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About Me

The Conquering began from the ashes of a band called Dark Night in Eden. The original lineup consisted of Christopher, Jason, and Dustin who played bass. Dustin was in and out of the band numerous times sometimes on bass and other times filling the second guitar position. The first self-released album (Of War and Witchery) was recorded in the year 2000. Dustin then left the band for the first time and work was begun on the second album (Grandiose Explorations of a Darker Subconscious) between Christopher and Jason. Near the end of the second album's recording phase Dustin rejoined the band and layed down tracks for the bass and second guitars. Later Dustin quit for the final time. Jason had the idea to go ahead and record another album as a two piece and Christopher began writing for the third album (Realizations Closer to the Absolute Truth). Christopher and Jason performed all the instrumentation themselves and nearing the album's completion found another bass player and second guitar player. Lloyd (second guitar) and Brian (bass) were with the band for a few years playing many shows in and around the Columbus area. They eventually grew tired of some of Christopher's antics and left the band. Lloyd later rejoind for a brief time but decided to focus his energies on his own project. Again, Christopher and Jason decided to forge ahead, determining that they're just too damn hard to work with, and work was begun for the fourth album. While rehearsing for the fourth album Jason and Christopher were introduced to Charlie through Jesse from Crush Efekt. Christopher and Jason decided to give it another shot with a new member and began the trudge to complete another album, "relentless intrusions into infrastructures of gods". Later James joined the band to fill the second guitar player slot. Some shows were played and more writing commenced. "A Home We Lost" was recorded in late 2007 to prepare for a 2008 release. Also, a 10 year re-recording of some of the bands favorite old songs is planned.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/1/2005
Band Members: Christopher "Bolthorn" - Guitar/lead vocals
Jason "Fjalar" - Drums/backing vocals
Charlie Aggression - Bass/backing vocals
James "No Face" - Guitar
Influences: Good beer (that's obviously not a band), hatred, society's ignorance, other people, corruption, power, greed, truths, good food, each other, our own values, and actually having seasons!
Sounds Like: Darkthrone, Enslaved, Mayhem, Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost, Nargaroth, Marduk, Immortal, Tyr, Kampfar, Korpiklaani, and Windir. James actually made a comment that we sound like what would happen if Windir and Korpiklaani had a child.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

A quick review and a plug

There's a nice quick and to the point review of A Home We Lost over at http://www.therimofhell.com/2008/07/23/the-conquering-a-home -we-lost/Shameless plug for him and us. Give it a read, then read the...
Posted by The Conquering on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:21:00 PST

New Album Now Available

Our new album "A Home We Lost" is now available for purchase through CD Baby. You can follow this link or click the button in the bio section. The songs should also be available through digital store...
Posted by The Conquering on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:49:00 PST

Recording is done.

It's actually been done for about a week but we just never got around to posting a blog about it. The mixing stage has begun. We'll see how long that takes us and then work on raising the funds to get...
Posted by The Conquering on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:25:00 PST

Preparations

Today we begin really working on getting the new songs ready to record. That's right, we're at it again. We plan to start recording at the end of this month and hopefully have the album by the end of ...
Posted by The Conquering on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:22:00 PST

Song Rotation

We decided to upload some songs that more accurately reflect where we've been and where we are most definitely heading with the new material. Jason and I started drinking and decided, "Fuck that shit,...
Posted by The Conquering on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:39:00 PST

ending 2006 with one show starting 2007 with two!!

CHECK OUT OUR UPCOMING SHOWS ...THEY ARE ASS KICKING !!!GET YOUR BLACK METAL ASSES IN YOUR CARS AND COME SUPPORT REAL UNDERGROUND MUSIC OR YOU MAY AS WELL START SUCKING JESUS' COCK AND GO TO CHU...
Posted by The Conquering on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:28:00 PST

CD Release

The new album, "relentless intrusions into infrastructures of gods" is now available for purchase. To order send check or M.O. payable in U.S. funds to Christopher Wiford, 405 Foxwood Dr, Gahanna, OH ...
Posted by The Conquering on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:00:00 PST

Completion....I swear this time.

The album is mixed and mastered and ready to be sent for pressing. This should be happening soon. I removed "abusing the cloth" and uploaded "Elizabeth" in its place and the final version of "New Orde...
Posted by The Conquering on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:40:00 PST

COMPLETION!

Album is mixed and mastered...........we think. We have to do that whole "how does this version sound....okay, what about this one?" thing. Look for a sample soon. We've been drinking. I've been drink...
Posted by The Conquering on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 11:18:00 PST

Recording is done.

I finished up the last of the vocal tracks on Saturday. The recording phase is done. Next comes the annoying task of mixing and listening to everyone say "my part isn't loud enough". Everything should...
Posted by The Conquering on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:06:00 PST