Draft:Fear Culture

Fear Culture is an an American metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio. The band pushed technical metalcore boundaries with their debut EP in 2018, "Room to Breathe". After the band spent the next year playing with bands such as: Palisade s, Slaves, Blessthefall, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. Fear Culture further carved their own unique path ending the year with the release of their single "Supernova" in 2019. The newest chapter for the band's career, further paving their own lane in the heavy rock industry consists of their 2020 singles "Old Habits", "Medicate Me" featuring Kellin Quinn and "Fake It". Now, in 2023, the band have returned to their roots with their crushing new heavy singles, “Spiritual” and “Virus”. They have also added bands such as Bad Omens, Attila, and Escape The Fate to the continued list of bands they’ve opened for. The band's current line-up consists of lead vocalist Matty Lehman, guitarists Daniel DeLuca and Justin Welch, Bassist Anthony Delgado, and drummer Nathan Conley.

Formation and Room to Breathe (2017-2018)
Fear Culture was started in 2017 as a passion project for Matty Lehman. The band and it's members was announced through Facebook.

Fear culture released their first single Phobia in 2020. Shortly after, the band released their second single Shut It Out. The EP, Room to Breathe, was recorded and produced by Kevin Lankford.

=== Spiritual, Virus and the Departure of Matthew Whyde (2023) === Spiritual which is the band's most successful Single has received over 150,000 spotify streams. Shortly after the success of Spiritual, the band released another single called Virus. After this success, Matthew Whyde garnished tens of thousands of views on streaming platforms for his drum covers. He was invited to audition as the drummer for Woe Is Me. After playing a brief tour, it was officially announced through social media that he would be made a permanent member of the band. With this success, he parted ways with Fear Culture. The band participated in a battle of the bands contest known as the local bands smokeout for a chance to get on one of the Danny Wimmer Presents music festivals. The band ended up securing second place.

Band members

 * Current members
 * Matty Lehman – lead vocals (2017–present)
 * Daniel DeLuca – rhythm guitar (2024–present)
 * Zachary Baker – drums (2024–present)
 * Justin Welch – lead guitar (2024–present)
 * Anthony Delgado – bass, backing vocals (2024–present)


 * Past members
 * Sean Divine – lead guitar, backing vocals (2017–2020, 2022-2023)
 * Christian Mains – drums (2017)
 * Chris Burke – drums (2017-2018)
 * Dalton Dye – bass (2017, 2024)
 * Bryan Smith – bass, backing vocals (2018-2019)
 * Chase Grant – rhythm guitar, (2019-2020)
 * Jesse Bowman – bass, backing vocals (2019-2020, 2022-2024)
 * Matthew Whyde – drums (2022-2023)
 * Matt Walton – rhythm guitar, (2022-2024)
 * Blake Tidrow – drums (2023-2024)


 * Timeline

Discography

 * Extended plays


 * Singles