The Answer (Band)

The Answer is an american all girl nu metal band from New Jersey, formed in 2001 by lead singer Daina Gilmore & lead guitarist Samantha Taylor. Gilmore and Taylor later recruited bassist Kelly Murray and drummer Elizabeth Morrison. Gilmore has said that she was always fascinated by music industry.

Early Years, Songs for Ugly Children and Clown - EP (2001 - 2003)
During 2001 friends Daina Gilmore and Samantha Taylor started recording demos from what it would be The Answer's first album Songs for Ugly Children, the first cassette contained the demos of the songs "''Clown", "Straight Bullet", "Weed" & "Franklin". ''Later in 2001 they started touring in some bars and saloons, over there bassist Kelly Murray and drummer Elizabeth Morrison wanted to join the band and Gilmore alongsie Taylor recruited them. They started recording their first CD Songs for Ugly Children, this CD mixes early Nu Metal sounds and new like Rap, lyrics on this album mostly talk about sexual abuse, killing spree, cruelty to children and drug problems. When the album was released it faced extremely mixed reviews and they decided to change their style incorporating more industrial music, a bit of grunge and less heavy style. In 2003 they released their first EP entitled Clown this EP contained a new version of their 2001 song "Clown" incorporating a industrial sound, the EP consisted of only 4 songs entitled with the names of codes such as "6JGHF8" and "658GYT" the last song is a ghost track featuring some strange sounds and voices. The EP recieved mostly positive reviews. After this they started recording new material incorporating more instruments such as side drums, keyboards and bagpipes.

Truck and sucess (2004 - 2007)
During 2004 they started recording their new album "Truck" the lead single of the album was their most acclaimed song "Number 6", the song talks about Gilmore's cousin drug problems, Daina said during an interview that she wanted to create this song because she felt that the world need to know what drug can cause in a person, she also said that after all her cousins problems he comitted suicide, the title of the song is because he was the 6 son of Daina's uncle. the album recieved mostly positive reviews and this lead The Answer to a succes in the music industry.

Self titled album, second EP and further succes (2007 - 2011)
In 2007 the band released their self titled album, this album incorporated clasical styles of nu metal such as rap and hip-hop, it also included some heavy guitar riffs and a heavier voice tone Daina answer saying that one of her inspirations was the band Slipknot and that he tried to mix Corey's voice with their style, this album recieved mostly positive reviews and was nominated as best metal perfomance. They toured to promote the album from 2007 to 2009 the name of the tour was "The Answer WWT" (The Answer World Wide Tour), the tour took place in different parts such as Mexico, USA, Holand, Japan and New Zeland.

Later during 2010 - 2011 they announced their second EP entitled "The Calling" . This EP contained 4 songs, three of them beign normal songs and the last one beign a long song with a hidden track of a 6:30 min length, the name of this hidden track was spelled in some releases as "Ghost Track" mean while some others spelled it as "''Caroline". When Daina was asked why the name Caroline, she didn't reply anything, she just said "And old dream".''

First Live album and new studio album (2012 - )
In 2012 their first studio album was released under the name of "F*** this S**** we will do it live" the album contained some songs performed by the band during their WWT tour. In late 2013 lead guitarist Samantha Taylor announced that the band was working on new material and that they have been working on new demos.

Discography

 * Songs for Ugly Children (2001)
 * Truck (2004)
 * The Answer (2007)
 * TBA (2013)

EP

 * Clown (2003)
 * The Calling (2011)

Live Albums

 * F*** this S**** we will do it live (2012)

Singles

 * Number 6 (2003)
 * Man (2004)
 * Ice (2006)