Guitarist Andrew Kline commented the album would be “more along the lines of In This Defiance“. They traveled to Brazil to record Witness a Rebirth. Since 2001, they have played several shows and tours all over the globe again, including a Japan tour with Floorpunch in 2011, a tour of South America, a European tour, and some dates in Mexico. No longer straight edge, this album was considered by the band to be a more mature and focused continuation of In This Defiance. By the following year, they had re-formed and released Angermeans.
They reunited in 2000, playing several benefit concerts. Victory Records released Truth Through Defiance, a compilation of live tracks and previously unreleased material. They broke up two years later citing creative differences and exhaustion. Their second album, In This Defiance, was released in 1997 and includes guest appearances, with Chino Moreno of Deftones, Dino Cazares of Fear Factory and Igor Cavalera of Sepultura all taking turns on the album. Their first LP, One Truth, was released in 1994 via Victory Records. Overall I feel like In This Defiance is a perfect hardcore record that not only captures a moment in time but also still sounds current in 2017.Strife is an American hardcore punk band from Thousand Oaks, California. In This Defiance also featured guest appearances from Chino Moreno (Deftones) and Dino Cazares (Fear Factory) to further bridge this gap between the metal and hardcore scenes. You can hear that influence creeping into songs like 'Will To Die,' 'Stand As One,' and 'Overthrow' (which even features Iggor Cavalera on drums). Our goal was to write an album that really bridged the gap between hardcore and metal, a record that was much heavier than One Truth that still captured our hardcore roots. Kline continues, "STRIFE toured with Sepultura on the Roots tour in December of 2016, and that definitely influenced the writing for In This Defiance.
I feel like this record is not only our most focused album, but, in my eyes, it is the record that truly defines STRIFE as a band." Offer's Kline on the album's anniversary, "I can't believe it's been twenty years since In This Defiance was released. Marking two decades since its release, STRIFE commemorates In This Defiance with a special pressing of the album, through guitarist Andrew Kline's own WAR Records.
Besides being heralded as one of the era's landmark straightedge hardcore releases, In This Defiance crosses heavily into the metal world, the album featuring guest appearances by Chino Moreno of the Deftones, Dino Cazares of Fear Factory, and Iggor Cavalera of Sepultura. The breakdowns are more pronounced, the beats roar from the speakers, and a by-the-throat vibe consumes the entire album. With a more ominous, metal-inspired style of production, severely slamming/hard-driving rhythms, and more vicious vocal tone, all simply beefing-up STRIFE's already patented grooves and transitions. Following a mechanical/industrial subzero soundscape intro, when the initial riffs of "Waiting" kick in, the brutalizing new sound of the band was made immediately present. Released on July 15th, 1997, STRIFE's In This Defiance marks the most pivotal sound shift in the band's history. Preorders for the record go on sale tomorrow, Friday, May 5th, at 10am PST at WAR-REC.COM. This one-time limited pressing of STRIFE's In This Defiance is limited to only 100 copies on pink marble vinyl packaged in a hand silkscreened and hand numbered cover, and is joined by a limited edition longsleeve shirt. Strife just announced that they will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their landmark second LP, In This Defiance, with a special extremely limited run of the record.
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