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New independent metal label The Charon Collective have recently re-issued Pennsylvania band Sacrament’s debut demo Presumed Dead on CD and digital formats. The death/thrash metal band went on release two full-lengths, seminal death metal release Testimony of Apocalypse and technical thrash beast Haunts of Violence. The re-issue is accompanied by the news that former Sacrament members have re-formed as Testimony of Apocalypse, and are writing new material for a future release. Presumed Dead can be ordered from The Charon Collective here: https://thecharoncollective.bandcamp.com/album/presumed-dead-2021-remaster?fbclid=IwAR3RtKoHZ2sSGB2-zSPwhS1tABQrTwI-gVHda1Z19zNFQHrk0SluASZ4XvM… Continued →

One Bad Apple was a short lived death/groove metal/crossover thrash band that released a few indies & full length in the 90s before disbanding, but reuniting & releasing another full length in 2018. I’ve always liked this SOTD & hope you do also. … Continued →

The W’s were a short lived swing revival/ska band whose 2 full lengths garnered a lot of airplay on Christian rock stations back in the day. They are well known for their first hit The Devil is Bad but also check out the superb Moses. I did not know, but 2 members of the band formed a band BenDixon that I have been starting to follow lately. Today’s SOTD though is in homage to one of my fave songs to play on bass guitar. … Continued →

Rock & Metal

• Darkhorse Hero – Living for a bigger Kingdom
• Hunter G K Thompson – Eternal Halloween (EP)
• The Pear Republic – Pop Punk EP
• Then It Ends – Solace (EP)

Pop & CCM

• The Color – No Greater Love
• Lion of Judah – Closer
• ØM-53 – Junior Year (Side A) Homecoming
• Psallos – Philippians
• SVRCINA – Orchards

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3NXAVCnUSvB6u1UM318Hpo?si=0f832f05ebb04369 Electronic & EDM Folk & Singer/Songwriter

• Becca Jordan – Becoming Ordinary
• Benjamin Daniel – Shelterheart
• Jameson McGregor – someday i’ll start again (EP)

Hip Hop & R&B

• Bizzle – Soul Therapy
• Caleb McCoy – Render Unto Caesar
• Cedric Des – Cedric (EP)
• Connor Pierson – For Me (EP)
• Fox & Tiger – FOX & TIGER
• GodFearin – Self Examination (EP)
• IMRSQD,  Moflo Music, Sammie Lee – Encantado
• Wes Harris – INFRARED

Worship & Gospel

• Anthem Worship – Universal Hearts (Live) (EP)
• Ben Trip – Desert EP
• Cross Gray – In All That Concerns It (EP)
• Gaetan Judd – Mud
• Israel & New Breed – Project LA: Alive in Los Angeles
• Sanctified Vessels – Surrendered (Live) (EP)
• Sean Curran – 1,000 Names (EP)
• Tim Timmons – HERE (Live With Friends)
• The Vigil Project – True Presence

Christmas

• Cade Thompson – Cade Thompson Christmas (EP)
• Life Church Music – Holy Holy
• Life.Church

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Independent singer-songwriter, Benjamin Daniel drops his new 15 track full length album through bandcamp and all digital networks. It’s an introspective, moving piece of art that will do all it can to inspire you. This album is honest in more ways than one and when you peel back the many layers, you’re left with unmistakable beauty. Somber songs of joy and peace wrapped up in a blanket of vulnerability. This isn’t bombastic rock n’ roll meant to fill stadiums and incite riots but rather the kind of music you might find in a small coffee shop on a rainy evening with a warm jacket and hot beverage to sip with your eyes closed, hands raised, and the rhythm of your heart pumping to the sounds of music delight.… Continued →

Joel Piper returns with his solo project, Avery Pkwy. I’ve always loved his approach to music, drumming, and his Faith. Check out the song “Everything” below in music video form. The song is available now through all digital networks.… Continued →

