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Tier 2 · legacy legend
Eye Alaska
Group · United States · Orange County · formed 2006
American rock band
Timeline
5 events◆ Formed 1+ Member joins 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1− Member leaves 1
2000s
· Member joins
Chase Kensrue joins the band
background vocals
source: musicbrainz
· Debut release
Debut release: Yellow & Elephant
First documented EP in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2010s
· Member leaves
Chase Kensrue leaves the band
background vocals
source: musicbrainz
Biography
English biography133 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1303859971
Biography
Eye Alaska was an American rock band from Orange County, California, formed in 2006. Two members, Brandon Wronski and Cameron Trowbridge, were former members of Dead Letter Diaries.
Eye Alaska signed to Fearless Records in February 2008, and released their debut EP titled Yellow & ElephantYellow & ElephantSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 6 tracks1I Knew You'd Never Fly4:112Stop Me Now...I'm Not Ready3:403Roll Right Over3:454Through Willows and Streams4:315A Storm in the Child's Fountain3:136Cheetah and the Tiger2:54 shortly after. They released their debut full-length album, Genesis UndergroundGenesis UndergroundSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Walk Like a Gentleman3:482Show Me DaLuv3:253Mutiny Off the Aleutian Coast by Rorrim Ehtni3:044Star Pilot1:045American Landslide3:286The Legion Night (Rorrim Ehtni Lived)0:387Good to Go4:138Miles Don't Mean Anything3:469Rocky Road4:0610All Hail the High Sea3:3211Roll Right Over3:3912My Soul, My Surrender4:1213Intro to POP. Fiction1:57, on July 7, 2009. Genesis Underground reached No. 38 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart.
The band announced via Facebook on September 23, 2011 that they are to cease their existence as Eye Alaska and move on, as individuals, into other areas, not exclusively in music.
Personnel
Roy English – lead vocals, guitar, piano, programming
Cameron Trowbridge – guitar, backing vocals
Christopher Osegueda – bass, backing vocals
Chase Kensrue – guitar, piano, backing vocals
Han Ko – drums
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 1 | 0.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 1 | 13.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2009 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 13 tracks · 40:52
1Walk Like a Gentleman3:482Show Me DaLuv3:253Mutiny Off the Aleutian Coast by Rorrim Ehtni3:044Star Pilot1:045American Landslide3:286The Legion Night (Rorrim Ehtni Lived)0:387Good to Go4:138Miles Don't Mean Anything3:469Rocky Road4:0610All Hail the High Sea3:3211Roll Right Over3:3912My Soul, My Surrender4:1213Intro to POP. Fiction1:57
EP · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Yellow & ElephantSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 22:141I Knew You'd Never Fly4:11 2Stop Me Now...I'm Not Ready3:40 3Roll Right Over3:45 4Through Willows and Streams4:31 5A Storm in the Child's Fountain3:13 6Cheetah and the Tiger2:54 | 22 July 2008 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Eye Alaska head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 1 | 0.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 5 | 78.8th |
| Recording span (years) | 1 | 13.7th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chase Kensrue | 2006 | 23 September 2011 | background vocals |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eye_Alaska.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6e402a50-c8d6-45fc-974a-5b560b771ceddiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6e402a50-c8d6-45fc-974a-5b560b771cedcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5422605genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5422605seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Alaskabiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_Alaska
Why this artist is in the database
- List of soul musicians
Tier rule: genre canon: soul
Image: Mdigirol · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q5422605 · MusicBrainz: 6e402a50-c8d6-45fc-974a-5b560b771ced
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