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Peterborough, Ontario
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Peterborough /ˈpiːtərbɔːroʊ/ PEE-tər-bur-oh is a city on the Otonabee River in Central Ontario, Canada,125 kilometres northeast of Toronto and about 270 kilometers southwest of Ottawa. According to the 2016 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 81,032 and it presently has the 33rd largest CMA in Canada. The current mayor of Peterborough is Daryl Bennett, Peterborough is known as the gateway to the Kawarthas, cottage country, a large recreational region of the province. It is named in honour of Peter Robinson, an early Canadian politician who oversaw the first major immigration to the area, the city is the seat of Peterborough County. Peterboroughs nickname in the distant past was The Electric City as it was the first town in Canada to use electric streetlights. Electricity was one of the reasons Quaker Oats moved to the city, first Nations groups probably entered into the area across Bering Sea, through Alaska, millennia ago. Woodland Natives inhabited the area circa 1000 BCE –1000 CE, followed by Iroquois, two of the more prominent sites surviving from this time are the petroglyphs at Petroglyphs Provincial Park and Serpent Mounds. The petroglyphs are located northeast of Peterborough and are believed to have been carved by the Algonquin people between 900 and 1400 CE. The Serpent Mounds are located near Keene, approximately 30 km southeast of Peterborough in Otonabee-South Monaghan township, in 1818, Adam Scott settled on the west shore of the Otonabee River. The following year he began construction of a sawmill and gristmill, the mill was located at the foot of present-day King Street and was powered by water from Jackson Creek. The site has an Ojibway name Nogojiwanong which means the place at the end of the rapids, the year 1825 marked the arrival of Irish immigrants from the city of Cork to Scotts Plains. In 1822, the British Parliament had approved an experimental emigration plan to transport poor Irish Catholic families to Upper Canada. Peter Robinson, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada, Scotts Plains was renamed Peterborough in his honour. Robinson interviewed families and individual males to make the long voyage and these families had to meet specific criteria in order to be eligible for the voyage. The specifics required for Robinsons settlers were that they had to be Catholic, poor, males had to be less than forty-five years of age and in good health and families were unrelated. The majority of the Irish emigrants were chosen from Fermoy, North Cork, Robinson was urged by landlords to remove the pauper and undesirables. Most of them could read and write, thomas Poole, a nineteenth century writer, wrote that all 2024 passengers boarded nine ships in June 1825, with everything they owned, from Cork across the Atlantic Ocean to Quebec City. The journey took 30 days to cross the Atlantic and on board the ship they were provided with bunks, hard tack or ship biscuits were one of the many foods that were made to provide energy for the passengers
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Alternative metal
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Alternative metal is a music genre that infuses heavy metal with influences from alternative rock and other genres not normally associated with metal. The term has been in use since the 1980s, although it came into prominence in the 1990s, other genres considered part of the alternative metal movement included rap metal and funk metal, both of which influenced another prominent subgenre, nu metal. Nu metal expands the alternative metal sound, combining its vocal stylings and downtuned riffs with elements of genres, such as hip hop, funk, hardcore. They also remarked that alternative metal was originally a style united by its nonconformist sensibility rather than any immediately classifiable sound, one of the main characteristics of alternative metal and its subgenres are heavily downtuned, mid-paced chug-like guitar riffs. However, funk metal bands use a more conventional riffing style influenced by 1980s thrash metal. Alternative metal features clean and melodic vocals, influenced by those of alternative rock, later bands frequently incorporated vocal styles that alternated between clean singing, growls and screaming. Examples include alternative metal bands associated with the nu metal movement, such as Korn and Deftones, jonathan Gold of the Los Angeles Times wrote in 1990 Just as rock has an alternative, wing-bands like the Replacements and Dinosaur Jr. -so does metal. Alternative metal is alternative music that rocks, and alternative metal these days can reach 10 times the audience of other alternative rock. Janes Addiction plays an intense brand of 70s-influenced arty metal, so does Soundgarden, in