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Showbread - The Fear Of God
Scott Heisel on 8/21/09 @ 7:00 AM

[1/5]

The year is 1986 and an upstart Christian rock band have reached their pinnacle, dressing in garish yellow-and-black costumes and caked-on eye makeup, saying the Lord's Prayer before every show and hurling Bibles into the crowd. Sound familiar? That group, of course, were Stryper, glam rock's most holier-than-thou band. Skip ahead 20-plus years, sub the yellow-and-black outfits for red-and-black ones, and you have Showbread, the latest Christian-rock sensation. Starting out The Fear Of God with, ahem, a version of the Lord's Prayer, the Guyton, Georgia, band proceed to sleepwalk through metallic emo-rock, keyboard-driven glam-core and enough good/bad vocals to fill an entire season of COPS. The album is also chock-full of asinine combinations of metalcore, dirty rock and pop-punk, as if the band were looking to cover all bases within their prepubescent target market. In particular, "Shepherd, No Sheep" is so vapid and juvenile, it sounds like the kind of tune a disgruntled Christian teen would crank in their bedroom on Sunday afternoon after being forced to sit through a particularly boring church sermon. Then again, we suppose that's the whole idea. (TOOTH & NAIL) Jason Schreurs

GO DOWNLOAD: "Nothing Matters Anymore"

Official Website: http://www.toothandnail.com



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Tresm87 Posted 08.24.09 at 10:31AM
Dude, you sleepwalked through this review. RAW ROCK KILLS!!

Blackop0189 Posted 08.24.09 at 03:46PM
I feel that this cd draws upon all the great things from the previous albums and puts them into a beautiful work of art. Also believe the reason they cover all genres is because they can. They have had a different tone with every album, and this cd just magnifies their ability to change and make every genre they play significant and their own. i also agree that it's very keyboard driven, but if it wasn't it wouldn't really be Showbread would it? I also have one last question, have you ever read or genuinely listened to the lyrics in both the "I'm Lost", and "Shepherd, No Sheep?" I also feel you should read the lords prayer once to refresh your memory on what it actually says. Thank you.

yeahman777 Posted 08.24.09 at 11:04PM
I personally think that Showbread is a very talented band. I think that this CD is one of their best, the only one that is better is No Sir....



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