Anberlin

Anberlin is a modern alternative rock band from Orlando, Florida that was formed in 2002. Even though their debut album, Blueprints for the Black Market was released barely a year after the band formed, Anberlin were already amassing a dedicated fan-base through steady touring with other bands on their label, Tooth & Nail Records. Whilst they are often labelled as a Christian rock band Anberlin do not consider themselves to be one, although all of the members are Christians.

Biography

Blueprints For the Black Market was quite successful. Spurred on by popular singles Readyfuels and Change the World, it sold over 60,000 copies and raised Anberlin's profile. They released their sophomore album, Never Take Friendship Personal, in February 2005. The album was praised by both critics and Anberlin's fan-base, garnering favourable reviews and winning the band many new fans with its more approachable and energetic sound.

Prior to its release, the band promoted the album by releasing a track per week on their Purevolume and Myspace website accounts, as well as on their own website. So far, two "radio singles" have been released from the album: A Day Late and Paperthin Hymn. Both have been quite successful on alternative rock radio. A video for A Day Late has been released and the video for Paperthin Hymn was just put out online.

Furthermore, Anberlin have recorded covers of the Bob Dylan song Like a Rolling Stone and the popular Christmas song Baby Please Come Home to compilation albums in 2005.

Singer Stephen Christian is also working on some solo music with Aaron Marsh of Copeland, which is expected to take the form of an EP sometime in 2006.

Members

Discography

Videos

A Day Late 2005 here
Paperthin Hymn 2006 (Directed by: Chris Sims) - releasing March 17, 2006

Unreleased songs

There are several Anberlin songs recorded during album sessions that were not used on the finished products. Some of these have been released through other channels, such as Downtown Song from the Never Take Friendship Personal sessions which was released in 2005 on a Tooth & Nail compilation. Others have featured on preliminary track listings or been mentioned by the band, but have never been released or otherwise leaked. The band have stated that these out-takes will probably never be officially released, although there is a slim possibility that they may be candidates for future album sessions.

In addition to these there are also several songs recorded by SaGoh 24/7, a band which featured four of the original members of Anberlin, which have been distributed on the internet as Anberlin songs. However, SaGoh was their old band with a notably different pop-punk sound, so these should not be considered Anberlin tracks.

Here are some of the known unreleased Anberlin songs:

Downtown Song (also known as The Downtown Song, Just Another Downtown Song or Another Downtown Song) Given a limited release on a "downloadcard" available only at the 2005 Warped Tour. This song appeared on all of the early track listings for Never Take Friendship Personal, but was cut at the last minute.

Everywhere and In Between One of the most popular unreleased Anberlin songs. This was recorded as a demo before Blueprints For the Black Market, along with early versions of album tracks Readyfuels, Foreign Language, and Autobahn (then titled Driving). It is notably softer and more poppy than most Anberlin songs. There is some speculation that it may be re-recorded for the third album sessions, though this has not been officially confirmed. Although the demo version was never officially released, it has leaked to the internet and is well known in the Anberlin fan community.

Chemicals Early name for "Dance, Dance, Christa Paffgen" which was released on Never Take Friendship Personal.

New Fast Automatic Like Downtown Song, this track appeared on every early running order for Never Take Friendship Personal but did not make the final cut. It has not been heard of since.

Calm Culture Massacre Little is known about this song, which was talked about during the Never Take Friendship Personal sessions. It reportedly sounded the most like a SaGoh song that Anberlin had ever done, which is most likely why it was shelved.

Embrace the Dead This is not an Anberlin song. This was recorded by the band saGoh (which featured Stephen Christian, Deon Rexroat, Joseph Milligan, and Nathan Young) before they disbanded and reformed later as Anberlin. This was saGoh's last release and was only available online. Often mistaken for an Anberlin song, but most definitely is not.

Amsterdam Appeared in the early track listings of Never Take Friendship Personal, but was later renamed "(the symphony of) blasé".

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