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Approaching Darkness™

About Me

Approaching Darkness was founded in Fresno, California around October of 2006. The band has a similar music style such as; Soulfly, Ill Nino, and Drowning Pool. The members consist of Andrew Dennison who heads up the band with his in-your-face vocals, his brother Chris Dennison tears it up on guitar, Nathan Pedersen who can be found pumping up the audience plays bass, and combining all those sounds together is Rigo Rodriguez on drums.
The way the band came together couldn’t have been scripted better. Approaching Darkness started with Andrew and Chris playing any instrument needed that they couldn’t fill with temporary friends helping out. They needed permanence, people willing to dedicate the time needed to Approaching Darkness. They put an ad on the internet searching for a bassist, and the ad was answered by Nathan while on his honeymoon. The band only needed a full time drummer. This was filled in by a bassist who agreed to try out drumming. Who knew he’d be a natural.
Now complete, the band set out to take over the local scene. Approaching Darkness has shared the stage with bands such as; Five Finger Death Punch, Prong, 10 Years, and Powerman 5000. They have been featured on various radio and internet radio stations. Maximum Threshold, whose internet radio station is syndicated around the world, has ranked 2 of Approaching Darkness’ songs on their top 20 charts. During their CD release party the band had the privilege to announce that they had signed a developmental deal with Dirtbag Music.
Approaching Darkness, now armed with their debut CD is breaking out of the central valley, look for them in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, the world! If their trucks can make it, and greasy drive thru is on the way, you can bet their beating down the door and setting up on stage.


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Member Since: 06/09/2005
Band Website: http://www.approachingdarkness.com
Band Members:
ANDREW - VOCALS
CHRIS - GUITAR
NATHAN - BASS
RIGO - DRUMS

Influences: Andrew (Vocals) : Korn, Mudvayne, Staind and everyday life

Chris (Guitar & Backup Voicals) : Korn, Lacuna Coil, In Flames, Soilwork, Slipknot, Rob Zombie, this could get very long and odd so I'll stop ;p

Nathan (Bass & Backup Vocals) : Pantera, Black Label Society, Social Distortion, Crown Royal, the Wife {Chantiel}, & Mythical Things

Rigo (Drums): Disturbed, Metallica, Kenny Powers, and Clint Eastwood.

Sounds Like: Approaching Darkness

Record Label: Dirtbag Music Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

A tribute to our troops from Dirtbag Music

Always support your troops. Personally Andrew and I have a brother in the army. It really sucks for these guys to be so far away from home. Do what you can to make it easier for them! Check out this t...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:20:00 GMT

Maximum Threshold

You can now hear us on Maximum Threshold! They have 24/7 streaming rock and metal. Also they do a weekly show on Satrudays from 8-11. Click the link below and check them out. A huge thanks to Dom for ...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:41:00 GMT

It's about time!

I know it's been forever since we've actually used this feature but we're working on doing a lot of things a lot more often and keeping you all up to date. With that being said here is a bunch of news...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:14:00 GMT

Check out this event: Approaching Darkness @ the Bastille

Hosted By: Approaching Darkness When: Wednesday Aug 15, 2007 at 9:00 PMWhere: the Bastille113 Court StreetHanford, CA 93230United StatesDescription:Approaching Darkness Click Here To View Event
Posted by on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:07:00 GMT

Come check out us and other RokMafia

This weekend is the offical kick off of the organization or coalition of bands,fans,merchants, and venues known as RokMafia. If anyone is sitting at home wanting to find something to do on Saterd...
Posted by on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 13:45:00 GMT

It's show time!!!

That's right boys and girls! We've finally managed to get our asses out of the garage and onto a stage. Our first show will be a small warm up one at Casey's  on April 18th and then we are l...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:02:00 GMT

They're back

Our remastered songs are back up on the site and sounding much better. Both "Sympathy" and "Exposing Me" we're releveled and had a few minor parts redone. The whole band is much happier with the final...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 22:27:00 GMT

Remastering Disc

What's going on everyone, we got our disc done a couple of weeks ago but we wern't completely happy with the way it turned out so were going to go back in for a bit this weekend to get it mastered cor...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:39:00 GMT

New Songs... Soon.

What's up, people? We'll be hitting the studio with Mike @ AroDynaMix for a session again this upcoming Saturday (3/3/07) to record a few more songs and do a radio edit for "All I See." We're hoping ...
Posted by on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:42:00 GMT