Stephen Christian releases his 2nd new song titled “Awaken” off the upcoming album, “Spirited”, due out on BEC Recordings soon. Some people may not like the straight up worship oriented music of his solo work but as long time Anberlin fan (and Stephen Christian vocals fan), I love it. Hopeful and positive music that is much needed during this prolonged period of darkness our world is experiencing. Song can be found below or on your favorite digital network.… Continued →

Dispraised are back with their new track titled “Reaper’s Kiss” which is a total thrashy-punk and undeniably heavy song. Check out “Reaper’s Kiss” now on your digital network of choice or by clicking below.… Continued →

Brave Days unleash their fiery and somewhat controversial lyric video for the new song, “Scars & Stripes”. Listen to the heavy (pop)punk song, below. Feel free to discuss all things relating to Brave Days and politics in music, below. The song is out on all digital networks, 11/5/21.… Continued →

The former guitarist John Sierra of much adored post-hardcore band Attalus, has returned to release new music under his own name. It’s beautifully moving and inspiring, causing one to self reflect and gaze upon the beauty of life God has provided. His new song “The Tide” just dropped yesterday (listen below), and “The Wonder” came out a few weeks back as well. I’m loving these tunes and I look forward to many more to come.… Continued →

American Arson have released a surprise redone version of one of their latest songs, “Unbreakable”. You can find the really great new version on your favorite digital network right now. I’m a big fan of bands that stretch out their wings and break the norm of what they’ve become known for. Wouldn’t a whole album like this sound great? Kind of like when My Epic released their best album, “Broken Voice”, a decade ago.… Continued →

Long running Reggae band Christafari, just dropped a brand new lyric video for the song “All Souls Matter”. The song is sure to inspire conversation and hopefully introspection about topics of race and healing in our land. You can watch/listen to the lyric video below this message. Feel free to discuss here or amongst yourselves.… Continued →

The Pear Republic have just released “Pop Punk EP” through bandcamp. The quirky band which are relatively new and unheard by most take elements of Pop Punk, Power Pop, Punk Rock and mix it in a blender. They have a sound that would appeal to fans of Weezer, Pixies, Danielson, Ramones, Supernova, Presidents of The United States of America and other 80’s/90’s era power-pop/rock sounds.… Continued →

Dorean Lives has an a interesting background in that the band was created as a way of dealing with loss. Hailing from Alabama, the band created a several music videos out of their one & only release that I know of. & this awesome catchy SOTD is one of them … Continued →

I’m sure a few of you have been wondering when I was going to eventually get around to covering this important band. Well, wait no longer. Mortal’s roots were in a similarly-named synth-pop project called Mortal Wish. While that version of the band showed promise, it only hinted at the greatness that was to come after a minor name change and a huge change in direction. (FYI: downloads of 2 different Mortal Wish demos are available online if you know where to look for them!) The mysteriously-titled (Lusis means “freedom”), dark and brooding debut hit stores in 1992 via Intense Records, the first in the industrial genre for the otherwise exclusively metal label.… Continued →

Can we please come to a collective agreement as people, as all of mankind, that Starflyer 59 is one of the greatest rock bands of all time? Read on for my short write up on “Vanity”.… Continued →

In a somewhat cryptic post, The Blamed shared a picture of a Squad 5-0 test pressing (Vinyl) from United of a new album. Is it a new album or is it a re-release? I’m going with new album! Who here is excited about a brand new Squad 5-0 release that maybe ties together all their music from the 90’s ska-punk stuff all the way through “Late News Breaking”? I think a lot of people are waiting for this much needed studio recorded reunion and we are all holding our collective breaths for some awesome jams.… Continued →

Light The Way are almost there, I promise. The band will be dropping a new song or teaser very soon. This is the first new music from the band since “Dad Gang EP” in 2019 and will be their first proper full length follow-up to “False Memory Syndrome” that released almost 4 years ago. Follow the band through all their socials and links by clicking right here. This will without a doubt be the biggest and best thing the band has EVER released in their short history together.… Continued →

