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Impending Doom | |
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Vocalist Brook Reeves in 2009 | |
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Origin | Riverside, California, U.S. |
Genres | Deathcore [1] |
Years active | 2005–present |
Labels | Facedown, eOne, Siege of Amida [2] |
Associated acts | Oblige, [3] The Devastated, [3] xDEATHSTARx [4] |
Website | Impending Doom on Facebook |
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Impending Doom is an American Christian deathcore band from Riverside, California. The group has released six full-length studio albums and are currently a five piece with lead vocalist Brook Reeves as one of the two original remaining members along with Manny Contreras who left the band in 2010 but returned in 2012. The band refers to their style of music as "Gorship", which is described by Reeves as "Worshiping God through our gore-sounding music".
Christian metal, also known as white metal, Jesus metal or heavenly metal, is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message using song lyrics as well as the dedication of the band members to Christianity. Christian metal is typically performed by professed Christians principally for Christians who listen to heavy metal music and often produced and distributed through various Christian networks.
Deathcore is an extreme metal fusion genre that combines musical elements of death metal and metalcore and sometimes hardcore punk. It makes use of death metal riffs and blast beats, as well as metalcore breakdowns. Deathcore gained most prominence within the southwestern United States, especially Arizona and inland southern California, which are home to many notable bands and various festivals.
Riverside is a city in, and the county seat of, Riverside County, California, United States, located in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire and in Riverside County, and is located about 55 miles (89 km) east of downtown Los Angeles. It is also part of the Greater Los Angeles area. Riverside is the 59th most populous city in the United States and 12th most populous city in California. As of the 2010 Census, Riverside had a population of 303,871.
Guitarist Manny Contreras and vocalist Brook Reeves started Impending Doom together on October 31, 2005. [5] The band practiced with their sound before writing enough songs to record their demo, The Sin and Doom of Godless Men. After this release, Greg Pewthers joined as a third guitarist after also leaving Oblige. Later that year, bassist Jon Alfaro left the band and David Sittig was added to the line-up in his replacement. Chris Forno also left and was never replaced. Andy Hegg later took the place of Bueno and the band recorded the album Nailed. Dead. Risen. after getting signed to Facedown Records. Due to drummer Andy Hegg's dedication to his soccer scholarship, Impending Doom was forced to employ substitute drummers for the tours that supported the album. Since then touring drummer Chad Blackwell became the official drummer for the band, during which Greg Pewthers returned to Oblige (a band later known as The Devastated), and was replaced by Cory Johnson, formerly of Sleeping Giant.
Nailed. Dead. Risen. is the debut album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom, released in 2007 on Facedown Records.
Facedown Records is a Christian rock record label based in Fallbrook, California that is devoted to hardcore punk and metalcore bands with a few death metal acts such as Immortal Souls and Indwelling. Founded by No Innocent Victim drummer Jason Dunn, the label started small with a number of 7" record releases by Overcome, Dodgin Bullets, and Born Blind. As the label grew, it was able to sign artists for full album deals. xDISCIPLEx and the Deal, who were both popular in the Christian and secular scenes, released material on Facedown, as well as Figure Four, One-21, and Point of Recognition. The label also signs straight edge groups such as xDEATHSTARx and xLooking Forwardx.
Sleeping Giant was an American Christian metal band from Redlands, California and Salt Lake City, Utah. All the members of the band, minus drummer Matt Weir, played in the band xDEATHSTARx.
The group signed to Facedown Records in January 2007, [6] and their debut release for the label, Nailed. Dead. Risen., reached number 46 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. [7] The record has received generally positive reviews. [8] [9] [10] [11] The band has since started a street team to promote their music, which can be found on their Myspace top 8. The group then embarked on a tour of the United States to support the album in autumn 2007, [12] including dates with Dead to Fall, Winds of Plague and With Dead Hands Rising. [13] In 2009 the band released their second album, The Serpent Servant . Sometime after the release, drummer Chad Blackwell, a native of Pensacola, Florida, left the band to attend the Atlanta Institute of Music, to which Impending Doom asked former member Isaac Bueno to rejoin.