fact, the arty meanderings of Sab and the Zep themselves would be considered alternative metal. Houston Press has described the genre as being a compromise for people for whom Nirvana was not heavy enough but Metallica was too heavy. The first wave of metal bands emerged from many backgrounds, including hardcore punk, noise rock, Seattles grunge scene, stoner rock, sludge metal. These bands never formed a movement or scene, rather they were bound by their incorporation of traditional metal influences. Fudge Tunnels style of alternative metal included influences from both sludge metal and noise rock, other early bands in the genre also came from hardcore punk backgrounds. During the 1980s, alternative metal appealed mainly to rock fans. Several bands associated with the genre denied their status as metal bands, Helmet drummer John Stanier said We fell into the whole metal thing by accident, we always hated it when people mentioned metal in conjunction with us. Saby Reyes-Kulkarni of Pitchfork Media stated bands like Faith No More, Soundgarden, Primus, Helmet, the Rollins Band, and dozens more were initially marketed as quasi-metal acts. This was only possible in a climate where record labels, journalists, many established 1980s metal bands released albums in the 1990s that were described as alternative metal, including Anthrax, Metallica and Mötley Crüe. It resulted in a standardized sound among alternative metal bands, in contrast to the more eccentric
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Hard rock
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Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums. Hard rock developed into a form of popular music in the 1970s, with bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Aerosmith, AC/DC. During the 1980s, some rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock. Hard rock began losing popularity with the success of R&B, hip-hop, urban pop, grunge. Out of this movement came garage rock bands like The White Stripes, The Strokes, Interpol and, later on, in the 2000s, only a few hard rock bands from the 1970s and 1980s managed to sustain highly successful recording careers. Hard rock is a form of loud, aggressive rock music, the electric guitar is often emphasised, used with distortion and other effects, both as a rhythm instrument using repetitive riffs with a varying degree of complexity, and as a solo lead instrument. Drumming characteristically focuses on driving rhythms, strong drum and a backbeat on snare. The bass guitar works in conjunction with the drums, occasionally playing riffs, vocals are often growling, raspy, or involve screaming or wailing, sometimes in a high range, or even falsetto voice. In the late 1960s, the heavy metal was used interchangeably with hard rock. Heavy metal took on darker characteristics after Black Sabbaths breakthrough at the beginning of the 1970s, in the 1980s it developed a number of subgenres, often termed extreme metal, some of which were influenced by hardcore punk, and which further differentiated the two styles. Despite this differentiation, hard rock and heavy metal have existed side by side, with bands frequently standing on the boundary of, other antecedents include Link Wrays instrumental Rumble in 1958, and the surf rock instrumentals of Dick Dale, such as Lets Go Trippin and Misirlou. In the 1960s, American and British blues and rock bands began to rock and roll by adding harder sounds, heavier guitar riffs, bombastic drumming. From the late 1960s, it common to divide mainstream rock music that emerged from psychedelia into soft. Soft rock was often derived from rock, using acoustic instruments and putting more emphasis on melody. In contrast, hard rock was most often derived from rock and was played louder. Blues rock acts that pioneered the sound included Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, in songs like I Feel Free combined blues rock with pop and psychedelia, particularly in the riffs and guitar solos of Eric Clapton. Jimi Hendrix produced a form of blues-influenced psychedelic rock, which combined elements of jazz, blues and rock, from 1967 Jeff Beck brought lead guitar to new heights of technical virtuosity and moved blues rock in the direction of heavy rock with his band, The Jeff Beck Group
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Rap rock
