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REVIEW : The Shackeltons - The Shackeltons

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Artist: The Shackeltons Album: The Shackeltons Label: Loveless Records Release Date: January 29, 2008 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Your Movement 2. Tremble 3. The Blood 4. Yellow Cadillac 5. The Ship 6. The Breaks 7. Emergency 8. Soft Heart 9. Madeline 10. Bloke 11. Get Out Hailing from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, the five men forming The Shackeltons play a hip and unadulterated form of rock and roll that can only be described as what bands like The Killers would sound like if they actually had the indie roots people say they did.… Continued →

REVIEW : Rodinia - Year of the Liar EP

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Artist: Rodinia Album: Year of the Liar EP Label: None (released independently) Release Date: September 10, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Bad Habits Don’t Die Easy 2. Sound the Alarms 3. Honestly I’m Lying 4. Year of the Liar 5. [Untitled Instrumental] At ages 18 and 17, this Virginia Beach five piece would normally be written off by most concert-goers before they even began to play. But this is the fault of the audience, because they would soon be won back when Rodinia ripped into their sonic display of sound and energy called music.… Continued →

REVIEW : Sonset Down - You Lose

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Artist: Sonset Down Album: You Lose Label: Wounded Records Buy It: Interpunk 1. Medicine and Gold 2. And the Headline Reads…”Terror! Terror!” 3. Running From Serpents 4. Sleeping With Wolves 5. Bullets and Battle Scars 6. The Art of Combat 7. Casualties 8. You Lose 9. Providence 10. The Outlaw: The Messenger 11. Blister (The Black Riders) Dear Josh, I apologize for the lateness of this review. Paraphrasing a line from A Few Good Men: “Since I don’t have a good excuse, I won’t bother coming up with a bad one.”… Continued →

REVIEW : Remove The Veil "Another Way Home"

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Band: Remove The Veil Title: Another Way Home Label: Facedown Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. The Crux 02. A Rage Scene Retold 03. Vampire 04. How To Jump A Ravine 05. Burn It Told 06. Watauga 07. Devil Child 08. Wait To Wake 09. The Revision 10. Another Way Home 11. The Secret Syndrome Members/Duties: Mark Hendrix: Vocals/Guitar Cliff McCall: Bass Pat Hood: Guitar Mark Coxwell: Drums Remove The Veil formed just 2 years ago, released an EP and then signed to Facedown. The band plays a punk-metal hybrid with a lot of Southern flare.… Continued →

REVIEW : A Plea For Purging "A Critique Of Mind And Thought"

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Band: A Plea For Purging Title: A Critique Of Mind And Thought Label: Facedown Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Sons Of Vipers, How Will You Escape The Judgment Of Hell 02. While The Sparrow Sleeps 03. The Slaying Of The Serpentine Dragon 04. The Betrayers 05. Perseverance 06. Resurrection Of The Beast 07. A Hymn Of Praise 08. Death Has Been Swallowed Up In Victory 09. Everything And Nothing 10. Turn It Down Members/Duties: Andy: Vocals John: Bass Blake: Guitar Lyle: Guitar Aaron: Drums Let there be shred!… Continued →

REVIEW : Impending Doom "Nailed. Dead. Risen"

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Band: Impending Doom Title: Nailed. Dead. Risen. Label: Facedown Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Left Behind 02. My Nemesis 03. In Reverence Of 04. Feeding The Decomposing 05. Nailed. Dead. Risen. 06. For All Have Sinned 07. At The Churches’ End 08. The Mark Of The Faithful 09. Condemned 10. Silence The Oppressors 11. He’s Coming Back Members/Duties: Brook Reeves: Vocals Manny Contreras: Guitar Greg Pewthers: Guitar David Sittig: Bass Andy Hegg: Drums Finally one of the popular Christian related labels have ventured into more brutal forms of metal!… Continued →

REVIEW : Immortal Souls "Wintereich"

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Band: Immortal Souls Title: Wintereich Label: Facedown Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: Chapter I – The Awakening 01. Nightfrost 02. Feareaper 03. Frozen Inside Chapter II – Relections Of Doom 04. Icon Of Ice 05. Color Of My Sky 06. Constant Chapter III – The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death 07. Idlestate 08. Heart Of Cold Chapter IV – The Passage 09. Winter Of My Discontent 10. Black Water 11. Wintereich Members/Duties: A. Sarkioja: Vocals/Bass E. Sarkioja: Lead Guitar Pete: Rhythm Guitar Kronqvist: Drums Facedown have once again teamed up with these Finnish metalheads.… Continued →

REVIEW : Inked In Blood "Sometimes We Are Beautiful"

