With Passion Bio

Hailing from Sacramento, California, With Passion deliver technical, melodic, blackened metal-core, inspired by the legends of European melodic death metal, from Dissection to At The Gates, as well as the best of the contemporary US-Canada metal/hardcore crop, from Cryptopsy to Between The Buried And Me.

With Passion formed in the summer of 2002 from the ashes of local Sacramento bands Athena in Hades, Severance and Impulse 120. They quickly made their mark on the Northern California scene, playing shows with a wide array of national metal and hardcore acts including As I Lay Dying, Between the Buried and Me, Himsa, Misery Signals, The Red Chord, Scars Of Tomorrow, Six Feet Under, Stretch Armstrong, Terror, and many more.

After some line-up changes, the band arrived at its current line-up of Samuel McLeod on vocals and keyboards, Shaun Gier on guitar and backing vocals, Andrew Burt on guitar, Michael Nordeen on bass, Brandon Guadagnolo on keyboards, and Jacob Peete on drums.

With Passion's latest release, "In The Midst Of Bloodied Soil", an EP on Reflections Of Ruin Records, earned the following review from ScenePointBlank.com:

"Combining brutal fast paced velocity with relentless technical sonic booms and an underlying rising hand laced with triumph, what more could you ask for in a metal record?"

With Passion also appear on AMP Magazine's Volume 3 Metal Comp, alongside The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Hate Eternal, The Black Dahlia Murder, and Shadows Fall.

With Passion are now beginning work on their Earache debut, to be released worldwide in 2005.