Day of Fire –Self-Titled
Label: Essential Records
Style: Modern Rock
Released: 2004
My Grade: 2 stars
AMG: 4
Sounds like: Kutless, Pillar, Nickleback

Day of Fire front man Joshua Brown has a truly incredible story. He is the former lead vocalist of a mainstream rock band (Full Devil Jacket), but overdosed on drugs, and ended up in rehab where he became a Christian. A while after getting out of rehab, he decided to make an album, and this is the result.

Day of Fire is a slickly produced rock album, which is to be admired. However, After a few spins, it didn’t grow on me, and I was left with the conclusion that Brown didn’t really have any idea what he wanted to do musically, other than rock out. So the record label set him up with some rock stuff, put it with the lyrics Joshua wrote, and put it out on the market. While that is more than likely very far from the case, I can’t get rid of the idea.

Tunes like “Through the Flood,” “Time” and “Reap and Sow” sound no different than any other melodic hard rock band available. Which, I suppose could be a plus if you’re an especially big fan of that style of music. However, I tend to be a fan of the genre, (but far from the biggest fan) and I still can’t find much to talk about.

The only good songs are tracks two and three, “Detainer” and “Cornerstone.” “Detainer” is the heaviest and fastest song, and is actually a little more than decent. But, there is a downside. “ Hey, what's it gonna take to bring you home/Hey, what's it gonna take to break that hold/If you want it, if you want it/If you want it, then let go.” I just quoted the entire song.

“Cornerstone” is the ballad of sorts on the disc, and is a solid number with good instrumentation.
To sum it up, Day of Fire is a very forgettable album.


Reviewed by: Christian