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erFiq is a band former known as Death is Certain. The musicians disbanded after the well known murder of bass player, Aaron "erFiq" Brown and the soon after passing of band roadie and technician, Jeremiah "Great Bear" Martin. Originally formed in late 2004 with the line up of Vocalist/Drummer Chris Clover, Guitarist Matt Neyland, Bassist Aaron 'erFiq' Brown, Guitarist Chris Schoonover and Roadie/Tech Jeremiah 'Great Bear' Martin. In 2005 the band went in to the Art of Music Studios to record what was supposed to be there first release. They finished three songs, "Overcome", "Stole My Smile", and "Kill The Plague". After the original three were recorded, they began looking for a drummer to perform live so Chris Clover could focus on the vocals and in late 2005 with no luck, the band went on hiatus. On February 25th, 2006 bassist, Aaron Brown was at a local iHop with friends late at night and upon exiting was accused of not paying the bill. Off duty police officer, Carl Stow was working Security that night and went after Aaron and his friends. Upon Carl Stow exiting the restaurant, Aaron's vehicle was already moving and Carl Stow opened fire. Eight Rounds to be exact. Aaron was shot in the heart and was reported dead at the scene. No one else was harmed. The next morning, Chris Clover was informed of this by a somewhat anonymous phone call and called Chris Schoonover, even though the two were feuding. He then called Matt Neyland and Jeremiah Martin to inform them. All feuding was pushed aside and the band put there status to indefinite as it was seen that Aaron was irreplaceable. Just shy of two months later, Jeremiah Martin became very sick and was on several prescribed medications, and on the early morning of April 21st, 2006 he relaxed to the point where he stopped breathing and passed away in his sleep. The remaining band mates kept in touch but moved on to different things, Chris Schoonover joined the Army, Chris Clover toured with the band "Diacritical" and soon after married, and Matt Neyland joined the DC Funk Band "Knee Deep" leading to another band, "Every One Dies". In 2007 Chris Clover, Chris Schoonover and Matt Neyland thought to record the last song the band wrote together, "Kill The Plague" with a different feel as a Memorial Edition, but that too was not released. That was the last time the remaining band members recorded together.

In mid 2009 Chris Clover was diagnosed with a medical condition affecting his spinal chord and leading to nerve damage in both his arms and legs meeting with Carpal Tunnel that had been developing over time with no knowledge of it. Shortly after, Chris Clover and Chris Schoonover got in contact and knowing the 4 year mark since both Aaron and Jeremiah's death was coming up it was agreed to re-mix, re-master and re-vamp the 3 original tracks plus the Memorial Edition of "Kill The Plague". Chris Clover re-recorded the vocal tracks, and Ed Corpse555 M revamped all of the stringed instruments to better quality for mixing. In the consolidated session files the original Guitar solo was missing and a new one was written by Ed. In the midst of re-mixing the originals, album art was needed and close friend and well known artist, Glen 'Foo' Brown did the album art which was a painting of 'Medusa'. Chris Clover got the sudden urge to write a new song to go along with the album cover and asked Ed to do the guitar parts. The song is called Medusa and it was the first new track. It was then decided that more songs would be written in honor of the fallen band mates and so another drum track was recorded and sent via file transfer to Hawaii for Chris Schoonover to record guitar which would soon be titled "Stow Destroyed". Soon after writing new lyrics, recording vocals, and mixing it was agreed to start the song "Greatness of The Bear". Omar Waqar of Diacritical/Sarmust contributed an instrumental guitar track titled "Great Bear" Ursa Major" and the plans to construct the full song were starting to fall apart with scheduling and deadline coming up so Chris Clover wrote and recorded every instrument in the song "Greatness of The Bear" whicih was engineered by Stephen Sommerville and Chris Clover the night before the album had to be in the mail. More contributions were made from Ed Corpse555 M with a keyboard track for Kill The Plague Memorial Edition, and more co-production. The album art was finished, the album was mastered the whole night and morning before deadline. Matt Neyland was unfortunately unavailable for any new contributions to the album.

Chris Clover came across a DVR Video Tape in the attic and was pretty sure he knew what it was. He sent it off to close friend, Paul Busetti (Writer/Director of several short films such as Cannibal Cheer leading Camp, Antidote Seven, and Abe Lincoln) of Ten Sundays Productions in New York City, and it was in fact what they had both thought. The final practice session with Aaron Brown that Paul himself had filmed. Paul put together a video web promo featuring Aaron in the footage and as a favor to Paul, Francis Abbey who has done several Voice Overs and is also the director of the film 'Boxing Day' did the voice over for the promo. The promo was released early February 2010.

The first album is self titled and will be released March 1st, 2010 and all profits are to be going to Chris Clover's Medical Fund. A second album is in talks for Stephen Sommerville and Chris Clover to engineer and more guest work from Ed Corpse555 M, if Chris Schoonover has no schedule conflicts he is expected to contribute as well but most of the album will be recorded by Chris Clover alone. A live re-union one time show is in talks to take place in New York City late 2010 depending on Chris Clovers surgery and if Chris Schoonover can take leave and it has been said Stephen Sommerville will be training for the drum parts. Ed Corpse555 M will play guitar and Chris Schoonover will play bass for Aaron. The band will load and unload there own equipment as it is to feel as if neither Aaron or Jeremiah are being replaced.

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