Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr.

Tommy Giles Rogers (born December 24, 1980 in Morganton, North Carolina) is an American musician, most notable for being the lead vocalist, keyboardist, and founding member of the American progressive metal band Between the Buried and Me. His vocal style combines death growls and screams with peaceful clean singing melodies, sometimes including falsetto. He is a vegan and straight edge.

Musical career

Rogers started his musical career in 1999 by being a guitarist for the metalcore band, Prayer for Cleansing; when they disbanded, Rogers founded the progressive metal band, Between the Buried and Me in 2001. After acquiring a full lineup, they released their three-song demo and then their self-titled debut album in 2002. In 2004, Rogers released a self-titled debut album for his electronica side project, named Giles. Rogers was one of the vocalists for the metal band From Here On and has appeared in numerous other musical projects, including the metal band Undying. He is a part of a clothing line and a small musical duo project with Jacob Troth that is known as Jacob Rogers.

He has made a few vocal guest appearances since the success of Between the Buried and Me, such as his featuring in the August Burns Red song "Indonesia" and on the Devin Townsend Project album Deconstruction.

Rogers recorded a solo album under the name of Thomas Giles, entitled Pulse, which was released February 1, 2011.

Discography

With Between the Buried and Me

• Between the Buried and Me - Lifeforce (2002)
• The Silent Circus - Victory (2003)
• Alaska - Victory (2005)
• The Anatomy Of - Victory (2006)
• Colors - Victory (2007)
• Colors Live - Victory (2008)
• The Great Misdirect - Victory (2009)
• The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues - Metal Blade (2011)
• The Parallax II: Future Sequence - Metal Blade (2012)
• Coma Ecliptic - Metal Blade (2015)

With Jacob Rogers

• Jacob Rogers (2012)

As Giles

• Giles - Victory (2004)

As Thomas Giles

• Pulse - Metal Blade (2011)
• Modern Noise - Metal Blade (2014)
• Dutch Book (Original Score) - Self-Released (2015)
• Velcro Kid - Sumerian Records (2016)

With Prayer For Cleansing

• The Tragedy - Southern Empire (2004)

With From Here On

• Hope for a Bleeding Sky - Tribunal Records (1999, 2005)

As a guest

• August Burns Red - Constellations - featured vocals on "Indonesia" (2009)
• The Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction - featured vocals on "Planet of The Apes" (2011)
• Intensus - Intensus - featured vocals on "Outlast Robinsum" and "I'm A Wisdom" (2011)
• Johnny Booth - Connections - featured vocals on "Ink and Sky" (2011)
• The Safety Fire - Mouth of Swords - featured vocals on "Beware The Leopard (Jagwar)" (2013)
• Abnormal Thought Patterns - Altered States of Consciousness - featured vocals on "Nocturnal Haven" (2015)
• Ayreon - The Source (2017) - character "The Chemist"

• "Jacob Rogers". Jacob Rogers. 10 January 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2014. 
• "BTBAM Vocalist Tommy Rogers To Release Debut Solo Album "Pulse" On February 1st, 2011". Metalblade.com. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2014. 
• "Unveil forthcoming second album 'Mouth Of Swords'". Insideoutmusic.com. 5 June 2013. Retrieved 15 November 2014. 
• "Guest Musicians". New Ayreon Album. Retrieved 29 December 2016.