For All Those Sleeping

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For All Those Sleeping
Origin	St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA
Genres	Melodic metalcore, metalcore
Years active	2007–present
Labels	Fearless
Members	Mike Champa David Volgman-Stevens London Snetsinger Ethan Trekell Jerad Pierskalla
Website	forallthosesleeping.com

For All Those Sleeping is an American metalcore band formed in St. Cloud, Minnesota in 2007. The band combines pop punk with metalcore to create their own dynamic, hybrid sound. Consisting of singer Mike Champa, guitarist and singer Jerad Pierskalla, guitarist and keyboardist David Volgman-Stevens, and drummer Ethan Trekell, who all met in high school, as well as bassist London Snetsinger, who joined the band in 2009, the quintet has a sound that punctuates its melodic yearning with brutal breakdowns. After self-releasing their The Lies We Live EP in 2008, the band got the attention of Fearless Records, who signed them the following year. Their full-length debut, Cross Your Fingers, was released in 2010 through the label, and was quickly followed up with a second album, Outspoken, in 2012. They have toured across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. They did a cover of Taylor Swift's "You Belong WIth Me" for Punk Goes Pop 4 released in November 2011.

Band members

• Mike Champa - lead vocals
• London Snetsinger - clean vocals, bass
• Jerad Pierskalla - rhythm guitar, add'l unclean vocals
• David Volgman-Stevens - lead guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
• Ethan Trekell - drums, percussion

Discography

Studio albums

Year	Album	Label	Chart peaks
			US
2010	Cross Your Fingers	Fearless Records	-
2012	Outspoken		98

Music Videos

Year	Song	Director
2010	"Favorite Liar"	Cole Dabney
2011	"I'm Not Dead Yet"	n/a
2012	"Mark My Words"	Cody Blue Snyder

External links

• Official website