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10 Years

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Tennessee-formed rock band who came up through the early-2000s post-grunge wave and have kept working steadily ever since — heavy riffs paired with big melodic choruses.

10 Years formed in Knoxville, Tennessee, in 1999, originally fronted by singer Mike Underdown alongside guitarists Ryan Johnson and Matt Wantland, drummer Brian Vodinh and bassist Lewis Cosby. The band self-released the album Into the Half Moon in 2001. Underdown left soon after to pursue acting, and the band brought in Jesse Hasek, from a local band called deficit, as his replacement.

Their sound sits between alternative metal and post-grunge: downtuned, mid-paced riffs, atmospheric guitar textures and vocal lines from Hasek that lean melodic rather than abrasive.

Signed to Universal Records in 2005, the band released The Autumn Effect, whose single "Wasteland" spent more than a year on rock radio charts before topping Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in early 2006. Both album and single were later certified gold. Around that stretch the band toured with Disturbed, Korn, Deftones and Mudvayne, including a run on the Family Values Tour.

The follow-up, Division, arrived after months of writing, with the track "Focus" co-written alongside Stone Temple Pilots' Dean DeLeo. The group has released albums steadily since, weathering a number of line-up changes around its core membership, and has also revisited parts of its catalogue in stripped-back acoustic arrangements.

10 Years has released ten studio albums to date, most recently Deconstructed in 2022, followed by the EP Inner Darkness in 2024, with a full-length said to follow.

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