From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Casey Lagos
Casey Lagos
Musical history
Casey Lagos
Born 1 May 1988 (1988-05-01) Stick To Your Guns (2003-2008)
Genres Metal, Hardcore, Indie Rock, Pop, R&B In 2003 Casey was asked to join Stick To Your
Guns("STYG") by Jesse Barnett, who knew Casey from al-
Instruments Drums
so playing on the worship team for Saddleback Church.
Guitar
Bass The two wrote a three song demo together before re-
Piano cruiting the original members. This was the way the two
Clean Vocals functioned throughout the time Casey was part of the
Screaming Vocals band. They often would switch off on who wrote guitar/
Years active 2003-present bass parts for songs. After numerous local shows Stick
To Your Guns recorded an 8 song E.P. entitled "Compas-
Labels Sumerian Records sion Without Compromise" in 2004. The band traveled
Century Media
This City Is Burning to Oakland, California when Casey was the age of 17 to
record its first debut For What It’s Worth which was later
Associated Stick To Your Guns, The Warriors, Parkway released on This City’s Burning Records. FWIW included
acts Drive, Sea Lakes, Architects, T. Mills
song This is More which is the bands most known song.
Notable instruments STYG filmed a music video for the song, generating a
buzz about the band nationally. After everyone in the
Masters of Maples drums
Vic Firth Sticks band graduated high school they went full throttle tour-
Paiste Cymbals ing the states. For What It’s Worth was later re-released
by Sumerian Records when the band received a warm
Casey Lagos is a Filipino/American musician and song- welcoming nationally. In 2007 Casey switched from
writer born May 1, 1988. He is most noted for drumming/ drumming to playing guitar live for two tours, while El-
songwriting in Stick To Your Guns, his solo project liott Sellers took over drums. After the few tours, Elliott
Sealakes, filling in on drums for Australian band Parkway didn’t fit the mold and Casey went back to drums. In
Drive and bass for British band Architects. Casey is an en- 2008 the band signed to Century Media records. Releasing
dorser of Masters of Maple Drums, Paiste Cymbals, Vic their second full length, Comes From The Heart, Casey
Firth drum sticks, PeterSaysDenim, Dropdead Clothing is credited on composing a majority of the track listing.
and Skullcandy headphones. He was apart of all the bands tours including, Warped
Tour 2008, and Hell on Earth(Europe) 2008, but decided
to leave the band while supporting the Every Time I DIe
Biography tour during November 2008 to pursue his own music.
Born May 1, 1988. Casey started playing drums at the
age of 3 and guitar at 4. Growing up in Orange County, The Warriors (2005)
CA he played in the worship team at Saddleback Church In late 2005 STYG played Breakthrough festival. The line
which helped mold hims musically on drums, bass, gui- up included many bands that have made a name for
tar, and vocals. As a child he was on two seasons of the themselves today such as Job For A Cowboy, The Faceless,
kids Christian show Colby’s Clubhouse originally airing and Winds of Plague. The headliner of the day was The
on Trinity Broadcasting Network. In an interview with Warriors, coincidentally Casey’s favorite band at the
Canada’s "HARDTIMES.Ca" Casey stated that he was a be- time. After STYG played, a member of The Warriors asked
liever in Jesus Christ, and that with his Christian beliefs Casey if he would like to fill-in on their upcoming tour.
he doesn’t believe in doing drugs, drinking, or having sex Casey took the opportunity. The tour included Blacklist-
before marriage. ed and Embrace The End. Through the tour Casey gained
connections to Ash Avildson who is the owner of Sumer-
ian Records and The Patheon Agency. Ash became a men-
tor for STYG along as their booking agent, and later
signed them to his label.
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Parkway Drive (2009) co-wroting un-released songs and "Smoke and Mirrors,"
which is featured on the Leaving Home EP.
On Thrash and Burn 2008, Casey be-friended a few
Aussies that called themselves Parkway Drive. When
drummer Ben Gordon stayed home to edit their DVD in
Architects(uk) (2011)
2009, the group reached out to Casey to fill the position On December 29, 2010 It was announced on the sealakes
for the following tours. Casey played in PWD on their Facebook page that Casey would tour playing in Archi-
2009 U.S./Canada headliner, which included his ex-band tects. He is to accompany them on their upcoming run
mates Stick To Your Guns. After the headline tour they with The Devil Wears Prada and Bring Me The Horizon.
again asked Casey to play with them, this time in Europe The dates are slated for January and February 2011 and is
for headline and festival shows. They played festivals to take place in Europe.
such as Download Festival in England, Groezrock in Bel-
gium, and With Full Force in Germany. The group also Producing and Co-writing
played a headline show in Palma, Majorca, being one of (2010-present)
the first hardcore bands to tour to the island. Casey began his producing and co-writing career in 2010.
Some of his clients include Sony Music Entertainment
Sealakes (2009-present) and Columbia Records.
Sealakes was derived from Casey’s name. Ca-(SEY), He is currently working with a Rock group from Ger-
dropped the "Y" added an "A", (Lagos) translates to Lakes many.
in Spanish. In August 2009, Casey posted on his music
Myspace that he entered the studio to begin recording a Equipment
solo album. The albums release is still to be determined. Casey’s current set up as seen for Masters of Maple
His debut solo music is set to be streamed from his Drums ad in Drum! Magazine.
music Myspace in August 2010. Finish: silver glass-sparkle 24"x24" kick drum 8x13
On August 24, 2010 SeaLakes launched on myspace. rack tom 16x16 floor tom
Allowing viewers to hear two new songs ’Every Heart’ 8x14 snare acrylic/wood hybrid
and ’Go Again’ (which also was released with a in-studio Paiste Cymbals 19" 2002 crash 20 2002 crash 14 signa-
session on YouTube). ture hi-hats 20 signature china
On September 7, 2010 it was announced that the first Vic Firth 5B American Classic drum sticks
SeaLakes EP was being mixed and would soon be avail-
able on iTunes.
It was seen on Casey’s twitter that sealakes would re- References
lease the EP on October 11, 2010. 1. http://www.lambgoat.com/news/
A rough demo of "Crack At The Knees" was posted in view.aspx?id=11843
December 2010. 2. http://paiste.com/e/
May 1, 2011 "Crack At The Knees" was up for free endorser_det.php?page=image&endorserid=4860
download as Casey’s birthday gift to all his fans. The song 3. http://www.vicfirth.com/artists/profile/
is now a single on iTunes for purchase. profile.php?id=1776
4. http://thenoisecoalition.com
Confide (2010) Persondata
On the 2010 Band of Brothers tour, Casey is filling in for
Name Lagos, Casey
Ross Kenyon on vocals for Confide. This was coinciden-
tally Confide’s last tour. Alternative names
Short description
T.MILLS (2010-2011) Date of birth May 1, 1988
Casey began playing drums for T. Mills in October 2010 Place of birth
and ultimately stopped playing with him in August 2011.
Date of death
He spent some time with Travis in Paramount Studios,
Place of death
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