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Band: Inked In Blood Title: Sometimes We Are Beautiful Label: Facedown Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Call To Arms 02. Angel Of Lost Hopes 03. Altars 04. To Be Your One And Only 05. Instrumental 06. This Moment 07. Somewhere Familiar 08. With Devils 09. In The Wake Of The Loss 10. Paradise Regained Members/Duties: Joey Trump: Vocals Matt McDonnell: Guitar Steven Gosvener: Bass Kelly Mullinix: Guitar/Vocals Stephen Poole: Drums Inked In Blood are yet another upstream from Strike First Records. After releasing a 5 song EP, they were brought up to Facedown and released 2005’s ‘Lay Waste The Poets’.… Continued →

REVIEW : War Of Ages "Fire From The Tomb"

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Band: War Of Ages Title: Fire From The Tomb Label: Facedown Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Intro 02. Stand Your Ground 03. Brothers In Arms 04. The Awakening 05. False Prophet 06. Only The Strong Survive 07. My Solitude 08. Battle On 09. One Day 10. Scars Of Tomorrow 11. Broken Before You 12. Second Chance Members/Duties: Leroy Hamp: Vocals Steve Brown: Guitar Johnathan Lynch: Guitar TJ Alford: Bass Alex Hamp: Drums War Of Ages is a pretty household name now in the hardcore scene.… Continued →

REVIEW : Sleeping Giant "Dread Champions Of The Last Days"

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Band: Sleeping Giant Title: Dread Champions Of Last Days Label: Facedown Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. The Army Of One 02. This Calls For Patient Endurance On The Part Of The Saints 03. Narrow Road 04. Whoremonger 05. Behold The Pale Horse 06. Dynasty 07. Covenant 08. Blame It On The Holy Rollers 09. The Power Of Prayer 10. Sleeping Giant 11. No Sleep From My Eyes 12. King Of Kings 13. Oh Praise Him 14. This Is The Word Members/Duties: Thom Green: Vocals Travis Boyd: Drums Geoff Brouillette: Guitar J.R.… Continued →

REVIEW : More Yom - Ripe

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Artist: More Yom Album: Ripe Label: None (released independently) Release Date: 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Beautiful 2. Demon Donkey 3. Set Sail 4. Peace of Mind 5. The Laugher 6. So Bold 7. Our Savior’s Eyes 8. Elements 9. Show Me the Door Bonus Tracks: 10. Tonic 11. Demon Donkey (the original 1:00 am version) It’s weird. I thought that all the reggae rock bands that were playing today had started their careers sometime before 1999. Red Hot Chili Peppers, 311, and Sublime all played a style similar to More Yom over five (nearly ten) years ago, and there have been no newcomers to the fad since then.… Continued →

REVIEW : Oh, Sleeper - When I Am God

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Artist: Oh, Sleeper Album: When I Am God Label: Solid State Records Release Date: October 23, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Vices like Vipers 2. I Will Welcome the Reaping 3. We Are the Archers 4. Charlatan’s Host 5. The Siren’s Song 6. The Color Theft 7. To Flagship 8. His Name Was Bishop 9. Building the Nations 10. Revelations in the Calm 11. The End of a Dark Campaign Finally. A word that can be used in many ways to describe the release of this album.… Continued →

INTERVIEW : Crimson Refuge

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Crimson Refuge Bio as seen on Myspace: Crimson Refuge is a 5-Piece Indie/Rock band based out of Eastern North Carolina. Their sound is a unique blend of southern/indie rock containing elements of hardcore. Their lyrics are based on everyday situations that life has thrown at the guys both the good and the bad. The force that drives them is their faith in Jesus Christ and their desire to make Him known. Crimson Refuge has been making their way into the music scene since fall of 2007.… Continued →

REVIEW : Olivia the Band "Where We Come From It Never Snows"

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Artist: Olivia the Band Album: Where Come From It Never Snows Label: Up At Nite/Syntax Records Crap, am I impressed or what? I know that’s a real zinger of a line to throw out in the first sentence but wow, oh wow, is this good! Every song is a radio single and eager for your listen. Every beat is addictive and every strum of the guitar is like heaven. This album transcends all genres and rises above the melodic punk rock background they rise from. This album beats back all preconceived notions you may have and tosses them out the window.… Continued →

REVIEW : Demon Hunter - Storm the Gates of Hell

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Artist: Demon Hunter Album: Storm the Gates of Hell Label: Solid State Records Release Date: November 6, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Storm the Gates of Hell 2. Lead Us Home 3. Sixteen 4. Fading Away 5. Carry Me Down 6. A Thread of Light 7. I Am You 8. Incision 9. Thorns 10. Follow the Wolves 11. Fiction Kingdom 12. The Wrath of God Exploding onto the Christian metal scene in 2002 with dark imagery and a shroud of mystery was a band by the name of Demon Hunter.… Continued →

REVIEW : Our City Sleeps- Wake Up!

