If there is one word to describe the Wareham metal band We Stand in Awe, it's “family.” That was made apparent during its final show Friday night, celebrating the group's four-year run as a band.

With founding member of the band Shane McIntyre leaving for California in the near future, the other band members decided to move onto new projects as well. We Stand in Awe played their final show to an energetic crowd of more than 100 at 3065 Live in Wareham.

“The Rogers family [owners of 3065 Live/Buzzards Play Productions] takes good care of everyone who steps on stage here and treats them like family,” said McIntyre, 19, the bassist for We Stand in Awe. “We haven't been treated better anywhere.”

Shane and his brother Liam McIntyre,16, started the band in March 2010. Liam, the band's drummer, said the brothers played covers together until they were introduced to guitarist Kevin O'Brien.

They brought in guitarist Luke Clark and singer Mike Maxim a week before their first show in New Bedford in 2010.

“It went horrible,” said Shane.

But with more practice, the eventual addition of bassist Jason Levesque, and a set at the Onset Summer of Love concert series a few years ago, the band began to make a name for itself. Some of that can be attributed to Ron Walker, who managed a Brockton-based band, Render the Fall, and who had We Stand in Awe open some shows for Render.

“Awesome bands like to surround themselves with other awesome bands,” Walker said.

We Stand in Awe manager Bob McIntyre (Shane and Liam's father) said the band has played more than 50 shows in four years, with many memorable ones along the way.

That includes a “haunted boat” show on the USS Salem in Quincy, a show at the Palladium in Worcester and sets at the Metal Feast series in Brockton. But many band members agreed one of their favorite shows was at the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge.

Shane said when We Stand in Awe began to play, the room was basically empty.

“I looked up halfway through our set and it was completely packed shoulder to shoulder,” he said. “People I had never seen before were singing along to our songs.”

While they won't be playing anymore live shows for the foreseeable future, the band recently recorded a full-length album, “The Beginning of the End.”

The aptly named album covers the entire musical growth of the band from the second song they ever wrote to their two most recent recordings, which were finished on Wednesday.

“I'm sad to see it go, but we'll all still play music,” said Maxim before Friday's show. “It's a brotherhood from beginning to end.”