My American Heart - History

History

My American Heart gained much local fame from many local SoCal venues they played at. Due to legal troubles concerning their name, the band changed their name from No Way Out to My American Heart to reflect the ethnic and national duality the original members identified with. The band made their first big break winning the Ernie Ball Battle Of The Bands. As popularity grew, the band was pressured to play at larger venues farther from home, causing Clint Delgado to leave the band to focus on his education. The band played the Taste of Chaos tour in 2005 with a four-piece. Shortly after the tour the band recorded the full length album The Meaning in Makeup with producer Sal Villanueva released on Kevin Lyman's label, Warcon, in fall 2005. While on Warped Tour, the band picked up bassist Dustin Hook.

During the summer of 2006 original guitarist, Jeremy Mendez left the band and joined a project called "Reconstruct The Dream". My American Heart picked up guitarist Jake "The Snake Nailer" Taylor (Original vocalist of Deadbeat) on their last tour at a venue in Cincinnati, Ohio before they went into the studio to record "Hiding Inside the Horrible Weather" with producer James Paul Wisner. Majority of the album was inspired from Snake Nailer's roots in the grudge-core scene. The final track, that was a last minute add on to the album, was entitled Moving On. The track was a song completely composed by Snake Nailer himself telling of his battle through alcoholism and drug addiction from his teen years to his mid twenties, and his decision to "Move on" and better his life.

It was announced on the Soundwave (Australian music festival) tour that Steve Oira would leave the band after tour due to a mutual agreement. Jake Kalb (ex-The Fold/New Atlantic/The Suicide Pact) has replaced him on drums. As of June 2008, Jake "The Snake Nailer" Taylor will be joining the band on guitar permanently per the band's MySpace page.

My American Heart recently announced on MySpace page that they are currently writing for their new album. On April 14, 2008 Jesse Barrera announced on his website (jessebarrera.com) that they were no longer on Warcon Records, "The label that we were on for four years just folded and now we’re currently in the most interesting legal situation ever, which I won’t get into"

In early July 2009, Jesse Barrera announced on his website that he was leaving My American Heart.

In October 2009, it was announced through members of the band that they would be disbanding following a few final shows.

In early October 2009, Jesse Barrera made four demo tracks available on his website. The songs were intended for their third studio album that will now likely never be released. The demos are Unravel, Pain, Lost Inside Of You, and Circa.

Two more demos have been released titled, Heart Attack and Shine Your Light, also thought to be intended for their third studio album.

My American Heart played two reunion shows on February 3rd and 4th, 2012 at The Epicentre in San Diego, CA and Chain Reaction in Anaheim, CA, respectively.