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Rap rock is a music genre that fuses vocal and instrumental elements of hip hop with various forms of rock. Rap rocks most popular subgenres include rap metal and rapcore, which include heavy metal and hardcore punk-oriented influences, one of the earliest examples would be The Magnificent Seven by The Clash, which fused new wave, hip hop, and funk. AllMusic describes rap metal as having big, lurching beats and heavy, heavy riffs that occasionally, Allmusic also states that the rhythms of rap rock are rooted in that of hip hop, with more funk influences than normal hard rock. Hed PE, which punk rock with hip hop, sometimes incorporates reggae. According to Rolling Stone writer Rob Kemp, Incubus 1997 album S. C. I. E. N. C. E, links funk metal to the rap metal. Kottonmouth Kings perform a style which they refer to as psychedelic hip-hop punk rock. Kid Rock incorporates country and Southern rock influences, and is backed by a 10 piece band, while Everlast fuses blues and rock with hip hop, performing with a live band that includes a DJ. An example of rap rock is the album Collision Course, its a collaboration between the rapper Jay Z and the band Linkin Park, the lyrical themes of rap rock vary. Although many nu metal bands incorporate hip hop beats, rap rock bands are always fronted by rappers, Rock bands generally not associated with rap rock have experimented with hip hop influences, including rapping. Such bands have included Blondie, Rush, Beck and Cake, many rappers have been noted for a prominent use of samples derived from rock songs, including Eminem, Ice-T, The Fat Boys, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Whodini, Vanilla Ice, and Esham. In 1983, KISS released the song All Hells Breakin Loose on the album Lick It Up with singer Paul Stanley rapping the verses, collaborated with Aerosmith on a remake of the latters earlier song, Walk This Way, first released in 1975. Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis employed rapping on the bands 1984 self-titled debut album as well as subsequent releases, in a 2002 interview with Penthouse, Kiedis stated We were early in creating the combination of hardcore funk with hip-hop-style vocals. We became, maybe, an inspiration to Limp Bizkit, Kid Rock, beastie Boys, formerly a hardcore punk group, began working in the hip hop genre, their 1986 debut album, Licensed to Ill, largely featured a rock-based sound. The three aforementioned artists all collaborated with producer Rick Rubin, who is credited with creating the rap rock genre. In 1989, Tone-Lōcs Wild Thing off of his debut album, Public Enemys track, She Watch Channel Zero. Features Chuck D rapping over a riff from the Slayer song Angel of Death, rap rock began to enter the mainstream arena in the 1990s. American rock bands such as 311, 24-7 Spyz, Faith No More and Rage Against the Machine fused rock, simultaneously, British bands like Pop Will Eat Itself and Senser were similarly shaping the genre across Europe. The soundtrack for the 1993 film Judgment Night featured 11 collaborations between hip hop and rock musicians, urban Dance Squad mixed funk, heavy metal, hip hop and punk
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Nu metal
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Nu metal is a form of alternative metal that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk and grunge. Nu metal bands have drawn elements and influences from a variety of musical styles, Nu metal rarely features guitar solos, the genre is heavily syncopated and based on guitar riffs. Many nu metal guitarists use seven-string guitars that are down-tuned to play a heavier sound, DJs are occasionally featured in nu metal to provide instrumentation such as sampling, turntable scratching and electronic backgrounds. Vocal styles in nu metal include singing, rapping, screaming and growling, Nu metal is one of the key genres of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. Nu metal became popular in the late 1990s with bands and artists such as Korn, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, many heavy metal fans have criticized nu metal, and do not regard it as true heavy metal. Many nu metal musicians have rejected the nu metal label and also have rejected being labeled as heavy metal, Nu metal is also known as nü-metal and aggro-metal. It is a subgenre of alternative metal, MTV states that the early nu metal group Korn arrived in 1993 into the burgeoning alternative metal scene, which would morph into nü-metal the way college rock became alternative rock. Stereogum has similarly claimed that nu metal was a outgrowth of the Lollapalooza-era alt-metal scene. Nu metal merges elements of metal music with elements of other music genres such as grunge, hip hop, funk. Nu metal bands also are influenced by and use elements of genres of metal music such as death metal, rap metal, groove metal, funk metal, alternative metal. Some nu metal bands such as Static-X and Dope made nu metal music elements of industrial metal. Nu metal music is heavily syncopated and is based mostly on guitar riffs, mid-song bridges and a general lack of guitar solos contrasts it with other genres of heavy metal. N its efforts to tune down and simplify riffs, nu-metal effectively drove a stake through the heart of the guitar solo. Another contrast with other metal genres is nu metals emphasis on