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    Artist       : Letters From The Fire
    Album        : Letters From The Fire
    Label        : Independent
    Genre        : Hard Rock
    Street Date  : 2014-08-19
    Quality      : 275 kbps / 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo
    Encoder      : Lame 3.98.4 -V0
    Size         : 35.76 MB
    Time         : 17:18 min
    Url          : http://lettersfromthefire.net/

    [tracks]

    1.  Zombies In The Sun                                                 3:32
    2.  Eleanor Rigby                                                      2:50
    3.  This Moment                                                        3:21
    4.  Waiting                                                            4:12
    5.  Zombies In The Sun (Acoustic)                                      3:23


    [notes]

    In 2003, Metallica brought their Summer Sanitarium Tour to the Candlestick
    Park. It was this day that Mike Keller, founding member of Letters From The
    Fire, realized what he wanted to do in life. He wanted to rock. “Watching
    Metallica, along with Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, the Deftones and Mudvayne up
    on that stage… it just hit me that I wanted to be doing that one day,”
    Keller admits. Keller’s high school buddy, Grayson Hurd, had the same
    epiphany a few months later watching Linkin Park’s Meteora World Tour. Being
    two of the only people in their circle of friends that played guitar, the
    pair found a garage and started spending time between school and football
    practice jamming together.

    After a few years of casually playing, Keller and Hurd decided to give their
    dreams a real shot. In January 2007, they played their first show under the
    name of Park Lane. From here on out, the two began to recruit other
    musicians and worked to find their sound. To help with the process, they
    were able to jump into the studio with Mike Boden (Mudvayne, Joe Satriani,
    Carrie Underwood). Although the tracks were ultimately not released, the
    experience helped the band become who they are today.

    In 2009, Clayton Wages responded to a Craigslist “Bassist Wanted” listing.
    After a meeting and an audition, he became the newest member of the band.
    “Who says you can’t find a bad ass musician on Craigslist?!” Hurd asks. With
    the addition of Wages, three of the four current band members had come
    together.

    Also in 2009, Park Lane began touring. Beginning with dates around their
    hometown in California, the band ended the year playing over 30 shows in six
    states. A summer tour in 2010 followed, and a national tour as main support
    to FUEL began in August of 2011. “There’s nothing like finally being able to
    play the music that we write in front of people that we’ve never met.
    Sometimes, we would get to a city and play a show where people already knew
    our songs. Considering we jumped on the tour less than a month before, that
    was really awesome,” Keller exclaims.

    In the midst of the tour with FUEL, the band released their first
    full-length album on September 20. This twelve track album was produced by
    Michael Rosen (Papa Roach, Rancid, AFI, Santana) and was the band’s first
    taste of a full-fledged production. Hurd explains what it was like working
    with Rosen: “Before we jumped into the studio for that album, a lot of songs
    we had written were covered in ‘teenage angst.’ Rosen showed us how to tear
    our songs apart to put them back together better than before. In the end, I
    think working on that record with him is when we really learned how to write
    music.”

    Due to a lack of confidence that Park Lane was a “cool enough band name to
    carry forward with” and multiple trademark issues, Park Lane officially
    became Letters From The Fire in July 2012. The new name originally came from
    the working title of a song that was on Park Lane’s 2011 release. It later
    became the actual title of that record and, more importantly, the band’s new
    name.

    For the first release as Letters From The Fire, the band enlisted help from
    industry veterans. Rebirth was released in 2012 and featured five new
    tracks. The EP was produced by Evanescence co-founder Ben Moody. Other
    accomplishments of Moody’s include work with Celine Dion, Avril Lavigne, and
    Daughtry and songwriting credits like Kelly Clarkson’s smash hit “Because of
    You.” In addition to Moody’s expertise, Josh Newell engineered the EP.
    Former bass player for In This Moment, Newell’s engineer credits include
    Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns and the band’s Summer 2014 release The Hunting
    Party. Dan Certa (Kelly Clarkson, The Fray, Celine Dion, Seether, P.O.D)
    also joined the project and mixed Rebirth.

    To support this release, Letters From The Fire joined the Around The
    World…Beneath The Scars Tour with 12 Stones and The Letter Black. As this
    tour wrapped, the departure of Letters From The Fire’s lead singer opened up
    a new search for the next voice of the band. Keller, Hurd, and Wages found
    the sound they always envisioned for the band in May of 2013. This was the
    voice of Elliot Weber.

    Since adding Weber, Letters From The Fire has been working on their next
    full-length album with TRAPT lead singer, Chris Taylor Brown.

    Here’s what Brown says of the band and what fans can expect from the new
    album: “Letters From The Fire is a band years in the making and I've been
    fortunate enough to see their progression from the beginning. The new album
    has some of the sickest guitar riffs I've heard in a long time. Elliot's
    vocals are the perfect complement to a band that can only be described as
    melodic metal. As ferocious and heavy as their music can be, the vocals add
    a beautiful and sincere tone to the dark ambience present in the band's
    music. Lyrical themes touch deeply on personal conflict, dreams, aspirations
    and the hidden tragedies that go on all around us that so few have the
    insight to write about. Be prepared to see (and most importantly hear) a lot
    from my friends in Letters From The Fire."

    Dan Certa is mixing this project as well. The new release from Letters From
    The Fire is slated for Summer 2014.

    In the meantime, you can hear Letters From The Fire’s rendition of The
    Beatles’ popular track “Eleanor Rigby” on Active Rock Radio beginning Spring
    2014.