finetune artist: Days Of The New

This modern heavy rock outfit from Louisville, Kentucky, USA was signed up to the Outpost Records management team after just three shows, and released their self-titled debut album in June 1997. Three of the band, Travis Meeks (b. 27 April 1979; singer/songwriter), Jesse Vest (b. 10 May 1977, Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA; bass) and Matt Taul (b. 30 August 1978, Jeffersonville, Indiana, USA; drums), grew up together in Charlestown, Indiana, and previously performed as the Metallica-influenced Dead Reckoning. For Days Of The New they added guitarist Todd Whitener (b. 25 May 1978, Louisville, Kentucky, USA). Their debut album was produced by Scott Litt, an R.E.M. veteran and the founder of Outpost Records. The first single to be released from the album, "Touch, Peel And Stand', quickly hit the number 1 spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and was featured heavily on MTV. They subsequently toured in support of the record with the stylistically sympathetic Veruca Salt, while Meeks" voice was frequently compared to that of Alice In Chains' Layne Staley. Meeks, having parted company with the others members of the band (who went on to form Tantric), wrote, recorded and produced the second Days Of The New album on his own. Eschewing the somewhat one-dimensional alternative rock thrash of the debut album, he experimented with lush orchestration, Eastern percussion and tape loops to create an impressively mature collection.

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Touch, Peel and Stand
Shelf In The Room
The Down Town
Enemy
Face of the Earth