Beyond Fear

For the band's album, see Beyond Fear (album). For the 1997 TV film, see Beyond Fear (film). For the book, see Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.

Beyond Fear
Origin	Akron, Ohio, United States
Genres	Heavy metal, thrash metal, power metal
Years active	2005–present
Labels	SPV
Members	Tim "Ripper" Owens John Comprix Dennis Hayes Eric Elkins
Past members	Dwayne Bihary
Website	http://timripperowens.com

Beyond Fear is an American heavy metal band started in March, 2005 by Tim "Ripper" Owens after he left Judas Priest as a side-project, apart from his former work with Iced Earth.

History

The band was started largely to satisfy Owens' desire to be involved in the song writing on a heavy metal album, something denied to him on most of his previous musical ventures. Writing duties are split between Owens and guitarist John Comprix. A demo was recorded after a month, and the debut album was released about a year later. Later on the same year as their debut album was released guitarist Dwayne Bihary quit the band, with the reasons being kept private.

Owens commented on Beyond Fear's next studio album in an interview with Metal Asylum: "It will always be classic metal but I think a lot of the later songs that we recorded for the debut, like “Scream Machine”, became favorites for fans. And lyrics to a song like that were not so serious and more cliché metal lyrics, you know about a metal machine (laughs), so I think some of the new songs may go in that direction. We are still gonna have songs like “Save Me” but I think it will probably have some more aggression. We have been writing now, John Comprix and I, for a while, I have a lot of ideas and melodies in my head that I really can’t use anywhere else (laughs). Its nice I get to use em for Beyond Fear. I mean I have been a writer for many years but I don’t get to do it as much as I would like and Iced Earth just keeps me so busy but its nice that every once and [sic] a while I get to do my thing with Beyond Fear. And we get to take our time with this band and practice together. I mean that’s what I want to hear with all my influences on one album that’s what I like to do with Fear."

Band members

• Tim "Ripper" Owens - vocals (2005–present)
• John Comprix - lead & rhythm guitar (2005–present)
• Dennis Hayes - bass (2005–present)
• Eric Elkins - drums (2005–present)

Former members

• Dwayne Bihary - rhythm guitar (2005–2006)

Discography

• Beyond Fear (2006)

See also

• Iced Earth
• Judas Priest
• Seven Witches
• Winter's Bane
• Yngwie Malmsteen

External links

• Homepage
• Official Brazilian Site
• Tim "Ripper" Owens interviewed by Highwire Daze (2006)