Day of Fire Title: Losing All Label: Razor & Tie Records Year: 2010 Rating: 4 / 5

This band has been fairly quiet over the years but with this new record about to be unleashed, the silence will be over. Day Of Fire’s Losing All will no doubt cast the band back into the spotlight where they definitely belong. This record is truly the record that these gents were born to write. Laying it all out on the line and re-energizing their passion for music, Day Of Fire has resurfaced as a band in complete focus, evident on this record. Day Of Fire have successfully recorded an album that is not only radio friendly but also cements their musical stance in the vast musical landscape. Managing to keep their melodic heaviness intact while injecting new life to their sound with bigger choruses and hooks, this album has got to be Day Of Fire’s crowning achievement. Of course, the centerpiece and main focus of this record is frontman Josh Brown, who in recent years has been rebuilding his musical career and his life, after a tumultuous few years in the spotlight. You can literally feel the pain and despair in Josh Brown’s voice whenever he belts out the choruses to songs like “Hello Heartache” and “Hey You.” But before you cut the record out to be a record full of despair, dark times and bittersweet feelings, take a closer listen and you’ll find that the record is actually all about love, hope and new beginnings. It’s true. Listen to tracks “Lately” and “Landslide” and you tell me if those songs are not all about what I previously mentioned. It is! Josh Brown is primarily responsible for this record’s raw intensity but the band is just as equally intense, laying out their cards on the table and recording most of the tracks live, proving how genuine and talented the band is as a whole. Proving that their influences were too hard to refuse as well, the album also boasts tracks like “Cold Addiction” that closely resemble classic Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots. Other tracks that help this record shine are “Never Goodbye,” “Light Em’ Up” and “We Are No One.” Losing All is basically a hard rock record that is not to be missed. It has the integrity and musicianship level that few bands possess in this day in age. The genuinely honest songwriting on Losing All is definitely Day Of Fire’s most endearing and compelling body of work to date. Needless to say, this is Hard Rock at its best, unfiltered, unabashed and powerful.

By: Gian Erguiza