History Music / Alterbeast

* {{Irony}}: Their name is an obvious reference to ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast''. Michael Alvarez would later go on to use "Rise From Your Grave" as a song title in Flub.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally a solid 10, though "Throne of Maggots" and "The Maggot's Ascension" creep into a hard 10.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Andrew Lamb and Michael Alvarez stayed somewhat uneasy friends after the latter formally left in 2018, but various incidents that culminated in Lamb failing to return Brandon Busa's drum gear and ghosting and blocking him killed their friendship for good and led to a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Alvarez's personal Facebook page.

* BaldOfAwesome: Chad Felix, coupled with BadassBeard. Andrew Lamb is also mostly bald aside from a small patch of long hair that he usually ties back.

* IAmTheBand: Andrew Lamb.

* PintsizedPowerhouse: Nathan Bigelow.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Andrew Lamb and Michael Alvarez stayed somewhat uneasy friends after the latter formally left in 2018, but various incidents that culminated in Lamb failing to return Brandon Busa's drum gear and ghosting and blocking him (as well as Alvarez after he told Andrew to try again next year when it became clear that a tour that Flub was supposed to do with Alterbeast was not going to happen due to Alterbeast not having any sort of lineup less than a month away) killed their friendship for good and led to a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Alvarez's personal Facebook page.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Andrew Lamb and Michael Alvarez stayed somewhat uneasy friends after the latter formally left in 2018, but various incidents that culminated in Lamb defrauding fans with a Gofundme around the end of 2019 and failing to return Brandon Busa's drum gear and ghosting and blocking him killed their friendship for good and led to a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Alvarez's personal Facebook page.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Andrew Lamb and Michael Alvarez stayed somewhat uneasy friends after the latter formally left in 2018, but various incidents that culminated in Lamb defrauding fans with a Gofundme around the end of 2019 killed their friendship for good and led to a lengthy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on Alvarez's personal Facebook page.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Cam and Monte kept coming and going during the initial era, and it reached its logical conclusion when the entire band save for Andrew Lamb left in 2015. As of now, he only has Allen Burton as a full-timer; Brandon Busa may or may not be joining after their fall 2019 tour, while Monte is a strict fill-in and will probably never rejoin due to his day job.

* TechnicalDeathMetal: A fairly straightforward shreddy and somewhat deathcore-tinged variant.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Cam and Monte kept coming and going during the initial era, and it reached its logical conclusion when the entire band save for Andrew Lamb left in 2015. As of now, it's unclear whether Lamb even has a band, as Alvarez is focusing on Flub, Bigelow chose Music/{{Arkaik}}, and Burton may or may not be joining Music/InanimateExistence.

* AddledAddict: Cam Rogers' longstanding drug issues were a significant contributing factor in his decision to step down, as he knew as well as anyone that with a kid on the way and the latter half of his twenties approaching, he desperately needed to get clean.

* JerkAss: By his own admission, Andrew Lamb was one of these, and it cost him an entire lineup and several longtime friendships. The time after the ill-fated Devastation on the Nation tour was devoted as much to learning from his mistakes and becoming a better person as it was to rebuilding the band.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Cam and Monte kept coming and going during the initial era, and it reached its logical conclusion when the entire band save for Andrew Lamb left in 2015. As of now, it's Alvarez, Lamb, Burton, and Bigelow, with Felix's status in the lineup being hazy. Walker, while listed as a live member, never actually played any shows with them, as it was clear after one practice session that, while a very talented drummer in his own right, he was ''not'' a good blaster and would not be able to adequately play his parts.

* TechnicalDeathMetal: A fairly straightforward shreddy and somewhat deathcore-tinged variant.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: Andrew Lamb with Rusty Cornell and Michael Zamora. While he has long since made amends with Gabe and Monte and never really fell out of favor with Mikey, they still refuse to have anything to do with him.

A brief flicker of activity emerged in early 2016, when the band posted a brief snippet of a demo that they had been playing live, though the band remained relatively silent for a while after that. There was talk through the grapevine of [[Music/{{Arkaik}} Alex]] [[Music/{{Trivium}} Bent]] tracking session drums for a new album and Cam returning to track vocals, but everything else had to be left to speculation. This changed around the end of the year, when Andrew Lamb announced their new live lineup: Michael Alvarez (vocals), Nate Graham (guitar), Chad Felix (bass), and Dylan Walker (drums), along with a headlining tour for the beginning of 2017. Walker wound up not working out, however, and Nathan Bigelow (Singularity) wound up taking the drum spot. Various other shows took place throughout the year, and that summer, they finally recorded their long-awaited sophomore album, with Alvarez tracking vocals. A fall tour with Arkaik and Inanimate Existence followed, and in November of 2017, they formally announced ''Feast'', their followup to ''Immortal'', which will be released on February 23, 2018. Various tours are apparently in the works and the band hopes to hit the road hard and make up for lost time. As of August 2018, however, Michael Alvarez has left the band, citing a need to get his personal life in order. A replacement has not been announced.

