BEARTOOTH
By The Numbers
Like Nine Inch Nails and early Foo Fighters, BEARTOOTH is a one-person band in the studio, written, arranged, engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered by Shomo. The 2013 Sick EP was an emotionally stranded Shomo’s “message in a bottle,” tossed into a figurative ocean. The message was received, and the throngs of like-minded people who responded became his lifeboat.
Disgusting (2014), Aggressive (2016), Disease (2018), and Below (2021) expanded those themes of desperation, each a step closer to the magical balance between the blood, sweat, and tears of classic recordings and the smooth gloss of modern production. After decades of fighting depression, anxiety, and doubt, Caleb speaks openly about his mental, physical, and emotional repair. Beartooth’s latest single, “Riptide,” celebrates his newfound clarity, with stark honesty.
Caleb Shomo started BEARTOOTH in his basement, playing all the instruments, purely for himself at first. As the band he assembled to perform the songs traveled, they discovered how many people felt the same emotions as him.
The connection is evident by their deeply engaged audience; tours with Slipknot, Bring Me The Horizon, and A Day To Remember; and a gold single.
Rolling Stone introduced BEARTOOTH as one of 10 New Artists You Need To Know, and they rightly described the sound as “like a nervous breakdown, usually with enough optimism to push through.” As the band grew (grabbing trophies at genre events like the Golden Gods and Loudwire Awards), the raw nerve simply became more exposed, sounding wilder yet accessible all at once.
Here’s the band by the numbers.
Catalog Sales
697k - Album Equivalent Units (US)
273k - AEU (Rest Of World)
231k - Album Sales (US)
112k - Digital (US)
92k - CDs (US)
26k - Vinyl LPs (US)
1.14B - Worldwide Catalog Streams
703M - US Catalog Streams
175M - YouTube Channel Views
87M - Pandora Streams
22M - Spotify Playlist Reach
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