Life Outside the Toybox

Description

Life Outside the Toybox is the major label full-length debut album by the American nu-metal/rapcore group Justifide, released on Ardent Records in 2001, manufactured by Ardent Records and distributed in the US by Chordant Distribution Group. (The band self-released an EP in 1999.) The album was recorded between June 2000 and January 2001 by Skidd Mills at Vintage Recorders in Phoenix, Arizona; with Billy Smiley of White Heart fame producing (“A Cul de sac production”). Final editing by Smiley. Overdubs engineered by Billy Smiley at The Mission Studios in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mixed entirely on the PARIS Digital System by Mark Matson except tracks 2, 3, and 5 mixed by J.R. McNeely at The Mission Studios. Strings arranged and recorded by Blair Masters. All songs written by the band members.

Justifide features Joey Avalos on guitar and vocals, Sambo Moncivaiz on bass and vocals, and Jason Moncivaiz on drums and lead vocals.

Now I know it says much about the weird lifestyle and tastes of a 53 year old Christian music magazine editor that playing this record at 9.45 on a Sunday morning can produce a response from his bleary-eyed, duvet-bedecked teenage son bursting into the front room of, “It’s too loud!!” But such ironies do indicate to you, dear reader, something of the aural impact and relentless noise making direction of this new trio from the States. I loved «Awaken» with its blistering riffs and the dynamics between sung and shouted passages as the lyric incisively examines the paradoxes of the Christian life (“Never will I live my life again in fear/ Died to my flesh yet my flesh is still here”). I also went for «9 Outta 10» with its bawled declaration to the lust and sin of our lives, “you don’t own me!” Sonically thrilling hard rock with a strong spiritual message. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, July 2001]

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CD tracklist:

01. Change
02. The Way
03. Our Little Secret
04. 9 Out Of 10
05. Hold Us Down
06. Awaken
07. Listen
08. Breakaway
09. Still Cries
10. No Reply
11. Why
12. Sweet New Found Joy
Bonus Tracks – Espanol:
13. Escucha
14. Gozo Nuevo