Impending Doom
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Impending Doom is a Christian
deathcore
band from Riverside
, California
.
after getting signed to Facedown Records
. Forno quit the band in 2007 and is now playing guitar for CELESTIALS. The band has since used two guitarists. Due to Andy Hegg's dedication to his soccer scholarship, Impending Doom has had to use fill-in drummers on their tours. Since then touring drummer Chad Blackwell became the official drummer for the band, during which Greg Pewthers returned to Oblige and was replaced by Cory Johnson, formerly of Sleeping Giant
.
The group signed to Facedown Records
in January 2007, and their debut release for the label, Nailed. Dead. Risen., reached number 46 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers
chart. The record has received generally positive reviews. 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, including dates with Dead to Fall
, Winds of Plague
and With Dead Hands Rising. 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.
The band refers to its style of Christian metal
as "Gorship" - a portmanteau of gore
and worship
. 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. 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 (ex-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, Chimiria, and other bands.
The band also created their own symbol called the "Repentagram" combining the words repent and pentagram. Here's what the band has to say about it.
“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.'
The band is currently in the studio with producer Andreas Magnusson (Haste the Day, Oh, Sleeper, The Black Dahlia Murder) recording their fourth full-length record and their debut release for E1 Records, home to metal legends like Hatebreed. The album title and release date is yet to be stated, but an early 2012 release is expected.
Former members
Christian
A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...
deathcore
Deathcore
Deathcore is an extreme metal music genre that combines elements of death metal with elements of metalcore or hardcore punk, or both. It is defined by an "excessive" use of death metal riffs, blast beats and use of hardcore punk breakdowns...
band from Riverside
Riverside, California
Riverside is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, and the county seat of the eponymous county. Named for its location beside the Santa Ana River, it is the largest city in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario metropolitan area of Southern California, 4th largest inland California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
History
Brook Reeves and Manny Contreras started the band in 2005 with ex members Chris Forno, Isaac Bueno, and Jon. After releasing the The Sin and Doom of Godless Men EP, Greg Pewthers joined on third guitar after leaving the band Oblige. Later that year, Jon left the band and David Sittig was added to the line-up. Andy Hegg later took the place of Bueno and the band recorded the album Nailed. Dead. Risen.Nailed. Dead. Risen.
Nailed. Dead. Risen. is the debut album by Christian death metal band Impending Doom, released in 2007 on Facedown Records. This is the only release, along with their independently released EP The Sin and Doom of Godless Men, to feature a more brutal death metal sound...
after getting signed to Facedown Records
Facedown Records
Facedown Records is a Christian record label based in Fallbrook, California, devoted mostly to hardcore punk and metalcore bands . Founded by No Innocent Victim drummer Jason Dunn, the label started off small with a number of 7" record releases by bands such as Overcome, Dodgin Bullets, and Born...
. Forno quit the band in 2007 and is now playing guitar for CELESTIALS. The band has since used two guitarists. Due to Andy Hegg's dedication to his soccer scholarship, Impending Doom has had to use fill-in drummers on their tours. Since then touring drummer Chad Blackwell became the official drummer for the band, during which Greg Pewthers returned to Oblige and was replaced by Cory Johnson, formerly of Sleeping Giant
Sleeping Giant
Sleeping Giant may refer to:In geology:* Sleeping Giant , a traprock mountain ridge in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.* Sleeping Giant , a mountain ridge on the island of Kauai near Kapaa, Hawaii, U.S....
.
The group signed to Facedown Records
Facedown Records
Facedown Records is a Christian record label based in Fallbrook, California, devoted mostly to hardcore punk and metalcore bands . Founded by No Innocent Victim drummer Jason Dunn, the label started off small with a number of 7" record releases by bands such as Overcome, Dodgin Bullets, and Born...
in January 2007, and their debut release for the label, Nailed. Dead. Risen., reached number 46 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
chart. The record has received generally positive reviews. 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, including dates with Dead to Fall
Dead to Fall
Dead to Fall was originally a melodic death metal band from the Chicago suburbs and later stretched from Chicago to Minneapolis. Formed in 1999, it drew influences from Swedish Gothenburg metal, death metal, and other genres, and is usually labeled as a melodic death metal band...
, Winds of Plague
Winds of Plague
Winds of Plague is an American deathcore band from Upland, California, formed in 2002. They are best known as one of the only deathcore bands to incorporate symphonic elements into their music....
and With Dead Hands Rising. In 2009 the band released their second album, The Serpent Servant
The Serpent Servant
The Serpent Servant is the second album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom. They worked with the metalcore band As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and his production partner Daniel Castleman to record the album...
. 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.