rhythm, rather than on complexity or mood. The wah pedal is occasionally featured in nu metal music, Nu metal guitar riffs occasionally are similar to death metal guitar riffs. Nu metal bassists and drummers are often influenced by funk and hip hop, respectively, blast beats, which are common in heavy metal subgenres such as black metal and death metal, are extremely rare in nu metal. sound a Mack truck being crushed by a collapsing skyscraper. Some nu metal bands use seven-string guitars that are generally down-tuned, likewise, some bass guitarists use five-string and six-string instruments. Bass guitar-playing in nu metal often features an emphasis on elements such as slap bass, a percussive style of playing in which the thumb slaps the low strings
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Christian rock
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Christian rock is a form of rock music that promotes Jesus and is typically performed by self-proclaimed Christian individuals and bands whose members focus the lyrics on matters of Christian faith. The extent to which their lyrics are explicitly Christian varies between bands, many bands who perform Christian rock have ties to the contemporary Christian music labels, media outlets, and festivals, while other bands are independent. In 1952 Archibald Davison, a Harvard professor, summed up the sound of traditional Christian music, based upon Archibald Davisons statement it is easy to see how different these two genres of music are. Religious people in regions of the United States did not want their children exposed to music with unruly, impassioned vocals, loud guitar riffs and jarring. Rock and roll differed from the norm, and thus it was seen as a threat, often the music was overtly sexual in nature, as in the case of Elvis Presley, who became controversial and massively popular partly for his suggestive stage antics and dancing. However, Elvis was a person who even released a gospel album. Individual Christians may have listened to or even performed rock music in many cases and he Touched Me was a 1972 gospel music album by Elvis Presley which sold over 1 million copies in the US alone and earned Presley his second of three Grammy Awards. Not counting compilations, it was his third and final album devoted exclusively to gospel music, the song He Touched Me was written in 1963 by Bill Gaither, an American singer and songwriter of southern gospel and Contemporary Christian music. In the 1960s, rock music developed artistically, attained popularity and became associated with the radical counterculture. This further increased the Christian opposition to rock music, moreover, many saw the music as promoting a lifestyle of promiscuous sex, drugs and rock and roll, also reflected in the behavior of many rock stars. However, there was growing recognition of the musical and ideological potential of rock. One of his songs, Why Should the Devil Have All the Good Music, summarized his attitude and his quest to pioneer Christian rock music. Another Christian rock pioneer, Randy Stonehill, released his first album in 1971, in the most common pressing of the album, side one is entirely a live performance. Another early Christian rock album was Mylon by Mylon LeFevre, son of members of the gospel group The LeFevres. He recorded the album with members of Classics IV and released it through Cotillion Records in 1970, petra and Resurrection Band, two of the bands who brought harder rock into the early CCM community, had their origins in the early to mid-1970s. They reached their height in popularity in the late eighties alongside other Christian-identifying hard rock such as Stryper. The latter had played on MTV, one being To Hell with the Devil. Christian rock has proved successful in the UK and Europe, although such artists as Bryn Haworth have found commercial success by combining blues
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Tooth & Nail Records
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Tooth & Nail Records is a Christian rock record label founded by Brandon Ebel in California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle, Washington where it is situated today and it has been home to many well-known musical acts, including Underoath, Hawk Nelson, Emery, The Almost, FM Static, Family Force 5, and MxPx. Tooth & Nails first album released was Wish for Edens Pet the Fish, subsequent releases from The Juliana Theory, MxPx, and Starflyer 59 made Tooth & Nail a strong force in Christian music circles, as well as a niche underground subculture in itself. Prior to forming Tooth & Nail, Ebel worked for the Christian label Frontline, eight Tooth & Nail-affiliated albums have been RIAA-certified as Gold for sales of 500,000 or more copies. The label saw one of its greatest successes when Underoaths Define the Great Line debuted at No.2 on the Billboard 200 in 