Background
He was born on May 6, 1975. Nathan grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. When Nathan was 12 years old, his mother was killed in a car accident.
He was born on May 6, 1975. Nathan grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. When Nathan was 12 years old, his mother was killed in a car accident.
Nathan is three minutes younger than his identical twin Matthew Leone, who played bass in Madina Lake. He has a twin brother and three older sisters: Allison, Jill and Paula. Nathan fell out of a grocery cart when he was five, tearing a muscle in his eye, thus resulting in having to wear an eye patch and glasses for much of his childhood.
He sometimes loses control of the muscle in his eye, but does not have a lazy eye.
The song "Morning Sadness" is influenced by her death and Nathan has trouble talking about her in interviews. On their album Attics to Eden the track Friends & Lovers includes lyrics where he is speaking about his childhood and his mother, much like Morning Sadness.
Nathan landed a sports scholarship to go to college in Indianapolis, Indiana at Butler University. He pursued professional soccer in the United States and for nine months in Florence, Italy.
Nathan used to intern at Scratchie"s Chicago headquarters.
In the early days of The Blank Theory, they also formed an independent label called 4 Alarm Records which also included The Frogs, The Pinehurst Kids, and Monkey Paw. The $50,000 was the start up money for Madina Lake. The band"s first self-produced European Parliament, The Disappearance of Adalia, came out in early 2006 around October.
Later that year, they were signed to Roadrunner Records and created their first full-length album entitled From Them, Through Us, To You, which was released in March 2007.
He cites the alternative rock band Smashing Pumpkins as his favorite band and his biggest influence. He wrote the song "In Another Life" following a dream he had in which his then-girlfriend committed suicide.
The Attics To Eden artwork is by Vic Lee who is also known as Lynden System Technologies Victor. They got the album artwork for Attics free if they recorded a song for Vic Lee (since he is not a musician).
