The Chariot is a Christian Metalcore band started in 2003 by the ex-vocalist of Norma Jean, Josh Scogin. The Chariot signed with Solid State Records in May of 2004 and released Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding in November of the same year. The band's latest release, The Fiancée, produced by Matt Goldman (Underoath, Copeland, Cartel, Anathallo), hit stores on April 3rd, 2007. The band recently finished The Fiancee Spring Tour with Misery Signals, I Am Ghost ,The Human Abstract and I hate Sally. They also recently did a European tour in early 2007 with Becoming the Archetype. As of 2007, Josh Scogin is the only remaining member of the band to have appeared on the band's first album.

The 2002 music festival Furnace Fest was a defining time in the history of Norma Jean. The band was touring their album Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child. It was an album that had garnered the band strong reviews from many in the heavy metal community. Despite the success the band was achieving frontman Josh Scogin announced at the end of the set he would be leaving Norma Jean.

“I wish I had some great story about a big fight or aliens or something,” Scogin later explained. "But really it was just something that I felt led to do.” [1]

However, Scogin soon returned with The Chariot. “Creating something out of nothing ... It is the basic concept of art,” he said.

Produced in Atlanta, Georgia, Everything Is Alive, Everything Is Breathing, Nothing Is Dead, and Nothing Is Bleeding is The Chariot's debut album. “I don't strive for long titles,” Scogin explains. “I do make sure that every single title has purpose and meaning though. The album title is pretty much just trying to break away from the ‘dead, dying, bleeding, bloody, stabbing, killing, shooting, hand grenading' you get the idea. It is just trying to say that life is actually okay.”

The band has stated that their name comes from a passage in the Bible, in the book of 2 Kings, the story of Elijah being taken into heaven by God in a chariot of fire.

The band's second full length The Fiancée, was released April 3, 2007 via Solid State Records. Paramore vocalist Hayley Williams is featured on the song "Then Came To Kill" (redone version of "Kenny Gibler (Play The Piano Like A Disease)" and Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou is featured on the song "Forgive me Nashville" playing the harmonica. The entire Fiancee CD clocks in at 29 Minutes and 38 seconds long.

During late 2007, The Chariot went on a UK tour with The Break In, both supporting deathcore band Bring Me The Horizon.

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