In Fear and Faith

In Fear and Faith

In Fear and Faith is an American rock band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2006, the group is currently signed to Rise Records and have released two studio albums and two EPs. Their debut full-length, Your World on Fire, being released nearly a year after the band's signing to Rise in 2008, peaked at #193 on the Billboard 200. Their second full-lenghth album, Imperial was released the following year and sold even better, charting at #4 on the Top Heatseekers chart in the US alone. Their band name is derived from the title of the song of the same name by Circa Survive.

History

Inception and Voyage (2006–2007)

In Fear and Faith was founded in 2006 by members Davey Owens, Mehdi Niroomand, Tyler McElhaney, Jarred DeArmas, and Ramin Niroomand and incepted while attending high school and recorded a self-titled demo during the same year.

A year after recording the demo, founding vocalist Jarred DeArmas was kicked out of the group in desire of the members seeking a singer with a higher vocal range. Tyler "Telle" Smith was, at this point, employed as the band's clean vocalist along with Cody Anderson as the band's unclean vocalist. They replaced guitarist Davey Owens with Noah Slifka while keyboardist, Michael Guy left the band completely without a member in his replacement. With this line-up, they recorded their second EP, Voyage and released it via iTunes on December 17, 2007. Met with positive acclaim, the EP attracted the attention of Rise Records, which they were signed to the following year.

Your World on Fire (2008–2009)

Smith left the band in January 2008 to join Greeley Estates as bassist. He was replaced by Scott Barnes and the group released their debut album, Your World on Fire on January 6, 2009 via Rise. It reached #193 on the Billboard 200. Its overall success lead In Fear and Faith to inclusions on many tours in festivals. As well as touring for several years with groups such as Gwen Stacy, Our Last Night, Vanna, Emarosa, The Human Abstract, Life in Your Way, Burden of a Day, Lower Definition, Confide, VersaEmerge and Here I Come Falling, the band also toured with Emarosa, I See Stars, Our Last Night, Burden of a Day and Broadway. They toured in A Winter to Remember with In This Moment, Agraceful and Motionless in White.

Imperial (2009–present)

On December 19, 2009, the band put an update on their Facebook profile stating that they were writing and recording a new album over those next 3 months. During mid-April, the band completed the record after touring Europe, its title was revealed as Imperial. On May 12 at Midnight (PST) the band released three new songs off of the album; "The Solitary Life", "Counselor", and "Bones" as streaming media online prior to its release. On June 15, 2010 Imperial was released worldwide.

In Fear and Faith appeared on the entire 2010 Vans Warped Tour performing on the Skullcandy Stage. Craig Owens, formerly of Chiodos, performed guest vocals with the group on two of the tour dates. In Fear and Faith also participated in the Band of Brothers Tour in the fall of 2010 with We Came as Romans, Confide, Upon a Burning Body and Abandon All Ships.

While In Fear and Faith were included on Attack Attack!'s This Is a Family Tour, unclean vocalist, Cody Anderson was forced to not be included on their schedule due to personal reasons and his position in the group was substituted by Bryan Zimmerman, formerly of Sky Eats Airplane. On December 5, 2010 it was announced that Anderson left the band completely. He created a status explaining the situation via his Facebook profile, but did not explain the reason why. The group is currently creating a rendition EP named Symphonies, which is expected to be released on May 3, 2011 with Barnes performing both clean and unclean vocals.

Musical style and structure

In Fear and Faith are essentially a post-hardcore band, but perform the genre with a tied-in influence of metal and electronica. The group is primarily influenced by alternative rock, emo, hardcore and heavy metal bands such as Circa Survive, At the Drive-In, Sick of It All, Sepultura and Pantera. Music journalist, Andrew Leahy documented In Fear and Faith's sound as "a blend of furious instrumentation, electronic flourishes and screamo vocals" along with mentioning embracement of heavy metal while complimenting their hybrid sound of being the case why the group "were signed so quickly" and "wasted little time" doing so.

In Fear and Faith songs are usually - on average - three minutes in time length, but their larger and more-known songs such as "Live Love Die" and "The Taste of Regret" lead into four minutes of length. The main songwriters have primarily always been Ramin and Mehdi Nirromand, Tyler McElhaney and Scott Barnes. Bassist, McElhaney has commented on the band's guitar tunings stating that while the tunings on Your World on Fire and the Voyage EP would be set to the same drop throughout, Imperial features different tunings on several different songs to add "depth" regardless of the difficulty of this for live performances.

Members

Current members

• Scott Barnes - lead vocals (since 2008)
• Jarred DeArmas - lead vocals (2006) bass guitar (since 2011)
• Mehdi Niroomand - drums (since 2006)
• Ramin Niroomand - lead guitar, keyboards, piano (since 2006)
• Sean Bell - rhythm guitar (since 2011)

Former members

• Noah Slifka - rhythm guitar (2007-2011)
• Tyler McElhaney - bass guitar (2006-2011)
• Michael Guy - keyboards (2006–2007)
• Davey Owens - rhythm guitar (2006–2007)
• Tyler "Telle" Smith - clean vocals (2007–2008)
• Cody Anderson - unclean vocals (2007–2010)

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Chart Positions
			Top 200	US Indie	US Heat	Hard Rock
2009	Your World on Fire	Rise	193	23	8	-
2010	Imperial		-	32	4	18

EPs

Year	Title	Label
2007	Voyage	Self-released
2011	Symphonies	Rise

Videography

• "Live Love Die" (Voyage, 2008)
• "Your World on Fire" (Your World on Fire, 2009)
• "The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions" (Your World on Fire, 2009)
• "Bones" (Imperial, 2010)

External links

• Official website