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Band: Our City Sleeps Album: “Wake Up!” Label: Unsigned Released: Fall/Winter 2007 Reviewed by: Cory Myspace Our City Sleeps combines pop with indie rock to make a brand of catchy rock ’n’ roll all their own. Their sound is somewhere in between the artsy styling of Cool Hand Luke and the pop/rock hooks of Forever Changed. The recording is pretty decent on this album, but I feel like it fails to capture the energy these guys have when they play live. And to be fair capturing that energy is a hard thing to accomplish.… Continued →

INTERVIEW : Fono

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Ladies & Gentlemen. What you are about to read is my first ever phone interview, and it happened to be with Fono’s leader, Del Currie, a couple months ago. Please go through it all, i know it’s long, for we talked almost an hour. But it’s hard not to keep asking questions to a guy who answers them in such an intelligent, wise and humorous way ! So come and discover what Fono and their latest release, Too Broken To Brake, is all about.… Continued →

INTERVIEW : This Holiday Life

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Recently, I’ve had the chance to do an e-mail interview with Bobby, from one of my favorite bands, This Holiday Life. Read the interview, and enjoy it. 1) Please introduce yourself, and state your role in This Holiday Life. Please also tell us about any previous musical projects you’ve been involved with. Bobby: I play the bass. Been in some bands before, namely Donkey Talk, with Scott. Joe was in a band called Speaking of Aslan and played the Kazoo in Pewee Herman’s side project.. And Mark played drums in NCM.… Continued →

REVIEW : Tree by Leaf - There Is a Vine

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Artist: Tree by Leaf Album: There Is a Vine Label: Long Ago Light Release Date: 2006 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Over and Under 2. Chicago at Night 3. His Banner over Us Is Love 4. Fraud 5. Come on, Babe 6. Little Lost and Lonely 7. I Know Naught of Thee 8. Prince or Pauper 9. Believe It 10. You Have Always Met Me 11. God Is Good 12. Doxology Once in a while (or extremely often, depending where you get your music), one will find a band that scores very low on the originality scale.… Continued →

INTERVIEW : TrustFall

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I recently conducted another interview with the guys of TrustFall. Most of you probably don’t know them, but they have great hearts for God. They have no studio-recorded songs, but that does not matter. They play music for the worship aspect, and because they know it counts.

– Please tell me who you are, and what you do in TrustFall, and whether or not TrustFall is your first band ever, and how long you’ve been playing in TrustFall.

Nicky Z- drums – not my first band – creator of Trustfall

Bobby- vocals, keyboard, acoustic – this is my first band – 5 months

Josh- back up vocals, guitar – this is not my first band – 5 months

-I saw on your myspace that TrustFall broke up, then reformed with three new members.

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REVIEW : Far-Less - A Toast to Bad Taste

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Artist: Far-Less Album: A Toast to Bad Taste Label: Tooth & Nail Records Release Date: October 23, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Toast to Bad Taste 3. I Hope that We Swim (Oceans) 4. Thin Line 5. Segue to Devil without a Clue 6. Devil without a Clue 7. It’s Not Me, It’s You 8. Segue to Gentlemen (Go to Sleep) 9. Gentlemen (Got to Sleep) 10. Keep Keep 11. Segue to So Glad 12. So Glad 13. Surprise Funeral (For the Charmed) 14.… Continued →

REVIEW : David Crowder Band - Remedy

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Artist: David Crowder Band Album: Remedy Label: Sparrow Records Release Date: September 25, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. The Glory of It All 2. Can You Feel It? 3. Everything Glorious 4. …neverending… 5. Never Let Go 6. O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing 7. Rain Down 8. We Won’t Be Quiet 9. Remedy 10. Surely We Can Change David Crowder has always stood out in the Christian market. If you hate worship music, you have probably made the exception for David Crowder, despite the fact that most of the worship music world loves him too.… Continued →

REVIEW : Half Life 2 The Orange Box

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Game: The Orange Box Developer: Valve Publisher: Electronic Arts Genre: First Person Shooter Rating: “M” for Mature- Blood and Gore, Violence, and Some Language Website This is our first video game review here at IVM and what better way to kick it off than to review the best video game deal in history. The Orange Box is actually five complete games put into one compilation. It contains Half Life 2 and its sequels Episode One and Episode Two; it also contains a first person puzzle game called Portal which ties into the Half Life universe; and finally the multiplayer slug-fest Team Fortress 2.… Continued →

REVIEW : Gorilla Warfare - The Battlefields

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Artist: Gorilla Warfare Album: The Battlefields Label: Wounded Records Buy: Gorilla Warfare’s Myspace 1. Awaken 2. Another Day 3. Crusade 4. The Great Depression 5. Working Class 6. Pack of Wolves 7. No Way Out 8. Our War 9. The Truth 10. Two Faces 11. Line of Respect 12. When The Good Times Are Over (Bonus Track) While perusing Gorilla Warfare’s MySpace, pursuant to the writing of this review, I saw that they tend to post reviews in their blog. I rather hope they don’t post this one there.… Continued →