A brief flicker of activity emerged in early 2016, when the band posted a brief snippet of a demo that they had been playing live, though the band remained relatively silent for a while after that. There was talk through the grapevine of [[Music/{{Arkaik}} Alex]] [[Music/{{Trivium}} Bent]] tracking session drums for a new album and Cam returning to track vocals, but everything else had to be left to speculation. This changed around the end of the year, when Andrew Lamb announced their new live lineup: Michael Alvarez (vocals), Nate Graham (guitar), Chad Felix (bass), and Dylan Walker (drums), along with a headlining tour for the beginning of 2017. Walker wound up not working out, however, and Nathan Bigelow (Singularity) wound up taking the drum spot. Various other shows took place throughout the year, and that summer, they finally recorded their long-awaited sophomore album, with Alvarez tracking vocals. A fall tour with Arkaik and Inanimate Existence followed, and in November of 2017, they formally announced ''Feast'', their followup to ''Immortal'', which will be released on February 23, 2018. Various tours are apparently in the works and the band hopes to hit the road hard and make up for lost time.

* AfroAsskicker: Michael Alvarez is a rare Hispanic example.

* FiveBadBand:
** TheBigBad: Andrew
** TheDragon: Michael
** TheEvilGenius: Allen
** TheBrute: Nathan
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Chad

* NobodyLovesTheBassist: Andrew Lamb tracked the bass on ''Feast'' himself. Subverted otherwise, as they have never gone without a bassist for any length of time when they were active.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Andrew
** TheLancer: Michael
** TheSmartGuy: Allen
** TheBigGuy: Nathan

* StartMyOwn: Cam formed Wastewalker (who were also John Abernathy's example of this trope, as he had previously been in Conducting from the Grave and later Soma Ras, who are mentioned below) sometime after his split with the band, while Flint Marshall (who was the main drummer back in their days as Gary Busey Amber Alert) helped form Soma Ras (who also included Monte in their ranks, as well as John Abernathy) and later went on to help form Tyrannocannon after Soma Ras folded.

* StartMyOwn: Cam formed Wastewalker sometime after his split with the band.

* AscendedExtra: Mikey Wilson (before he had to quit if he didn't want to lose his day job), Michael Alvarez, and Nathan Bigelow.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Cam and Monte kept coming and going during the initial era, and it reached its logical conclusion when the entire band save for Andrew Lamb left in 2015. As of now, it's Alvarez, Lamb, and Bigelow, with Felix's status in the lineup being hazy and both Nate Graham and Allen Burton explicitly being live session members. Walker, while listed as a live member, never actually played any shows with them, as it was clear after one practice session that, while a very talented drummer in his own right, he was ''not'' a good blaster and would not be able to adequately play his parts.

A brief flicker of activity emerged in early 2016, when the band posted a brief snippet of a demo that they had been playing live, though the band remained relatively silent for a while after that. There was talk through the grapevine of [[Music/{{Arkaik}} Alex]] [[Music/{{Trivium}} Bent]] tracking session drums for a new album and Cam returning to track vocals, but everything else had to be left to speculation. This changed around the end of the year, when Andrew Lamb announced their new live lineup: Michael Alvarez (vocals), Nate Graham (guitar), Chad Felix (bass), and Dylan Walker (drums), along with a headlining tour for the beginning of 2017. Walker wound up not working out, however, and Nathan Bigelow (Singularity) wound up taking the drum spot. Various other shows took place throughout the year, and that summer, they finally recorded their long-awaited sophomore album, with Alvarez tracking vocals. A fall tour with Arkaik and Inanimate Existence, and in November of 2017, they formally announced ''Feast'', their followup to ''Immortal'', which will be released on February 23, 2018. Various tours are apparently in the works and the band hopes to hit the road hard and make up for lost time.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally a solid 10, though "Throne of Maggots" creeps into a hard 10.

* AscendedExtra: Mikey Wilson (before he had to quit if he didn't want to lose his day job) and Michael Alvarez.

* RevolvingDoorBand: Cam and Monte kept coming and going during the initial era, and it reached its logical conclusion when the entire band save for Andrew Lamb left in 2015. As of now, it's Alvarez and Lamb, with Felix and Bigelow's statuses in the lineup being hazy and both Nate Graham and Allen Burton explicitly being live session members. Walker, while listed as a live member, never actually played any shows with them, as it was clear after one practice session that, while a very talented drummer in his own right, he was ''not'' a good blaster and would not be able to adequately play his parts.