Editing Bleeding Through (section)

=== ''Dust to Ashes'' and ''Portrait of the Goddess'' (1999–2002) ===
Bleeding Through, a band from [[Orange County, California]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ibanez.co.jp/artist/interview.php?interview_id=29|title=Interview with Scott Danough|date=November 17, 2006|website=[[Ibanez]]|access-date=July 22, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120527212113/http://www.ibanez.co.jp/artist/interview.php?interview_id=29|archive-date=May 27, 2012}}</ref><ref name="AMG-Bio">{{cite web |last1=Rivadavia |first1=Eduardo |title=Bleeding Through Biography |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bleeding-through-mn0000059758 |website=[[Allmusic]] |access-date=December 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524015659/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bleeding-through-mn0000059758 |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> traces its origins back to 1998, when a [[hardcore punk]] band named Breakneck was founded by vocalist [[Brandan Schieppati]] and guitarist Javier Van Huss, then both of [[Eighteen Visions]]. Completing the lineup were guitarist Scott Danough, bass guitarist Chad Tafolla, and drummer Troy Born.<ref name="MusicMight">{{cite web|title=Bleeding Through Biography|author=Sharpe-Young, Garry|website=[[MusicMight]]|url=http://www.musicmight.com/linkto/artist/A1C58A75-0A56-442C-BAE5-58F0704|access-date=July 11, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091207101542/http://www.musicmight.com/artist/united+states/california/orange+county/bleeding+through|archivedate=December 7, 2009}}</ref> Van Huss and Schieppati had also both played guitar in the Orange County band [[Throwdown (band)|Throwdown]].<ref name="New Wave American Metal">{{cite book|last=Sharpe-Young|first=Garry|title=New Wave of American Heavy Metal|publisher=Zonda Books Limited|year=2005|pages=331–332|isbn=0-9582684-0-1}}</ref> Breakneck played only one live performance, opening for Throwdown, Eighteen Visions, and Adamantium among others.<ref name="Prime">{{Cite web|date=November 2000|title=Bleeding Through Biography|url=http://www.primedirectiverecords.com/BLEEDINGTHROUGH.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010307023150/http://www.primedirectiverecords.com/BLEEDINGTHROUGH.htm|archive-date=March 7, 2001|access-date=January 3, 2022|website=Prime Directive Records}} To view the content of this page, inspecting the page elements is required.</ref> Schieppati, who had replaced Van Huss in Throwdown and was still playing guitar for them at the time of Breakneck's show on top of Eighteen Visions, left Throwdown to focus on fronting his own group after the Breakneck show.<ref name="New Wave American Metal"/> Established as a [[hardcore punk]] act,<ref name="Prime" /> Breakneck subsequently began to explore a more metallic musical direction. Eventually, this led the members to feel it necessary to change their band name.<ref name="MusicMight"/> The origin of the band's name was explained in an interview as follows: "Well, it is summed up by the explanation that whether black, white, red, brown, yellow, religious preference, straight or gay, we all bleed the same, and we bleed through this life the same. Thus Bleeding Through."<ref name="LambgoatName">{{cite web|title=An interview with Bleeding Through|author=Alex|website=Lambgoat|url=http://www.lambgoat.com/features/articles/bleeding_through.asp|access-date=June 27, 2007|date=May 3, 2001|archive-date=April 25, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050425171808/http://lambgoat.com:80/features/articles/bleeding_through.asp|url-status=live}}</ref>

The band undertook many lineup changes in its early days. Van Huss was the first departure; he was briefly replaced by [[Dave Peters]], after which Tafolla switched from playing bass to guitar. The vacant bass position was temporarily replaced by Brandon Conway; Marc Jackson was recruited as the next permanent bassist.<ref name="Prime" /> Jackson and Danough had previously played in the band Refuge together in the early 1990s.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Julien |first=Alexandre |author-link=Alexander Julien |date=September 15, 2014 |title=Cedargate Records Interview |url=https://www.abridgedpause.com/cedargate-records |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917214118/https://www.abridgedpause.com/cedargate-records |archive-date=September 17, 2014 |access-date=January 20, 2024 |website=Abridged Pause Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> Jackson quit the band before the band began recording their debut album, and added Vijay Kumar as the band's new bassist. The band also established a keyboardist in Molly Street.<ref name="Prime" /> The band's first album began as a demo comprising five songs using a [[4-track recorder]] in Born's bedroom.<ref name="Prime" /> At the beginning of the following year, Born left the band,<ref name="BornQuit">{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through lineup news |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/428/bleeding-through-lineup-news/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=December 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220817074722/https://lambgoat.com/news/428/bleeding-through-lineup-news/ |archive-date=August 17, 2022 |date=January 2, 2001}}</ref> followed the next month by Kumar. Despite these losses, the band released their debut album, ''[[Dust to Ashes]]'', on March 25, 2001 through Prime Directive Records.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Arnold|first=Alex|date=February 27, 2001|title=Bleeding Through news & notes|url=https://lambgoat.com/news/608/bleeding-through-news-notes/|url-status=live|access-date=January 3, 2022|website=Lambgoat|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220103201941/https://lambgoat.com/news/608/bleeding-through-news-notes/ |archive-date=January 3, 2022 }}</ref> Kumar later reversed course and returned to the band,<ref name="MickLG">{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through recruits 18 Visions bassist |url=https://www.lambgoat.com/news/1386/bleeding-through-recruits-18-visions-bassist/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 3, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815100745/https://www.lambgoat.com/news/1386/bleeding-through-recruits-18-visions-bassist/ |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |date=April 24, 2002}}</ref> and Born was quickly replaced by Derek Youngsma,<ref name="MusicMight" /> who had previously played with Danough in a band called Daggers.<ref name=":1" />

