Sanctity_(band)

Sanctity
Left to right: Jared MacEachern, Derek Anderson, Jeremy London, Zeff Childress
Background information
Origin	Asheville, North Carolina
Genre(s)	Thrash metal Groove Metal
Years active	1998–present
Label(s)	Unsigned
Website	Official site
Members
Brian Stephenson Zach Jordan Zeff Childress Scott Smith Jeremy London
Former members
Jared MacEachern Bill Moody Joey Cox Danny Lanier Derek Anderson

Sanctity is a four-piece Thrash Metal band from Asheville, North Carolina, USA. They formed in 1998 and are still active. They are currently unsigned, after parting with Road Runner Records. They have released one album, Road to Bloodshed, on April 24 2007.

History

After touring extensively around the North Carolina, Tennessee and South Carolina areas, Sanctity got their break after Trivium saw the band perform live at a gig in South Carolina. Matt Heafy, impressed with what he saw, received the band\'s recorded material, and passed it on to Roadrunner\'s A&R person Monte Conner.

In late 2005, the band self-financed and produced a music video for their song "Zeppo" with director Ramon Boutviseth. They were signed to Roadrunner and toured the US as a supporting act for Dragonforce in the first half of 2006. Megadeth\'s Dave Mustaine caught Sanctity\'s set at one of these shows and personally invited the band to join his summer metalfest Gigantour. Later that year, Sanctity supported labelmates Trivium on their first headlining tour of the US, and Children of Bodom on their US tour at the end of the year. The band released its debut album Road to Bloodshed on April 24, 2007, following the production and subsequent release of the music video for "Beneath the Machine", also directed by Boutviseth. They supported Trivium on their European tour along with Gojira and Annihilator, and opened for Zakk Wylde\'s band Black Label Society on the first leg of their spring US tour. Following the completion of a summer US tour with progressive metallers Symphony X, Sanctity set out on another US run in support of Machine Head alongside Arch Enemy and Throwdown. The music video for "Beloved Killer" was released shortly thereafter. In October 2007, the band embarked on their first headlining run, touring the UK with Evile and Romeo Must Die.

lineup changes in 2008. North Carolina thrashers SANCTITY have issued the following update:

"Yes, the rumors are true, Jared [MacEachern; vocals, rhythm guitar] and Derek [Anderson, bass] have left SANCTITY for personal reasons. Originally we were planning to announce the addition of Brian Stephenson (ex-ANNIHILATOR) on guitar during the SONATA ARCTICA tour, but things have changed in the last two months. Jared just had a beautiful baby girl in December and decided that being a good father was the most important thing and SANCTITY agrees. During this time Derek had a situation at home and came to a mutual decision to leave SANCTITY as well.

"Despite having two members leave, SANCTITY continues instead of flaking out and dropping off a tour we were obligated to. Brian stepped up as our new vocalist and we have hometown friends Zach Jordan and Scott Smith (both in ABOVE THE MEANS) filling in on guitar and bass respectively.

"Perseverance is nothing new to SANCTITY, we\'ve dealt with everything from gear being stolen, being stranded in Wisconsin, bus accidents and now this.

"Once SANCTITY is back home we\'ll be deciding on a permanent lineup, but we\'re having a blast tearing it up in Canada with SONATA ARCTICA, braving this crazy -55 degree weather."

Members

• Brian Stephenson – Vocals (touring)
• Zach Jordan - Rhythm Guitar (touring)
• Zeff Childress – Lead Guitar
• Scott Smith – Bass (touring)
• Jeremy London – Drums

Former

• Jared MacEachern - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar (played on guitar/vocals debut album)
• Derek Anderson - Bass (played bass on debut album)
• Billy Moody – Bass
• Joey Cox – Vocals
• Danny Lanier – Bass

Discography

Albums

Since there adoption to Roadrunner Records Sanctity have Released one album entitled "Road to Bloodshed"

2007 - "Road to Bloodshed"

1. "Beneath the Machine"
2. "Brotherhood of Destruction"
3. "Road to Bloodshed"
4. "Laws of Reason"
5. "Billy Seals"
6. "Zeppo"
7. "Beloved Killer"
8. "The Shape of Things"
9. "Flatline"
10. "The Rift Between"
11. "Seconds"
12. "Once Again"

Demos

2003 – "Untitled"

1. "Harvest" – 4:18
2. "Images" – 4:36
3. "Two Days from Yesterday" – 4:12

2005 – "Untitled"

1. "Driftwood"
2. "Lost to Ego"
3. "Seconds"
4. "Brotherhood"

EPs

2004 – "Bedroom Sessions"

1. "Shallow Lies" – 3:43
2. "Flatline" – 4:27
3. "Two Days" – 4:08
4. "Lament" – 1:54
5. "Zeppo" – 5:35

Music videos

Awards

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Sanctity

• Official site
• Sanctity at MySpace
• Sanctity at All Music Guide
• Sanctity at Roadrunner Records
• Photos from Worcester, MA 9/21/07 at Thrashmag.com

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