Make Me Famous

‘’’Make Me Famous’’’ was an electronicore band from Ukraine.

Formation and It's Now or Never (2010-2012)
The band formed in 2010 after Denis Shaforostov uploaded his songs for videos on YouTube. He then recruited bassist Sergei Hohlov to make music. Later on, Dusty Boles joined on drums, Igor Yastrebov joined on electric guitar, and Serj Kravchenko joined on second vocals. Later on they signed to Sumerian Records. On March 27th 2012, they released their debut album titled It's Now or Never on Sumerian Records. The album peaked at 151 on the Billboard 200, 13 on the Hard Rock Albums chart, 5 on the Heatseekers Chart, 26 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and 37 on the Top Rock Albums.

Departure of Denis, Resigning from Sumerian Records and Disbandment
At the end of November 2012, the band had been kicked off of Sumerian Records due to the troubles with getting along between the band members and the band fired their frontman Denis Shaforostov because they didn't get along with him and didn't like his attitude towards them. In an interview about Denis, the band said We are currently in the middle of our first, and unfortunately the last headline tour as the band Make Me Famous. This will also be our last tour and time playing in the band known as Make Me Famous. As it were, most the members of Make Me Famous were very excited and grateful for this opportunity. We would like to say that we love playing music; love touring and most importantly WE love the fans.

We would like to make a statement on the state of Make Me Famous. We four members were never treated like equal musicians to Denis Shaforostov. According to Denis, he was the only member in the band and he treated the rest of us as unpleasant as humanly possible, it was not fun being in a band with him. It was as if everybody but Denis were hired musicians and were expected to do any and everything that he would tell to us to do. Denis would also expect to keep a larger portion of any band income, in return he would treat us disrespectfully and give everyone in the band and the bands team an everlasting negative attitude. From those on the inside of the industry, this might not come as much of a surprise.

Denis not only lied to our label and management about who wrote what in the band, but lied to the fans as well. Denis told everyone that he wrote and recorded 99% of the bands music; in actuality all of Make Me Famous had a large portion in the creation of both. The music we made, including production and recording of our album was a collaborative effort involving all members of the band. We were not appreciated for anything by Denis, he would take his front-man position in the band to his advantage. He lied to the bands label and management in order to get paid more on royalties, payouts and even daily band tour allowances. Meanwhile it was us, the rest of the members of Make Me Famous, who did what normal, hardworking touring musicians do (setting up our gear, loading in merch, driving to the shows) as Denis refused to help while doing nothing but making nasty comment after nasty comment such as, "I brought you here, you owe me! You're nothing without me"!!

After around 10 months of dealing with Denis and the stress that came with him, we approached our team about his behavior and told them how we did not want to continue on without him. As of right now Denis has overstayed his welcome, he has a plane ticket booked home to the Ukraine and is flying back mid-tour. We will finish the tour without Denis, but sadly is not the first show without him as he has missed out on a whole tour previously because he simply did not want to play that tour (due to the fact that he once told the headlining band vocalist over twitter that THEY would be opening for Denis in 6 months).

In summary, Denis has some issues and according to Denis, the fault to his issues is everyone and anyone but himself. This will be the end of our current incarnation, but we promise you the rest of the members, minus Denis will continue on making music and touring under a new forthcoming name. Our industry team continues to back us and we look forward to playing for you in 2013!

Please come out and support our final Make Me Famous shows (dates below). We would surely appreciate the support from our fans, various singers from the support bands will be filling in on Denis' spot and it will surely be a good time to mark the end of something that we all loved and were excited about but was ultimately ruined by one person. Before splitting up, the band played their last few shows live. They also promised to return with a new band. The new band formed by Denis is Down and Dirty and the other member's new band is Ocean Red.

Style and influences
The band’s style is electronicore, blending genres like post-hardcore, and metalcore with genres like pop, techno, electronicore and trance music. Their music can have screaming, singing, growls, breakdowns and electronics. The band's influences include Bruno Mars, Def Leppard, and Marilyn Manson.

Members
The list of the band members.
 * Denis Shaforostov - Vocals, synthesizers
 * Serj Kravchenko - Vocals, electric guitar
 * Sergei Hohlov - Bass
 * Dusty Boles - Drums
 * Igor Yastrebov - Electric guitar

Studio Albums

 * It's Now or Never - (2012)

Singles

 * Make it Precious - (2011)