Pierce The Veil

Pierce the Veil is a post-hardcore band from San Diego, California. The band is also classified as progressive rock, emo, and experimental rock. Pierce the Veil is made up of all its original members and it was founded by brother’s Mike and Vic Fuentes in 2006. Vic is lead vocals, guitar and keyboard while Mike does all the drumming and percussion. By 2007, Tony Perry joined on guitar and Jaime Preciado joined on bass guitar. Jaime also does backing vocals.

Vic and Mike were previously in a band called Before Today, and after the band broke up the two continued creating music. Not long after the formation of Pierce the Veil they already had enough for their first studio album as a band, A Flair For the Dramatic. The name Pierce the Veil came from two of the songs from the Before Today album, A Celebration For an Ending.

Shortly after the release of their first album they began touring for around three months straight. They toured with All Time Low, A Day To Remember, Mayday Parade, Sleeping With Sirens as well as others. In late 2008 they embarked on their first headline tour, The Delicious Tour, after they were on the entire 2008 Vans Warped Tour.

In 2009, Pierce the Veil announced that they were writing and recording their second studio album, Selfish Machines. Vic Fuentes chimed in on the title’s meaning saying "The title refers to human nature and the animal-like qualities inside all of us that we try and hide, but should just learn to accept. We are all selfish machines and we all have natural tendencies to want, love, and take." It debuted at number one on the Billboard Heatseekers chart in June of 2009.

The band soon went off to play a lot of festivals and concerts such as Warped Tour. They also did headlining and co-headlining tours with bands such as We Came As Romans, A Day To Remember, Escape the Fate, and Bring Me The Horizon. While touring the world the band decided that they wanted to switch record labels and soon became a part of Fearless Records and left Equal Vision Records.

During their constant touring the band began to write for their third studio album, Collide With the Sky, which featured their song, King For A Day with guest vocals from Sleeping With Siren’s Kellin Quinn. Collide With The Sky also featured their hit song Bull In The Bronx. With the new album they began touring again including Vans Warped Tour, a UK headlining tour, The Collide With The Sky tour, a co-headling Spring Fever Tour with All Time Low, and their most recent co-headling tour with Sleeping With Sirens, The World Tour. They are also rumored (as of mid-March) to be joining the 2015 Vans Warped Tour. Their next album is in the works and is rumored to be released sometime in 2015.

PTV has always been one of my favorite bands and I love their music. Their songs are so real and most of the lyrics I can relate to or I know someone personally that can relate to them.