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Demon Hunter
It's rare that a heavy metal band delivers on the promise of a record that's "heavier than ever yet more melodic," but Demon Hunter has done exactly that with The World is a Thorn, their fifth studio album. The World is a Thorn follows the breathtaking and sometimes heartbreaking documentary 45 Days and a catalog of landmark albums that have made the band one of the most important in the genre. ...Read More
Close Your Eyes
Close Your Eyes formed when vocalist Shane Raymond met guitarist Brett Callaway while attending Hardin-Simmons University. Shane explains their first encounter, "We met in the cafeteria. Brett was wearing a Dillinger Escape Plan shirt and I was wearing an As I Lay Dying shirt, and we commented on each other's shirts. We started talking about music and realized that we had many of the same interests. " ...Read More
Fair
When Fair debuted with 2006’s The Best Worst-Case Scenario, the indie rockers were immediately heralded as an innovative buzz band known just as much for sophisticated songwriting as infectious appeal. In the four years between that underground blockbuster and the brand new Disappearing World, members Aaron Sprinkle (vocals, guitar), Erick Newbill (guitar), Joey Sanchez (drums, percussion) and Nick Barber (bass) haven’t just refined that celebrated formula, but threw some musical ...Read More
Living Sacrifice
Living Sacrifice is back. The Christian metal band's influence runs deep throughout the scene. Former and current members of Living Sacrifice went on to play in bands such as Evanescence, P.O.D. and Norma Jean. Living Sacrifice broke up in 2002 but returned to the metal community with a vengeance in 2008. The Infinite Order, the band's new album, was produced by Jeremiah Scott (Destroy Destroy Destroy) and mixed by Andy Sneap ...Read More
Onward To Olympas
Coming up among such North Carolina bands as Between the Buried and Me, Beloved, and He Is Legend gave the members of Onward To Olympas an appreciation for an array of genres. Since their formation in 2008, OTO has meticulously cultivated their sound, blending progressive metal, straight hardcore, and elements of death metal. That the band can indulge all their musical proclivities, yet produce such consistent results, while making it ...Read More
Saving Grace
Habakkuk 1:5 "Look at the nations and watch, and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told." This is the scripture that has been spoken over Saving Grace since their inception in 2005 in a small coastal beach town in one of the world’s smallest countries… New Zealand. From starting out playing shows in a garage ...Read More
Our City Sleeps
We don’t claim to be anything beyond five guys who desire to use whatever we have to tell you what we know to be real. Music is something that we love to share and it is our hope that the message within our music will display our love for you. Yes, love is what we need, but that love must be viewed in context of the human condition. We want ...Read More
Besides Daniel
Besides Daniel is an independent folk band from Atlanta, Georgia. Embarking in 2001 as a solo project, the effort grew organically into a duo, and currently appears as a full band. Writing songs about family, romance, faith, daydreams, and adventure, Besides Daniel aims to inspire love, beauty, truth, and creativity. Singer-songwriter and music school dropout, Danny Brewer (acoustic guitar, vocals) and music management student Susanne O’Day (vocals, keys, glockenspiel, melodica) ...Read More
The Hotshot Freight Train
The Hotshot Freight Train formed in January of 2005 with the desire to create a brand of music that reflects the spirit of the people of Appalachia. Resultantly, the band’s style can best be described as Americana/Narrative rock. The band’s moniker is derived from a common literary device used by beat poet Jack Kerouac to accentuate the sound and the excitement of fast moving, high priority trains that were often used ...Read More
David Tamaoka
David Tamaoka is a rare find – listen to any one of his songs, and you will know he is no ordinary singer/songwriter. His songs find the most unusual angles of approach to the most common human themes, and you are instantly transported into his world. David’s voice is the perfect vehicle for these soul-baring songs that range from intimate and emotional to hard-hitting acoustic/alternative rock. “My music is the ...Read More
The Waiting Kind
We are a progressive worship band that has a passion for seeing young, old, broken, and restored people touched by God's presence in music. We believe in the power of "waiting"...or the moment when our brokenness is met with God's redemption...As we wait...he hears and responds to our voice. "...Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will ...Read More
Divided by Friday
Catch Divided by Friday's new release "Holy Nights and Snowball Fights" on this Tuesday November 17th....Not only is Divided By Friday’s style varied from the rest of the pop-rock pack, but it’s their musical maturity and attitude towards the industry that really sets them apart. Unlike most other bands, Divided By Friday’s sense of who and where they are is strong. Working hard from the ground floor up, they ...Read More
Switchfoot
“Hello Hurricane acknowledges the storms that tear through our lives,” states Switchfoot singer and songwriter Jon Foreman. “This album is an attempt to respond to those storms with an element of hope, trying to understand what it means to be hopeful in a world that keeps on spinning.” With Hello Hurricane, Switchfoot is set to thrive in 2009 with a newfound independence: a new home studio HQ, a new label, and ...Read More
