Divide the Sea

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Divide the Sea
Origin Greenville, South Carolina
Genres Christian hardcore, Christian metal, hardcore punk, metalcore, Southern Metal
Years active2006 (2006)–present
Labels Blood and Ink
MembersCaleb Snead
Brett Sims
Jared Snead
Zach Paulus
Micah Snead
Website facebook.com/dividethesea

Divide the Sea is an American Christian hardcore and Christian metal band, where they primarily play a hardcore punk and metalcore styles of music. They come from Greenville, South Carolina. The band started making music in 2006. The band released, a studio album, Man, in 2010, with Blood and Ink Records.

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Background

Divide the Sea is a Christian hardcore and Christian metal band from Greenville, South Carolina. [1] Their members are Caleb Snead, Brett Sims, Jared Snead, Zach Paulus, and Micah Snead. [1]

Music history

The band commenced as a musical entity in 2006, with their first release, Man, a studio album, that was released on January 26, 2010, from Blood and Ink Records. [2] [3] [4] Levi MacAllister, reviewing the album for HM Magazine, states, "If Maylene and the Sons of Disaster had a baby, and old-Norma Jean/Luti-Kriss had a baby, and somehow, by the grace of God, those two babies got together and … had another baby – well, by golly, Divide The Sea’s fantastically produced Man would pop out with a bloodstream carrying a worshipful flare." [2] Punknews.org rated the album one star, [3] while Indie Vision Music rated it four stars. [4]

Members

Current members [1]

Past members

Discography

Studio albums

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Divide the Sea. "About". Facebook . Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  2. 1 2 MacAllister, Levi (11 January 2010). "Divide the Sea - Man". HM Magazine (141). Archived from the original on June 19, 2015. Retrieved July 23, 2015.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. 1 2 Pelone, Joe (June 25, 2010). "Divide the Sea - Man". Punknews.org. Retrieved July 23, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Cosand, Steve (February 18, 2010). "Review : Divide the Sea – Man". Indie Vision Music. Retrieved July 23, 2015.