Career
He was Straight Edge from an early age, he remained until his late twenties and lives in Orange County. In June 2002, Brandan"s jaw was broken in a fight after a show. He went through surgery the next day.
Though this resulted in Bleeding Through canceling their tour in support of Portrait of the Goddess, he recovered quickly enough to play at Hellfest 2002.
Brandan has been in Eighteen Visions, Throwdown, Bleeding Through, The Mistake and Die Die My Darling, a Misfits cover band from which nothing has been released. He has recently formed a new band along with Brooks Wackerman of Bad Religion, Ryan Sinn formerly of The Distillers and Dave Nassie of Number Use for a Name called The Innocent.
Brandan is also the vocalist for a sideproject called "Suffer Well" with Mick Kenney (Anaal Nathrakh) and Trevor Friedrich (Combichrist, ex-18 Visions), on drums. He contributed guest vocals on the track "The Architects of Repulsion" on Australian deathcore band The Red Shore"s debut album Unconsecrated.
Also on American Film Institute"s Decemberunderground (2006) and Tiger Army"s Music From Regions Beyond as backing vocals.
Also performing guest vocals on the track "Widowmaker" on Psyclon Nine"s album "We The Fallen". He also has featured in The band Mission May I"s new album Monument, on a bonus iTunes track from pre-orders. Schieppati was also featured in the song "If lieutenant"s Dead, We"ll Kill lieutenant" by metal band Motionless In White
He was also managing a few bands including Letlive, Stray From The Path, Foreign the Fallen Dreams, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza, Lionheart, All Shall Perish, and The Ghost Inside.
He started a side project with Atreyu frontman, Alex Varkatzas called "I Am War".
Alex has described the music they are making together as "brutal heavy short fast blasts of metallic hardcore punk". They released one album "Outlive You All".
Bleeding Through played their final show on August 3, 2014 at Chain Reaction ending the band"s 15 year career. Brandan owns a gym called Rise Above Fitness in Huntington Beach, California.
In 2015 Brandan created a one man band named The Iron Son.
The solo project released one studio album titled Enemy that came out on December 1st. Brandan plans on going on tour with his solo band with fill ins for live performances sometime in 2016.