The Almost
“If I were a monster/Would you wince when you looked at me?/If I were a freak/Would you stare?/If I were a leper/Would you say unclean/If I was alone… Would you help me get free?” A Monster Monster is on the loose. The Almost’s second album for Tooth & Nail /Virgin Records began taking shape just as soon as the band came off the road after touring for their 2007 debut, Southern Weather, ...Read More
Safe Haven
It's not often that a band can be described by more than just their music. Often times you will hear a song or a band and categorize it or them into a specific genre. Safe Haven is known for making the type of music that has the ability to transform the listener to another time and place. A combination of melodic guitars, punching base tones and transcending drums, their music ...Read More
We Shot the Moon
While it’s common practice in rock bios to liken an act to something familiar, it’s hard to do that with San Diego’s WE SHOT THE MOON. That’s because it’s virtually impossible to compare them to any other band out there…not for more than a track or two, at least. WE SHOT THE MOON--led by former Waking Ashland frontman JONATHAN JONES--is a piano-heavy indie rock five-piece. On September 29, the band ...Read More
Relient K
Sometimes the best way to deal with a break-up is to write a batch of great songs about it, turn up the amplifiers and just rock out. Think of enduring classics – from Liz Phair’s Exile In Guyville to Nine Inch Nails’ Pretty Hate Machine to Beck’s Sea Change – and how they achieved musical catharsis from the crumbling walls and crossbeams of a relationship gone bad. On their latest ...Read More
Paramore
As Paramore embark on the most successful year of their career, there seems to be no limit as to what they can accomplish. The band’s last 2007 album RIOT! has sold nearly two million copies worldwide, the group was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008 for “Best New Artist” and even their live CD/DVD The Final Riot! has gone gold. However while these statistics are impressive, record sales have ...Read More
Hawk Nelson
Hawk Nelson will release "Live Life Loud" on September 22nd...On the title track and opening song of its fourth album, Hawk Nelson urges its listeners to “Live Life Loud." That sentiment, founding member Daniel Biro notes, is “as Hawk Nelson as Hawk Nelson gets." It's not just a matter of volume, mind you; it's a philosophy. The Hawk Nelson we hear on Live Life Loud knows how to do just that ...Read More
Advent
Fearless and Unapologetic. Bold and confrontational. Completely hopeful against a backdrop of desperate hopelessness. These are just a few of the phrases that apply to Advent’s Naked and Cold, the band’s sophomore release on Solid State Records. But perhaps the most accurate phrase for this new release is double-edged. Because this record will cut you deep: ...I stand against blind allegiance to a nation that kills its children. To a nation ...Read More
The Glorious Unseen
Like so many college students have during the course of their studies, The Glorious Unseen’s frontman Ben Crist also struggled with that one big question while attending Nashville’s Belmont University: What am I supposed to do with my life? If figuring that out wasn’t already complicated enough, Ben was in the midst of a breakup with his first serious girlfriend, while his home church was enduring an equally excruciating split ...Read More
Oh, Sleeper
An empowering call-to-arms descends upon the weak-minded, the undecided, the superficially concerned with the arrival of Son Of The Morning, the new album from OH, SLEEPER. On the followup to their When I Am God debut, these Texan lads obliterate any notions of the "sophomore slump" with an alarming urgency sure to excite anyone with even a cursory interest in bands like Underoath, Slipknot or Dillinger Escape Plan. Oh, ...Read More
Take It Back!
Take It Back! are releasing their new EP "Rumors Of Revolt" this Tuesday August 18th, which is limited edition with only 1,000 CDs being made. The EP contains 3 brand new songs and 2 cover songs (Black Flag's "Rise Above" and No Innocent Victim's "To Burn Again". Click the links below to check them out & order.
All the Day Holiday
All the Day Holiday will release the new album “The Things We’ve Grown to Love” on August 4th…This Ohio based four-piece has freshly come out of nowhere. Garnering an immense amount of attention and interest, things have picked up quickly for All the Day Holiday. While recently signing to Linc Star Records the band is in the midst of developing a strong foundation by building their fan base ...Read More
| 03/18/2010 09:52 am | News
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The Advocate 
Day of Fire 
Starfield 
War of Ages 
Demon Hunter 
Above The Golden State 
FFH 
Newworldson 
Wrench in the Works 
The Great Escape 
Memphis May Fire 
Face Your Giants 
Day Of My Escape 
Red Morning Voyage 
The Gun Show 
Meet Brett Callaway (Guitars & Vocals) of Close Your Eyes
Meet Sovereign Strength
Meet Moshe Dayan
We Came As Romans
Sean Patrick Rhorer, Director of A & R at Blood & Ink Records
This Armistice
Leroy Hamp of War of Ages
Creations
Mattie Montgomery of For Today
Vasely Sapunov of Saving Grace
The Fold
Aaron Sprinkle of Fair
Floodgates
Ryan Clark of Demon Hunter
Carlos Salazar of Before There Was Rosalyn
Laz from ALLORNOTHING
Chadwick Johnson of Hundredth
Ben Crist of The Glorious Unseen
Sons of God
