Artist description 6 members with strong Christian convictions and powerful creative punk rock and intense live shows. Though we consider ourselves a punk band, we have many influences that give us a different and broader sound. Definitely headed towards a darker and heavier sound than a lot of our old stuff.

Music Style Creative punk rock. The best way I can describe where our music is headed is dark but melodic emotional punk-core.

Musical Influences BANDS THAT INFLUENCE US: Stretch Armstrong, Ataris, Dogwood, Juliana Theory, Old Slick Shoes, Pennywise, Rancid, Weezer, Get Up Kids, No Motiv, Embraced, Luti-Kriss, Further Seems Forever, MxPx, Some of the New Pod stuff

Similar Artists Think Dogwood meets Stretch Armstrong meets Zao meets Ataris meets Get Up Kids meets Juliana Theory meets Further Seems Forever meets Slick Shoes

Artist History We started out as Upfront in early 2000. We had two guitars, bass, drums, and vocals. We had changed our name to ID RED and played for a while. Eventually, our lead guitarist had to leave because of college. We took a hiatus and later came back as Ripped Upheart. This became our permanent name. We just recently added a lead guitarist(the best lead guitarist in the world), Gabe Hebert, and have a 5 song demo cd(not featuring Gabe). We play shows in the all throughout Louisiana and are willing to go to Mississippi, Florida, and Texarkana.

Group Members Gary "B" Sleap-lead vocals, Chris Hewitt-guitar and bgv's, Gabe Hebert-guitar, Josh Haydel-drums, Matt Witherall-gang vocals and bgv's at shows

Instruments 2 Guitars, Bass, Drums, Voices

Albums 12 song demo, 5 song self titled ep

Press Reviews "These guys pull out the scratchy riffs old school as well as pop influenced vocals. The lyrical stand point on this band also helps them stand out. This band is going to be entering the studio soon so in time you can decide for yourselves." Matt from Culture Shock Productions

Location Slidell, LA - USA

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