Saving Grace Signs With USA's Strike First Records
29.09.09
[press release]
New Zealand's very own East Coast hardcore heavyweights SAVING GRACE have this week announced their exclusive signing with California, USA's STRIKE FIRST RECORDS.
The label is a division of the massive pioneer Christian hardcore label FACEDOWN RECORDS and is owned and operated by the same people, taking care of all of the labels international artists.
SAVING GRACE will be in the studio with producer ZORRAN MENDONSA until the 30th of September recording their upcoming sophomore album "Unbreakable".
The new record will be available in stores and online across USA on January 5th 2010 as a special exclusive digipack release.
Pre-order packages will be available around Christmas time with the New Zealand street date scheduled for late January hitting stores through Universal Music.
This is what Strike First / Facedown Records had to say about the latest addition to their roster:
"Strike First Records is proud to welcome to the family New Zealand's Saving Grace.
The 4 piece Gisborne City hardcore metal hybrid have been making waves worldwide for a half decade during which the band's list of accomplishments includes the release of a self titled Demo EP in 2005, a split with friends Upheld in 2006 and their highly anticipated studio album 'Behind Enemy Lines' in 2008 which received rave reviews across their homeland and beyond in USA and Europe, and took the band on a 35-date whirlwind tour across New Zealand, Australia, Mexico and USA.
Saving Grace's hard work, dedication to touring and ever-growing fan base has gained the band the reputation of the most successful spirit-filled hardcore act downunder.
Playing a brutal style of music influenced by mid 90s hardcore bands such as Arkangel, Reprisal and Earth Crisis as well as legendary extreme metal classics Slayer, Sepultura, Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse, Saving Grace create a blend of brutal metallic hardcore unlike many of their modern day contemporaries.
Saving Grace will release their sophomore album entitled 'Unbreakable' on Strike First Records in January 2010."
The band will be touring heavily throughout New Zealand and Australia throughout the summer as well as making festival appearances including Parachute 2010 along the likes of Underoath before returning to USA to support the new album.
