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Shadows Fall

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Shadows Fall is an American heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

 band from Springfield
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the largest city on the Connecticut River and the county seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.In the 2000 census, the city population was 154,082. It is the third largest city in Massachusetts and fourth largest in New England...

, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of...

, formed in 1995. They are one of the few bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy. Although the band has experienced several line-up changes, for most of its recording career Shadows Fall has been composed of Brian Fair
Brian Fair
Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the Thrash metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...

 (vocals), Jonathan Donais (lead guitar), Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born in April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre...

 (guitar), Paul Romanko (bass
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

), and Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner is the drummer for the American Metal band Shadows Fall. One of the most popular and celebrated current drummers in metal, he has won numerous awards including Modern Drummer Reader's poll for #1 Up and Coming Drummer of 2004, and in 2005, #1 Best Recorded Performance for the Shadows...

 (drums
Drum kit
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).

Since its formation, Shadows Fall has released five studio albums, two compilation albums, and one DVD.
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Shadows Fall is an American heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...

 band from Springfield
Springfield, Massachusetts
Springfield is the largest city on the Connecticut River and the county seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.In the 2000 census, the city population was 154,082. It is the third largest city in Massachusetts and fourth largest in New England...

, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. Most of its population of...

, formed in 1995. They are one of the few bands who take their lyrical influence from Eastern philosophy. Although the band has experienced several line-up changes, for most of its recording career Shadows Fall has been composed of Brian Fair
Brian Fair
Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the Thrash metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...

 (vocals), Jonathan Donais (lead guitar), Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born in April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre...

 (guitar), Paul Romanko (bass
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

), and Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner is the drummer for the American Metal band Shadows Fall. One of the most popular and celebrated current drummers in metal, he has won numerous awards including Modern Drummer Reader's poll for #1 Up and Coming Drummer of 2004, and in 2005, #1 Best Recorded Performance for the Shadows...

 (drums
Drum kit
A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...

).

Since its formation, Shadows Fall has released five studio albums, two compilation albums, and one DVD. The band's first album featured Philip Labonte
Philip Labonte
Philip Labonte is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as the lead singer of the metalcore band All That Remains.-History:Labonte's first band was in the mid-nineties by the name of Perpetual Doom. The band played death metal and its members were teenagers at the time. The original...

 on vocals, although he was soon replaced by Fair. Shadows Fall's first two studio albums featured David Germain
David Germain
David Germain is a drummer who has played in several bands including Shadows Fall and Jaya the Cat. He was born in the United States, but is currently living in the Netherlands.- Biography :...

 playing drums, but in 2002 Bittner joined the band full time. In February 2008, the band was a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...

 nominee in the category Best Metal Performance for the song "Redemption" off the album Threads of Life
Threads of Life
Threads of Life is the fifth full-length album by Shadows Fall. It was released on April 3, 2007 through Atlantic Records in the US and on Roadrunner Records outside the US. It's their only album with the record labels. The first single, "Redemption", made its premiere on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack...

.

Formation, Somber Eyes to the Sky, and Of One Blood (1995-2000)


Shadows Fall formed in 1995 by guitarists Jonathan Donais and Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand
Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born in April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre...

 with the help of Adam Dutkiewicz
Adam Dutkiewicz
Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz is best known as one of the guitarists and a backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore bands Killswitch Engage and Aftershock.-Biography:...

. Donais and Bachand recruited vocalist Philip Labonte
Philip Labonte
Philip Labonte is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as the lead singer of the metalcore band All That Remains.-History:Labonte's first band was in the mid-nineties by the name of Perpetual Doom. The band played death metal and its members were teenagers at the time. The original...

, and bassist Paul Romanko to complete Shadows Fall's original line-up. The band released its first EP To Ashes, with Dutkiewicz playing as a session drummer. After the release of the demo Dutkiewicz left to form Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and...

. David Germain
David Germain
David Germain is a drummer who has played in several bands including Shadows Fall and Jaya the Cat. He was born in the United States, but is currently living in the Netherlands.- Biography :...

 joined the band as drummer, to fill the empty position. Shadows Fall toured the New England area opening for artists such as Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American metal band. The band formed in 1989 and have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...

 and Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American Death Metal band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1988. The band has released eleven studio albums, one boxed set, and one live album. Although Cannibal Corpse has had little radio or television exposure, a cult following began to build behind the group with albums...

