Growing up obsessed with music, skateboarding, and painting, Hertfordshire, England singer/songwriter Frank Carter got a taste for punk rock early on, trying to vibe with the Clash records in his parents' music collection. While he enjoyed some of it, the creative youngster found the band a little too bright and cheery for his taste, and began a long trek seeking out darker sounds in the punk vernacular. He quickly found that darkness in his own music with the 2005 formation of Gallows, a punishing hardcore band for which Carter sang. He left Gallows in 2011 to form the more mainstream-friendly band Pure Love with U.S. musician Jim Carroll, but abandoned that project in 2015 to form Frank Carter the Rattlesnakes. Acting again as frontman, Carter moved back to his aggressive hardcore roots, putting out the decidedly raw Rotten EP in 2015 and following it with full-length debut Blossom the same year. In 2017 Carter and company unleashed their sophomore effort, the unhinged Modern Ruin, via their own International Death Cult imprint. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi