The CEO are not the band you’d expect from looking at the lineup.

A 30-year rock veteran who co-founded Sevendust and has nothing left to prove. A chief songwriter and co-producer who lives inside the music from first concept to final mix. One of the most focused and selfless metal drummers working today. A young alternative singer-songwriter who pulls the sound somewhere nobody else would think to go. And a front man who had to lose everything and find his way back to God before he knew what he actually wanted to say.

That is The CEO. And somehow, improbably, it works.

Vince Hornsby has spent three decades as the rhythmic foundation of Sevendust, one of hard rock’s most enduring bands. He didn’t need another project. He joined The CEO because the music was real and the people making it were his friends. That decision, a tenured rock star choosing friendship and passion over convenience, set the tone for everything that followed.

Chase Brown is the engine. Guitarist, songwriter, and co-producer alongside engineer Zach Neal, Chase is involved in every dimension of The CEO’s sound from the first chord to the mastered final mix. If Vince is the foundation, Chase is the architecture.

Joseph Herman is the drummer who plays for the song, not for himself. Elite-level metal chops, zero ego. He gives every track exactly what it needs and nothing it doesn’t.

Beau Anderson is the unexpected variable. A talented singer-songwriter in his own right with deep alternative and modern rock roots, Beau brings influences that have no business being in a heavy metal band which is precisely why they work. He pulls The CEO somewhere none of the others would go alone.

And Mack Mullins is the visionary leader. The front man, singer, lyricist, who spent years building a career in business while music pulled at something deeper, who walked through darkness and came out the other side with something real to say. His faith, quiet in the early records, undeniable in the later ones isn’t a genre. It’s a foundation. It shows up in the themes, in the honesty, and in the reason a song called “The Words” — never released as a single, never given a video, never formally promoted — became the band’s most-streamed song to date. Some things find their audience on their own.

The CEO’s debut album Redemption was produced by multi-platinum producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette, known for his work with Alter Bridge, Slash, Mammoth WVH and Incubus and released on RatPak Records. Their sophomore album The Path Remains, featuring Vince Hornsby, generated over 200,000 streams and introduced the band to a global audience across the United States, Germany, Australia, Brazil, and beyond.

Their third album, After the Fall, arrives Fall 2026. Produced by Chase Brown and Zach Neal, mastered by Brad Blackwood, it is their most complete and fully realized work — thirteen songs where every track stands on its own, where the full spectrum of five very different musicians finally occupies the same space at the same time.

They don’t tour. They just keep making records that mean something.