The Higher

Las Vegas’ the bigger formed in 2002, originally referred to as Sept Celebrity, a high-school music group comprising vocalist Seth Trotter, drummer Pat Harter, guitarist Wayne Mattison, and bassist Jason Centeno. Points got much more serious the following 12 months with the help of second guitarist/vocalist Tom Oakes; the people started playing locally and finally recorded a demonstration comprised of tunes they’d written if they had been 16. It had been enough to property a cope with Fiddler Information in middle-2003, and following the music group transformed its name to the bigger, the tracks had been officially released that Oct as the five-song EP Celebrity Is Dead, a fairly generic emo providing. The Higher’s 1st nationwide tour adopted the EP’s launch and the music group performed gigs alongside functions like Silverstein, Recreation area, and Emery. The full-length Histrionics adopted in 2005, and the music group parted methods with both Mattison and Fiddler. Guitarist Robert “Reggie” Ragan became a member of on with time for the music group to hit the street once again, and by summer time 2006 the bigger had authorized with Epitaph. The digital-only EP Speed Yourself made an appearance in past due 2006; this led effectively into the Feb 2007 discharge of BURNING, which showcased the music group expanding past basic emo to include components of pop, dance, and sometimes R&B.