Homeplate just revealed their new song “So Far Away” via the Stage Diving With Scotty pod/videocast show. Check out song below (Starts at 1:27 into the show). Homeplate make purely addictive pop-punk music with real heart and hopeful lyrical content. Like all the (former) IVM bands, these guys are on FIRE!… Continued →

Heavy pop-punk band, Brave Days, just announced their next new single which is titled “Scars & Stripes”. The single is out on all platforms November 5th. Check out a short little teaser below. Full lyric video coming soon. Check out their music on bandcamp right here.… Continued →

Melodic punk outfit – Namesake, just announced that their new album titled “The Twenty Year First Impression” will be out soon. Watch a short little teaser below.… Continued →

Ronnie Winter-Defoe is the vocalist for The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus which became well known on mainstream radio for their song Face Down. A few years ago, their music found its way onto “Christian” radio shows. This beautiful SOTD was re-recorded for TRJA, but I have always liked this version better & love its lyrical content.. For all the times you told me not to jump ’cause I might fall I said ‘Thank you, thank you’ But I’m the kind of guy that has to fall to learn to fly Still, I say ‘Thank you, thank you.’… Continued →

Impending Doom have unleashed absolute chaos through their ferocious blend of heavy metal on their face melting, pummeling new track, “Satanic Panic”. The song appears on the band’s upcoming new EP “Hellbent” which is out January 12th 2022. Pre-order the EP right here via their bandcamp in several different options.… Continued →

The Family Cast Podcast which is run by Josh Kemble of Dogwood and St Didacus, has just posted a wonderful look back on that monumental Dogwood album, “Matt Aragon”. Quite honestly this is the rare album that meshed Punk Rock and Christianity in ways that most other bands couldn’t quite articulate for that time period. This album dropped right after 9/11 at a time of great despair, brokenness, and ultimately a lot of soul searching, with “Matt Aragon” coming to mend all those questions and disbelief which many of us felt at a really dark time in human history.… Continued →

This unique metal/post-hardcore/rock hybrid act known as “Empty“, are back with a brand new album due out this week titled “Made of Fire“. The album drops Friday October 22nd through Solid State Records and features this new single, “Temporary High”. Watch the music video for the song right here at Indie Vision Music.… Continued →

Demon Hunter just dropped a great Live in Studio version of “The Heart of a Graveyard” which is a selection off their “Death and Resurrection”, stripped down release. If this doesn’t impress you and showcase the varying degrees of talent this band embraces, then I don’t know what will. 2021 and metal/rock is definitely still alive!… Continued →

I completely forgot to post about this for about a week and I do apologize. Vinyl boutique label, Lost in Ohio, have taken it upon themselves to re-release some awesome classic Christian alternative albums on Vinyl, some for the very first time. They just launched a kickstarter to fund their latest creation, Morella’s Forest “Super Deluxe” which was the official Tooth & Nail label debut released back in 1995. Check out the kickstarter right here and make sure to visit the record label website here for more great music including a rerelease of Sixpence None the Richer “This Beautiful Mess” on Vinyl.… Continued →

Testimony of Apocalypse are an insane new metal band featuring members of classic Thrash Metal band, Sacrament. While members of Sacrament await their potential reunion in the future, a couple members got together and have pursued this really great new project called Testimony of Apocalypse, which is actually named after the Sacrament album of the same name. Check out the DEMO of a new track titled “Redemption”, below. The band plan to release their debut full length in the spring of 2022 via a label on the rise, The Charon Collective.… Continued →

Wolves At The Gate are back with a heavy new song titled “Shadows”. No word yet on the new full length (or EP) but we’ll keep you updated when news drops. Check out this awesome track below.… Continued →

Afewloosescrews was an obscure punk rawk band from the mid 90’s era. I have been looking for some very rare songs of theirs from a couple Dwarf Records compilations-Sunshine Nomad & Confidence for years. I have always liked their LP & this cover from Rez Band & hope you do also. … Continued →