
Dead Earth was formed in November of 2017 by front man Jack Sabolich. The name Dead Earth came about after a drive through the city and seeing all the trash on the side of the road, it was a wake up call to what we as humans are doing to our planet, and also a tribute to the zombie horror movie genre.
The band would record it's first 6 song ep entitled Pollution a few months into their existence, at Mercenary Studios in March of 2018 and release it in July of 2018. The same lineup would than continue to write and play a very busy schedule of shows throughout 2018. In April of 2019 the band would return to Mercenary Studios to record the full length entitled Truth Hammer. The full length was released in August of 2019 and in October 2019 the band replaced guitarist Eric Jankowski and drummer Brian Shea with guitarist Joe DeFrank and drummer Matthew Kollar.
2020 hit the band pretty hard with the departure of bassist Bob Semancik and lead guitarist Mark Hardy, but Dead Earth continued on with singer Jack Sabolich, guitarist Joe DeFrank, Matthew Kollar-drums, and former Sappy Bell bassist (and fellow band mate of Matthew Kollar) Jeff Ready. The band continued to write new songs and developed a much heavier, thrash sound, and a new found energy that was not yet unleashed on the previous releases.
In December of 2021 the lineup went through a drastic change for the better. With the addition of Ernesto Colon (formerly of Merauder NYC) joining the fold in December of 2021, Dead Earth went back to the drawing board and decided to move the band in a much heavier direction. Curran Murphy (former Annihilator, Nevermore guitarist and current 72 Legions, and Custom Audio Mutation guru) joined the mix and brought with him bass player Dan Gates (72 Legions) and drummer Colton Zietler (72 Legions). Dead Earth hails from Cleveland, Ohio and is influenced by the cold, dark, gloomy weather, and the blue collar, heavy industrial steel mill town from which they come from. The band writes music that relates to every day problems that many people throughout the World deal with on a daily basis Their unique brutal sound, is definitely something for all Metalheads to check out.