Top Heatseekers are "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard magazine. The Heatseekers Albums and the Heatseekers Songs charts were introduced by Billboard in 1991 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical recording artists. Albums and songs appearing on Top Heatseekers may also concurrently appear on the Billboard 200 or Billboard Hot 100.
Dead to Fall is an American metalcore band from Cook County, Illinois. Formed in 1999, it drew influences from Gothenburg metal, death metal, and other genres, and is usually labeled as a metalcore band. Their first two albums reached combined sales of 60,000 copies in the US alone.
Winds of Plague is an American deathcore band from Upland, California, formed in 2002, known as one of a few deathcore bands to incorporate symphonic elements into their music.
The band refers to its style of Christian metal as "Gorship" – a portmanteau of gore and worship. [14] The band also clarify on their MySpace blog that "Gorship" is their way of worshiping God through their gore sounding music; not worshiping "gore" as some are led to believe. Impending Doom released their second album, The Serpent Servant, on March 31, 2009 which has hit number 3 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart. [7] Their third album, There Will Be Violence , was released on July 20, 2010. Sometime during the recording of the new album, both Manny Contreras and Isaac Bueno left the band for unknown reasons. Since then the band brought Brandon Trahan (formerly of Mirror of Dead Faces, xDEATHSTARx) into the line-up but have yet to find another permanent guitarist. The band has been on the Thrash and Burn tour 2010 with Through the Eyes of the Dead, Kittie, Born of Osiris, Asking Alexandria and more. They've toured with MyChildren MyBride, The Crimson Armada, Chimaira, and other bands.
A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.
Graphic violence is the depiction of especially vivid, brutal and realistic acts of violence in visual media such as literature, film, television, and video games. It may be real, simulated live action, or animated.
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. An act of worship may be performed individually, in an informal or formal group, or by a designated leader. Such acts may involve honoring.
The band also created their own symbol called the "Repentagram" combining the words repent and pentagram. The band explained the Repentagram with the following:
A pentagram is the shape of a five-pointed star.
We’ve gotten a lot of mail questioning the Repentagram Logo, I would like to take time right now to explain it to you all. First off we are a Christian band and a real one at that, we would never put something out that had satanic meaning or anything negative. We thought up the word "REPENTAGRAM" basically putting two words together. 1. REPENT (meaning: to feel such sorrow for sin or fault as to be disposed to change one’s life for the better; be penitent.) 2. PENTAGRAM (which in the dark metal world is a satanic symbol.) Since we are a Christian death metal band we wanted to think up something clever; thus the Repentagram came into thought. It is not the same amount of sides as a pentagram, we are going for making a Christian death metal symbol. Just like we created the word "GORSHIP" (which as you all should know, does NOT mean worship gore, it means worshiping God through our Gore sounding music) the Repentagram is just the new word. Please pass this information along to anyone you may know that thinks anything more than it really is.[ citation needed ]
Baptized in Filth was produced by Andreas Magnusson who produced Oh, Sleeper's album Children of Fire and was mixed by Machine. The album is focused in God, Satan and the Number of the Beast; 666. The first single is "For the Wicked" and the first video is "Murderer". A few months after the release of "Baptized in Filth", Cory Johnson was fired from the band and was replaced by former founding member Manny Contreras, who had become a member of Oblige (later known as The Devastated) during his time off from Impending Doom. Johnson soon after being fired join fellow Christian metal band, Mychildren Mybride.
