As Empires Decay

As Empires Decay is a metal band from the state of Michigan. This band was formed in 2009 by Dustin Santana, a known bass player in his home town of Lansing, MI. He asked drummer & friend Theron Jones to start a new project with him. Having grown up and shared the stage with each other countless times over the years. Shortly after, Dustin found guitarist Jason Diffenbaugh’s home videos on Youtube.com. Impressed by Jason’s skills they had him try out. Needless to say, he was quickly asked to join. A few months after many different tryouts for an additional guitarist they got a reply on Myspace.com from guitarist Toby Wright. As the band was looking for members over the age of 18 they had previously passed over Toby’s classified ad. However, Toby contacted the band and requested to try out. The new band decided to give him a shot. In the middle of the first tryout they offered Toby the open guitar position. This band was almost complete, except for a vocalist. After searching through countless vocalists and a month of try outs they got a response from an ad they had created on Craigslist.com. It was from vocalist Rick Titus, formerly of Detroit’s All Else Fails. Rick was recommended to the band by a member of Metal Blade recording artist’s Battlecross ( then an up and coming Michigan band & longtime friends of Rick’s). After having him tryout they offered him the position & within a few months later they started playing shows. Over the years they have shared the stage with bands such as Devildriver, Kittie, Mushroomhead, Soulfly, Cattle Decapitation, Prong, Mutiny Within, Kataklysm, Battlecross and many more. In October of 2010 they released their EP titled “Everything But Nothing” which landed them plays not only throughout the states but in a few other countries as well. The summer of 2011, As Empires Decay recorded their first full length album release in Ohio at Vibe studios, with studio engineer John Burke of the band “Forever In Terror”. On November 10th, 2011 a few tracks from the album were played on 88.9 the Impact, a radio station out of East Lansing, MI. Also doing a live interview about their upcoming CD release. In early 2012, founding member Jason Diffenbaugh made the difficult decision to step down to focus more on family. In steps Cody Dulisch, recommended by Toby to not only fill the vacant position but also to bring a new perspective & new intensity to AED. On National “Metal Day”, 11-11-11 As Empires Decay released the album entitled “The Palpability of Human Suffering”, which offers a different taste of metal on every track. From melody to brutality & everything in between, As Empires Decay strives to add something for every kind of “metal head” to enjoy. Be prepared to have your face melted by the heaviness & then have it restored by their harmony. Update (04/2013): Well here are two years later....we should probably update this more :P Anyway, back in November 2012 Rick decided he wanted to leave the band to pursue other avenues of the world and we supported him and all was still pretty excellent. In the absence of Mr. Rick Titus, we've been operating as a four-piece with me, Toby, covering the lead vocals for the time being while we search high and low for that one dude who will powerfully and properly fill our empty bro-slot in the band. We're currently finishing up recordings for our next release which will have 5 brand new songs for everyone to enjoy so they can come out to our shows and join in the fun! We will be releasing a series of EPs leading up to the release of our second full length album and we really hope you enjoy what's to come as we've been working really hard stepping up our writing games and learning a lot to take what we've already done with our first album to the next level. That's about all for the moment...we will probably recap towards the end of the year. For Booking e-mail asempiresdecaybooking@gmail.com