Hell or High Water (As Cities Burn album)

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Hell or High Water
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Studio album by
ReleasedApril 21, 2009
Genre Indie rock
Length36:23
Label Tooth & Nail
Producer Brad Wood
As Cities Burn chronology
Come Now Sleep
(2007)
Hell or High Water
(2009)
Scream Through the Walls
(2019)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk.net (88%) link
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EastScene(10/10) [3]
Indie Vision Music(10/10) [4]
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Patrol Magazine (7.8/10) [6]
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Hell or High Water is the third full-length album by Christian indie rock band As Cities Burn. According to a MySpace post, frontman Cody Bonnette and a friend of the band, Tyler Orr, recorded the album almost entirely themselves, In the small town of Cleveland Tennessee, on first street. It was released on April 21, 2009, through Tooth & Nail Records. [8] This album also features guest vocals from original lead vocalist of As Cities Burn, T.J. Bonnette, on the songs "84 Sheepdog" and "Gates", as well as some from Robert Chisolm of Jonezetta and Micah Boyce from So Long Forgotten on the song "Capo". The album charted at No. 109 on the Billboard 200 in its first week. The hidden track in the pregap was uploaded on the MySpace page of singer Cody under the name "Aerial". [9]

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

As Cities Burn American Christian post-hardcore band

As Cities Burn is an American post-hardcore band from Mandeville, Louisiana that formed in 2002 and broke up in 2009. They released three studio albums in this time. Their debut, Son, I Loved You at Your Darkest, was released in 2005. Two years later, they released Come Now Sleep. Then, in 2009, As Cities Burn released their third and final album, Hell or High Water. The band had performed from 2011 through 2016, but drummer Aaron Lunsford announced, on August 16, 2016, that the group disbanded. In December 2017, As Cities Burn reunited and went on tour to open up for Emery, and announced that they were staying together and writing new music.

Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records is a Christian rock record label founded by Brandon Ebel in California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington where it is situated today. It has been home to many well-known musical acts, including Underoath, Hawk Nelson, Emery, The Almost, FM Static, Family Force 5, and MxPx.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
0."Aerial" (hidden track)1:37
1."'84 Sheepdog"3:08
2."Errand Rum"3:18
3."Into the Sea"4:32
4."Made Too Pretty"4:06
5."Lady Blue"6:21
6."Petty"3:40
7."Daughter"3:13
8."Pirate Blues"4:09
9."Capo"4:11
10."Gates"5:46
Total length:36:23

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