Believer - The Brave - Breast Cancer Benefit T-Shirts
Designed and Crafted by: Believer
"The Brave" T Shirts - Believer Fans will recognize "The Brave" as one of the songs from our album, "Gabriel".
All sales benefit breast cancer research.
Although there are more breast cancer survivors today than in the past due to numerous advances in science and medicine, many women still lose the fight.
Believer and artist Michael Rosner (Eye Level Studio) have designed a limited edition shirt to sell with proceeds being donated to breast cancer research. Please join Believer and Eye Level Studio in helping to find a cure and honor “The Brave” women who have battled or are currently battling this horrific disease.
"Hello Everyone! KB here. As many of you know, I am a cancer researcher. There are several people in my life who have been touched by this disease, some are survivors and some who were not as fortunate. I am therefore quite passionate about wiping out this horrible illness as are many of my friends in the research community. We (Believer) have decided to release a limited time only T-shirt to sell with proceeds going to help fund ground-breaking cancer research at Johns Hopkins where I earned my Ph.D. I know that Believer fans and metal fans in general will step up for this cause and we thank you in advance for your support."
With many thanks,
Kurt Bachman
Dr. Ben Park Comments on Believer Breast Cancer Research Donations
Dear Fans of Believer,
Thank you all so much for your generosity in helping us achieve our mission. Our lab (in conjunction with Kurt Bachman a few years ago) has made it a top priority to find new therapies and one day cures for breast cancer. We are attempting to identify and validate new targets for breast cancer therapy, as well as create new drugs to treat breast cancers that harbor these genetically defined targets. The work we do is both labor intense and expensive, and your contribution will go a long way in helping us buy the necessary supplies needed to carry out our experiments. Thanks once again and Happy Holidays.
Ben Ho Park, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology
Associate Director, Medical Oncology Fellowship Training Program
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Park Lab website: https://jshare.johnshopkins.
About Believer
BELIEVER has gained worldwide recognition for their boundary-breaking,
artistic form of extreme metal. Joined by bands Cynic and Pestilence,
Roadrunner Records pushed a prog-metal/thrash campaign with the three
bands called, “The Breed Beyond” and solidified BELIEVER among the ranks
of unique, creative musical acts. The centerpiece of their 3rd release,
Dimensions, was a metal opera that brought them great praise from fans
and musicians worldwide and threw open the doors to collaborations
between metal and orchestral musicians and sealed the band’s legacy.
Formed in the mid eighties by guitarist/vocalist Kurt Bachman and drummer Joey Daub, the Pennsylvania based Believer was destined to put their mark on the music scene. With the early line- up of Bachman, Daub, guitarist Dave Baddorf and bassist Howe Kraft, BELIEVER secured a deal with East Coast indie label R.E.X. Music. The band’s debut album, Extraction from Mortality, was greeted with vast acceptance in the metal world and also drew attention from Roadrunner Records. The band’s second offering, Sanity Obscure, released by Roadrunner saw the band breaking new musical boundaries and establishing themselves as creative and experimental musicians in the metal community. With a new label and bassist, Wyatt Robertson replacing Kraft, BELIEVER set out in support of Sanity with a European tour and an extended tour of the States with fellow thrashers Sacrifice and Bolt Thrower. Upon completion of the tour, Bachman and Daub parted ways with Baddorf and Robertson. With a new musical vision for their 3rd record, they again called upon friend and violinist Scott Laird, and his opera-trained sister, Julianne Laird, who both made brief appearances on previous BELIEVER releases. Fellow musician and friend Jim Winters and cellist Glenn Fischbach rounded out the band and 1993’s Dimensions was the end result of this collaboration.
After a long hiatus, BELIEVER returned to the metal scene with an intense fury and the band’s first record in 16 years, Gabriel, once again saw BELIEVER conquering new musical and artistic territory. With an upgraded sound and songwriting that has been alluded to as a “sick, insane cross between Tool, Voivod, NIN, and Destruction”, BELIEVER’s 4th release Gabriel showed a band simply not focused on regurgitating and reliving their past. To this end, Bachman and Daub surrounded themselves with new creative blood in keyboardist/programmer Jeff King, guitarist Kevin Leaman, and bassist/programmer Elton Nestler. Securing a new home with legendary Metal Blade Records, BELIEVER was determined to win over fans of old and new with their brand of ‘BELIEVER-esque’ metal.
Enter 2011; BELIEVER and bassist/programmer Elton Nestler parted ways
and the band entered the studio to record their follow up to 2009’s
Gabriel, which was highly praised by critics and fans alike. Terrorizer
Magazine claimed “Gabriel is immensely heavy, deceptively melodic,
ambitiously daring, and brilliantly played…” while Outburn Magazine
called the album “thinking man’s thrash…far more welcomed than virtually
any bunch of new-school wankers.” HM Magazine declared “Metal isn’t
supposed to sound this good…this is unmistakably BELIEVER, and
unmistakably a great album. Welcome back!” with Metal Sucks.net
referring to the album as having “technical brilliance and progressive
depth.” The accolades didn’t stop there though… Revolver Magazine
asserted that ” BELIEVER’s adventurous breaks with past doctrine make
this comeback soar” while Decibel Magazine added “…it’s almost as if
they picked up right where they left off with their 1993 opus complexus,
Dimensions… equal amounts sonic combustion and intellectual
exploration” to the list of respects given to the stellar release.
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