Alexisonfire

I have really been enjoying this band in the last year. Their album "Watch Out" was a great permeable soup of rage and beauty. The screaming of George Pettit is so perfectly accented by Dallas Green's awesome harmonies and crack laden guitar riffs. Also Wade MacNeil, the bassist, lends his punk vocals from time to time as well. At first listen you might immediately place them in the screamo category. But it quickly becomes evident that they are much more than that. Their new album "Crisis" has just dropped. With songs ranging in subject matter from the Blizzard of 1977 which paralyzed portions of the Niagara and Northern New York region, to disenfranchised steadfast employees, the album on a whole embodies a much darker theme. They attribute this to traveling around the world the last couple of years then coming back home and seeing things without rose coloured glasses. This is their new single "This Could Be Anywhere In the World".

Alexisonfire consists of five friends who formed a band in late 2001 as the result of a three-band break up. The name is not Alex Is On Fire, but Alexis On Fire. They played their very first show on tour in Denver, Colorado on March 27, 2001. The band's name is a sort-of homage to Alexis Fire, who claimed to be the world's only lactating contortionist stripper [3]. This caused problems when she discovered that they were using her website name as their band name, and threatened to sue. However, since she had never trademarked the title, nothing became of these threats. The band released its first EP, Math Sheet Demos in 2002 so named because the CD was wrapped in former drummer, Jesse Ingelevics' math homework. The first, self-titled studio album Alexisonfire was released that same year. Initially they faced hard times and received virtually no radio airtime, which continues to stand true today regardless of their popularity. This didn't hold the band back though, they broke out, gaining notoriety in the underground, and eventually mainstream with the support of Canada's MuchMusic.