History & Biography Bay Area, California's Fallujah released its debut album, The Harvest Wombs, on November 22nd, 2011 through Unique Leader Records. The band was named after the Iraqi city where American soldiers and mercenaries were killed in revenge beginning March of 2004. The band was formed in 2007 and issued the following demos: Demo 2009, Leper Colony (2009) and Demo 2010. Early vocalist Suliman Arghandiwal, guitarist Anthony Borges and bassists Dan Wissinger and Brandon Hoberg were gone by the time the band had struck a label deal. The band had toured with Fallen Figure in late 2009. In the spring of 2014, Unique Leader Records was issuing a new full-length from San Francisco-based death metal band, Fallujah. The Flesh Prevails was mixed, engineered and mastered by Zach Ohren (Animosity, Suffocation, etc.). An EP, called –Nomadic- had been released in 2013. The new album was supported through touring with Dying Fetus and Goatwhore. Brain James was now on guitar. Nuclear Blast Entertainment signed Fallujah to start 2015. Dreamless was issued through Nuclear Blast. The Black Dahlia Murder announced a USA Tour with Fallujah And Disentomb. Two progressive metal bands, Between The Buried And Me and Devin Townsend Project, joined forces for the Transcending The Coma co-headlining tour of Canada and USA in autumn of 2016. The trek ran from September 9th through October 15th and included support from Fallujah. Fallujah lost founding member and singer Alex Hofmann in mid-2017. A replacement was being sought. Antonio Palermo was in. Guitarist Nico Santora (formerly of Suicidal Tendencies) joined in 2020 and left in 2021.
Fallujah had an advance song called Radiant Ascension off its forthcoming Empyrean record, which was released through Nuclear Blast Entertainment in September 2022. After parting ways with two members in 2021, Fallujah recruited singer Kyle Schaefer (Archaeologist) and bassist Evan Brewer (The Faceless) and was touring the USA with Rivers Of Nihil (headliners), Alluvial and Warforged. Fallujah, The Divine Ascension, Psycroptic, Interloper and Cognitive were touring Canada and the USA the autumn of 2022. Kyle Schaefer took over the vocals for the last six dates of Rivers Of Nihil‘s tour opening for Between The Buried And Me in 2023. Bassist/vocalist Adam Biggs was headed home due to a new addition to his family. Armstrong Metalfest was taking place in Armstrong in Western Canada on July 14th and 15th 2023 and Fallujah was billed there. Sam Mooradian, the touring guitarist for Fallujah and co-founder of Inhale Existence, had a solo demo called Bad Brain. It was described as progressive metal. At the same time, in 2023, drummer Andrew Baird left the band. Ingested would embark on a European headlining tour with Fallujah, Vulvodynia and Melancolia in 2024. Fallujah rereleased The Flesh Prevails as a remastered 10th-anniversary edition through Unique Leader Records in the summer. The band also announced Vulvodynia and Dawn Of Ouroboros as part of its anniversary tour. The former band had a singer beat up a drummer and had a new member in time. Bassist Kilian Duarte helped out live. Kevin Alexander La Palerma was drumming. The band continued working on its new album. Ostensibly responding to criticism of the clean vocals and short hair, the band organized a vocal performance online and accepted fan votes on whether to keep its singer Kyle or not in 2025. Fallujah announced Xenotaph next. There was a video for the song Kaleidoscopic Waves. It was Sam Mooradian's first record with the band. Kevin Alexander La Palerma was the session drummer.
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