Overground Visions

Overground Visions are an American pop rock band formed in, in 2011 by Samuel Ferrazza and Darren Bollin. Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the post-grunge band Raging Inside, Overground Visions are classified as part of the synth-pop revival movement and as part of the Southern Romantic movement.

The group's major label debut, The Belief (2015), reached number seven on the Billboard 200 and earned them a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Their second album, Looking Out for the Heart of Man (2017), reached number one on the Billboard 200 and was certified 6x platinum in 2021.

Formation and influences
Ferrazza and Bollin met in elementary school in. Their professional debut came with the band Raging Inside, a post-grunge/alternative metal act. In 2008, Raging Inside released an album, Unhappy?, who's title track was a minor hit on active rock radio and made the lower reaches of the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. The band split soon afterwards due to a dispute with their label,.

Ferrazza and Bollin were inspired by the synth-pop music they grew up listening to as children, such as and, and consequently moved their side project in a more electronic direction.

The duo self-released their self-titled debut EP in 2012. The duo composed, recorded and produced the EP using off-the-shelf software, such as, and free-and-open-source software, such as.

The Belief and first international successes (2015–2017)
The duo began recording their debut album, The Belief, in 2013 at producer and longtime friend Craig Guerrier's The Mail Pouch Barn studio in. In 2014, Overground Visions became one of the inaugural artists of MET Records, a label created by Working Hour frontman Tyler Sawyer, Working Hour manager Ric Rykener and businessman Scott Finnis (who owns the trademark for the radio station call letters KMET, which inspired the name of the record label) in partnership with. MET helped finance the completion of The Belief, which was released in April 2015 and peaked at number seven on the Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "Disjointed", peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped earn them a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards, losing to.