. The newly formed band recorded its first studio album Somber Eyes to the Sky
Somber Eyes to the Sky
Somber Eyes to the Sky is the debut studio album by Shadows Fall, released in 1997 on Matt Bachand's own Lifeless Records. This was the band's only release with lead singer Philip Labonte .-Track listing:-Production notes:...

, in November 30, 1997 through Bachand's recording label, Lifeless Records. The band's name, according to Bachand, comes from the title of a comic book published in the early 1990s.

In 1998, Labonte was asked to leave the band due to personal and artistic differences. He later formed the band All That Remains
All That Remains (band)
All That Remains is an American melodic metalcore band from Springfield, Massachusetts which formed in 1998. They have released four studio albums, a live CD/DVD, and have sold over 470,000 albums in the United States.-History:...

. The band looked for a replacement vocalist and found Brian Fair
Brian Fair
Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the Thrash metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...

 at an Overcast
Overcast (band)
Overcast is a metalcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, who some credit as being one of the pioneers in the metalcore scene. They were together from August 1991 until November 1998, when they disbanded after a less than successful US tour...

 concert. After an US Summer tour with Shai Hulud
Shai Hulud (band)
Shai Hulud is an American hardcore punk band with progressive metal influences, originally formed in Pompano Beach, Florida, the band later moved up to Poughkeepsie, New York.The name comes from the giant sandworms in Frank Herbert's novel, Dune....

, Overcast disbanded and the band asked Fair if he would like to join Shadows Fall. While on tour Shadows Fall was signed to Century Media Records
Century Media Records
Century Media Records is an independent record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.- Background :...

. The band recorded its second studio album Of One Blood with Fair on vocals in 2000, the release included re-recorded songs from Somber Eyes to the Sky. After the recording of the album David Germain left the band, and was replaced by former Stigmata drummer Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner
Jason Bittner is the drummer for the American Metal band Shadows Fall. One of the most popular and celebrated current drummers in metal, he has won numerous awards including Modern Drummer Reader's poll for #1 Up and Coming Drummer of 2004, and in 2005, #1 Best Recorded Performance for the Shadows...

.

The Art of Balance (2001-2003)


Shadows Fall recorded its third studio album, titled The Art of Balance
The Art of Balance
The Art of Balance is the third album by American metal band, Shadows Fall, released on September 17, 2002.-Production and marketing:The album was recorded at Planet Z studios in Hadley, Massachusetts with ZEUSS...

. Released on September 17, 2002, the album peaked at number 15 on the Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts are music sales, airplay and digital ranking reports distributed to the general public by Billboard magazine. Billboard is considered the foremost authority worldwide in these song sales, airplay, digital reports, or music charts.On January 4, 1936, Billboard magazine published...

 Top Independent albums chart. Shadows Fall released three music videos to promote the album; "Thoughts Without Words", "Destroyer of Senses", and "The Idiot Box". The Art of Balance featured a cover
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition of a previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...

 of the Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd were an English rock band who, in the late 1960s, earned recognition for their psychedelic and space rock music, and in the 1970s, as they evolved, for their progressive rock music. Pink Floyd's work is marked by philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album cover art,...

 song "Welcome to the Machine
Welcome to the Machine
"Welcome to the Machine" is the second song on Pink Floyd's 1975 album Wish You Were Here. It is notable for its use of heavily processed synthesizers and guitars, as well as a wide and varied range of tape effects.-Theme:...

". Steve Huey of Allmusic stated the album is "a modern heavy metal album that is both brutal and highly musical, traditional yet forward-thinking", but criticized the placement of "Welcome to the Machine", stating the song "is stylishly well-executed, but seems a tad out of place nonetheless." Shadows Fall supported The Art of Balance by touring on Ozzfest
Ozzfest
Ozzfest is an annual festival tour of the United States featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. It was founded by Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne, both of whom also organize each yearly tour with their son Jack Osbourne...

 in 2003.

The War Within (2004-2006)


Shadows Fall released its fourth studio album The War Within
The War Within (album)
This article is about the album. For other uses, see 'The War Within .The War Within is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band Shadows Fall. The album is notable for the songs such as "What Drives the Weak," "Inspiration on Demand," "The Power of I and I" and "The Light That Blinds"...

on September 21, 2004. It was the first release to enter the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

 for the band at number 20, and peaked at number one on the Top Independent albums chart. In promotion for the album, Shadows Fall released four music videos over the course of one year; "The Power of I and I", "What Drives the Weak", "Inspiration on Demand", and "Enlightened By the Cold". The song "What Drives the Weak" received a Grammy Award
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...

 nomination for Best Metal Performance
Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance
The Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance has been awarded since 1989. In 1992 and 1994 the award was presented as the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance with Vocal....

 in 2006, however the award went to Slipknot
Slipknot (band)
Slipknot is an American heavy metal band from Des Moines, Iowa, formed in 1995. Slipknot consists of nine members, the current band members are Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor...

 for the song "Before I Forget". "The Light That Blinds" was featured in the video game Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II
Guitar Hero II is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems and published by RedOctane. It is the second installment in the Guitar Hero series and is the sequel to Guitar Hero...

