CALEB SHOMO
In June 2008, Caleb Shomo’s first band, Attack Attack!, dropped their first music video on the world. The track was Stick Stickly, and it quickly became one of metal’s first memes. A low-budget vision of sweeping fringes and dance moves that looked like hell on the knees, Stick Stickly spawned a strain of ‘crabcore’ metalcore which, despite being derided by critics as one of the worst videos of all time, was to be surprisingly influential.
“We started playing shows with bands that were literally choreographing our music video moves” remembers Caleb today of the song and video’s impact. “But I don’t think we were ahead of our time. I think we were perfectly on time.”
Caleb released two albums with Attack Attack!. He started out as keyboardist on 2008 debut Someday Came Suddenly, graduating to covocalist on the band’s 2010 self-titled follow-up. Since then though, he’s better known as the singer and mastermind behind Beartooth, a passion project that he never intended to make public. “It was just a way for me to vent to my computer and get stuff off my chest,” he admits today. “The fact it is where it is now is wild. I had zero intention truly of it being a full-time band.”
Now, Beartooth are one of the hottest bands in our world, while millions of we ask him to take a look back over his life and career so far.