The band signed a two-album and one-EP contract with Indecision Records in April 2001, less than a month after the release of ''Dust to Ashes''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web |last=Arnold |first=Alex |date=April 8, 2001 |title=Bleeding Through signs to Indecision |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/690/bleeding-through-signs-to-indecision/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524010847/https://lambgoat.com/news/690/bleeding-through-signs-to-indecision/ |archive-date=May 24, 2013 |access-date=January 3, 2022 |website=Lambgoat |language=en}}</ref> In August 2001, following the band's first tour, Tafolla left the band and was replaced by Brian Leppke.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|last=Arnold|first=Alex|date=August 30, 2001|title=Bleeding Through loses guitarist|url=https://lambgoat.com/news/881/bleeding-through-loses-guitarist/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524031451/https://lambgoat.com/news/881/bleeding-through-loses-guitarist/|archive-date=May 24, 2013|access-date=January 3, 2022|website=Lambgoat|language=en}}</ref> After completing a tour of the American West Coast with [[From Autumn to Ashes]], the band entered a studio to begin recording their new album around December,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through news & notes |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/975/bleeding-through-news-notes/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240414101701/https://lambgoat.com/news/975/bleeding-through-news-notes/ |archive-date=April 14, 2024 |date=November 27, 2001 |url-status=live}}</ref> with a tour between recording sessions accompanying Throwdown from late December into early January.<ref>{{cite web |title=Throwdown & Bleeding Through tour schedule |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/988/throwdown-bleeding-through-tour-schedule/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928214242/https://lambgoat.com/news/988/throwdown-bleeding-through-tour-schedule/ |archive-date=September 28, 2023 |date=December 12, 2001 |url-status=live}}</ref> The record, titled ''[[Portrait of the Goddess]]'', was completed in early March 2002, and it was released on April 13.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through finishes recording record |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/1255/bleeding-through-finishes-recording-record/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524031943/https://lambgoat.com/news/1255/bleeding-through-finishes-recording-record/ |archive-date=May 24, 2013 |date=March 8, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> A few days later, Kumar left the group for good,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through looking for new bassist |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/1266/bleeding-through-looking-for-new-bassist/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815183223/https://lambgoat.com/news/1266/bleeding-through-looking-for-new-bassist/ |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |date=March 12, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> and was replaced by Eighteen Visions' [[MickDeth|Mick Morris]] the following month.<ref name="MickLG" /> The band then joined [[Every Time I Die]] and [[Norma Jean (band)|Norma Jean]] for a six-week tour spanning late may through early July,<ref>{{cite web |title=Every Time I Die and Bleeding Through dates |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/1432/every-time-i-die-and-bleeding-through-dates/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130063843/https://lambgoat.com/news/1432/every-time-i-die-and-bleeding-through-dates/ |archive-date=November 30, 2023 |date=May 8, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> though the band were forced to withdraw from several of the July shows after Schieppati was injured after a show in [[Newport Beach, California]]. The band would go on to play at [[Hellfest]] later that year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through drops off ETID tour |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/1578/bleeding-through-drops-off-etid-tour/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815200145/https://lambgoat.com/news/1578/bleeding-through-drops-off-etid-tour/ |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |date=July 1, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through update |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/1583/bleeding-through-update/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 7, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220809173249/https://lambgoat.com/news/1583/bleeding-through-update/ |archive-date=August 9, 2022 |date=July 2, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> Schieppati opted to pursue Bleeding Through as a priority after completion of ''Portrait of the Goddess'',<ref name="MusicMight" /> amicably departing Eighteen Visions in July,<ref>{{cite web |title=Eighteen Visions line-up change |url=https://www.lambgoat.com/news/1386/bleeding-through-recruits-18-visions-bassist/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 3, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815093342/https://www.lambgoat.com/news/1587/eighteen-visions-line-up-change/ |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |date=July 4, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref> followed by Street's replacement with Marta Demmel (then Peterson).<ref name="MusicMight" />{{#tag:ref|During her career with Bleeding Through, Peterson married [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]] guitarist [[Phil Demmel]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Machine Head's Phil Demmel marries Bleeding Through's Marta Peterson |url=https://themusic.com.au/news/machine-heads-phil-demmel-marries-bleeding-throughs-marta-peterson/zOLU3sHAw8I/02-10-12 |website=[[The Music (magazine)|The Music]] |access-date=January 9, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250109192143/https://themusic.com.au/news/machine-heads-phil-demmel-marries-bleeding-throughs-marta-peterson/zOLU3sHAw8I/02-10-12 |archive-date=January 9, 2025 |date=October 2, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref> For consistency in this article, she is referred to by her married name.|group="nb"}} Morris eventually returned to Eighteen Visions later that year, and his role in Bleeding Through was filled by Ryan Wombacher.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bleeding Through finds permanent bassist |url=https://lambgoat.com/news/2033/bleeding-through-finds-permanent-bassist/ |website=Lambgoat |access-date=January 3, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815185140/https://lambgoat.com/news/2033/bleeding-through-finds-permanent-bassist/ |archive-date=August 15, 2022 |date=December 15, 2002 |url-status=live}}</ref>