Made Violent

Made Violent is an Alternative rock band that formed in 2013. It’s made up of Joseph White on lead vocals and bass, Justin Acee on drums, and Rob Romano on guitar. The band was just recently signed to Columbia records and became the record labels newest alternative rock band of 2015.

The three members have been friends since before Joe even graduated high school. Not that Rob and Justin knew that Joe was still in high school, he lied about his age and told them that he was 19. “One of them would buy me a Four Loko and I’d sit on a couch in their practice space and watch them play. Then I’d go to high school in the morning. I told them I was 19.” Said White as he reflected on the past.

The three lads have come a long way since then and have released their debut self-entitled EP, Made Violent. They are currently touring around the United States and they even stopped back to their hometown to play a sold out show to their home crowd in Buffalo, New York that I was lucky enough to attend. The concert was crazy and had a gigantic mosh pit and Joe even shared the stage with us rowdy concert-goers and even encouraged us to stage dive. I was not one that part-took in the stage diving, but the girl that I went with did… twice. They sang some songs off their EP as well as others like “Wasted Days”, “Two Toned Hair”, “Dirty”, “You Had It Easy”, and “Talk About It”.

Made Violent is an amazing band but for me it’s not like any other considering I had the pleasure of attending some of my high school years along with Joe White, or Jose Blanco as was his ‘true’ identity. I was able to see him in all the high school productions of “Into The Woods”, “Crazy For You”, “Anything Goes”, and “The Wizard of OZ”, my sister even did his makeup in all of the productions. Joe was also in a band before Made Violent called Larrabe, which he was also bassist and lead singer in. They even performed at the talent show as well as one of the middle school ‘fun nights’ which I was front row for. I would love to see Made Violent perform again and their music is incredible.