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Released September 19th, 2006, the major label review from Nevertheless featured two singles, The Real and Live Like Were Alive, as well as a number of other fantastic songs including Lover, O’Child, and Let It Fall. Josh Pearson’s emotion filled voiced, backed by strong guitars and powerful drums make this album a must-have for any fan of Christian rock. Featuring a pop/rock sound, Nevertheless truly released an album that made an impact in 2006, and is still one of my favorites to this day. |
| Two years after their debut album We Shine, Fee returns with a new collection of songs, titled Hope Rising. While Shine was a very solid album, I feel like Hope really elevates elevates them to new levels, both musically and in worship. Some of the notable tracks among the eleven original tracks on this album are Rise and Sing, Glory to God Forever and Arms That Hold the Universe. Produced by Jason Hoard and lead singer Steve Fee, Hope Rising showcases the continued growth and maturity of Fee as a band. Steve Fee is quoted saying “We are thrilled that the success of the first record is giving us a platform with Hope Rising to inject God into the equation of tragedy and uncertainty going on in the world.”
A few of my favorites on this album include: Everything Falls: This song explains to us how the Lord will hold us together in our times of need.We may fall at times, but He will be there to lend a hand to pick us back up so we may live for his purpose and give him glory. He will not leave us and His love is never ending. Send Me Out: This is our anthem as Christians, to go out into the world to make Him known, to spread the truth and knowledge of the Word, to be a servant in the name of Jesus, to give all for Him, to take up the cross and follow Him. This album will not let you down, and even if you have never heard anything from Fee before, you will still enjoy it. Most of all, it will help to further your understanding that through the love of the Father, we can always have Hope. He will always be there to hold us and guide us through the seasons of life. You should definitely purchase this album and add it to your collection.
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“Mystery of You” Marks Eighth Consecutive No. 1 Single
Band Starts “Class of 2009” Fall Tour With Saving Abel October 27
(Nashville, Tenn.) October 1, 2009 – Rock band RED enters the home stretch of 2009 busier than ever, thanks to the strength of the material off its sophomore record, Innocence & Instinct. The third single off the album, “Mystery of You” has made it all the way to No. 1 on Billboard’s Christian Rock chart for the week of September 28th.
Innocence & Instinct’s two previous singles, “Death of Me” and “Fight Inside”, also hit No. 1 giving the band a total of eight consecutive career No. 1s including five singles from the band’s debut album End of Silence. In November 2008, the history making “Fight Inside” debuted at No. 1 on the R&R Christian Rock chart, as the first single in the history of the magazine and chart to accomplish this incredible feat.
RED has been impacting the country with headlining slots and festival appearances during the summer months, and will begin a tour titled “Class of 2009” alongside fellow rock practitioners Saving Abel, Pop Evil and Taddy Porter, starting October 27 in San Antonio, Texas. For updated tour cities and venues, please visit RED’s newly re-launched Web site at www.redmusiconline.com.
Additionally, RED has released an online video which includes behind-the-scenes footage of the band and recent on stage performances. To view the new video check out the band’s Web site at www.redmusiconline.com or visit http://bit.ly/1oITXn.
The Nashville-based group, made up of MICHAEL BARNES (vocals), ANTHONY ARMSTRONG (guitar) RANDY ARMSTRONG (bass), JASEN RAUCH (guitars), and JOE RICKARD (drums), has logged an impressive 500+ live shows since releasing the debut album End Of Silence in 2006, and has given fans a taste of new music on Innocence & Instinct while on the road in late 2008.
Since the 2006 emergence of the band’s debut, it has maintained a near-constant presence on the
road, touring alongside notable rock names such as Three Days Grace, Flyleaf, 3 Doors Down, Breaking Benjamin, Seether, Papa Roach, Buckcherry, Sevendust, Staind, Kutless, Third Day, Switchfoot and others, and rave reviews for the band’s live shows have poured in via both print and online outlets alike.
Much of the thematic material on Innocence & Instinct deals with the duality of mankind’s nature. The band also drew inspiration from the imagery of Dante’s Divine Comedy during the songwriting phase of the project. Included within the framework of Innocence & Instinct is a faithful, yet thoroughly reinvented, cover of the Duran Duran classic “Ordinary World.” The band simultaneously released a Deluxe Edition of Innocence & Instinct featuring four bonus tracks and a DVD featuring the “Death of Me” music video, a “making of” documentary and more.
For more information about RED, please visit: www.redmusiconline.com.