2006, the label also released a limited edition hard cover book, with the proceeds going to benefit Music Cares. Solid State Records distributes metal and hardcore albums by such as Living Sacrifice, Demon Hunter, Haste the Day, Underoath. Uprok Records was a hip hop label that included many of the early successes, such as ILL Harmonics. It is dissolved, though hip hop albums distributed by BEC Recordings still bear its logo, Plastiq Musiq primarily signed electronic music artists. Tooth & Nail entered a partnership to distribute Plastiq Musiq albums in 1998 and 1999, Plastiq Musiq continues to release albums independently. Fugitive Recordings primarily is made up of artists marketed outside of the Christian market, including Denison Witmer, The Presidents of the United States of America, the label acquired Takehold Records, an independent record label, in 2002. This acquisition brought several bands to Tooth & Nail including Underoath, Further Seems Forever, Few Left Standing and it will retain the rights to all future releases with a new distributor, RED Distribution. Tooth & Nail Records Discography List of record labels Official site Interview with A&R Chad Johnson, HitQuarters Oct 2006 A list of past Tooth & Nail artists
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Thousand Foot Krutch
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Thousand Foot Krutch is a Canadian Christian rock band formed in 1995. They have also released one album and three remix albums. Singer Trevor McNevan and drummer Steve Augustine are also members of their own project band called FM Static. The band has sold a million albums as of February 2014, Trevor McNevan founded the band in Peterborough, Ontario, a city northeast of Toronto, where he went to high school. Joel Bruyere, born in Brantford, Ontario, was McNevans childhood friend who had moved away, drummer Steve Augustine is from Hamilton, Ontario. McNevans first band was Oddball, which featured Dave Smith on guitar, Tim Baxter on bass and McNevans good friend, Oddball recorded only one album, Shutterbug, which was released in 1995. McNevan is the member of TFK, formed in 1997 in Peterborough. McNevan came up with TFKs name symbolizing the point in our lives that we realize we cant make it on our own strength and he has written and released seven albums with Thousand Foot Krutch to date and another four with his side project FM Static. TFK has worked with Aaron Sprinkle, Gavin Brown, Arnold Lanni, Shutterbug was released by Trevor McNevan in 1995 under the band name Oddball. McNevan had friends Dave Smith, Tim Baxter and Neil Sanderson, there were 27 songs on the album, the first half rock, the second half hip-hop. McNevan recorded it at Barry Haggartys studio in his town of Peterborough, Ontario. He worked at McDonalds and other jobs to pay for the studio time, the song Lift It, first appeared here and was later re-recorded for Thousand Foot Krutchs first release Thats What People Do and appeared again on Set It Off. Thats What People Do was written the year McNevan started TFK in 1997 and it was released independently in 1998 and is out of print. TFK climbed the ladder of local notoriety throughout Ontario and abroad, reaching the ears of Ontario commercial radio, CKWF101.5 FM in their home town of Peterborough added Rhyme Animal, the bands first single from their independent recording, to their rotation. It clicked with listeners and within two months ended up being one of the five most requested songs of the year, in 1999, TFK was chosen by 7 Ball Magazine as one of the top 25 bands in North America. They were also awarded Best Indie Recording and McNevan awarded Vocalist of the Year by the readers of The Wire Magazine and they were then awarded Band of the Year at the 2000 Wire Awards. They were also voted as the No.1 band of the millennium on 100.3 FM in Barrie, Set It Off was released on November 14,2000. It was the groups first indie label release, the band toured it extensively across North America and ended up garnering much label attention by selling 85,000 copies of the indie release out of their van
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FM Static
