Stutterfly

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Stutterfly is a Metal/ Alternative/ Post Hardcore band created in 1998, originally named "Uncle Ed's Private Jet".

What started as a hobby for four young men from Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada, swiftly turned into a passionate and emotional outlet for its four members: Chris Stickney (vocals), Jordan Chase (bass, vocals), Bradyn Byron (guitar, vocals), and Craig Langerud (drums). In 2003, Jason Ciolli (guitar) joined the band, in 2004 Ryan Loerke took over on drums and in 2006 Chris left the band, to be later replaced by Charles Furney. The band has continued on to produce intense and energetic live shows.

Their melodic sound resonates with three-part vocals and harmonies, intense screaming, hard-hitting drums, and thick driving guitars. These, punctuated with transparent lyrics, form a sound distinct from other bands.

1 History
2 Discography
3 Triva
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Stutterfly's demo, "hollow", quickly turned around and sold over 3,000 copies at their shows alone. "Broken In Pieces...", their first full-length album, was released in 2002 (later re-released on the bands' own label, The Elysien Project).

After reaching number one on mp3.com in their genre, Stutterfly maintained a top 10 position for over a year, and received almost 200,000 plays. With the help of Los Angeles based Freeze Management (the Used, Story Of The Year, Goldfinger) Stutterfly inked a deal with Madonna's Maverick Records (Deftones, Alanis Morissette, etc.) in the summer of 2003, and later toured with fellow labelmates Story of the Year. Working with producer Ulrich Wild (Deftones, Taproot, Bleeding Through, Static-X) the band released "And We Are Bled of Color", which contained new versions of several songs from "Broken In Pieces...", on June 21, 2005.

After disappointing sales of "And We Are Bled of Color" Stutterfly was dropped from Maverick, with lead singer Chris Stickney leaving the band amicably soon after. Charles Furney (formerly of thebleedingalarm) joined as the new vocalist in August 2006.

The band will be recording a new album starting in December 2006, expected to be released in spring of 2007.

Following shortly his departure from Stutterfly Chris Stickney went on to create a new band with Matt Kelly, a member of Born For Battle, called "Oceans Apart". Showing much more maturity, both lyrically and musically, and departing from Stutterfly's trademark sound to one influenced by bands like Dredge.