. Wade Kergan of Allmusic praised the album stating the band has "grown beyond the confines of the metal-loving hardcore crowd anyway, with more in common now with the classic thrash of Metallica
Metallica
Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1981. Founded when drummer Lars Ulrich posted an advertisement in a local newspaper, Metallica's line-up has primarily consisted of Ulrich, rhythm guitarist and vocalist James Hetfield, and lead guitarist Kirk...

 than the metal-tinged hardcore of Coalesce". As of 2008, the album has sold almost 300,000 copies in the United States.

Shadows Fall released its first DVD The Art of Touring
The Art of Touring
The Art of Touring is the first and only DVD released to date, by the American, metal band Shadows Fall. It was released in 2005 through Century Media Records. The DVD features live concert, backstage, and behind-the-scenes footage shot throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan from 2002 to...

in November 2005. The DVD included a live concert, backstage footage, and six music videos. The band released its final CD on Century Media Records, titled Fallout from the War
Fallout from the War
Fallout from the War is a compilation album by metalcore/thrash metal band Shadows Fall, released on June 13, 2006. It contains a selection of songs written during the sessions for The War Within and The Art of Balance, as well as some covers by bands that have inspired Shadows Fall over the years....

on June 13, 2006. Released as a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from multiple recording artists, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, source or subject matter...

, it debuted at number 83 on the Billboard 200. Fallout from the War included tracks recorded for The War Within that did not make it on to the album, b-sides, re-recordings, and cover songs. David Jeffries of Allmusic claimed the album is "a great informal introduction to the ferocious and melodic witches' brew Shadows Fall always seems to nail."

Threads of Life (2007-2008)


Shadows Fall signed a deal with Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm & blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

 to distribute the band's albums in the United States, and a deal with Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is a record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.-History:...

 for international distribution. The band released its fifth studio album Threads of Life
Threads of Life
Threads of Life is the fifth full-length album by Shadows Fall. It was released on April 3, 2007 through Atlantic Records in the US and on Roadrunner Records outside the US. It's their only album with the record labels. The first single, "Redemption", made its premiere on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack...

on April 3, 2007. "Redemption", the first single from the CD was released on February 20, 2007 through iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the contents on Apple's popular iPod digital media players as well as the iPhone...

 with an accompanying music video. "Redemption" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Metal performance; the award ceremony as held on February 10, 2008. Slayer's "Eyes of the Insane" won the award. Thom Jurek of Allmusic stated Shadows Fall has "lost none of the fire, attack or attitude" on Threads of Life. Jurek also said the album featured "killer guitar breaks, big fat chugging riffs, power-slam skin work, cattle prod bass, and cool little hooks and melodic touches on top of those bludgeoning riffs make Threads of Life a major label debut of merit, and a metal record worthy of celebrating." Keith Bergman of Blabbermouth.net
Blabbermouth.net
{Infobox Website| name = Blabbermouth.netsite two months after the meeting. After a year Krgin felt comfortable going "live." The initial "primitive" version of the site was launched on March 3, 2001. In October of the same year Monte Conner, a friend of Krgin, and a Roadrunner Records artist and...

 stated "Threads of Life is slick as hell."

Shadows Fall toured in support of Threads of Life, including making appearances at the Jägermeister tour
Jägermeister Music Tour
The Jägermeister Music Tour is a hard rock, hardcore punk, and heavy metal music tour that has been held twice a year in the United States since 2002. It is owned by Sidney Frank Importing.-History:...

 with Stone Sour
Stone Sour
Stone Sour is an American three time Grammy Award-nominated rock band from Des Moines, Iowa.-Early days:Stone Sour was founded by Corey Taylor, vocalist of Slipknot, and former drummer Joel Ekman. Taylor's long time friend, Shawn Economaki joined shortly after, and filled in as the bass player...

 and Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian rock band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid...

