Fallujah (band)

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Fallujah is an American progressive death metal band from San Francisco, California, founded in 2007. The band is credited as pioneering the subgenre of "Atmospheric Death Metal."

History

Fallujah was founded in early 2007 by high school friends Alex Hofmann, Scott Carstairs, Tommy Logan, Dan Wissinger, and Suliman Arghandiwal. Their first show was on June 15, 2007 in Walnut Creek, California. Their first four songs released were "Tyrant", "Verdict", "Schleicher" and "Infidel" as demos. The bands sound and inception was heavily influenced by the Bay Area hardcore scene; often playing with bands such as Lionheart, Hoods, Suffokate, and Lose None.

Later that year, bassist Dan Wissinger and Drummer Tommy Logan departed. Brandon "Brando" Hoberg from the band Vivisection joined on bass and friend Andrew Baird joined on drums. In winter of 2007, Fallujah recorded their 2nd demo at TWS studios in Vacaville, California. The songs "Prophets", "Blacklist", and "100 Years From Now" were on this demo. They were released in January 2008.

After about a year of playing songs of previous recordings, they began writing their debut EP Leper Colony. Prior to recording, Fallujah parted with their original singer, Suliman Arghandiwal. Guitar player Alex Hofmann took up vocals while Rob Maramonte joined as guitar player. Leper Colony laid the groundwork for what would become the bands characterizing sound, mixing technical death metal, black metal, and atmospheric elements such as heavy reverb and synthesizers. The band began recording new years day with Sam Pura of Panda Studios in San Francisco. The EP was released in late January 2009.

Fallujah expanded their area and reputation greatly in the months after the release of Leper Colony. The band embarked on their first legitimate tour just days after finishing high school.

Between 2009 and 2011 the band embarked on several US tours with bands such as Fallen Figure, Picture it in Ruins, Condemned, Diskreet, and Catalepsy.

In 2011 Fallujah went on to finish their first full length album "The Harvest Wombs" with California based label Unique Leader Records. The album further expanded their fanbase and signature tone incorporating melodic leads, atmospheric chord progressions and abandoning heavy breakdowns.

After the release of The Harvest Wombs the band went on to tour both domestically and internationally in support of bands such as Suffocation, Goatwhore, Hate Eternal, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cephalic Carnage, Skeletonwitch, Havok and Pathology.

In May of 2013 the band independently released the EP "Nomadic" which is known as the first release that solidified Fallujah's style of "Atmospheric Death Metal" incorporating ambient sequences, clean guitars, and female vocals by Byanca Munoz of the band Whirr.

On July 22, 2014, Fallujah released their second album The Flesh Prevails on Unique Leader Records.^[1] The album was released while the band participated in the 2014 Summer Slaughter tour alongside Morbid Angel, The Faceless, Dying Fetus and Thy Art is Murder. The album received universal acclaim despite some critics saying the production was a victim of the "Loudness Wars" and little dynamic range.

In January 2015 the band announced they had signed with German label Nuclear Blast Records.

Members

Discography

Studio albums

EPs

Demos

• Demo 2009 (2009)
• Demo 2010 (2010)

References

External links

• Fallujah at AllMusic
• Fallujah on Facebook
• Fallujah on Tumblr
• Fallujah on Twitter