REVIEW : The Myriad - Prelude to Arrows

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Band: The Myriad Title: Prelude to Arrows Label: Kock Records Review By: Julio D. Anta Tracklisting: 01. Forget What You Came For 02. A Thousand Winters Melting 03. The Holiest Of Thieves 04. “Don’t Let Them See You!” 05. We Will Be Disappointed Together (arrow version) 06. BONUS: Sneak Peak at With Arrows, With Poise Members/Duties: Jeremy Edwardson: Vocals, Guitar, Programming John Schofield: Bass Steven Tracy: Guitar, Keys, Programming Jonathan Young: Guitar, Cello Bow Randy Miller: Drums Currently being spun on MTV2 via “Dew Circuit Breakout” promos every other commercial break (or at least every time I give that piece of crap channel a chance at pleasing my eyes), Seattle natives The Myriad are on the verge of releasing their highly anticipated sophomore effort With Arrows, With Poise.… Continued →

REVIEW : The Devil Wears Prada "Plagues"

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Band: The Devil Wears Prada Title: Plagues Label: Rise Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Goats On A Boat 02. Number Three, Never Forget 03. HTML Rulez Dood 04. Hey John, What’s Your Name Again? 05. Don’t Oink And Dance 06. You Can’t Spell Crap Without “C” 07. This Song Is Called 08. Reptar, King Of The Ozone 09. The Scorpion Deathlock 10. Nickels Is Money Too Members/Duties: Mike Hranica: Vocals Chris Rubey: Guitar Jeremy DePoyster: Guitar/Vocals James Baney: Keys Daniel Williams: Drums Andy Trick: Bass The Devil Wears Prada showed up on the metalcore scene with their debut “Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord” in 2006.… Continued →

REVIEW : Facedown Records - Something Worth Fighting For

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Band: Various Title: Something Worth Fighting For (CD/DVD) Label: Facedown Records Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: CD: 01. Means “These Are The Words” 02. War Of Ages “Absence Of Fear” 03. xDeathstarx “Burn Everything” 04. Bloodlined Calligraphy “Frienemies” 05. Comeback Kid “Step Ahead” 06. Seventh Star “Now At Hand” 07. Inked In Blood “Lest I Sleep The Sleep Of Death” 08. Sleeping Giant “The Power Of Prayer” 09. No Innocent Victim “Set Apart” 10. xLooking Forwardx “All Aces” 11. Nodes Of Ranvier “Dolores” 12. Symphony In Peril “Stiletto” 13.… Continued →

REVIEW : Nodes Of Ranvier "Defined By Struggle"

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Band: Nodes Of Ranvier Title: Defined By Struggle Label: Victory Review By: JoshIVM Tracklisting: 01. Sermon 02. Valjean 03. Endless Faith 04. Purpose In Pain 05. Wrathbearer 06. Defined By Struggle 07. Archegos 08. Sergeant Sorrow 09. Nagheenanajar 10. Confront 11. Infidelity Members/Duties: Kyle Benecke: Vocals Jake Stefek: Guitar Josh Ferrie: Drums Jon Parker: Guitar Brady Murphy: Bass I shouldn’t have been surprised when I heard the first single off of “Defined By Struggle”. The band has pretty much changed on every album since their debut, so I should be used to it by now right?… Continued →

REVIEW : Canterbury Effect - We Are All Dogs

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Artist: Canterbury Effect Album: We Are All Dogs Label: Crossroads of America Records Release Date: September 25, 2007 Review by: Eric Pettersson Tracklist: 1. Sasquatch Wristwatch 2. The Water’s Warm and It’s Getting Warmer 3. Everybody Says They’re a Little Bit Irish 4. They Don’t Run These Things on Hopes and Dreams 5. They’re My Friends and I Like Them 6. Gin Breath 7. Little Brown Bottles 8. Best Man 9. Crown Vic 10. Oh My God, I Totally Hate This Place 11. Southern Indiana Yacht Club 12.… Continued →

INTERVIEW : Jason Dunn (Facedown Records)

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JoshIVM: You began the label while with No Innocent Victim, what’s the state of the band currently? We know you guys won’t be touring but will we see any more albums? Jason: We are all so busy with other things that NIV is on hold for a little bit. We’re definitely not calling it quits or anything, just focusing on other areas of our lives. Tim (guitar) got married this spring and is both a full time youth pastor and painter, I have my hands full with Facedown, Jason Moody (Singer) has 4 kids and is building a house right now, and working 60 hours a week, etc… All of us are married with mortgages and bills and not enough time in our schedules.… Continued →

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