Winter Solstice was a Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, an Abrahamic, monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the Canonical gospels and the letters of the New Testament...

 metalcore

Metalcore

Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band from Lynchburg, Virginia

Lynchburg, Virginia

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 signed to Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

. They split up in 2006. Some of the former members have come together with members of Everything Falls Together and to form a new band, Ghost of a Fallen Age. Former frontman Matt Tarpey currently sings for the Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay...

 metalcore band We Were Gentlemen

We Were Gentlemen

We Were Gentlemen was an American metalcore band from Virginia Beach, Virginia.-History:The band was renamed from Through The Harlots Eyes by Richard Neupert and Kalan Blehm in July 2005, in their hometown of Virginia Beach. They had previously played guitar together in various local bands for a...

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Former members

• Caleb Goins - Guitar
• Roger Turner - Guitar (founding member)
• Matt Tarpey - Vocals (went on to be a founding member of Fjord and also filled in for Underoath
  Underoath
  Underoath is an American Christian metalcore band from Tampa, Florida. Founded by Dallas Taylor and Luke Morton on November 30, 1997 in Ocala, Florida, subsequently its additional members were from Tampa, Florida...
  
   in 2003)
• Duke Cuneo - Drums (founding member)
• Nate Smith - Bass
• David Clark- Vocals
• Corey Snyder- Vocals
• Steve Carlson - Vocals (founding member)
• J.T. Turner - Guitar (founding member)
• Peter Walters - Vocals
• Jeff Cohn - Guitar (Touring member: Member of If The Accident Will)
• Myke Terry - Guitar (Touring member: Former member of Cassius and former Bury your dead vocalist (2007 to 2011)

Discography

Year	Title	Label	Format	Other information
2002	Winter Solstice	Harvest Earth Records	CD [ep]	Split w/ Dwell Beneath
2004	The Pulse Is Overrated	Harvest Earth Records	CD [ep]
2005	The Fall of Rome The Fall Of Rome (Album) The Fall of Rome is the 2005 debut album by the American metalcore band Winter Solstice. It was produced by Andreas Magnusson and Winter Solstice.-Track listing:#"Following Caligula" – 4:20#"Calibrate The Virus" – 3:39...	Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...	CD

Former Member JT Turner's Quote

JT Turner's quote taken from the Facebook Group R.I.P-Winter Solstice's message board created by a member with the title "Why did they quit the band?". JT replied on Apr 18, 2007 with

Hey fellas...




The deal is this with the breakup:




Following our tour with Extol, The Showdown, and Becoming the Archetype back in the summer of 05...and really, right after we played cornerstone in July i really felt that God was calling me out of music. I felt a need to get a steady job and go in a career direction so that I could settle down and get married to my then girlfriend, now fiancee (soon to be wife in june :)). It was very interesting, something that I had been SO passionate about for YEARS was all of a sudden gone, normally a good sign when a persons calling has been directed elsewhere. After lots and lots of prayer I made the decision to leave WS following our tour with Sworn Enemy that ended in August of 05. The rest of the band planned to move on ward, but along with not really finding the right guy to fit my spot and some creative differences they decided to split. I know both Duke (drums) and Nate (bass) really felt like they needed to head back to school (as did I) and pursue their masters degrees..which is what I am currently doing as well. Peter and Caleb were going to keep WS going, but some logistics got cloudy and it just kinda fell away...culminating in Ghost of a Fallen Age being founded by Caleb. Caleb is really the only member doing full time music now, Peter still tours with Haste the Day as a merch guy (which is how we met him to begin with).




The bottom line, so to speak, was that the majority of us were around the 25 and 26 year old range. that may sound young, but in the game of music...if yo're not between 18-22...then you had better be making a for-real living, which we were not. we made enough to pay minimal bills, but after that..it was just enough to keep us going to the next show. music is a young mans game.




In the end though we all still love music, metal in particular (except i think duke who is kind of soured on it), and our lives are going well. I for one am a fan of Calebs new band and i hope that you all are supporting him.




if you have any questions, dont be afraid to ask :)




cordially,




JT Turner

External links

• Winter Solstice at MySpace
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• Winter Solstice at Metal Blade Records
  Metal Blade Records
  Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...