Wild Fire (band)

Wild Fire is an American hard rock band founded in Biloxi, Mississippi, on November 5, 2015. it currently consists of Zack Sawyer (vocals and piano), Kevin Bronner (guitar), Garrett Warman (guitar), Landon Alexander (bass) and Cameron Alidor (drums).

As a result, the band no longer felt comfortable performing under their original name and changed it to Wild Fire.

Before this transformation, Cathercist had released two albums titled The Untimely Death of Zack Sawyer and As Hope Expires.

On March 29, 2018, Wild Fire announced in a Facebook post about an upcoming acoustic record and revealed that Taylor Roberts would be leaving the band.

On July 26, 2018, Wild Fire announced that Wade Sigue will be replacing Taylor Roberts as lead guitarist.

Then on August 2, 2018, Sawyer announced their new musical project is called At the Lake House; each song from will be released independently, not collectively as an album.

On January 10, 2019, the band revealed through a Facebook livestream that their new drummer is Britt Hartley, and he will be replacing Cameron Alidor.

With no further comment, Zack Sawyer said “it wasn’t working out.” Wild Fire was founded on November 5, 2015, in Biloxi, Mississippi.

[2] Former Wild Fire guitarist Taylor Roberts founded Cathercist in Gulfport, Mississippi,[3] but the exact date of the band's beginning is unclear.

They appeared at the 2008 Taste of Chaos concert where they opened for Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, and Bullet For My Valentine.

The band adapted their name from the word "catharsis", which they defined as purging or cleansing oneself through music or art.

[8] With a new lineup and the release of the new single, "Villain", in 2015,[14] they announced Cathercist was over and that the band would continue making music under its new name Wild Fire[13] with Zack Sawyer on vocals and piano, Taylor Roberts on guitar, Tyler Voss on bass, and Cameron Alidor on drums.

[18] On March 29, 2018, along with a statement of an upcoming acoustic record the band announced that Taylor Roberts was leaving Wild Fire.

[8] During a Facebook live stream, Tyler Voss and Zack Sawyer announced that the band will "no longer be genre specific", they also revealed that they will be trying to release a new song each month.

[8] On April 25, 2018, the band released a single from the new album, which is a cover of Post Malone's "I Fall Apart", to YouTube.

On June 27, 2018, drummer Cameron Alidor also announced through a Facebook post that he will be leaving Wild Fire "to focus on other opportunities.

[25] On July 26, 2018, Sawyer and Voss revealed via a video posted to YouTube and their social media accounts that the guitarist from Memory of a Melody, Wade Sigue, will be replacing Taylor Roberts.

Sawyer reported that even though they announced they will no longer be genre specific, that does not mean they will leave hard rock behind.

[27] On February, 14, 2019, the band published their first song since Silence titled "Earned It", with a noticeable stylistic change musically.

The band has seen a stylistic change with their new materials, stripping rock elements from the At the Lake House songs.

Taylor Roberts, former guitarist of Wild Fire and founder of Cathercist
Pianist and singer Zack Sawyer and drummer Cameron Alidor in a Wild Fire concert
Cameron Alidor in a live performance on February 16, 2018
Tyler Voss has been the bassist of Wild Fire since its formation in 2015