Pilot! was a rock band from Virginia Beach. With influences that range from Foo Fighters and Taking Back Sunday, all the way to the other end of the spectrum of more ambient, genre-evolving bands like Thrice and Deftones, PILOT! is perfectly comfortable with the all-encompassing “rock” label. In october of 2011, the band headed up to Baltimore, Maryland to record their debut EP, STATUES, with the acclaimed Paul Leavitt (All Time Low, Conditions, The Dangerous Summer) at Valencia Studios. At the end of the process, the band walked away with a product beyond even their expectations. In december of 2012, the band went back to the studio with Paul Leavitt and released a six-song EP titled “Dear Creature” in the spring of 2013 before disbanding later that year.