The Quarantined’s Sean Martin on 900K Streams, 40M TikTok Views, and No Label
Sean Martin of The Quarantined is an Iraq War veteran turned grunge frontman whose album Aversion to Normalcy — recorded at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios — has broken 900K Spotify streams and 40M TikTok views. A raw conversation about music, survival, and doing it all independently.
Episode 020 – Sean Martin (The Quarantined) | MAKE // BREAK
Sean Martin is the vocalist, guitarist, and executive producer behind The Quarantined, a grunge/punk/metal project rooted in socially critical songwriting and real lived experience. A U.S. Army Airborne Infantry veteran who deployed to Iraq with the 3/509th, Sean channeled his post-service recovery into music, graduating from Musicians Institute in Hollywood and building The Quarantined from the ground up across LA, Florida, Boston, and Nashville. The band’s latest album, Aversion to Normalcy, was recorded at Blackbird Studios with producer Nathan Yarborough (Halestorm, Alice in Chains, Evanescence) and has surpassed 900,000 Spotify streams and 40 million TikTok views.
In this episode, Sean gets into what it really takes to make uncompromising art as an independent artist — from surviving the DIY grind to turning trauma into something that resonates worldwide.
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