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Crush 40Crush 40, a band originally known as Sons of Angels, was created to create music for the SEGA arcade racing game NASCAR Rubbin' Racing/EA Sports NASCAR. The core of the group is the hard rock guitarist Jun Senoue and the melodic rock legend Johnny Gioeli. History The first Crush 40 song was Open Your Heart, originally recorded with an unknown Japanese vocalist for the theme tune of Sonic Adventure for Sega Dreamcast, in 1998. The next appearance of the band was in 2001, when Sonic Adventure 2 was being worked on for Sonic's 10th anniversary. Commitments to other bands meant Naoto and Hiro could not take part, so Katsuji and Takeshi were brought in to record songs for the game. "Live and Learn" was the result, an old fashioned hard rocker but with modern production. All went quiet during 2002, then just under three years from the initial release, under the new name Crush 40, the European version of the Sons of Angels album was announced. It was stripped of the instrumentals, and included both prior Sons of Angels songs from the Sonic games and two other songs featuring vocalists Tony Harnell and Ted Poley. In 2003, Sega announced the first multiplatform Sonic game, Sonic Heroes. Once again, Jun was the sound director, and began writing, this time as a collaboration with artists such as Gunnar Nelson, Julien K, Kay Hanley and of course Johnny Gioeli. This time, there were two new Crush 40 songs: the theme tune "Sonic Heroes", a bright, melodic song and in contrast "What I'm Made Of", a distinctly dark hard rock song with metal sensibilities. Sonic Heroes was released at the end of 2003 in Japan, and in early 2004 in the US and Europe. Artists Current Lineup Vocals: Johnny Gioeli
Guitars: Jun Senoue
Bass: Takeshi Taneda
Drums: Katsuji
Previous Members Bass: Naoto Shibata
Drums: Hirotsugu Homma
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