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Lostprophets Alternative Metal from Pontypridd, Wales,

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Formed: 1997

iSound Site: www.isound.com/lostprophets

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Sounds Like

Artists:
Linkin Park
Quarashi
Aphasia
Hoobastank
Deftones
311
Come to Dolly
Genres:
Alternative Metal
Heavy Metal
Post Grunge

Featured Album

	4 Am Released: 2007

Biography

Ian Watkins

Lee Gaze

Mike Chiplin

Mike Lewis

Jamie Oliver

Stu Richardson

From the peaceful streets of Pontypridd, South Wales dwelled the elite force of Lostprophets. The six simple welsh guys started off hungry for a way to express their depressions of school with their musical talents, Ian Watkins, Lee Gaze, Mike Chiplin, Mike Lewis, Jamie Oliver, Stu Richardson later experienced similarities between their musical tastes and personalities.

Thus, the birth of Lostprophets.

However, at the age of just 16, it was Ian’s and Mike’s idea to start a band together to form a hardcore band to name themselves, ‘Public Disturbance’. After a thriving impact on the London Underground, Lostprophets slowly began to retreat back to concentrate more on other important events, such as, finishing University.

But finally, in 1997, with all their struggles behind them, Lostprophets set forward back into the music industry developing more melodies to introduce to the rest of the world. Ian firstly started off playing drums in the band, although the others were more impressed by his unique vocals style rather than his drumming ‘abilities’. It was then that Mike Chiplin was to join the group as their full time drummer.

As the band was complete, they immediately began writing songs and putting melodies together like there was no tomorrow. They produced a small demo and began playing countless shows and local gigs. ‘Metal Hammer’ magazine managed to get hold of the band’s demo and rated it ten out of ten. The word soon spread as more and more media intakes got hold of their music, thus spreading around the world like wildfire.

Through all of these publications, major record labels from all around the states took them into account.

But out of all these numerous offers, Lostprophets chose Visible noise and Sony and quickly began work on an album. They then released ‘The Fake Sound Of Progress’ in November 2000, which was then later released in October 2001. The release of their debut single, Fake Sound Of Progress’ and fan favourite, ‘Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja’ were huge hits.

The band soon received high praise from the media, and substantial amounts of recognition. Lostprophets conquered the states soon after the album release and played numerous tours for 2 months in March. After a long rest in hibernation, the band returned with the hard-core hit single ‘Burn Burn’ in 2003, which wiped through the U.K and America. But the fans didn’t have to wait long for another breath taking song to hit the airwaves.

The band quickly released their anthem, ‘Last Train Home’ that became a huge success that lingered in the U.K charts for weeks. Their other single releases ‘Make a Move’ and ‘Last Summer’, released in 2004, also pushed the sales of their album, ‘Start Something’. The album was so incredible, that it easily reached number 3 in the U.K album charts. All their fine efforts had successfully paid off and Lost Prophets had lived the dreamed they’d always hoped for. But I doubt very much that this will be the last we hear from them

Bio written by: hellz_hunny

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Discussion Topic	Creator
fav song hey yall whats ur fav song that these sexy guys from wales sing?	i_heart_emo_boys187

