Cold (band)

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Cold

Cold is an American post-grunge band, formed in 1996 in Jacksonville, Florida. With two gold-albums under their belt, Cold has sold over one million records.^{[citation needed]} On November 17, 2006, Ward announced on MySpace that, after a period of uncertainty since that February, the group had decided to disband. In July 2008, it was announced that the original line-up would reunite for a tour in early 2009. A new studio album is due for release in July 2010.

Cold, who at the time were called Grundig, formed in 1996 with the line-up of Scooter Ward (vocals, guitar), Sam McCandless (drums), Jeremy Marshall (bass) and Matt Loughran (guitar). The band, initially based in Jacksonville, moved to Atlanta hoping to get a break in the industry. During this time, Matt Loughran left the band and was replaced by Sean Lay, who also left the group. Kelly Hayes then joined the band, and they all later returned to Florida.

Following Cold's progress in the Jacksonville scene was local Fred Durst. Impressed by what he had heard, he invited Ward to record two acoustic tracks, "Check Please" and "Ugly." The two demos recorded were passed on to producer Ross Robinson, who was also impressed by what he had heard, leading the recently renamed Cold to record their debut album titled Cold, which was released in 1998. The record was a minor success under A&M Records - now an imprint label under Interscope Records.

Following the underground success of Cold, Geffen financed their second album titled 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, which was released in 2000. Before recording the album, the group recruited local guitarist Terry Balsamo, who played for Limp Bizkit at one point, to take over Scooter's guitar duties. This would allow Scooter to focus more on singing and interact more with the crowd. 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage proved to be Cold's breakthrough album with successful singles in "End of the World" and "No One" frequently played on hard rock radio. "Just Got Wicked" was also a surprise hit, being featured in the soundtrack to the game Jet Grind Radio, and helped add to their fan-base.

In April 2002, the band released "Gone Away," a surprisingly moody ballad. The song first appeared on the WWF Tough Enough album and had a successful music video.

With the success of 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, Geffen financed their third major album titled Year of the Spider, which was released in 2003. The album has been to date the band’s most commercially successful album, debuting at #3 on the Billboard Album charts, with over 101,000 copies of the album sold in its first week of release.[1] The album’s first single, "Stupid Girl," has been the only Cold single to crack the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #87.[2] Following the release of the album’s second single "Suffocate" to radio stations, plans were set-forth for a video to accompany the song. However, for reasons unknown, Geffen refused to make the video, or promote the album any further.^{[citation needed]} The stalemate with the label led to frustrations within the band, and in early 2004 Terry Balsamo departed, replacing Ben Moody in Evanescence. Balsamo was later replaced by ex-Darwin's Waiting Room axe-man Eddie Randini.

In 2004, guitarist Kelly Hayes quit the band as well. A week later, Hayes officially confirmed his position as the guitarist in Jacksonville's hard rock outfit, Allele, a move that had been in the works from the time Terry Balsamo left the band. The band made efforts to release another single, "Wasted Years" from Year of the Spider. However, Geffen stayed true to their earlier promise by not financing or promoting the album any further (despite it later being certified gold).^{[citation needed]}

Subsequently, in mid-2004 the band asked to be released from the Geffen label. Around this time, Cold recorded the soundtrack for the video game Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy featuring the songs "With My Mind", "Came All the Way", "Just Got Wicked (Chris Vrenna Remix)", and "Go Away (Chris Vrenna Eye Socket Remix)" and embarked on a short tour with Sevendust in support of "With My Mind", the single released from the CD. They also performed at E3 to promote the game; however, the song was never released on any of their albums.

By September 2004, the band had added former member Matt Loughran to their ranks and was picked up by Atlantic Records (Lava Records division), where they set about recording a new album. The album was to be produced by Elvis Baskette and slated to be released in December 2004. However, Cold suffered another blow with the loss of their third guitarist in almost a year and parted ways with Edward Rendini for undisclosed reasons. The new album was scheduled to be released in spring of 2005. Before releasing the album, Cold went back in the studio to record several more tracks. The album was originally to be titled And a Sad Song Lives On but was later changed to The Calm that Killed the Storm, and the suspected release date was moved to September 13, 2005.