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FM Static was a Canadian pop punk Christian duo based in Toronto, Ontario. The band was formed in 2003 as a project for Thousand Foot Krutch. Past members are Trevor McNevan and Steve Augustine, the original lineup included John Bunner on guitar and Justin Smith on bass. As of 2013, the band has released four albums, most recently My Brain Says Stop. Their first album What Are You Waiting For. was produced by Aaron Sprinkle, the album featured the hit singles Definitely Maybe, Something to Believe In, and Crazy Mary. FM Static toured through 2003 to 2005, John Bunner quickly retired after playing a few shows, on August 1,2006, FM Static released their second album titled Critically Ashamed, which featured the single Waste of Time. Originally, a cover of Vanilla Ices Ice Ice Baby was to be included on this album, the band did not tour in support of their second album because the Smith brothers had stopped playing for them. So FM Static became a band with studio musicians filling in for the other parts. While their second album featured only the single Waste of Time, the song Tonight had accumulated over thirteen million hits on YouTube as of November 2011, while Moment of Truth had nearly ten million. On April 7,2009, FM Static released their studio album Dear Diary. Written as an album, it details the fictional story of a boy facing the difficulties of life, love and faith. The entries themselves were released in a prior to the albums release. This album featured the singles Boy Moves to a New Town With An Optimistic Outlook, The Unavoidable Battle of Feeling On the Outside, Trevor announced in a TFK broadcast that FM Static planned to tour again in 2009 to promote the album. This was confirmed when FM Static was added to setlist of the Creation Festival tour alongside TFK as well as Jars of Clay, AA Talks, B. Reith and This Beautiful Republic. Due to the fact the Trevor and Steve could not play all instrumentals, Nick Baumhardt from TFK filled in on the tour, as well as Tom Beaupre on bass and keyboards. McNevan also posted on his Twitter account on February 5,2010, that he is in the process of finishing new songs for FM Static, which will appear on a new record. He stated originally that the title would be 4, but he later mentioned on his personal Facebook page that the title had been changed to My Brain Says Stop. At Lifest 2010, FM Static debuted a song from this album called Cinnamon & Lipstick, on November 23, FM Static released a triple pack called 3 Out of 4 Aint Bad
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Manafest
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Chris Scott Greenwood, better known by his stage name Manafest, is a Canadian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario. He has been nominated and won awards for the GMA Canada Covenant Awards, GMA Dove Awards. Signed for almost a decade with BEC Recordings, Manafest became fully independent as of early 2015 and continues to write and record music. Beginnings and early years After a skateboarding accident in 1998, Chris Greenwood shifted his focus to musical writing, in 2001, Manafest debuted with his EP, Misled Youth. The release garnered Modern Rock/Alternative Song of the Year for the song Freedom at the GMA Canada Covenant Awards in 2002, the following year, Manafest released his first full-length album My Own Thing and attracted the notice of Trevor McNevan of the Ontario-based rock band Thousand Foot Krutch. This led to his signing with a distributed label, BEC Recordings under the Uprok Records label. After signing on with BEC, Manafest released his second album Epiphany in 2005, the release achieved several nominations and awards. In 2006, Manafest released his third album Glory, the album received critical success and went on to win Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the 2007 GMA Canada Covenant Awards, as well as receiving the artist a nomination for Artist of the Year. The album also marked Manafests first release to be nominated in the Juno Awards, in 2008, Manafests fourth album Citizens Activ was debuted to similar success receiving many nominations, as well as awards. The album boosted Manafests fame and reputation in Japan immensely, mainstream breakthrough In 2010, Manafest debuted his fifth full-length album The Chase. The album was well-received with the single Avalanche charting on the Billboard Christian Songs, the album showcased a directional change for Manafest, moving from a more straight hip hop flare to a heavier rock-based rap style. In 2011, Manafest released his first live album Live in Concert, the album won Rap/Hip Hop Album of the Year at the 33rd GMA Canada Covenant Awards. In 2012, Manafest released his studio album of Fighter. The album continued the previous releases heavy rock influence and garnered a nomination for Hip-Hop/Rap Album of the Year in the GMA Dove Awards, because of this albums release, Manafest fans have since become known officially as Fighters amongst themselves, as well as Manafest himself. In late 2013, Manafest released his first Christmas single California Christmas, the track was additionally featured BECs Christmas compilation release Christmastime All Year. In 2014, Manafest released his seventh album The Moment, the genre of the release deviated from his hard rock style and featured a more electronic hip hop sound. Reborn and Stones In late 2014, Manafest released the single Let Go, the track was a song that didnt make the final cut of The Moment and was later released by itself. The song was pulled from iTunes
