In Fear and Faith

In Fear and Faith
Sean Bell and Scott Barnes from In Fear and Faith performing in Jakarta in 2012
Background information
Origin	San Diego, California, USA
Genres	Post-hardcore, metalcore, alternative metal
Years active	2006–2017 (on hiatus)
Labels	Rise
Website	facebook.com/infaf
Members	Jarred DeArmas Cody Anderson Scott Barnes Noah Slifka Tyler McElhaney Sean Bell Chase Whitney
Past members	Ramin Niroomand Mehdi Niroomand Tyler Smith Davey Owens Michael Guy

In Fear and Faith is an American post-hardcore band from San Diego, California. Formed in 2006, the group was signed to Rise Records and released three studio albums and two EPs. Their debut full-length, Your World on Fire, being released nearly a year after the band's signing to Rise in 2008, peaked at No. 193 on the Billboard 200. Their second full-length album, Imperial was released the following year and sold even better, charting at No. 4 on the Top Heatseekers chart in the US alone. Currently, the band does not feature any original members since the departure of guitarist Ramin Niroomand and drummer Mehdi Niroomand in 2014; vocalist Scott Barnes is the only current member of the band to have performed on all of the group's studio albums, though he is not an original member.

In Fear and Faith was founded in 2006 by members Davey Owens, Mehdi Niroomand, Tyler McElhaney, Jarred DeArmas, Michael Guy and Ramin Niroomand while attending high school and derived the band's name off of the Circa Survive song of the same name. The band recorded a self-titled demo during the same year formed, containing four tracks.

A year after recording the demo, founding vocalist Jarred DeArmas was kicked out of the group in desire of the members seeking a singer with a higher vocal range. Tyler "Telle" Smith was, at this point, employed as the band's clean vocalist along with Cody Anderson as the band's unclean vocalist. A few months after these modifications, they replaced guitarist Davey Owens with Noah Slifka while keyboardist, Michael Guy left the band completely without a member in his replacement. With this line-up, they recorded their first EP, Voyage and released it via iTunes on December 17, 2007. Met with positive acclaim and achieving more than 30,000 song purchases, it attracted the attention of Rise Records, which they were signed to the following year.