The Great Fire Is Over...Bleeding Through Calls It Quits

It's a very sad day when you hear that one of the bands you grew up for the last 10 year listening to has decided to call it a day.  Mind you, the band has been around a lot longer than that (originally formed in 1999) but I discovered them as one of my first hardcore metal bands.  Blasting the f**k out "Love Lost In A Hail of Gunfire" and other great tunes by them.

As all things in life, it must come to an end.  Bleeding Through have officially announced they are disbanding, but not before they play a farewell tour across the world.  Check out some of the Blabbermouth interview with vocalist Brandan Schieppati and his details surrounding the break up:


"When you have some success doing something that you love, you never really think about writing a statement about that something coming to an end. Well, that dream that we have had as BLEEDING THROUGH has come to an end.

I think I can speak for the rest of my bandmates in saying that we always hoped it would end on our terms, and it has.

We have been fortunate to have a strong fan base worldwide and have brought joy to many and pissed off many more.

BLEEDING THROUGH was always a band that wore the emotion of the music on our sleeves. We cared about everyone like family that ever took the time to listen to our band, support our merchandise and go to our shows.

Since 1999, we have been blessed to be able to tour the world, record seven records with some great musical minds, tour with amazing bands and people, work with people with character such as management, booking agents and road crew. Most importantly, we made lasting friends from this journey.

We have been honored to be part of a expanding the musical movement of heavy music and hope to be remembered as a benchmark and pioneer of a specific style of music.

We have been a band since 1999, and many of us just had life catch up with us in the way of marriages, kids, businesses and other endeavors. We can no longer dedicate what we need to to keep BLEEDING THROUGH going.

Personally, I feel doing this band in a part-time fashion is not what this band is about and and feel like we have always been an all-or-nothing band. With that being said, and because we have established a worldwide following over the last 14 years, we want to give us and those people one more chance to share in this music together. We are setting up farewell tours. Dates will be up and promoted very soon.

To those who supported this band: It has been an honor."

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That being said, the dates are still in the works, but we will let you know as soon as dates are posted.  I for one will be at their Toronto show (if their tour does so) with a beer and a free elbow for the moshpit.  You know...goin' out in style!

Check out my previous article of Bleeding Through and their final album "The Great Fire" (plus a background of the band):

AFGM: The Great Fires of Bleeding Through

You can also check out Brandan's current project (alongside Atreyu's Alex Varkatzas) I AM WAR:

AFGM: I Am War - Outlive You All