Lead vocalist, Brook Reeves, was one of the many vocalists that performed at the Mitch Lucker Memorial Show on December 21, 2012 with Suicide Silence in honor of their deceased vocalist, Mitch Lucker, who died on November 1, 2012. Reeves performed the song "Ending Is the Beginning", off the 2005 Suicide Silence EP . On February 26, 2013, Brook Reeves was also featured on the single track "Efforts to Outcomes" by Demise. [15] [16]
In January 2013 Eric Correa joined the band as their second guitarist.[ citation needed ] Correa was Impending Doom's acting guitar tech for 2012's tour cycle. The band entered the studio in New Jersey with Producer Will Putney in May 2013 to record their fifth studio album.[ citation needed ] Impending Doom will be headlining this summer's Scream the Prayer Tour.[ citation needed ]
The band confirmed that their album Death Will Reign would be released through eOne Music on November 5, 2013. [17]
In 2016, the first Impending Doom show in three years, took place at the Facedown Fest 2016 on May 14, 2016, in Pomona, California. [18] The band performed at Facedown Fest 2017. [19]
On April 2, 2018, the band released a lyric video for their new single, "The Wretched and Godless", as well as a release date and preorders for their new album, "The Sin and Doom, Vol. II". The album was released on June 22, 2018.[ citation needed ] On February 24, 2019, Brandon "B-Town" Trahan announced his departure from the band and that his good friend Andrew would be taking over. [20]
Impending Doom performs deathcore, [21] which is a fusion between death metal and metalcore. [22] They are influenced by death metal, grindcore, hardcore and nu metal. [23] The band refers to their style of music as "Gorship", which is described by Reeves as "Worshiping God through our gore-sounding music". [24]
The band has stated that they are influenced from groups such as Deftones, Korn, Slipknot, Lamb of God, [25] [ failed verification ] Nile, Aborted, Guttural Secrete, Origin, Despised Icon and Ion Dissonance. [26] In various interviews, the band members have stated they draw influences from bands such as Meshuggah, [27] Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, [28] Napalm Death, Suffocation, [29] Metallica, [30] Cannibal Corpse, [31] The Acacia Strain, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Morbid Angel, [32] and many other bands.
In an interview Metalriot.com, Brook Reeves has said he is influenced by Underoath, Living Sacrifice, Advent, Sinai Beach, Aborted, Cattle Decapitation, Septic Flesh, and many other underground death metal bands. [33]
Name | Instrument | Years | Other projects |
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Brook Reeves | vocals | 2005–present | |
Manny Contreras | lead guitar | 2005–2010, 2012–present | Sleeping Giant, Oblige, The Devastated, Bleeding Through |
David Sittig | bass guitar | 2006–present | |
Eric Correa | rhythm guitar | 2013–present | Oblige, The Devastated |
Andrew | drums | 2019–present |
Former
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Timeline
Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||||||||||||
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US [36] | US Heat. [37] | US Indie. [38] | US Rock [39] | US Hard Rock [40] | US Christ. [41] | |||||||||
Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
| — | 46 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
The Serpent Servant |
| 144 | 3 | 19 | — | 25 | 12 | |||||||
There Will Be Violence |
| 134 | — | 18 | 45 | 16 | 8 | |||||||
Baptized in Filth |
| 107 | — | 16 | 31 | 8 | 7 | |||||||
Death Will Reign |
| 116 | — | 18 | 26 | 9 | 6 | |||||||
The Sin and Doom, Vol. II |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Demos
Singles
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Title | Year | Director | From the album |
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"Silence the Oppressors" | 2007 | Andy Reale | Nailed. Dead. Risen. |
"My Nemesis" | 2008 | ||
"More Than Conquerors" | 2009 | Robby Starbuck | The Serpent Servant |
"There Will Be Violence" | 2010 | Drew Russ | There Will Be Violence |
"Murderer" | 2012 | Baptized in Filth | |
"Deceiver" | |||
"Doomsday" | 2013 | Death Will Reign | |
"Everything's Fake" | 2018 | The Sin & Doom Vol. II | |
"Paved with Bones" | J.D. Butler |
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