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Years active
  
1999–present

Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Tommy Rogers,

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Birth name
  
Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr.

Born
  
December 24, 1980 (age 43) (
1980-12-24
)

Origin
  
Morganton, North Carolina, United States

Instruments
  
Vocals, keyboard, guitar, bass guitar, drums, mandolin

Associated acts
  
Between the Buried and Me, Giles, Prayer for Cleansing, From Here On, Undying

Music groups
  
Between the Buried and Me (Since 2000), Prayer for Cleansing

Genres
  
Progressive metal, Progressive rock, Metalcore

Albums
  
Pulse, Colors, The Great Misdirect, The Parallax II: Future Se, The Silent Circus

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Tommy Giles Rogers (born December 24, 1980 in Morganton, North Carolina) is an American musician, most notable for being the lead vocalist, keyboardist, and founding member of the American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. His vocal style combines death growls and screams with peaceful clean singing melodies, sometimes including falsetto.

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Musical career

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Rogers started his musical career in 1999 by being a guitarist for the metalcore band, Prayer for Cleansing; when they disbanded, Rogers founded the progressive metal band, Between the Buried and Me in 2001. After acquiring a full lineup, they released their three-song demo and then their self-titled debut album in 2002. In 2004, Rogers released a self-titled debut album for his electronica side project, named Giles. Rogers was one of the vocalists for the metal band From Here On and has appeared in numerous other musical projects, including the metal band Undying. He is a part of a clothing line and a small musical duo project with Jacob Troth that is known as Jacob Rogers.

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He has made a few vocal guest appearances since the success of Between the Buried and Me, such as his featuring in the August Burns Red song "Indonesia" and on the Devin Townsend Project album Deconstruction.

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Rogers recorded a solo album under the name of Thomas Giles, entitled Pulse, which was released February 1, 2011.

Discography

With Between the Buried and Me
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  • Between the Buried and Me - Lifeforce (2002)
  • The Silent Circus - Victory (2003)
  • Alaska - Victory (2005)
  • The Anatomy Of - Victory (2006)
  • Colors - Victory (2007)
  • Colors Live - Victory (2008)
  • The Great Misdirect - Victory (2009)
  • The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues - Metal Blade (2011)
  • The Parallax II: Future Sequence - Metal Blade (2012)
  • Coma Ecliptic - Metal Blade (2015)
    • With Jacob Rogers
  • Jacob Rogers (2012)
    • As Giles
  • Giles - Victory (2004)
    • As Thomas Giles
  • Pulse - Metal Blade (2011)
  • Modern Noise - Metal Blade (2014)
  • Dutch Book (Original Score) - Self-Released (2015)
    • With Prayer For Cleansing
  • The Tragedy - Southern Empire (2004)
    • With From Here On
  • Hope for a Bleeding Sky - Tribunal Records (1999, 2005)
    • As a guest

  • August Burns Red - Constellations - featured vocals on "Indonesia" (2009)
  • The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction - featured vocals on "Planet of The Apes" (2011)
  • Intensus - Intensus - featured vocals on "Outlast Robinsum" and "I'm A Wisdom" (2011)
  • Johnny Booth - Connections - featured vocals on "Ink and Sky" (2011)
  • The Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords - featured vocals on "Beware The Leopard (Jagwar)" (2013)
  • Abnormal Thought Patterns - Altered States of Consciousness - featured vocals on "Nocturnal Haven" (2015)

    • Songs

    Selkies: The Endless Obsession
    White Walls
    Swim to the Moon
    Sun of Nothing
    Prequel to the Sequel
    Camilla Rhodes
    Backwards Marathon
    Obfuscation
    Ants of the Sky
    All Bodies
    Alaska
    Disease - Injury - Madness
    Extremophile Elite
    A Dozen Black Roses
    Fossil Genera - A Feed From Cloud Mountain
    Astral Body
    Lay Your Ghosts to Rest
    Silent Flight Parliament
    Mordecai
    Specular Reflection
    Informal Gluttony
    Desert of Song

    Melting City
    Lunar Wilderness
    The Primer
    The Need for Repetition
    Sleep Shake
    Goodbye to Everything Reprise
    When the Sun Kisses the Morning
    Breathe In - Breathe Out
    The Coma Machine

    References

    Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. Wikipedia
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