The Birthday Massacre

*Chibi: Vocals
*Falcore: Guitars
*Rainbow: Guitars
*Owen: Synthesizers
*Nate Manor: Bass
*Rhim: Drums

The Birthday Massacre is a Canadian synthrock band from London, Ontario. The band are known for their unique sound and the band described their sound as being rock /new wave/synthpop on their Facebook page. Each member is associated with a nickname rather than their traditional family names. The Canadian band were originally called ‘Imajica’ but had to change their name in order to avoid confusion with a California metal band with the same name. The band members met in college and relocated to Toronto, Ontario to continue working on music projects together. In July 2002, The Birthday Massacre independently released a limited-edition CD entitled ‘Nothing and Nowhere’. In 2005, the band signed to Metropolis Records. The band began a series of international tours taking them to Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Hungary, Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain and UK. In 2006, the Birthday Massacre toured North America on their ‘Broken Minds’ tour. On September 11, 2007, the band released the album ‘Walking with Strangers’ in North America, entering at No. 10 on the Billboard ‘Top Heatseekers’ chart. During the summer of 2009, Chibi recorded vocals for former WWE Diva Katie Lea Burchill’s entrance theme, ‘Hurt You’. On September 14, 2010, The Birthday Massacre released the album ‘Pins and Needles’. In early 2011, the band played the Opera House as part of ‘JUNOFEST’ with fellow Toronto band ‘Die Mannequin’ and Montreal band ‘Ariel’. On August 4, 2011 the band released the ‘Imaginary Monsters’ EP to listen to in full on their Myspace profile. On October 9, 2012, the band released their fifth album entitled ‘Hide & Seek’. The entire album was made available for free online streaming exclusively on RevolverMag.com via Metropolis Records SoundCloud account. On February 5, 2014, the band announced that their next album would partly be funded by a crowd funding project on PledgeMusic in cooperation with their label, Metropolis Records.

You can listen to a sample of the band’s song ‘Down’ in the media player below.

Thanks to http://tbmchicago.com/ for some biographical information.

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