, the Operation Annihilation tour with Static-X
Static-X
Static-X is an American metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. They are signed to Warner Bros. Records and have released six albums, their most recent being Cult of Static, which was released on March 17, 2009....

, 3 Inches of Blood
3 Inches of Blood
3 Inches of Blood is a Canadian heavy metal band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1999. They are mostly influenced by the bands involved with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Before 3 Inches of Blood, Pipes and Hagberg were in a black metal band...

, and Divine Heresy
Divine Heresy
Divine Heresy is an American metal band formed by founder of Fear Factory, guitarist Dino Cazares. Although the band's origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially formed in 2006. The band currently consists of guitarist Cazares, former Vital Remains drummer and current World Under...

, and the Black Crusade tour with Trivium
Trivium (band)
Trivium is a heavy metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 1999. The band has released four studio albums, eleven singles, and twelve music videos...

, Machine Head
Machine Head (band)
Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, formed in 1992. Founded by singer and guitarist Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce, and has only had 4 personnel changes since its inception 17 years ago. The current lineup of the band comprises Flynn , Duce , Phil Demmel , and...

, Dragonforce
DragonForce
DragonForce are an English power metal band from London, formed in 1999. They are known for fast guitar solos, fantasy-based lyrics, and electronic sounds in their music to add to their retro video game influenced sound.-Formation:...

, and Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy (band)
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996. Founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage. The band has released seven studio albums, a live album , two DVDs and three EPs...

. The band was a part of the Soundwave tour in Australia and in Asia in February 2008, along with Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage is an American melodic metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. Formed following the disbandment of the bands Overcast and Aftershock in 1999, Killswitch Engage's lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and...

, As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying (band)
As I Lay Dying is an American Grammy Award-nominated metalcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2000. Their band name derives from the novel by William Faulkner with the same title...

, and Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through is a American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in 1999. The band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore, symphonic metal, and melodic death metal...

.

Retribution (2009 onward)


Shadows Fall released their sixth album, Retribution
Retribution (album)
Retribution is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Shadows Fall. The album was released on September 15, 2009.Shadows Fall have streamed the video to their new single "Still I Rise".The album debuted at #35 on the Billboard 200....

, on September 15, 2009, through the band's own label, Everblack Industries
Everblack Industries
Everblack Industries is the record imprint created by American heavy metal band Shadows Fall in conjunction with Warner Music Group's ILG, Ferret Music and ChannelZERO Entertainment. The label's first release was Shadows Fall's album Rertribution on September 15, 2009....

, which was created in conjunction with Warner Music Group's ILG, Ferret Music and ChannelZERO Entertainment. It is being released in the UK via Spinefarm Records
Spinefarm Records
Spinefarm Records is a Finland-based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. In 1999, a sub-label titled Spikefarm Records was started by Sami Tenetz from Thy Serpent...

. The album was produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris. Drummer Jason Bittner recently stated about the band's new material, "The songs are a little more on the darker, angry side... lots of heaviness, lots of crazy guitar, and LOTS of room for me to have some fun. There is no doubt in my mind that this will be the best performance of my career, so far, and I owe that to my guys for bringing me incredible riffs to write killer drum parts to." Also Shadows Fall are supporting Lamb of God in their Australian tour in December

Band members


Current
  • Brian Fair
    Brian Fair
    Brian Fair is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as lead vocalist of the Thrash metal band Shadows Fall. He graduated from Milford High School in 1993 and went on to study literature at Boston University.-History:...

    : lead vocals (2000 onward)
  • Jonathan Donais: lead guitar, backing vocals
    Backing vocalist
    A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

     (1995 onward)
  • Matt Bachand
    Matt Bachand
    Matt Bachand is an American guitarist born in April 29, 1977. He has very strong death metal and thrash metal influences and he is also backing vocalist for the heavy metal band Shadows Fall. He is known for his deep growls or death growl which is often heard in death metal genre...

    : rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is the use of a guitar to provide rhythmic chordal accompaniment for a singer or other instruments in a musical ensemble. In ensembles or "bands" playing within the acoustic, country, blues, rock or metal genres , a guitarist playing the rhythm part of a composition supports the...

    , backing vocals (1995 onward)
  • Paul Romanko: bass
    Bass guitar
    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum....

     (1995 onward)
  • Jason Bittner
    Jason Bittner
    Jason Bittner is the drummer for the American Metal band Shadows Fall. One of the most popular and celebrated current drummers in metal, he has won numerous awards including Modern Drummer Reader's poll for #1 Up and Coming Drummer of 2004, and in 2005, #1 Best Recorded Performance for the Shadows...

