With a focus on balance, Slave To The Day pursues to musically represent the elements influential to our everyday lives. These elements include the natural, the chemical, the cultural, the social, the artistic, the adverse, the paranormal, and the future. Just as DNA is the blueprint for life, these elements are the building blocks essential to their music. Equally complex are the intertwining of melodies, strong metal riffs, ambient illusions, and natural accents. These elements can be experienced in “mans everyday grind” or they can serve as an escape. Slave To The Day calls Birmingham , Alabama their home. A city tucked in the natural foothills of the Appalachian Mountains , haunted by Indian burial grounds and old steel mills, artistic and full of culture, this city faced and still faces great adversity, and longs for a better future. These are the elements that whisper and inspire Slave To The Day. Do they speak to you?
Language fulfills so many needs for us: We can be mundane or lofty, can speak factually or philosophically, make specific observations or generalizations. We can describe our interior thoughts as well as the outside world. We can speak of events long gone or yet to be.
Music is often called the “universal language.” But if music is a language, what can it express?
Music is singularly capable of exploring how the future arises out of the past. How dependent is the future on the past? How much is remembered, how much forgotten? Are initial ideas self-sustaining, or do they require an influx of new elements? How fast does progress or transformation take place? What is the ultimate outcome?
We compose our lives with these questions: How strongly are we bound by our upbringing or heritage? How easy is it to break our habits? How far and fast can we stretch our personality while still maintaining a sense of identity? How much transformation can we tolerate? On a social level, we ponder whether the Constitution and religious texts are “time-independent” documents or living ones that evolve. We question the pace of reforms and the consequences of unexpected events.
Words may describe time's passing but music enacts it for us. For instance, the greater the amount of repetition, the more the future is conditioned by what has already happened. If an idea returns literally, it speaks to its transcendence; if it is perpetually transformed, then it changes with the times. A-type forms project continuity, A/B-forms disruption and change.
When this level of musical discourse becomes accessible to you, there is always so much to hear. Because music is performed unstoppably in time, it will always invoke these questions—no matter what the style or era. The answers will sometimes be clear, sometimes grey and subtle; but the pathway to exploring them is concrete and can be done by anyone.
Time’s passing is apparent to all of us: We measure it constantly; we see ourselves age, we suffer loss and celebrate renewal, we remember and predict. Yet physicists labor over a definition. Is time a fundamental property of the universe? Or is it just a by-product of the interaction of more basic laws? Does it even exist? Thanks to the limitless possibilities of music, composers bend and stretch time into sculptures for us to contemplate. As music is passed down and continues to be created all over the world, it becomes apparent what a rich and resilient material time is, and how much there is to say about its incorporeal flow.
It is important to grasp, respect and articulate our own musical observations. Ultimately, attentive listening leads us to the music inside ourselves. How much of it there is.
JULY 25th @ the HIGHNOTE...The Cut Throat Conspiracy, Apsis, Throne of Blood, Through Mortal Eyes, and Annexed Asylum...Show Starts at 8:30 pm, ALL METAL, ALL NIGHT LONG
Thank you for being our friend and for your continued support. Our new album "The Silver Lining" will be released August 26, and our new single "MisSunderstood" which has just gone to radio stations across America is available on iTunes NOW! If you want to check out a preview of "MisSunderstood" go to our profile and listen now! Be sure to also keep checking your bulletins for messages from us for up to the minute news, NEW tour dates, and contest info! Thanks again for all your love and support, and KEEP IT LOUD.
hey guys, the show tuesday night was incredible! you guys sounded great, and the stage presence was awesome!!! i just can't wait until the next one! summer
Hey guys sorry we have not had a chance to send you thank you for coming out and performing with us..We had an awesome time, and hope to be able to do it again sometime really soon.
Soo... Whats a gal gotta do to get a copy of the new music? Wanna play it in the car with the windows down cuz im cool like that dontcha know! See u at the show break-a-leg!
4th of July Party in Birmingham! Come see The Glitch Mob Freq Nasty TomFoolery and more tonight at Zydeco. Hosted By: Giveback,One Cru,LIFE Entertainment & LoJack PromoWhen: Friday Jul 04, 2008 at 3:00 PMWhere: Zydeco2001 15th Avenue SouthBirmingham, AL 35205United StatesDescription:Giveback,One Cru,LIFE Entertainment & LoJack PromoClick Here To View Event
Those new pics of u Slave, and the rest of the guys on ur page look awesome...Looking forward to seeing u at ur next show! Sorry I couldnt make it to the past one due to allstars.... Well u all have a great and safe weekend.
