The Plot in You
The Plot in You is an American metalcore band formed in Hancock County, Ohio in 2010. Originally a side project of former Before Their Eyes member Landon Tewers, the group is composed of Tewers, guitarist Josh Childress, bassist Ethan Yoder and drummer Michael Cooper.
The Plot in You have released four EPs and five studio albums. Their EP Wife Beater was released in 2010, followed by their debut studio album First Born in 2011, and second studio album Could You Watch Your Children Burn in 2013. In 2015, the band announced their signing with StaySick Recordings, and Happiness in Self Destruction was released the same year. In 2017, they parted ways with StaySick Recordings and signed to Fearless Records while also announcing their fourth studio album Dispose, which was released in 2018. Their fifth studio album, Swan Song, was released in 2021.
History
Formation, name change and ''First Born'' (2010–2011)
Beginning as a side project to guitarist/vocalist Landon Tewers while a part of the post-hardcore band, Before Their Eyes under the name "Vessels". Vessels would go on to release a debut EP recorded and produced by himself titled Wife Beater through InVogue Records the label that Before Their Eyes was also signed to. Shortly after the release of Wife Beater, Tewers saw the potential of Vessels and decided to leave Before Their Eyes. He would then go on to change the band's name "The Plot in You" and recruit guitarists Anthony Thoma and Josh Childress, bassist Ethan Yoder, and drummer Cole Worden for live performances choosing to create the music independently from the rest of the band. Near the end of 2010, the band announced that they had signed to Rise Records and with Tewers admitting that he had already begun working on the material for an album with an expected release for early next year.On October 21, 2010, the band set out on their first tour as support for A Plea for Purging "The Mosh PotatTour" in December alongside Your Memorial and Within the Ruins. The band would go on to release two promotional singles from their forthcoming new album, "Unwelcome" on November 29 and "Miscarriage" on February 24. The last song the band would go on to release prior to their album would be a cover of Rob Zombie's "Superbeast" which was released on March 30 on the band's Facebook page.
On April 19, 2011, the band official released their debut album, First Born, through Rise Records and would go on to tour extensively throughout 2011 and 2012.
At the end of the summer of 2011, the band would begin working on a music video for the song, "Miscarriage" which they would release on September 1. The band would join Thick as Blood, Legend and We Are Defiance on their "Circle of Friends Tour" before embarking on A Bullet for Pretty Boy for their fall "The Revision:Revise Tour" for their album of the same name alongside The Great Commission and The Air I Breathe. The band would finish the year as part of MyChildren MyBride winter headlining tour alongside Within the Ruins, Lionheart and I Declare War.
''Could You Watch Your Children Burn'' (2011–2013)
On October 22, 2011, the band announced on Twitter that they had already begun work on their next release. At the end of December 2011, guitarist Anthony Thoma announced that he would be leaving the band to return to school and had played his last show with the band earlier that month and would be replaced by A Bullet for Pretty Boy's guitarist, Derrick Sechrist. The band would begin the year touring as a part of Whitechapel's "The Recorruptour" alongside fellow supporting acts Miss May I, After the Burial, Structures and Within the Ruins. Soon after the band announced that they would be returning to the studio in March to begin tracking their next album. In the spring it was announced that the band would be embarking on "The Dead Kid Tour" this summer along with My Ticket Home, For All I Am and Erra before joining Demon Hunter's "The True Defiance Tour" alongside Bleeding Through, Cancer Bats and Willows. The band would go on to replace Molotov Solution on Impending Doom's forthcoming July U.S. tour with Within the Ruins, Erra and To Each His Own.At the end of the summer of 2012, the band announced that they would be releasing their forthcoming album sometime this fall through Rise Records. Shortly after they were confirmed to be a part of Iwrestledabearonce's North American "Ruining Earth for Everybody" headlining tour this fall with Oceano, Vanna, Within the Ruins and Surrounded by Monsters. By the fall, the band announced that they would be ending the year as part of Like Moths to Flames mini-headlining tour in support of the deluxe reissue of When We Don't Exist alongside Ice Nine Kills, Horizons and Assassins. Not too much time later the band began releasing studio footage of them hard at work on their forthcoming album. Following the announcement the band also revealed that their outing titled, Could You Watch Your Children Burn would have a January 15 release date. The band would bring in the new year as part of Whitechapel's and Emmure's co-headlining tour the "Brothers of Brutality Tour" with Unearth and Obey the Brave.
