History Music / ThroughTheEyesOfTheDead

Formed in Florence, South Carolina in 2003 by Anthony Gunnells (vocals), Richard Turbeville and Justin Longshore (guitars), Jeff Springs (bass), and Dayton Cantley (drums), the band wasted no time in becoming a local sensation and quickly released ''The Scars of Ages'', their debut EP, in very early 2004. Turbeville left not long after and was replaced by Chris Anderson; the band would go on to record their half of ''The Annihilation of Expectation'', a split with The Knife Trade, in early 2005, followed by ''Bloodlust'', their full-length debut with Prosthetic Records. Almost immediately after, the band lost 2/5s of their lineup, as Springs and Cantley left to form From Graves of Valor with Richard Turbeville. Jake Ososkie and Josh Kulick quickly jumped in to fill the void, and the band began touring the VFW/Elks Lodge circuit around that time. 2006 would mark the real beginning of the relentless touring that marked the later portion of the 2000s, and most of the year was spent on the road. At some point between 2006 and 2007, Gunnells managed to get himself into some legal trouble, and the band was forced to kick him out, while Anderson himself left right before they went into the studio. The band welcomed in [[Music/FitForAnAutopsy Nate Johnson]] as their new vocalist right before they went into the studio, and by the end of the summer of 2007, ''Malice'', their sophomore full-length, was out. Johnson and Kulick left right around the end of the year, however, and with 3/5s of the lineup gone, the band opted to use fill-ins until they could find new full-timers. At some point in 2008, the new lineup solidified: Danny Rodriguez (Roman Ring) was the new vocalist, while Chris Henckle and Mike Ranne (both in My Bitter End) took the lead guitar and drum slots. The band continued touring, and in the summer of 2009, they returned to the studio yet again. ''Skepsis'', their third full-length, was released in early 2010, and the band toured throughout 2010. Things dried up in 2011, however, and for the next few years, the band was effectively silent aside from a few scattered shows, aside from some talk of a new album in 2012 that failed to materialize for a while. In early 2017, the silence was effectively broken, as they announced that a new album would be released later that year and posted a pre-production track, along with the announcement that Steven Funderburk (Wretched) had taken the lead guitar spot. ''Disomus'', their long-awaited fourth album, was released that October, and while the shows in support of it were limited to fests, one-offs, and extremely short runs, their fanbase has unwaveringly maintained their support.

* CoverVersion: They covered [[Music/MorbidAngel "Domination"]] on ''Malice''.

* FilkSong: [[Franchise/{{Alien}} "Teras"]].

* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Ryan Knight]] contributed a guest lead to "As Good as Dead" off of ''Malice'', while Gunnells and Johnson returned to do guest vocals on several tracks on ''Disomus''; additionally, John Robert C. (The Last Ten Seconds of Life) and Dan Sugarman (As Blood Runs Black) also had guest spots on that album. On the live front, Jerry Stovall was a brief fill-in after Cantley's departure, while Lou Tanuis and Hector "Leche" de Santiago (As Blood Runs Black) were onetime touring members after Johnson and Kulick's departures, and Turbeville briefly came back as a fill-in in 2007.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Hard 9/soft 10 on ''Bloodlust'', soft 10 on ''Malice'', solid 10 on ''Skepsis'' and ''Disomus''.

* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Ryan Knight]] contributed a guest lead to "As Good as Dead" off of ''Malice'', while Gunnells and Johnson returned to do guest vocals on several tracks on ''Disomus''. On the live front, Jerry Stovall was a brief fill-in after Cantley's departure, while Lou Tanuis and Hector "Leche" de Santiago (As Blood Runs Black) were onetime touring members after Johnson and Kulick's departures, and Turbeville briefly came back as a fill-in in 2007.

* StartMyOwn: Turbeville, Springs, and Cantley started Graves of Valor (originally From Graves of Valor) in 2005 along with Damon Welch and David Hasselbring, and they mostly sounded like a heavier, less core-leaning version of their parent band.

* ConceptAlbum: ''Disomus'', about a MisanthropeSupreme occultist whose efforts to use the energies of the underworld to gain immortality kicks off a chain of events that results in his disembodied spirit contacting a group of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, who in turn repurpose the restless, angry spirits of the dead to effect a reality incursion.
* CosmicHorrorStory: ''Disomus''; it took just one ill-conceived occult ritual to contact some [[EldritchAbomination things that were better off not being contacted]] by accident, and the resulting chain of events kicks off an eldritch apocalypse with no happy ending.

* EldritchAbomination: The titular being in ''Disomus'', a shapeless blob of spiritual energy spawned as a manifestation of far worse beings, and which ushers in an eldritch apocalypse after it enslaves the spirits of the dead and rips a hole in reality wide open.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Hard 9/soft 10 on ''Bloodlust'', soft 10 on ''Malice'', solid ''10'' on ''Skepsis'' and ''Disomus''.

* SpecialGuest: [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Ryan Knight]] contributed a guest lead to "As Good as Dead" off of ''Malice'', while Gunnells and Johnson returned to do guest vocals on several tracks on ''Disomus''. On the live front, Jerry Stovall was a brief fill-in after Cantley's departure, while Lou Tanuis and Hector "Leche" de Santiago (As Blood Runs Black) were onetime touring members after Johnson and Kulick's departures.

* TropeCodifier: ''Bloodlust'', along with ''[[Music/AllShallPerish The Price of Existence]]'', ''[[Music/JobForACowboy Doom]]'', As Blood Runs Black's ''Allegiance, and Suffokate's ''Oakland'', helped codify the [=MySpace=] deathcore sound that was the most popular style up until around 2012 or 2013.