In Fear and Faith
In Fear and Faith performing in Tempe in 2010.
Background information
Origin	Vista, California, USA
Genres	Post-hardcore, metalcore, gothic rock
Years active	Since 2006
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 three 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 No. 193 on the Billboard 200. Their second full-lenghth album, Imperial was released the following year and sold even better, charting at No. 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 to only one vocalist (Scott Barnes) 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.

History [edit]

Inception and Voyage (2006–2007) [edit]

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 and derived the band's name off of the Circa Survive song of the same name. The band recorded a self-titled demo during the same year formed, 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) [edit]

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 Records. It reached No. 193 on the Billboard 200.^[5] The album's success lead In Fear and Faith to inclusions on many tours and festivals. They toured 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, Here I Come Falling, Emarosa, Burden of a Day, Broadway, In This Moment, Agraceful and Motionless in White.^[6]

Imperial, Symphonies and member changes (2010–2011) [edit]

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 took some time off from touring 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]

Self-titled album (2011-present) [edit]

Since November 2011, 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] A teaser trailer for the album was uploaded online on June 20.^[17] On June 29, 2012, a new song with the title "A Creeping Dose" was released on iTunes.^[18] As this was released, the band was three days into the "Scream It Like You Mean It 2012" tour (July - August 2012). According to the Band's Facebook page on August 13, the album will be released on October 16, 2012 ^[19] The album title will be self-titled and will contain 12 tracks.^[20] The album was leaked on October 7. Sean Bell confirmed that David Stephens of We Came as Romans appeared as a vocalist on the track "The Calm Before Reform".

Musical style and structure [edit]

In Fear and Faith are essentially a post-hardcore band, but perform the genre with a tied-in influence of metal and electronica.^[21][22] The group is primarily influenced by alternative rock, emo, hardcore and heavy metal genres. Bands such as Circa Survive, At the Drive-In, Sick of It All, Sepultura and Pantera have been said to be their main influences.^[21] 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.^[21]

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.^[23]

Band members [edit]

Discography [edit]

Studio albums

EPs

• Voyage (2007, self-released)
• Symphonies (2011, Rise)

Demos

• In Fear and Faith (2006, self-released)

Other songs

• "Gangsta's Paradise" (Coolio feat. L.V. cover, released in 2009)
• "The End" (demo version, 2009 Myspace exclusive)
• "It All Comes Out (On the Way Down)" (single version, released in 2011)
• "Billie Jean" (Michael Jackson cover, released in 2012 as a tribute for the third anniversary of his death)

Videography [edit]

• "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 [edit]

External links [edit]

• In Fear and Faith on Facebook