Deception of Faith

Formed by future- The D-Gen's members Kenny Jockel and John Bowker, after their first concert together in a previous unnamed cover band led by their 9th Grade Math teacher, multi-instrumentalist Mr. Ken Mades. Mades not only convinced them both (as well as a third member, Vinny, on bass) to start playing, but he proceeded to convince the school to give him his own separate class made of just Kenny, John, and Vinny, and taught each of them their respective instruments from September 2004 to June 2005. On May 5th 2005, the 3 students (led by Mades on lead guitar/lead vocals) played a concert at the school, which was the first time on stage for everybody except Mades, a set that was repeated again the following night. Soon after the end-of-year shows on May 5th and May 6th 2005, Kenny and John formed Deception of Faith, named after the 1989 Decimation song of the same name. Their first original song, "Destroy the Holy", was the very first original material ever written and performed by either member. On August 27th 2005 they recorded "Destroy the Holy", and Kenny did his first ever cover design. After extensive trial and error attempting to get the covers to print in the correct size on John's neighbor's printer, Kenny dubbed the song onto 10 unlabelled plain black tapes before 8 of the finished tapes were distributed by word-of-mouth (and a few through the mail to people from Myspace.com) in January 2006. Deception of Faith planned to record their 2nd original track for another 1-song tape, before an EP of the first 2 songs re-recorded alongside a few new ones. They also were working on other new Black Metal inspired material for a tape under their side-project BlackWinged (named after a Darkthrone song). However, none of that material ended up being recorded, due to legal problems John was embroiled in at the time. This caused him to go away suddenly and caused Deception of Faith to split up. Kenny then started a new band with another future- The D-Gen's member Jesse Christiansen on lead guitar/lead vocals, as well as with 2 of Kenny's future Hell Battalion bandmates. Jesse named this project Black Illusion . On August 27th, 2020, the 15 year anniversary of the recording of "Destroy the Holy" Infernal Trinity Records re-issued it in a limited edition run of 50 copies, hand-numbered on both the cover and cassette, with an updated, redesigned and expanded inlay, pro-cut to-length black tapes, printed labels, fold-out inserts (that include a digital download link) and new 2020 The D-Gen's business cards. As of 2020 Kenny and John have plans to incorporate a riff from each of the first 2 Deception of Faith songs into their new material with The D-Gen's .