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Reprobation

Chicago Style Death Metal, Extra Thick & Chunky!

About Me

Reprobation hails from the south suburbs of Chicago, IL USA. We were formed in the summer of 1993 by guitarist Rob Whitworth and drummer Mike Rees. Vocalist Carl Pavesich and bassist Chuck Herrholz joined in spring 1994. The band disbanded in late '96, but reformed in early '98. Vocalist Carl Pavesich left the band in October 1998, but was replaced by Shawn Connors in November 1998. In May 2000 Shawn picked up the guitar while continuing with vocals and we added Mike Crothers, also on vocals, giving us a duel guitar/duel vocal sound. With this lineup we released 2001's "The Colour of Gore" and 2002's "Undoing Creation" on Forever Underground Records. Bassist Chuck Herrholz left the band in September 2002, but rejoined in July 2004. During this time the band re-recorded and re-released "The Colour of Gore" with a session bassist and extra songs. The band disbanded (again) in the summer of 2005, but reformed (again) in December 2005. We have reformed with our original four piece lineup of Rob Whitworth, Mike Rees, Chuck Herrholz and Carl Pavesich (who rejoined upon our reformation). In 2007 Forever Underground Records closed shop so we are currently looking for a new record label. We are set to begin recording our 3rd full length CD in late January 2008. Be sure to check our blog for updates.

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Member Since: 10/8/2004
Band Website: geocities.com/reprobation
Band Members:Left-Right: Mike Rees - Drums; Rob Whitworth - Lead Guitars; Carl Pavesich - Lead Vocals; Chuck Herrholz - Bass
Influences: Free Horror layouts at SatanSpace.com

Record Label: None
Type of Label: None

My Blog

February 4, 2008

Unfortunately our studio time has once again been delayed, but the good news is not by very much. We now should begin recording in early March. As stated in our previous update we will be recording at...
Posted by Reprobation on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:56:00 PST

January 2, 2008

Publicly 2007 has probably been our most inactive year to date as we only did two shows, but for good reason: Basically we locked ourselves in our rehearsal room and concentrated on finishing up the s...
Posted by Reprobation on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:41:00 PST

May 21, 2007

Pictures are up from the Chicago Metal Devastation Fest 4. Be sure to check them out and feel free to leave comments. We also filmed our set at the CMDF4 and hope to have the video posted soon. Finall...
Posted by Reprobation on Mon, 21 May 2007 08:51:00 PST

May 1, 2007

Just want to remind everyone that we are playing the Chicago Metal Devastation Fest this coming weekend. We don't get to play live as often as we used to so this is our first show in a several months ...
Posted by Reprobation on Tue, 01 May 2007 10:39:00 PST

March 12, 2007

Work is still progressing with the songwriting of our next CD. We have eight finished songs, and are working on a ninth as we speak. Plus, we will be reworking some old songs either as "bonus tracks" ...
Posted by Reprobation on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 10:06:00 PST

February 1, 2007

We've been added to the CHICAGO METAL DEVASTATION FEST 4 at Y.O.T.I. in Mount Prospect, IL. It's not till May but no time like the present to start planning. So far it's our fist show of the year and ...
Posted by Reprobation on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:12:00 PST

2006 - a recap

First and foremost let us once again apologize for the lack of updates. We had originally hoped to get our next CD out by the end of 2006, but we all have day jobs that sometimes conflict with the ba...
Posted by Reprobation on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 08:32:00 PST

March News

We apologize for the lack of updates. A lot of stuff was just "up in the air" and tentative and we just wanted to wait until everything was confirmed before we announced it. Now that everything is off...
Posted by Reprobation on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:40:00 PST

December News

The reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Contrary to our previous news posting we have decided to NOT call it a day. Almost immediately after going on our hiatus Rob, Mike Rees and Chu...
Posted by Reprobation on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:33:00 PST

September News

Reprobation will be looking to do a split with another band so we can record and release our last six songs we wrote before we broke up. We also would like to do a final show after the split comes out...
Posted by Reprobation on Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:26:00 PST