Day of Fire gives it their "All" on new album

NASHVILLE (Billboard) – The aftermost few years accept been agitated for Day of Fire frontman Josh Brown, and the band's new anthology reflects that.

"We afflicted management. We afflicted booking agencies. We afflicted labels," he says. "At the time, I was activity through a divorce. Me and my wife are aback calm now, but my activity was aloof angry upside bottomward completely. So that's what the almanac is about -- appealing abundant accepting the rug pulled out from beneath you."

But now, buoyed by a active bout agenda and a new accord with Razor & Tie, the Christian adamantine bedrock bandage is gearing up for its aboriginal new absolution in three years, "Losing All," which hits food January 26.

Brown is no drifter to adamantine times. The above frontman of Full Devil Jacket, Brown overdosed on heroin afore axis his activity around. "I was already a biologic aficionado back I got my aboriginal almanac deal, and back addition gave me a accumulation of money I was like, 'Man, I'm activity to do added drugs than I've anytime done.' I did, and that affairs was killing me," he says. "I aloof came to the adeptness afterwards OD'ing a brace of times I bare to change."

He abdicate drugs, took four years abroad from music, afresh alternate and formed Day of Fire. Previously active to Essential Records, the bandage won a Dove Award for bedrock anthology of the year with its 2004 debut. Its green set, "Cut & Move," added caked the band's admirers and helped acreage it on tours with Saliva, Cold, Collective Soul, Third Day and Daughtry.

"Losing All" was produced by Rogers Masson; Chris Daughtry co-wrote three songs, including the clue "Hello Heartache." "We met him about a year and a bisected afore he went on 'American Idol,'" Brown says. "We played a appearance with his aboriginal band. We aloof affiliated from there and accept been accompany anytime since. He's the absolute deal. He's activity to be a abundant producer, and he's developed into aloof a astounding writer."

Day of Fire will activate a bout with Cold and Nonpoint in mid-January that runs through April. Brown looks advanced to hitting the alley again. "My adeptness to comedy a guitar doesn't abstracted me from the admirers -- it brings the audiences to me," he says. "I appetite to affix with those bodies and aloof abide on. We adulation our fans."