Evolving from thrash metal to a more progressive, symphonic brand of metal with classical vocals and instruments, the CCM group
Believer formed in the late '80s. Vocalist/guitarist
Kurt Bachman and drummer
Joey Daub are the only constants in the continually revolving lineup.
Believer's debut album
Extractions from Mortality (1989) also included guitarist
Dave Baddorf, bassist
Howe Kraft and violin playing by
Scott Laird, but 1990's
Sanity Obscure replaced
Kraft with
Wyatt Robertson and added the vocals of Julianne Laird Hoge. In 1993,
Believer was added to the Roadrunner stable for
Dimensions, an album that included
William Keller as
the Voice.
Bachman and
Daub later put the group on indefinite hiatus while the two did production work for such artists as
Turmoil and
Living Sacrifice out of their Trauma Studios in Pennsylvania. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide