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Blindside is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Mae, Igor Khoroshev, Papa Roach, Flyleaf and Billy Corgan. Those roots explain a lot about how Blindside arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Spoken, Anberlin, Pillar, Kutless and Further Seems Forever, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Saosin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 25 connections around Blindside, reaching back through Mae and forward to Saosin. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Blindside is a Swedish rock band from the southern suburbs of Stockholm. They formed in Stockholm in 1994 as Underfree. In 1996, they changed their name to Blindside and released the Blindside album in 1997 through Swedish independent record company Day-Glo Records. Another album, A Thought Crushed My Mind, came out in 2000. The group received greater attention in 2001 when they toured with P.O.D., resulting in a contract with Elektra. In 2002 they released the album Silence and in 2003 they toured in support of Hoobastank. A 2004 headlining tour suffered equipment theft but then Blindside released About a Burning Fire. In 2004, Time Warner sold Warner Music to a group of private investors. As a cost-cutting maneuver, the new owners of Warner Music Group merged Atlantic Records with its sister, Elektra Records, to form The Atlantic Records Group. Blindside's label ceased to exist, & the next year they released The Great Depression independently, and they put out the DVD Ten Years Running Blind.
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Blindside connections
Blindside grew out of Mae, Igor Khoroshev, Papa Roach and Flyleaf, shares an orbit with Spoken, Anberlin, Pillar and Kutless, went on to shape Saosin. 25 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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