Leaton Rose
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Leaton Rose is an Australian musician who played bass guitar for Adelaide-based Metalcore
/Deathcore
band I Killed the Prom Queen
(c. 2002 – c. 2003) and then alternative
rock band, The Hot Lies
(2004–2010).
/Deathcore
band I Killed the Prom Queen
was founded in Adelaide in 2000 by bass guitar
ist Ben Engel, guitar
ist Simon O'Gorman, drummer
JJ Peters, vocalist Lee Stacy and guitarist Jona Weinhofen
. The next year, Michael Crafter
joined to share lead vocals. Soon afterward, Leaton Rose joined on bass guitar to replace Engel. The band then recorded a four track demo, Choose to Love, Live or Die
, which was later re-released as an EP by Final Prayer Records, who also released a Split EP in 2003 featuring two songs by I Killed the Prom Queen ("Homicide Documentaries" and "Death Certificate for a Beauty Queen"). I Killed The Prom Queen's first release was the only one with Stacy's and Crafter's vocals. The tracks were early versions of those re-recorded for Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You.
After the release of Choose To Live, Love Or Die, O'Gorman was replaced by Kevin Cameron and Stacy left the band. Rose departed to join another Adelaide band, The Hot Lies
, and Sean Kennedy took his place.
The Hot Lies was an alternative
rock band formed in 2004, with drummer Jared Brown, rhythm guitar
ist Benjamin Pix, Rose on bass guitar, lead guitarist Luke Szabo and lead vocalist Pete Wood. The Hot Lies released two EPs and a full length album and disbanded early in 2010.
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
/Deathcore
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal music genre that combines elements of death metal with elements of metalcore or hardcore punk, or both. It is defined by an "excessive" use of death metal riffs, blast beats and use of hardcore punk breakdowns...
band I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen is an Australian metalcore band which formed in 2000 with mainstays JJ Peters on drums and Jona Weinhofen on guitar. The band featured prominently on the Australian live music scene and toured the USA, Japan and parts of Europe several times...
(c. 2002 – c. 2003) and then alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
rock band, The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies were an alternative rock band based in Australia. The band formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 2004. Their line-up consisted of lead vocalist Pete Wood, rhythm guitarist Benjamin Pix, drummer Jared Brown, lead guitarist Luke Szabo and former I Killed the Prom Queen bassist Leaton Rose...
(2004–2010).
Biography
MetalcoreMetalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
/Deathcore
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal music genre that combines elements of death metal with elements of metalcore or hardcore punk, or both. It is defined by an "excessive" use of death metal riffs, blast beats and use of hardcore punk breakdowns...
band I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen
I Killed the Prom Queen is an Australian metalcore band which formed in 2000 with mainstays JJ Peters on drums and Jona Weinhofen on guitar. The band featured prominently on the Australian live music scene and toured the USA, Japan and parts of Europe several times...
was founded in Adelaide in 2000 by bass guitar
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
ist Ben Engel, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
ist Simon O'Gorman, drummer
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
JJ Peters, vocalist Lee Stacy and guitarist Jona Weinhofen
Jona Weinhofen
Jona Weinhofen is an Australian guitarist and musician from Adelaide, South Australia. He is currently the guitarist for the Australian based band I Killed the Prom Queen, Canine Tricycle Bereavement, and British band Bring Me The Horizon. Jona was guitarist for California based band Bleeding...
. The next year, Michael Crafter
Michael Crafter
Michael Crafter is an Australian musician and singer-songwriter. He is best known as the lead vocalist of Confession, and is also a former vocalist for Bands - I Killed the Prom Queen, Carpathian and Bury Your Dead. He also played Bass for Shotpointblank.-Biography:Crafter is a member in the...
joined to share lead vocals. Soon afterward, Leaton Rose joined on bass guitar to replace Engel. The band then recorded a four track demo, Choose to Love, Live or Die
Choose to Love, Live or Die
Choose to Love, Live or Die is an EP by Australian band metalcore band I Killed the Prom Queen.The original line-up of I Killed The Prom Queen consisted of vocalist Lee Stacy, guitarist Jona Weinhofen, drummer Josef Peters, bass guitarist Ben Engel and second guitarist Simon O'Gorman...
, which was later re-released as an EP by Final Prayer Records, who also released a Split EP in 2003 featuring two songs by I Killed the Prom Queen ("Homicide Documentaries" and "Death Certificate for a Beauty Queen"). I Killed The Prom Queen's first release was the only one with Stacy's and Crafter's vocals. The tracks were early versions of those re-recorded for Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You.
After the release of Choose To Live, Love Or Die, O'Gorman was replaced by Kevin Cameron and Stacy left the band. Rose departed to join another Adelaide band, The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies
The Hot Lies were an alternative rock band based in Australia. The band formed in Adelaide, Australia, in 2004. Their line-up consisted of lead vocalist Pete Wood, rhythm guitarist Benjamin Pix, drummer Jared Brown, lead guitarist Luke Szabo and former I Killed the Prom Queen bassist Leaton Rose...
, and Sean Kennedy took his place.
The Hot Lies was an alternative
Alternative rock
Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...
rock band formed in 2004, with drummer Jared Brown, rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
ist Benjamin Pix, Rose on bass guitar, lead guitarist Luke Szabo and lead vocalist Pete Wood. The Hot Lies released two EPs and a full length album and disbanded early in 2010.