Sumerian Records

ABOUT

Sacramento California based progressive metal band, CONDUCTING FROM THE GRAVE, have set out on the road to start the highly anticipated “Spread The Venom Tour” alongside Kataklysm, All Shall Perish, Decrepit Birth and Abysmal Dawn rounding out the package. The group kick-started the first night of tour in Cleveland OH on Feb. 24th, and will make it’s way around North America ending in Montreal on Mar. 20th.

Brutally unrelenting, savagely intense and downright uncompromising should be CONDUCTING FROM THE GRAVE's mission statement as this band aims straight for the jugular with a barrage of frenetic riffs and a bottom end that will make your heart sink to your feet. This is the new face of extreme metal and the future never looked so bright. Their vicious new offering, Revenants, is bound to create some buzz within the metal scene and you don't want to miss them live if they come though your area as it's always a sight top behold.

Jeff Morgan further describes the band's arduous journey: "Conducting From The Grave first began at the end of 2003 when John Abernathy (guitar) and Greg Donnelly (drums) met and started jamming together. Around the same time I parted ways with my previous band, With Passion, and they asked me to play with them. Once we had a full line-up we started playing around Northern California trying to build a local following. In the summer of 2005, shortly after self-releasing our debut EP “Trials of the Forsaken,” we went out on our first national tour with Light This City. Right after the tour we lost our bass player and our vocalist. And around the same time With Passion lost several members and we decided to merge the two bands. Since With Passion was signed and had some good tours lined up we decided to make the full transition to become the new line-up for With Passion. We put out a new album and toured for about two years as With Passion, but after many stumbling blocks and frustrations and complications with the label we decided to throw in the towel and reunite CFTG in September 2007. Former CFTG vocalist, Drew Winter, rejoined the band and in the summer of 2008 we left on our first tour back out as Conducting From The Grave. Ten days into the tour Drew quit the band and flew home. John and Steven Lovas (bass) double teamed the vocal responsibilities for the rest of the tour. In the following year the band signed with Sumerian records, acquired a new vocalist (Lou Tanuis), and released our debut full length “When Legends Become Dust.” The band toured from Jan-July 2009 in support of the release and then went home to begin writing for the next record. In early 2010 Lou decided to leave the band due to commitments at home. Shortly thereafter Mikey Powell joined the band on vocals and we recorded our sophomore album for Sumerian Records."