Caleb Shomo

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American musician (born 1992)

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years_active	2006–present
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Vocals
guitar
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Metalcore
hard rock
electronicore
melodic hardcore
hardcore punk
pop-punk
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Singer
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songwriter
producer | years_active = 2006–present | current_member_of = Beartooth | past_member_of = Attack Attack! | spouse = | website =

Caleb Joshua Shomo (born December 1, 1992) is an American singer, musician, songwriter, and producer. He is most well known as the lead-vocalist of Beartooth, though he records all studio instrumentals for the band. He is also the former lead vocalist, keyboardist, and early backing vocalist of Attack Attack!, and the owner of Studio Records in Columbus, Ohio. Shomo joined Attack Attack! as keyboardist at 15 years old while maintaining a passion for electronic music and eventually grew into record production by 18.

Shomo has been referred to as "one of the current scene’s most beloved figures." In 2023, Jake Richardson of Loudwire included him in his list of the "10 Best Clean Singers in Metalcore".

Early life

Shomo was raised in Westerville, Ohio, since he was ten years old. His dad was a pastor of a church and his mom works as a nurse, who also was a part of a church band. As a result, he grew up going to church, however, he saw "a lot of damage" it had done to people in his life and to his family, and has since moved away from religion. Despite this, he stated that he "will always have respect and understanding of it," as it played a big role in his life. He began getting into music at the age of four, as he grew up in a musical family. His grandfather was a gospel singer and his uncle played in bands in the 70s. He started taking piano lessons at a young age, before quitting to learn guitar, bass and drums all at the same time when he was ten. From the age of ten, Shomo has suffered from depression and anxiety, and was misdiagnosed with ADHD since he had trouble concentrating. When he was in high school, he met and befriended Attack Attack! member, Johnny Franck. He dropped out of high school at the age of 15 to focus on the band and touring full-time.

Career

Attack Attack! (2008–2012)

Main article: Attack Attack! (American band)

In 2006, Shomo joined Attack Attack!, an American metalcore band from Westerville, Ohio, formed in 2005 as a synth player and programmer when he was 14 and a freshman in high school. He joined the group after he was asked by his friends who were looking for a keyboard player. The addition of his keyboard and synth playing was influential on the band's sound. In 2008, they signed to Rise Records and released their debut studio album Someday Came Suddenly on November 11. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at number 193.

thumb|Shomo (left) performing with Attack Attack! at Bamboozle Festival 2009 In late 2009, Shomo became the group's primary vocalist, following the departure of Nick Barham. According to Shomo, he had to learn how to sing and struggled how to do scream vocals, but managed to get through it. They released their self-titled second studio album on June 8, 2010, and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 15,000 copies in its first week. Shomo features clean vocals on tracks 1 to 5 and 17 and 18 of their deluxe release of their second album. In November 2011, the band announced their third studio album titled This Means War. It was released on January 17, 2012, and has since become the band's best charting Billboard topping album, debuting and peaking at number 11 on the Billboard 200, selling more than 17,000 copies in its first week.

Despite the band's growing success, Caleb Shomo left the band later that year due to clinical depression he had been dealing with since middle school. This had been causing him to have suicidal tendencies, and struggle with eating disorders, self-image problems and various substance abuse and addictions for the past year. Despite this, he left the band on good terms with the rest of the band supporting his decision. The band itself officially disbanded in May the same year.

Beartooth (2012–present)

Main article: Beartooth (band)

thumb|left|Shomo performing with Beartooth at Reload Festival 2018 Caleb Shomo began writing Beartooth songs while he was still in Attack Attack! as "a different musical outlet". Shomo has said the band originally "started as a joke band" with members of My Ticket Home, as a way to make fun, punk-rock, hardcore, wild music, play crazy shows and have a good time without pressure from anything. He wrote and recorded everything with all the instruments and did all of the production for their music. The band was originally called Noise, but was switched to Beartooth upon realization the name was already taken.

