Chaffin founded the band along Guitarist Greg Minier, Bassist Kirk Palmer, and Vocalist Wayne Stonecipher in Fresno, California.
Before the Crucified's reunion show, Bryan Gray hired Chaffin to perform drums with the Blamed, a punk band out of California.
The two had met during their respective tenure as touring musicians for Mortal and recording on their entry in the Intense Live Series.
Fasedown re-formed in 1998 when Chaffin and lead guitarist Mike Phillips, got together with some ideas to bring a heavy style of music to the scene with a Christ-centered message.
[7] In 2007, the band decided to call it quits while Jim and Devin going to Once Dead, writing the album Visions of Hell.
The album didn't get released until 2008, due to the band's lead guitarist, Larry Farkas, leaving in the final process of recording.
[10] The band began writing and recording their new album, The Subversive Kind, which Chaffin, Brown and Macias wrote primarily.
[11] In 2016, the Blamed reunited after breaking up in 2002, with Chaffin returning, alongside Gray, Sid Doffour, Jeff Locke, and Wiley Willis.
[12] Current Former Hiatus Session or touring The Crucified Mortal Left Out The Blamed Fasedown Once Dead Lifesavers Underground Wretched Graverobber Deliverance