With Blood Comes Cleansing is an American Christian

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band from

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, United States.

History

With Blood Comes Cleansing started in February 2005. After touring, several member changes, and releasing a six-song EP, ''With Blood Comes Cleansing'' signed on with Virginia-based

Blood & Ink Records Blood & Ink Records is an American independent record label that specializes in Christian punk and Christian hardcore music. The label was founded in Richmond, Virginia, in the spring of 2002. The label has worked with such bands as Soul Embrace ...

in February 2006. That summer they released their first full-length album, ''

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''. Since then, the band has been touring, and recently moved to a bigger record label,

Victory Records Victory Records is a Chicago-based record label founded by Tony Brummel. It operates a music publishing company called "Another Victory, Inc." and is the distributor of several record labels. It has featured many prominent artists including Thur ...

, in February 2007. They released their second album, '' Horror'', in January 2008, through

. On 10 July 2008, With Blood Comes Cleansing decided to stop touring full-time and focus on their personal endeavors. Dean moved to Chicago, Illinois, with his wife, but has recently returned to South Georgia. Dennis, Scott, and Spence are all living in Albany, Georgia. Michael and Jeremy currently live in Atlanta, Georgia. The band continues to play shows whenever possible but has no future plans to make a comeback or release any new records. Michael and Dean will be sharing the responsibility of vocalist. In November 2022, the band announced they would be reuiniting in 2023 sans Dean as well announcing they had pressed 300 copies of their debut album "Golgotha" on vinyl via Secret Swarm Records which sold out in less than two minutes. They have been announced to play at Furnace Fest 2023.

Members

Current line-up *Michael Sasser - vocals (2005-2006, 2022-Present) *Scott Erickson – guitar (2005–2010,2022-Present) *Jeremy Sims – guitar (2005–2010,2022-Present) *Michael Crain – bass (2022-Present) *Zach Lewis - drums (2022-present) Past members *Dean Atkinson - vocals (2005, 2006-2010) *Tyler Holt – guitar (2005–2006) *Spence Erickson – drums (2005–2006) *Greg Titus – bass (2006–2007) *Jon Stripling – bass (2005–2006) *Doug McMillan – bass (2005) *Josh Pearson – guitar (2005) *Darrell Bentley – drums (2005) *Matt Fidler – drums (2006–2010) Timeline

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Discography

;Studio albums * ''

'' (Blood and Ink, 2006) * '' Horror'' (Victory, 2008) ;EPs * ''The Dern EP'' (2005) ;Demos * ''The Last Shall Be the First'' (2005)

References

External links

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on Myspace {{Authority control Musical groups established in 2005 Musical groups disestablished in 2010 Heavy metal musical groups from Georgia (U.S. state) American Christian metal musical groups Victory Records artists Blood and Ink Records artists American deathcore musical groups Musical quintets Musicians from Albany, Georgia