On December 10, the band released their first song from their forthcoming album, the aggressive track, "Premeditated" detailing vocalist Tewers hostility towards the individual that had victimized his girlfriend while on tour. Later that month, the band released the next song from their forthcoming record, the veracious "Fiction Religion". The last song the band would release promotionally before the January 15 release of their sophomore album would be "Digging Your Grave", a track about Of Mice & Men's former vocalist Austin Carlile for an undisclosed reason.
On February 18, 2013, the band would release the NSFW tortured themed music video for their track, "Premeditated". A month later the band were announced to be a part of Attack Attack!'s "Back in Action Tour" the band's first tour since changing up singers and would be supported by Get Scared, Dangerkids and Closer to Closure. A couple days later, the band released a music video for the song, "Fiction Religion". Drummer Cole Worden announced his amicable departure from the band in the summer of 2013 stepping down from the band to pursue steadier employment. Kevin Rutherford formerly of Like Moths to Flames' fame would unofficially take over as the band's new drummer being officially announced sometime later. The band released their final music video from their sophomore effort at the end of summer 2013, releasing the live video for their song, "Troll".
The Plot in You would embark on a summer overseas European and UK tour with direct support from I Declare War along with Empires Fade and Odessa providing split support for the tour. Followed by an Australian tour in September with For the Fallen Dreams, Storm the Sky and Fit for a King. They would end the year touring the US as part of Attila's "About That Life Tour" with Upon a Burning Body and Fit for a King. Later joined by Iwrestledabearonce completed the lineup for Attila's headlining tour.
''Happiness in Self Destruction'' (2013–2016)
The band were revealed to be heading back into the studio after their fall tour with Attila and Upon a Burning Body to begin work on their next release. The band will also bring in the new year as part of For Today's headlining tour in support of their new album, Fight the Silence through Razor & Tie with support from Stray from the Path, Like Moths to Flames and Fit for a King. The band were revealed to be joining Motionless in White and The Defiled on a tour in March appearing on select dates with For the Fallen Dreams and For Today.The band would join Chimaira on their summer headlining "The Artery Metal Tour" alongside fellow supporting acts; Upon This Dawning, Allegaeon and Silence the Messenger. Following that tour, the band would then find themselves a part of The Acacia Strain's fall North American tour along with Cane Hill. During those shows the band began playing the song, "Crows" live with the song expected to be featured on their third album.
At the beginning of 2015, the band announced that they would be embarking on a spring tour with Sworn In, I Declare War and Gift Giver. But before joining up with Sworn In and I Declare War the band was a part of a small spring tour with Outline in Color and Gift Giver. Packing in their spring the band were announced to be a part of the "New England Metal & Hardcore Festival" among other heavy metal acts Fit for an Autopsy, I Declare War, Lionheart and Boris the Blade.
On February 23, 2015, the band announced their departure from Rise Records thanking the label for being a tremendous help with their last few releases and that they are finishing up work on the next album and will be announcing a new label soon. Along with the announcement they released a music video for their new song, "My Old Ways" stating the song showcases the sound and feel of their new album. In March, they released the previously unreleased B-side, "Crows", a song they had been playing live at shows and were planning to release on a 7-inch that never came to fruition. On June 3, the band announced that they will be taking part in Like Moths to Flames' summer headlining tour in support of the band's new 7 inch, The Dream Is Dead alongside Myka Relocate, and Yuth Forever. After their supportive run with Like Moths to Flames, they were announced to be playing a small headlining run of shows with Myka Relocate finishing up the summer.
In July, the band officially announced that they had signed to StaySick Recordings and would be releasing their new album in the fall with Tewers expressing his joy to be working with hard working and passionate people that are also friends they've known on a personal level. They would later announce that their third album, Happiness in Self Destruction, would be released on October 16, 2015 releasing a video detailing the hardships behind the new album. At the end of August, they released, "Take Me Away", the second single from their looming album with Tewers citing the song as the most meaningful songs on the record and a tribute to his late grandfather. In September, they released a music video for "Take Me Away". They released the last promotional single, "Dear Old Friend" from their forthcoming album on October 3. In December 2015, they announced that they would be beginning the year supporting Blessthefall on their headlining tour in February alongside Sirens and Sailors, Miss May I, and A War Within.
On June 28, 2016, they premiered a music video for their song, "Time Changes Everything", taken from the new album Happiness in Self Destruction directed by Mathias Arnell the band's current touring drummer.