    : drums
    Drum kit
    A drum set is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person . The term "drum kit" first became used in the 1700s in Britain...

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration...

     (2002 onward)


Former
  • Damien Mcpherson: vocals (1995-1996)
  • Philip Labonte
    Philip Labonte
    Philip Labonte is an American musician from Massachusetts, best known as the lead singer of the metalcore band All That Remains.-History:Labonte's first band was in the mid-nineties by the name of Perpetual Doom. The band played death metal and its members were teenagers at the time. The original...

    : vocals (1997–1999)
  • David Germain
    David Germain
    David Germain is a drummer who has played in several bands including Shadows Fall and Jaya the Cat. He was born in the United States, but is currently living in the Netherlands.- Biography :...

    : drums (1995–2000)


Session
  • Adam Dutkiewicz
    Adam Dutkiewicz
    Adam Jonathan Dutkiewicz is best known as one of the guitarists and a backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore bands Killswitch Engage and Aftershock.-Biography:...

    : drums (1996)
  • Derek Kerswill
    Derek Kerswill
    Derek Kerswill is an American musician best known for his drumming in the bands Unearth, Seemless, Kingdom of Sorrow, and multiple fill-ins/studio projects.-Biography:...

    : drums (2000-2002)

Studio Albums

Year Album Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling new music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...

1998 Somber Eyes to the Sky
Somber Eyes to the Sky
Somber Eyes to the Sky is the debut studio album by Shadows Fall, released in 1997 on Matt Bachand's own Lifeless Records. This was the band's only release with lead singer Philip Labonte .-Track listing:-Production notes:...

-
2000 Of One Blood -
2002 The Art of Balance
The Art of Balance
The Art of Balance is the third album by American metal band, Shadows Fall, released on September 17, 2002.-Production and marketing:The album was recorded at Planet Z studios in Hadley, Massachusetts with ZEUSS...

}
|-
| 2004
|The War Within
The War Within (album)
This article is about the album. For other uses, see 'The War Within .The War Within is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band Shadows Fall. The album is notable for the songs such as "What Drives the Weak," "Inspiration on Demand," "The Power of I and I" and "The Light That Blinds"...


| 20
|-
| 2007
|Threads of Life
Threads of Life
Threads of Life is the fifth full-length album by Shadows Fall. It was released on April 3, 2007 through Atlantic Records in the US and on Roadrunner Records outside the US. It's their only album with the record labels. The first single, "Redemption", made its premiere on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack...


| 46
|-
| 2009
|Retribution
Retribution (album)
Retribution is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Shadows Fall. The album was released on September 15, 2009.Shadows Fall have streamed the video to their new single "Still I Rise".The album debuted at #35 on the Billboard 200....


| 35
|}
  • A The Art of Balance debuted at #15 on the Top Independant Albums.

Compilation albums

Year Album
2002 Fear Will Drag You Down
Fear Will Drag You Down
Fear Will Drag You Down is a compilation album by Shadows Fall, consisting of remastered versions of their 2000 album Of One Blood and their 2001 Japanese EP Deadworld. It was released in Europe and Australia.
...

2006 Fallout From the War
Fallout from the War
Fallout from the War is a compilation album by metalcore/thrash metal band Shadows Fall, released on June 13, 2006. It contains a selection of songs written during the sessions for The War Within and The Art of Balance, as well as some covers by bands that have inspired Shadows Fall over the years....

2007 Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits
Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits
Seeking the Way: The Greatest Hits is a Shadows Fall greatest hits collection, covering songs the band released through their previous label Century Media...


Singles

Year Title US
Main.
Album
2004 "What Drives the Weak" 38 The War Within
2005 "Inspiration on Demand" 33
2007 "Redemption
Redemption (Shadows Fall song)
Redemption is lead single off album Threads of Life from american heavy metal band Shadows Fall. The song has a thrash melodic with heavy riffs and after released, it is one of the band's best songs. The song made its premiere on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack station on February 16, 2007 while it was...

"
37 Threads of Life
"Another Hero Lost" 40
2009 "Still I Rise
Still I Rise (song)
Still I Rise is the first single by american heavy metal band Shadows Fall from their 2009 album Rertibution. The song was released on August 11, 2009.-Music video:...

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- Retribution

Nominations

  • Grammy Award
    Grammy Award
    The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...

     for Best Metal Performance – "What Drives the Weak" (2006)
  • Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance – "Redemption" (2008)

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