The band refers to its style of Christian metal
Christian metal
Christian metal, also known as white metal, is a form of heavy metal music usually defined by its message in a song's lyrics as well as the band's dedication to Christianity...
as "Gorship" - a portmanteau of gore
Graphic violence
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...
and worship
Worship
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. The word is derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest, worth to something, for example, Christian worship.Evelyn Underhill defines worship thus: "The absolute...
. The band also clarify on their MySpace
MySpace
Myspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
blog
Blog
A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...
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
Top Heatseekers
Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...
chart. Their third album, There Will Be Violence
There Will Be Violence
There Will Be Violence is the third studio album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom and was released worldwide on July 20, 2010 via Facedown Records....
, 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 (ex-Mirror Of Dead Faces, xDEATHSTARx
XDEATHSTARx
xDEATHSTARx was an American Christian metalcore band from Redlands, CA. All of the members are straight edge and they incorporate both Christian and straight edge themes within their music, with their view of the loss of values in modern society. The group released its first album in 2004 is...
) 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, Chimiria, and other bands.
The band also created their own symbol called the "Repentagram" combining the words repent and pentagram. Here's what the band has to say about it.
“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.'
The band is currently in the studio with producer Andreas Magnusson (Haste the Day, Oh, Sleeper, The Black Dahlia Murder) recording their fourth full-length record and their debut release for E1 Records, home to metal legends like Hatebreed. The album title and release date is yet to be stated, but an early 2012 release is expected.
Band members
Current members- Brook Reeves – vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
(2005–Present) - David Sittig – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
(2005–Present) - Cory Johnson – guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
(2008–Present, ex Sleeping GiantSleeping GiantSleeping Giant may refer to:In geology:* Sleeping Giant , a traprock mountain ridge in Hamden, Connecticut, U.S.* Sleeping Giant , a mountain ridge on the island of Kauai near Kapaa, Hawaii, U.S....
) - Brandon Trahan – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
(2009–Present, ex Mirror Of Dead Faces, xDEATHSTARxXDEATHSTARxxDEATHSTARx was an American Christian metalcore band from Redlands, CA. All of the members are straight edge and they incorporate both Christian and straight edge themes within their music, with their view of the loss of values in modern society. The group released its first album in 2004 is...
)
Former members
- Chris Forno - guitar (2005–2007, currently in CELESTIALS)
- Greg Pewthers – guitar (2005–2008, ex-Oblige, currently playing bass for The Devastated)
- Manny Contreras – guitar (2005–2009, ex xDEATHSTARxXDEATHSTARxxDEATHSTARx was an American Christian metalcore band from Redlands, CA. All of the members are straight edge and they incorporate both Christian and straight edge themes within their music, with their view of the loss of values in modern society. The group released its first album in 2004 is...
, ex-Oblige, currently in The Devastated) - Isaac Bueno – drums (2005–2007, 2009–2010, ex Underneath The Gun)
- Andy Hegg – drums (2007–2008)
- Chad Blackwell – drums (2008–2009)
Discography
- The Sin and Doom of Godless Men (Self-released EP, 2005)
- Nailed. Dead. Risen.Nailed. Dead. Risen.Nailed. Dead. Risen. is the debut album by Christian death metal band Impending Doom, released in 2007 on Facedown Records. This is the only release, along with their independently released EP The Sin and Doom of Godless Men, to feature a more brutal death metal sound...
(2007) - The Serpent ServantThe Serpent ServantThe Serpent Servant is the second album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom. They worked with the metalcore band As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and his production partner Daniel Castleman to record the album...
(2009) U.S. #144 - There Will Be ViolenceThere Will Be ViolenceThere Will Be Violence is the third studio album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom and was released worldwide on July 20, 2010 via Facedown Records....
(2010) U.S. #123
Videos & singles
- "Silence The Opressors" - Nailed. Dead. Risen.Nailed. Dead. Risen.Nailed. Dead. Risen. is the debut album by Christian death metal band Impending Doom, released in 2007 on Facedown Records. This is the only release, along with their independently released EP The Sin and Doom of Godless Men, to feature a more brutal death metal sound...
- "My Nemesis" - Nailed. Dead. Risen.
- "More Than Conquerors" - The Serpent ServantThe Serpent ServantThe Serpent Servant is the second album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom. They worked with the metalcore band As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis and his production partner Daniel Castleman to record the album...
- "The Serpent Servant" - The Serpent Servant
- "There Will Be Violence" - There Will Be ViolenceThere Will Be ViolenceThere Will Be Violence is the third studio album by Christian deathcore band Impending Doom and was released worldwide on July 20, 2010 via Facedown Records....