Jason Aalon Butler is an American musician from Inglewood, California. He is best known as the former lead singer of the post-hardcore band Letlive. He is currently part of the punk rock band The Fever 333.
Butler is known for his erratic stage performance, which involves high-energy nonstop movement, dance routines, smashing of onstage objects, frequent crowd surfing, and climbing festival stages.
Growing up with a black father and white mother (from Glasgow, Scotland), Butler found that he had problems fitting in with any of the white children in grade school as they would always ask why his mother was white and father wasn’t. "I grew up in the hood. For me all of my homies were African American or Latino, or Asian. We were all part of a minority, so for me it was about class, like we were all from dirt. We were all the same color, dirt poor."
Butler got together with Keeyan Majdi, Alex Haythorn, Christian Johansen, and Ben Sharp in 2002 to form letlive., a post-hardcore band based out of Los Angeles. On April 28, 2017, the band announced their breakup through social media sites. Butler was the only remaining original member of letlive. at the time of their breakup. Following his letlive. break up, Jason teamed up with former The Chariot guitarist Stephen Harrison and Night Verses drummer Aric Improta to create "The Fever 333" in July 2017, a rap-rock hardcore band who had their first debut performance in a donut shop carpark.
"The Fever 333's" debut EP Made An America was released on March 23rd and Wall of Sound have given it an 8/10 stating it's a "raw, hard-hitting and in your face, but not only will it get your blood pumping and body moving, hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two about the cause and movement behind the band and how they intend to use their voices for the greater good of Americans and those feeling the impacts of authority injustice around the world."
In an interview with Noisey, Butler stated that he has been sober since childhood because he did not like the "fever dreams" and "strange way or thinking" that are brought on by drugs. He has expressed that his reckless behavior "may seem like self-abandonment, but it is simply just me allowing myself to feel something that I wasn’t ever able to feel growing up" and that he does not believe in performing any acts that cause harm on others.
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Birth Name: Jason Aalon Alexander Butler
Born: July 17, 1985
From: Inglewood, CA
Genre(s):
Post-hardcore,
hardcore punk,
art punk,
metalcore
Instrument(s):
Vocals
Active From: 2002-present
Associated Acts:
The Fever 333,
Letlive,
The Ghost Inside,
Pierce the Veil,
Of Mice and Men,
Stray From the Path,
Architects,
The Wonder Years