On June 7, 2013, Shomo announced that Beartooth was now signed to Red Bull Records. Beartooth released their debut EP Sick for free on their website on July 26, 2013. On May 13, 2014, the band's Facebook page announced the release date for their debut album, Disgusting, as June 10, 2014, along with its track listing. The band released their first single of the album the same day, titled 'Beaten in Lips', along with its music video. The album was available to stream online a day before its release.

On June 3, 2016, Beartooth released another album titled Aggressive, with the headlining track of the album posing the same name. In an interview with Kerrang! Magazine, Shomo stated that he felt that the album had a much happier outlook than the previous album, Disgusting. That being said, he still cites that there are parts of the album that refer to the constant battle that he faces with clinical depression, and mentions that is shown in the song "Find a Way". The songs "Aggressive", "Always Dead", "Loser", and "Hated", were all released prior to the album being released.

On July 18, 2018, the songs "Infection", "Disease", and "Believe" leaked online forcing the band to reveal the name of their new album, Disease, the tracklisting and its artwork. On September 28, Beartooth released their third studio album "Disease". During writing and recording the "Disease" album, a mini-series of videos about 'making of' of the album were posted on YouTube, named after one of the songs "Greatness or Death" from the third album.

CLASS (2012–present)

Along with the announcement of Beartooth after departing from Attack Attack!, he also announced in 2012 that he started making electronic music under the name CLASS. In an interview with Altpress he expressed that he had always loved electronic music and had been creating such music since before he joined Attack Attack!. He self-released an EP consisting of 4 tracks on January 2, 2013. Since the release the project has remained inactive, but when asked about it he responded with "...I'm ready to go full-force with that. A few of the deals we're working on are addressing the whole thing."

Personal life

In 2012, he left Attack Attack! citing "horrible clinical depression" and revealed that he had been suicidal since middle school. Sometime that year (around April 1 according to Fleur's Instagram account), he married Fleur Shomo. In 2014 when interviewed by Kerrang! he stated that thanks to the success of his musical career he is moving into a new home where he will build a new sunlit studio to record his own music and produce others.

On December 10, 2020, Austrian duo CueStack released their Through the Night EP featuring David Hasselhoff's first heavy metal performance. A remix of the song, produced by Shomo was also released.

Discography

;Attack Attack! Main article: Attack Attack! discography

;Beartooth Main article: Beartooth discography

Disgusting (2014)
Aggressive (2016)
Disease (2018)
Below (2021)
The Surface (2023)

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Stereo Typical EP (2012)

Guest appearances

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Song	Year	Artist	Album	"Dead Weight"	"The Solitary Life"	"Shadow Stalker"	"Ascension"	"I Made a Song on Garage Band and All I Got Was a Lousy Record Deal"
2010	My Ticket Home	The Opportunity to Be
2011	In Fear and Faith	Symphonies
Legend	title=Legend The Pale Horse	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-pale-horse-mw0002125242	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
I Am Abomination	title=Passion of the Heist – EP I Am Abomination	url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/passion-of-the-heist-ep/445045583	website=iTunes.com	publisher=Good Fight Music	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
City Lights	title=City Lights in It To Win It	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-it-to-win-it-mw0002227246	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
2012	The Dead Rabbitts	Edge of Reality
Woe, Is Me	[Genesis]
2013	Escape the Fate	Ungrateful
Sylar	title=Deadbeat Sylar	url=https://music.apple.com/gb/album/deadbeat/597714140	website=iTunes	publisher=Sylar	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
Tear Out The Heart	title=Violence Tear Out the Heart	url=https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/violence/id600198037	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141208003302/https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/violence/id600198037	url-status=dead	archive-date=December 8, 2014	website=iTunes.com	publisher=Victory Records	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
2015	Gideon	last1=Tyler	first1=Sharp	title=Gideon stream new single, "Survive" (ft. Caleb Shomo of Beartooth)	url=http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/gideon_stream_new_single_survive_ft._caleb_shomo_of_beartooth	website=AltPress.com	publisher=Alternative Press	access-date=29 November 2015}}
Crossfaith	Xeno
2017	Seaway	Vacation
2019	Silverstein	A Beautiful Place to Drown
Don Broco	title=DON BROCO TEAM UP WITH BEARTOOTH, ISSUES, ONE OK ROCK AND DANCE GAVIN DANCE FOR NEW SINGLE	url=https://www.kerrang.com/the-news/don-broco-team-up-with-beartooth-issues-one-ok-rock-and-dance-gavin-dance-for-new-single-action/	website=kerrang.com	date=September 6, 2019	publisher=Kerrang	access-date=12 September 2019}}
Bilmuri	title=CALEB SHOMO, ATTACK ATTACK! SINGER REUNITE IN THROWBACK "THIC THICCLY"	url=https://www.altpress.com/news/caleb-shomo-attack-attack-johnny-franck-bilmuri-thicc-thiccly/	website=altpress.com	publisher=Altpress	access-date=21 November 2019}}
2020	The Used	Heartwork
2021	We Came as Romans	Darkbloom
Can't Swim	Change of Plans
2022	Motionless in White	Scoring the End of the World
2023	Papa Roach
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Production credits

