With this victory The Native Howl, comprised of Alex Holycross, Zach Bolling, Mark Chandler and Jacob Sawicki, have secured a recording contract with Sumerian Records. The contract includes an album budget, tour and promo budget for music videos, publicity, radio appearances and touring.
They performed the track Thunderhead from Thrashgrass and absolutely blew the judges away including Michigan's own Alice Cooper who voted to keep them on the show, and after the performance said This is so good I'm laughing, I'm going I just can't believe how good this is.