My Recommendation: Manic Drive

Continuing on with the week’s theme, today’s recommendation comes from Toronto, ON by the band Manic Drive. The band revolves around the talents of two brothers Michael and Shawn Cavallo, they have had a few changes in their lineup but the brothers have been a constant.

The two brothers started in a kid’s band One Cross which morphed into Manic Drive back in 2004.

Here’s what they said about the name change and the thought behind the new name

“We wanted to change the name as a way of showing the industry and our fans that we were maturing and growing up as artists and not that kid band "One Cross" people use to identify us with. How the new name came about was just my brother and I (Shawn) loved the word "manic" just cause we thought it described the band's personality and music. We later added the word "drive" as in to pursue or to be driven in life. As Christians, we want to live radically and manically for Christ in our lifestyle and pursue Him always.”

They came out with their first album in 2005 which fetched them moderate success in the Christian Rock charts however they gained worldwide success with their single Blue title track from their 2008 album which features Grammy winning Kevin Max of DC Talk.

The song I’m recommending Walls comes from the same album, it falls somewhere between the Rock and Pop Rock genres, I didn’t even realize that the song is actually a Christian Rock song as I stumbled upon it on Pandora and liked the pace and beat of the song, it’s only after listening to it a few times I noticed the lyrics and realized it’s actually a Christian Rock song per say (not that it matters to me), I love the adrenalin pumping pace of the song plus it has a nice positive message, here’s the song