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Album title	Release date	Artist	Label	Credits	Attack Attack! (deluxe edition re-issue)	The Pale Horse	This Means War	To Create a Cure	Violence	Ungrateful
	Attack Attack!	Rise	Engineer, mastering, mixing, producer, programming
	Legend	Rise	title=Legend The Pale Horse	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-pale-horse-mw0002125242/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Attack Attack!	Rise	title=Attack Attack! This Means War	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-means-war-mw0002282048/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	My Ticket Home	Rise	title=My Ticket Home To Create a Cure	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-create-a-cure-mw0002280212/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Tear Out The Heart	Victory	last1=Whit	first1=Cassie	title=Tear Out The Heart (Victory Records) release lyric video for "Undead Anthem" (feat. Caleb Shomo)	url=http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/tear_out_the_heart_victory_records_release_lyric_video_for_undead_anthem_fe	website=Altpress.com	publisher=Altpress	access-date=June 29, 2014	quote=he track features Caleb Shomo who also lent a hand in the production of Violence.}}
	Escape the Fate	Eleven Seven	title=Escape the Fate Ungrateful	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ungrateful-mw0002522204/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Beartooth	Red Bull	Composer, producer
	Sylar	Razor & Tie	title=Sylar To Whom It May Concern	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/to-whom-it-may-concern-mw0002630470/credits	website=AllMusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Beartooth	Red Bull	title=Beartooth Disgusting	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/release/disgusting-mr0004169184/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Various	Side One Dummy	title=Various Artists Vans Warped Tour 2014 Compilation credits	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/vans-warped-tour-2014-compilation-mw0002661259/credits#	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=July 7, 2014}}
	The Dead Rabbitts	Tragic Hero	title=The Dead Rabbitts Shapeshifter	url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/shapeshifter-mw0002677162/credits	website=Allmusic.com	publisher=AllMusic	access-date=June 29, 2014}}
	Tear Out The Heart	Victory	Composer, engineer, mixing, producer
	Bury Tomorrow	Nuclear Blast Records	title=HMV talks to Bury Tomorrow	url=http://www.hmv.com/music/-this-album-is-much-more-raw-and-to-the-point-hmv-com-talks-to-bury-tomorrow	website=hmv.com	publisher=HMV	access-date=January 30, 2016}}
	Beartooth	Red Bull	url=https://loudwire.com/beartooth-caleb-shomo-aggressive-album-corey-taylor-support-more/	title=Beartooth's Caleb Shomo Talks 'Aggressive' Album + More	website=Loudwire.com	date=June 16, 2016	access-date=January 28, 2021}}
	Like Moths to Flames	Rise	Mixing, mastering
	Beartooth	Red Bull	url=https://www.altpress.com/features/caleb-shomo-beartooth-disease-interview/	title=Caleb Shomo takes Beartooth into the deep dark so you don't have to	first=Jason	last=Pettigrew	website=Altpress.com	date=July 24, 2018	access-date=January 28, 2021}}
	Beartooth	Red Bull	Composer, engineer, mixing, mastering, producer
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