In Fear and Faith

In Fear and Faith
In Fear and Faith performing in Tempe in 2010.
Background information
Origin	San Diego, California, USA
Genres	Post-hardcore, alternative metal
Years active	2006–present
Labels	Rise
Associated acts	Greeley Estates, All the Kings Men
Website	www.infearandfaith.net
Members
Ramin Niroomand Mehdi Niroomand Jarred DeArmas Scott Barnes Sean Bell
Past members
Cody Anderson Tyler Smith Davey Owens Michael Guy Noah Slifka Tyler McElhaney

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.

The band was initially founded with one vocalist, Jarred DeArmas who provided both clean (singing) and unclean (screaming) styles. After DeArmas' departure in 2007, the band employed a dual vocalist set-up for several years with one performing the clean vocals and the other performing the unclean positions. By 2011, In Fear and Faith underwent many line-up modifications to where this set-up was abandoned, reverting back to only one vocalist performing both tactics. Since then, DeArmas has returned to the group, playing bass. He and the Niroomand brothers are the band's three remaining founding members. In Fear and Faith's 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, Michael Guy and Ramin Niroomand while attending high school. The band recorded a self-titled demo during the same year, containing four tracks.^[1]

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. A few months after these modifications, 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 first EP, Voyage and released it via iTunes on December 17, 2007.^[2] Met with positive acclaim and achieving more than 30,000 song purchases,^[3] it attracted the attention of Rise Records, which they were signed to the following year.^[4]

Your World on Fire (2008–2009)

Clean vocalist, 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.^[5] 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, Burden of a Day and Broadway. They toured in A Winter to Remember with In This Moment, Agraceful and Motionless in White.^[6]

Imperial, Symphonies and member changes (2009–2011)

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.^[7] 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.^[8]

In Fear and Faith appeared on the entire 2010 Vans Warped Tour performing on the Skullcandy Stage. Craig Owens, of Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, performed guest vocals with the group on two of the tour dates.^[9] 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.^[10]

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.^[11] On December 5, 2010 it was then announced that Anderson left the band completely.^[12] The reason for his leaving was never explained. With a lighter line-up, the band then began took some small time off of tour and recorded an EP featuring symphonic renditions of some of their songs. The EP was titled Symphonies, and was released on May 3, 2011.^[13] Barnes performs both the clean and unclean vocals on the release.^[14] Before its surfacing, the band once more changed its line-up. Both Tyler McElhaney and Noah Slifka were replaced by Jarred DeArmas and Sean Bell, respectively. Bell served as a touring member during the This Is A Family Tour for the group in the rhythm guitar position before his joining and DeArmas was originally the band's vocalist during its founding in high school when he was 17 in 2006.^[15]

New album (2011–present)

A new record has been confirmed to be in the works with a release expected in 2012. It will be the first release with DeArmas in the band since the 2006 demo. The album's lead single surfaced on November 8, 2011 for a song titled, "It All Comes Out (On the Way Down)".^[16]

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.^[17][18] 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 have been said to be their main influences.^[17] 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.^[17]

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 Voyage 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.^[19]

Band members

Current members Jarred DeArmas – bass guitar, backing vocals (2011–present), lead vocals (2006–2007) Mehdi Niroomand – drums, percussion (2006–present) Ramin Niroomand – lead guitar, keyboards, piano (2006–present) Scott Barnes – lead vocals (2008–present) Sean Bell – rhythm guitar (2011–present)

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

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Title	Label	Chart positions[20]
			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)
• "Counselor" (Imperial, 2011)

References

1. ^ In Fear and Faith Answers
2. ^ In Fear and Faith: Voyage
3. ^ The Artery Foundation Summer Tour featuring IN FEAR AND FAITH with VANNA, A LOSS FOR WORDS, CLOSE TO HOME, TEN AFTER TWO, CHUNK! NO, CAPTAIN CHUNK! and ADESTRIA in the Eagle Theater The Crofoot
4. ^ Rise Signed In Fear And Faith AbsolutePunk
5. ^ Billboard, Allmusic
6. ^ A Winter to Remember
7. ^ http://www.facebook.com/#/infaf?ref=nf
8. ^ http://www.facebook.com/index.php?lh=4ad45287d95e9d166f2566afe165dd23&#!/infaf?ref=mf
9. ^ James, Shotwell (2 August 2010). "Alt Press - Craig Owens to sing with In Fear And Faith at two Warped Tour dates". Alternative Press. http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/craig_owens_to_sing_with_in_fear_and_faith_at_two_warped_tour_dates/. Retrieved 1 September 2010. 
10. ^ WE CAME AS ROMANS: Add Canadian Tour Dates with In Fear and Faith, Upon a Burning Body SMN News
11. ^ In Fear & Faith screaming vocalist Cody Anderson has left the band Indiestar
12. ^ Karan, Tim. "In Fear And Faith vocalist leaves band". Alternative Press. http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/in_fear_and_faith_vocalist_leaves_band/. Retrieved 7 December 2010. 
13. ^ The Road To Faith Is Paved With Fear | So, Bring On Mixed Reviews
14. ^ Gardner, Ryan. "In Fear And Faith - Symphonies EP". AbsolutePunk. http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=2270301. Retrieved 13 October 2011. 
15. ^ Information of In Fear and Faith at their official Facebook
16. ^ Trimboli, Grant. "LYRIC VIDEO: In Fear And Faith – It All Comes Out (On The Way Down)". Under the Gun Review. http://underthegunreview.net/2011/11/08/lyric-video-in-fear-and-faith-it-all-comes-out-on-the-way-down/. Retrieved 8 November 2011. 
17. ^ ^{a b c} "In Fear & Faith". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/in-fear--faith-p1105395. Retrieved 2011-01-06. 
18. ^ Angel, Justin. "In Fear and Faith - Symphonies | Metal Delirium". Metal Delirium. http://metaldelirium.net/in-fear-and-faith-symphonies/. Retrieved 7 November 2011. 
19. ^ UTG TV: In Fear and Faith Interview
20. ^ "In Fear & Faith Music News & Info". http://www.billboard.com/artist/in-fear-faith/1052287. Retrieved 8 November 2011. 

External links

• In Fear and Faith on Facebook