Replys	Listener
my fave is wake Up (Make a Move)	waLkingContridiktion27
I like last train home!!!!	rockerbaby4562000
i love all of there songs cause they are great and they are so sexy!	benjisbiatch09
yea the 1 with long hair is hot i think his name is Mike o he is hott drools	punksarethefuture
i dont think its on any of their albums, but i like a cover of 'cry me a river' that they did...you should try download it, its great	loser_freak
last train home.. deifinitley. its great!	whoamiagain
last train home is also my fav song	i_heart_emo_boys187
wake up is the bes song!!!	u_steal_mi_pain_away
hmm i like... burn burn, but then theres mave a move, and then last train home. and start something... ah damn it i like all their songs!	iLoVePuNkRoCk
how long have they been around in america?	loser_freak
i like that one song a million miles or sumthing like that but i like i dont know too o damn they all kick ass lol	SimplePlanLvR4EvR
i like all of their music and i like all of them they are cool! they give me this good feeling like they take my spirit out of my life and put me in a good placemy happy place my happy place would be in someones arms back in maine his name was mikey and hello again helped me go back and remember all of the great times we had together.	benjisbiatch09
i'm listening to their cd right now..... last summer all last summer it's great.... if they let this cd out about four years ago then i would be happier with myself! i would be with mikey on the beach holding hands eating ice cream and then later going to my house for dinner then aournd to my friends house.	benjisbiatch09
We Are Godzilla, You Are Japan..That song is amazing!! lol I love the guitar to it....Drools.. =P	Hellz_Hunny
cant choose	BiG_BrOwN_EyEz
cant wait until their fall tour with soty, lk, and mcr!	i_heart_emo_boys187
Cool Cool =D	hellz_hunny
sorry, dont mean to rub it in!:/	i_heart_emo_boys187
i need money and some cool friends to take me to a concert! i've never been to a concert! i wanna go!	benjisbiatch09
awww!	i_heart_emo_boys187
yep i wld say either burn burn or we are godzilla you are japan	100_reasons
Yeah, they've both awesome songs..	hellz_hunny
i want to go to a concert with all of my favorite bands. with all of my frends too...so they wouldn't miss out on anything. me and my bf would probably be making out ost of the time!lol he always wants to make out with me.	benjisbiatch09
Lol, that was a random post of you.. I wanna go to the kerrang awards! ahhh!	Hellz_Hunny
thank you i like random! but yeah i would love to go to a concert and all but i have no money...i'm going to get a job next year and get a car when i'm 15 so i'm happy!	benjisbiatch09
Cool cool, what ride are you planning on getting?	Hellz_Hunny
Fuck all that Start SOmething shit...Give me fake sound any day...	Vitanova
Oh shut up for fuck sake..	hellz_hunny
i'm going to get a old car first so if i wreck i won't feel bad...then i'll get a corvette when i get a better job.	benjisbiatch09
Lol ok then, carry on..	hellz_hunny
no not a corvette a jeep or truck feel more like a powerful lady.	benjisbiatch09
..Hummer.. lol that'll take up like the whole fucking road.. I think the Jeep's pretty cool..	hellz_hunny
yea cause you can ride with no doors and push your little brother out the car on the highway not! i wouldn't do thatlaughs ion background i wouldn't ever hurt my brother. and you can get alot of air with a jeep.	benjisbiatch09
Yeah, driving off a cliff, hmmm air =P lol but of course you'd have a parachute attached, it would be silly not to...	hellz_hunny
favorite songs are: Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja Handsome Life of Swing A Thousand Apologies Burn, Burn Directions We Still Kill the Old Way	BLASTT
Both of their albums are pretty cool..	hellz_hunny
1st one is 100000000x better	BLASTT
no not really...they sound too young in the first one but i still love it.	benjisbiatch09
so they sound likes pansies in the 2nd one	BLASTT
lol pansies, sorry i had to laugh at that one..	hellz_hunny
pansies???? ok? ummm.....what do you know about pansies?	benjisbiatch09
It's just what BLASTT said, i thought it was pretty random..	hellz_hunny
yea....but random people are cool.	benjisbiatch09
As long as they don't have retarded random comments..	hellz_hunny
first you want to bitch at me for calling them pansies and then say random people are cool?...they're pansies because they're lame for making such a shitty album, so what if fsop was younger, it was heavier, and better written, and it was just going out there and rocking out, not like in this one it's put together and organized, which is lame, they've matured, which is usually good, but when bands mature they play softer songs and move on from the rocking out days...	BLASTT
their sexy...that was retarted at leat i admit to it	psmd666
Last train home	Beto589
I wasn't bitching at you at all for saying pansies.. i thought it was cool.. I was just saying that when things are random and stupid, and have no relation to the subject, than those comments are retarded.. I was fine with pansies, you didn't need to jump to conclusions..	hellz_hunny
i thought pansies was kinda funny and weird.	benjisbiatch09
burn burn last train home...I like all of their songs...	TheWorldIsBlack
yeah there songs are guuuuud!	benjisbiatch09