William Control

William Control is an American electronic music project founded in 2008 in Seattle, Washington. It is a side project of Aiden's William Francis. He was signed to Victory Records and has released two albums (Hate Culture and Noir), and a EP (Novus Ordo Seclorum). A third full length album, entitled Silentium Amoris, was released on April 2nd, 2012. History edit: Wil Francis formed William Control because he was interested in making music that didn't match the style of his other band, Aiden. In 2008 William Control released their debut album Hate Culture which is, as explained in a Kerrang! magazine interview, the story of a man named William Control and his last night on Earth because he wishes to kill himself. Hate Culture peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Electronic Albums chart and No. 43 on the Heatseekers chart. The band released a video for "Beautiful Loser" as the album's only single. William Control toured with Escape The Fate on their "This War is Ours" tour in late 2008. In 2009, William Francis began working on a new William Control album, titled Noir, that was released on June 8, 2010. Francis invited his friends and fans to come up to the studio and record vocals for the new album, among whom is Ashley Costello of Orange County rock band New Years Day and Jeffree Star While its appearance on the album has yet to be confirmed, a teaser video featuring what appears to be the song "Deathclub" (a song that had only been released as a remix and has yet to be heard in its original form) was released by Wil via his social networking sites. Francis also stated that he will be supporting Jeffree Star, and doing a headlining show the day after. , Alt Press magazine has stated Noir to be released on June 1 via victory records though Francis later stated that the release had been pushed back a week to the 8th of June. Francis also announced he was filming a video for Noir's first single, "I'm Only Human Sometimes". The single for "I'm Only Human Sometimes", along with others was leaked 3 weeks before the release of Noir. On July 13, he released a spoken word track "Eleonora" (written by Edgar Allan Poe) on iTunes. He later released "The Tell Tale Heart" on September 13, "The Oval Portrait" on October 15, and "The Raven" on October 30, all of which are also written by Edgar Allan Poe. Shortly after the release of "Noir" William Control left Victory Records, and founded his own record company called Control Records, based up in Seattle, Washington. William in currently recording all his music under this title On November 29, 2011, William Control announced, via his personal web page, that he will be releasing a new 5-track E.P. entitled Novus Ordo Seclorum (E.P.). On the same day, he released a new book entitled Prose and Poems. On January 26, 2012, he released the title of his third full-length album, "Silentium Amoris", to be released on April 2nd, 2012. William Control performed on the "Fight To Unite" US Tour, with Brokencyde and Blood on the Dance Floor in April and May 2012. In June 2012, he headlined the European "New Faith" tour, playing shows in the UK, Netherlands, and France. During this tour, he also headlined the Red Bull stage at Donnington's Download festival.A music video for the first single off Silentium Amoris, titled "Kiss Me Judas", was released on June 26, 2012 on YouTube. In August/September 2012, William Control filmed a live DVD titled "Live in London Town" (Directed by Tim Bullock, Produced by A Glass Half). The film featured 1 live show, shot at the O2 Academy, Islington, as well as behind the scenes footage and interviews from two other dates. In January 2013, William Control released his new live album - "Live in London Town". featuring 20 tracks from previously released records and a new unreleased track/music video entitled "Speak to Me of Abduction", which featured behind the scenes footage from the "Live in London Town" DVD. Also, he is taking part in The Church of the Wild Ones US Tour with Black Veil Brides as a special guest.William Control also stars in the film Legion of the Black, a movie based upon the Black Veil Brides album Wretched and Divine. In March 2013, William Control asked again for donation to help fund his newest recording studio "Hell's Half Acre" from his official website. In return for a donation William Control gave those who donated his newest E.P. "Skeleton Strings". featuring 9 tracks of acoustic covers or original songs, including "Noir" and H.I.M's "Funeral of Hearts". In November 2013, William Control will be headlining the Friday night at Whitby Gothic Weekend Band members edit: Wil Francis - lead vocals, piano, keyboards, synthesizers, programming, Studio & touring members Nick Wiggins - bass, backing vocals (2008-2012), Kenneth Fletcher - guitar, bass, backing vocals (2008 - present), Keef West - drums, percussion (2012), Philip Kross - bass, backing vocals (2012)

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