charles, and Edward Chiodo, responsible for the film Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Chiodos released their...

), drummer Aaron Stern (Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance
Matchbook Romance was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie, New York and was formed in 1997.were signed to Epitaph Records. They released two full length albums and one EP...

), guitarist/vocalist Nick Martin
Nick Martin (musician)
Nicholas Anthony Martin is a musician born and raised in San Diego, California, USA. He was the lead guitarist and lead vocalist for the band Underminded since its incarnation in 1999. He is also in the bands Cinematic Sunrise, Isles & Glaciers, and was rumored to be in ex-Chiodos frontman, Craig...

 (Underminded
Underminded
Underminded is a hardcore band from San Diego, California. The band is currently taking a break as its members concentrate on side projects. Frontman Nick Martin is currently in Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows and drummer Tanner Wayne is now drumming for Chiodos.-History:Band members Nick Martin...

), bassist Adam Russell (Story of the Year
Story of the Year
Story of the Year is an American rock band formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 2000. The band was initially named 67 North but was then changed to Big Blue Monkey...

) and Matt Good
Matt Good
Matt Good is an American guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of post-hardcore band From First to Last from its founding to its hiatus. He was formerly the guitarist of grindcore band The Color of Violence, which featured future From First to...

 in guitar, keyboards and vocals.

In 2011, Matt Manning and Blake Steiner formed the band Eye In The Sky. The band's members include Matt Simpson (drums), Blake Steiner (guitar) and Matt Manning (vocals & bass).

Band members

Final line-up
  • Matt Good
    Matt Good
    Matt Good is an American guitarist and vocalist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of post-hardcore band From First to Last from its founding to its hiatus. He was formerly the guitarist of grindcore band The Color of Violence, which featured future From First to...

     – lead vocals (1999-2002, 2003-2004, 2007-2010), guitars, keyboards (2002-2010)
  • Derek Bloom
    Derek Bloom
    Derek Bloom , also known by his stage name Glitch Killgasm, is an American drummer, known for drumming in metalcore band From First to Last for all of their time as a band, as well as the drummer for his grindcore side-project with Travis Richter, known as The Color of Violence.- From First to Last...

     – drums, percussion (2002-2010)
  • Matt Manning – bass (2007-2010), unclean vocals (2009-2010)
  • Blake Steiner – guitars, backing vocals (2009-2010)


Past members
  • Greg Taylor – drums, percussion (2002)
  • Phillip Reardon – lead vocals, unclean vocals, backing vocals, songwriter, keyboards (2002-2003)
  • Joey Antillion – bass (2002–2003)
  • Jon Weisberg – unclean vocals, bass (2004–2005)
  • Sonny Moore
    Sonny Moore
    Sonny John Moore is an American electronic dance music producer who is widely known by his professional name Skrillex. Moore is also a former frontman for the American band From First to Last. In late Autumn of 2007 he embarked on his first tour as a solo artist, the Team Sleep Tour with Team...

     – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (2004-2007)
  • Travis Richter
    Travis Richter
    Travis Brandon Richter is an American musician, music producer, dubstep producer and vocalist. He is known for being the original screamer and guitarist of From First to Last, and the current guitarist and lead vocalist of The Color of Violence and the former lead vocalist for The Human Abstract...

     – unclean vocals, guitars (2002–2009); lead vocals (2002)
  • Chris Lent
    Chris Lent
    Chris Lent is an American drummer and keyboardist, who was formerly a member of the post-hardcore band From First to Last, and of the experimental band I Set My Friends On Fire.- By Far the Least/Dead Reckless :...

     – keyboards, synthesizers, percussion (2008–2009)

Touring members
  • Rick Patterson – rhythm guitar (2003–2004)
  • Alicia Simmons/Way – bass (2005)
  • Wes Borland
    Wes Borland
    Wesley Louden Borland is an American musician and artist, best known as the guitarist for the band Limp Bizkit. He has been in several other bands as well including: Black Light Burns, The Damning Well, Goatslayer, Big Dumb Face, and Combichrist...

     – bass, backing vocals (2005–2006)
  • Craig Owens - lead vocals (2006)
  • Matt Fleischman – bass (2006–2007)


Past members (as First Too Last)
  • Parker Nelms – drums, percussion (1999)
  • Scott Oord – bass, backing vocals (1999–2002)
  • Steve Pullman – drums, percussion, keyboards (1999–2002)


Discography

Studio albums
  • Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount
    Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Bodycount
    -Personnel:From First to Last* Sonny Moore – Lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Matt Good – Clean vocals, lead & rhythm guitars* Travis Richter – Screamed & clean vocals, rhythm & lead guitars...

    (2004)
  • Heroine (2006)
  • From First to Last
    From First to Last (album)
    From First to Last is the self-titled third album by From First to Last, released on May 6, 2008. "Worlds Away" is the album's first single, which hit the radio on March 17.-Background:...

    (2008)
  • Throne to the Wolves
    Throne to the Wolves
    -Personnel:* Throne to the Wolves album personnel as listed on Allmusic.From First to Last* Matt Good – lead vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, programming* Blake Steiner – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals...

    (2010)

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