In June 2005, the band's official website noted yet another change to the new album's title, changing it to A Different Kind of Pain. "Happens All the Time" was the first single and video released. Just prior to shooting the video, the band added Las Vegas guitarist Mike Booth to the band. He would appear in the video and tour with them for a few months, being replaced later that fall by Florida-native Zach Gilbert. The album debuted at #26 on the Billboard Albums charts, with more than 36,000 copies sold. The title track was released as the second single, but Atlantic did not fund another video. The majority of A Different Kind of Pain was written in Ward's sister's bedroom while she had a long battle with cancer , and is said to have been the root of the subject matter on the album. Other subjects include the end of his relationship to his fiance/mother of his daughter, and the physical abuse of a 14-year-old girl by her own father, and also had an alcoholic mother (a theme echoed from each of the three previous albums).

On November 17, 2006, a MySpace post announced that Cold had decided to disband permanently. Ward later announced that he and McCandless had started a side-project called The Witch, now known as The Killer and the Star. Since the posting, McCandless has not been mentioned in any subsequent information and Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto has been announced as the session drummer on their forthcoming album. McCandless is now playing drums for the band Carny.

On July 25, 2008, a blog written by Ward on The Killer and the Star's MySpace confirmed both a b-sides/rarities release and a new Cold album featuring the original line-up, due Fall 2009. In January 2009 Cold officially announced the first dates of its reunion tour on the band's MySpace page.

Cold recently updated their MySpace page to promote their reunion tour. When the page was originally updated, the lineup consisted of Scooter Ward, Sam McCandless, Jeremy Marshall, Kelly Hayes & Terry Balsamo. Hayes, however, decided not to tour and was replaced by Joe Bennett, who parted ways with Cold in July 2009 and has been replaced by former Cold guitarist Zach Gilbert. Terry Balsamo was breifly replaced by Michael Harris of Idiot Pilot, who also played bass in The Killer and the Star.

According to the band, recording sessions for the new album, originally dubbed Epic, have come to an end, with a projected release date of summer 2010. It has been projected the album's new title will be announced in late June 2010. This will be followed by a full U.S. tour. Cold is currently co-headlining a U.S. tour with Nonpoint.

On June 3rd, 2010 Ward put out an update on facebook which stated, "Hey everyone! Sorry for the delay on this post. Due to our previous tour schedules cutting into the making of the album I have decided to spend a few more days fine tuning the record In New York. I am currently working on adding(harmonies,guitars and strings) to the songs at this moment.I know you guys have been waiting patiently and we thank you for your concern. We of course want this record to be everything it can be and have chosen to take this time to do so. This will however prolong the release of the record until late summer or early fall. This record is "hands down" the most important record..."

Although initially dubbed the "final album," Ward has said on "Alternative Addiction" that Cold will continue to record and tour after the 5th album comes out.

In recent months, Cold has added two brand new songs ("Welcome 2 My World" and "My Religion") to their MySpace. The album will reportedly contain ten tracks, including a cover of Aerosmith's "Dream On", "My Religion", "Star Of The Parade", "What Happens Now", and "Welcome 2 My World."

Ward has recently revealed that the band hopes to record and release an acoustic record in the near future.

