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About The Band
Madina Lake formed in 2005 in Chicago, Illinois, and is comprised of Nathan Leone (Vocals), Matthew Leone (Bass/Backing Vocals), Mateo Camargo (Guitar/Backing Vocals), and Dan Torelli (Drums). Their first show played was May 21st, 2005, at The Metro in Chicago. The band was signed onto Roadrunner Records in August of 2005, and released their EP The Disappearance Of Adalia August 22, 2006. The band's debut album, From Them, Through Us, To You, was released March 27, 2007. They also played the second stage on the 2007 Projekt Revolution tour which had given them a lot of promotion and a growing fanbase. In 2008, after small headlining tours and a brief stint on Warped Tour, they headed into the studio to record the follow-up to From Them, Through Us, To You. After a few pushes, Attics To Eden was released on May 5, 2009.
About The Members
Nathan Leone
Nathan Leone was born May 6. He is the lead vocalist of Madina Lake, and is the twin brother to bassist Matthew Leone. He received a sports scholarship, and pursued professional soccer careers in the U.S. and Italy. This man doesn't believe in the word 'fan.' If you come to one of their shows, you'll see that he can get pretty crazy while performing; he's known to dive off the stage into the crowd.
Matthew Leone
Matthew Leone, born May 6, is the bassist & backup vocalist of Madina Lake. After pursuing a professional soccer career, he decided to get involved in music, studying Music Management at Columbia College in Chicago. He first picked up a bass at the age of 17, teaching himself. He loves philosophy, and one day hopes to pursue a writing career. Matthew's favorite bands are The Smashing Pumpkins and Muse, while his favorite author is Erich Fromm.
Mateo Camargo
Mateo Camargo was born March 11, in Bogotá, Colombia, and is the guitarist of Madina Lake, as well as a songwriter and record producer. His guitar influences growing up were Nirvana, Ultrageno, NOFX, Pantera, Refused, and Radiohead. The moment he knew he would pursue a career in music was "seeing my sixth grade music teacher playing 'U-mass' (by The Pixies) in front of my whole high school. He took it seriously and started flipping out and broke some shit and then got fired. I was like, 'yep, I wanna do that'." The best advice he could give beginning guitarists is play for 10 hours a day and don't dare take lessons.
Dan Torelli
Dan Torelli, born August 7, is the drummer of Madina Lake. He spent his childhood in the town of Ridley. Dan is a vegetarian, and has recorded a video for www.peta2.com, supporting the organization. Dan also has an obsession with pirates, and has tattoos related to pirates. Torelli attended Full Sail in Orlando, FL for recording/audio engineering, which is where he met Mateo Camargo.
(Information credit of Wikipedia. Most information on Mateo from the Mateo Camargo Fansite.)
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Who else but these four wonderful guys? Nathan Leone, Matthew Leone, Mateo Camargo, and Dan Torelli. Words can barely begin to describe how amazing this band is.
They are talented.
They are dedicated.
They are hard-working.
They are creative.
They love their fans.
They are amazing guys.
They are Madina Lake, and we are proud to have them as heroes.
Madina Lake Chicago [Warped Tour is ON!]'s Details
Welcome to Madina Lake Chicago, or MLC for short; the first Chicago-based Madina Lake fansite!
First of all, we are not Madina Lake, nor are we in any way personally affiliated with Madina Lake or their crew: just fans (or, according to Nathan, 'friends').
This site was created for Madina Lake fans from all over to come together and talk about the band. Here, you can meet other Madina Lake fans, and make new friends. One of our biggest goals is to get these guys out there and known. They are such dedicated, hard working musicians, and they deserve way more credit for what they do. We've never seen a band so dedicated to their fans. It says 'Chicago' in the name solely because both owners are from the area, showing the hometown love, but you do not need to be from Chicago to add us.
And if you have anything to contribute to our photo albums, send them to us! Just make sure we get all the info; your name, the date/location of the show... ya' know, all the basic stuff. Videos are accepted as well, and will be posted with the rest, under the 'Live Videos' section.
This page is run and maintained by Lisa and Jenna. Yes we are both from the Chicagoland area (Lisa being in the military though, is not around Chicago so much.)
Goals for MLC in 2009...
- Get to 1,000 friends
- Have both Jenna and Lisa attend at least 1 ML show - Have at least 1 ML project that helps promote a specific show
Who I'd like to meet:
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HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY HOW ARE YOU? :D I wanna see the ML artwork thing. To see if anyine add new stuff on there and see comments on my Attics drawing and my ML black and white cartoon PLEASE RESPOND
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Aw, it's alright...T_T LOL!!!!!!!! Hey I've also got Madina Lake as a cartoon (black and white) in my photos if you wanna add that too. :D Seriously I'm not mad at you, ...I just got a little impatient. LOL!!!!! ;)
hey there. (I'm sorry I've said this for the bilionth time, but my drawing of the Attics album cover is on my mspace) so you can add it to your ML fan art page. If I knew how to do that I would do that myself
hey btw my ML pirates pic is about Ml avenging Deadbeatz inc by blowing up coheed and cambria (the ship that's on fire and has sharks eating them, which is why there's blood near their ship.) and is why Nathan was drining all the rum in his rum bottle LOL
COME BACK I WAS EATING PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *sobing* LOL COME BACK!!!!!!!!!! Anyway what I wanted to tell you is I've almost done with my Attics To Eden pic, so when it's on my mspace you can put it on your profile thing
i'm a huge gabe saporta fan so i basically stalked him all the way to the back by the buses. (: the security guards there were such assholes though and after a couple pictures and autographs they told him to leave
yo ML Chicago! you guys ready for the record release show on the 12th at subterranean? let me know anything you guys need, i can make sure you are sent a goodie bag in the mail. we love you for your endless kicking ass thank you! can't wait to see you next week!
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maybe u never thought u could be a dj, remixing songs and creating ur own version! give it a try, here on myspace!!! u'll certainly have fun and could win a cd too! just click on the banner or visit our profile where u can find the application and already listen to many remixes. don't waste a nice opportunity to be creative... and play with our song
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