Artifas, Leave Me For Dead Review

Artifas is an American Hard Rock band formed in 2011 in Jackson, TN, by lead guitarist Cody Criswell and lead vocalist Scottie Somerville. The band released their debut EP Enemy Inside in 2013 and supported the project with numerous regional/national tours. Also, in that same year, the band replaced former members with guitarist Mikey Miller, bassist Anthony Mattox, and drummer Jared Wainscott. In 2015, Artifas released their first full-length album Inhuman. The title track would bring the band commercial success, reaching # 32 on Billboard’s Active Rock chart and sending the band on the road with established artists like Theory of a Deadman, Shamans Harvest, Pop Evil, Saint Asonia, Aranda, and others. The follow-up single from that record, “Blood 4 Blood,” would later get picked up by the World Series of Fighting and subsequently land a feature in the UFC movie “Fight Valley.” In 2016, Artifas remained on tour throughout the US. In addition, they started traveling internationally for the first time with Papa Roach, Hoobastank, POD, Trapt, and Sick Puppies to play for our American Troops. After much soul searching, Artifas elected to embrace their own vision and write/produce their next album independently, free from the creative overreach of outside influence. After two years of writing, recording, and mixing, Artifas has completed the new album titled Reflections (releasing November 19, 2021) and is now releasing the second single from the album called “Leave Me For Dead.”

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