• Scooter Ward – lead vocals, keyboards, guitar (1996 - 2006, 2009 - Present)
• Zach Gilbert - guitars (2005 - 2006, 2009 - Present)
• Jeremy Marshall – bass, backing vocals (1996 - 2006, 2009 - Present)
• Sam McCandless – drums (1996 - 2006, 2009 - Present)

• Kelly Hayes – guitars (1996 - 2004)
• Terry Balsamo - guitars (1999 - 2004, 2009 tour)
• Matt Loughran - guitars (In Grundig and in Cold, 2004 - 2006)
• Eddie Rendini - guitars (2004)
• Mike Booth - guitars, keyboards (2005)
• Joe Bennett - guitars (2009 tour)
• Sean Lay - guitars (In Grundig)
• Michael Harris - guitars (2009 tour)

1996 (as Grundig)	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Matt Loughran – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
1996 (as Grundig)	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Sean Lay – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
1996 (as Grundig)	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Kelly Hayes – guitar Sean Lay – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
1996–1999	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Kelly Hayes – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
1999–2004	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Kelly Hayes – guitar Terry Balsamo – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2004	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Kelly Hayes – guitar Eddie Rendini – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2004	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Matt Loughran – guitar Eddie Rendini – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2005	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Matt Loughran – guitar Mike Booth – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2005–2006	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Matt Loughran – guitar Zach Gilbert – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2008 - 1st half of 2009	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Joe Bennett – guitar Terry Balsamo – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2nd half of 2009	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Zach Gilbert – guitar Michael Harris – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums
2010 - present	Scooter Ward – lead vocals, guitar, piano Zach Gilbert – guitar Jeremy Marshall – bass guitar, backing vocals Sam McCandless – drums

Band Role	Year
	1996	1996	1996	1996	1996-1999	1999-2004	2004	2004	2005	2005-2006	2009 tour	2009 tour 2
Lead vocals, guitar, piano	Scooter Ward
Guitar 1	Matt Loughran			Kelly Hayes				Matt Loughran			Joe Bennett	Michael Harris
Guitar 2						Terry Balsamo	Eddie Rendini		Mike Booth	Zach Gilbert	Terry Balsamo	Zach Gilbert
Bass	Jeremy Marshall
Drums	Sam McCandless

Year	Album details	Chart peaks			RIAA Certification[1]
		US [2]	Heat [2]	UK [3]
1998	Cold Released: June 2, 1998 Label: A&M, Flip	—	—	146	—
2000	13 Ways to Bleed on Stage Released: September 12, 2000 Label: Geffen, Flip	98	1	85	Gold
2003	Year of the Spider Released: May 13, 2003 Label: Geffen, Flip	3	—	144	Gold
2005	A Different Kind of Pain Released: August 30, 2005 Label: Lava	26	—	—	—
2010	Epic Expected release: August, 2010 Label: SonicStar	—	—	—	—
a "—" denotes releases that did not chart.

Year	Album details
1998	Oddity EP Released: 1998 Label: Flip
2000	Project 13 Released: 2000 Label: Flip
2000	Something Wicked This Way Comes Release date: 2000 Label: Geffen
2003	Acoustic EP Release date: 2003 Label: Geffen

Year	Title	Peak chart positions				Album
		US [4]	US Main [4]	US Mod [4]	UK [3]
1998	"Go Away"	—	—	—	102	Cold
	"Give"	—	—	—	93
2000	"Just Got Wicked"	—	25	—	—	13 Ways to Bleed on Stage
	"Confession"	—	—	—	—
2001	"No One"	—	17	13	—
	"End of the World"	—	24	—	—
	"Bleed"	—	—	—	—
2002	"Gone Away"	—	28 [5]	—	—	WWE Tough Enough 2 soundtrack Year of the Spider
2003	"Stupid Girl"	87	4	6	—	Year of the Spider
	"Suffocate"	—	17	21	—
2005	"Happens All the Time"	—	21	29	—	A Different Kind of Pain
2006	"A Different Kind of Pain"	—	35	38	—
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

• "Go Away" (1998)
• "Give" (1998)
• "Just Got Wicked" (2000)
• "No One" (2001)
• "End of the World" (2001)
• "Bleed" (2001)
• "Gone Away" (2002)
• "Stupid Girl" (2003)
• "With My Mind" (2004)
• "Happens All the Time" (2005)

• Official site
• Cold at AllMusic
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