Bleeding Through

Bleeding Through formed in Orange County, California in 1999, growing out of an earlier short-lived project called Breakneck that played a single show in October 1998 before the name change. The band was established by lead vocalist Brandan Schieppati as a personal project after leaving Throwdown, and Schieppati, who also was a member of Eighteen Visions, originally balanced playing with both bands, recording the independent albums Dust to Ashes (2001) and Portrait of the Goddess (2002) before departing Eighteen Visions to focus on Bleeding Through. Bleeding Through arose from the Southern California hardcore scene in 1999 by infusing death metal influences to create their distinct metalcore sound. By the early 2000s the group had settled into what became its defining lineup, vocalist Brandan Schieppati, guitarists Scott Danough and Brian Leppke, keyboardist Marta Peterson, bassist Ryan Wombacher and drummer Derek Youngsma. The band's breakthrough came with its third album. The band signed with New Jersey-based Trustkill Records, and Bleeding Through's third full length album, This Is Love, This Is Murderous, was released in September 2003 and received a great response from fans and media. The momentum carried into a high-profile summer run, as the band was one of the second stage acts on Ozzfest 2004, and later that year Bleeding Through was featured on the Headbangers Ball Tour 2004, alongside Himsa, Arch Enemy and Cradle Of Filth. The band's true commercial peak arrived with its follow-up, produced by former Anthrax guitarist Rob Caggiano: 2006's The Truth became the band's first of four albums to crack the Billboard 200. To promote it, Bleeding Through embarked on extensive touring throughout 2006, including a high-profile European and UK run supporting Bullet for My Valentine alongside As I Lay Dying. The years that followed brought both evolution and turbulence. Danough left in 2007, and the remaining five-piece disbanded altogether in 2014, but reunited in 2016 and more permanently in 2018. In between, the band pushed into darker sonic territory with 2008's Declaration, recorded in Vancouver, though the album was well received but sold poorly, forcing the band to drop out of Trustkill. They continued releasing music through Rise Records and other labels into the early 2010s before their first breakup, with frontman Schieppati explaining that "Bleeding Through stopped in the beginning because other career opportunities came up, and once you give 15 years to something, it's hard to do something else." True to their word, the band did not stay silent forever, returning with new music and eventually their 2018 eighth effort Love Will Kill All, which solidified the comeback, followed by the Rage EP in 2022. Bleeding Through remains active today, continuing to tour and record more than two decades after its formation. Nine, the band's ninth studio album, was released by SharpTone Records on February 14, 2025, marking their first album in seven years and their longest gap between releases. The record also marked a lineup shift, as it was the first album with guitarists John Arnold and Brandon Richter, and the final album with longtime bassist Ryan Wombacher. Across a catalog spanning nine studio albums, Bleeding Through has remained one of the more distinctive voices in 2000s metalcore, prized for fusing hardcore aggression with keyboard-laced, melodic death metal atmosphere, a sound that helped define the genre's mid-2000s commercial peak and that continues to resonate with longtime fans of the scene.