metalcore anniversary: Alove for Enemies' album Resistance

Alove for Enemies – Resistance - July 11, 2006 - Facedown Records

Track List: The Resistance - Tread On My Dreams - Hall Of Mirrors - Wishes For The Cloth Of Heaven - Call It Faith - EC-10 - Rise Of The Phoenix - Not Without Incident - Welcome To The Underground - Emotion Is Chaos - Will Of Father

Alove for Enemies was a heavy, chugging metalcore band from New York in the 2000s. They were well-known in the underground faith-based extreme music scene for blending heavy metallic breakdowns and raw, screeching vocals with melodic elements—something you will certainly find all over this album, Resistance. If you like ugly-face breakdown metallic hardcore, I think you are going to be making faces when you listen to this record.

Wikipedia information about the band : Alove for Enemies was a Christian hardcore band from Long Island, New York, US. They claim Shai Hulud, Darkest Hour, and Few Left Standing as their influences. The band was founded in 1999, and released their first six-song EP independently in 2000. The group was founded by singer Erich Barto and drummer A.J. Gonzalez. The band was signed to independent label Polytope records and toured twice under this label. After A.J. Gonzalez left the band, they replaced Gonzalez with Mike Desario for most of 2003. In late 2003 Jon Hernandez joined just before the band signed to Californian label Strikefirst Records, a subsidiary of Facedown Records. They released the EP Broken Pledge in December 2003 and played many gigs to support it.

In March 2004 Alove for Enemies signed with the main Facedown Records label. A year later, the album The Harvest was released; it was supported by a full US tour and by a European tour in spring 2005. 2006 saw the release of The Resistance on Facedown Records. All the song titles on the album are references to the movie Equilibrium. On September 4, 2007, Alove For Enemies announced their break up on their Myspace blog. They played Facedown Fest East Coast in Maryland as their penultimate show, on Sept. 29, 2007. Their final show was played on Long Island Oct. 5, 2007. Former guitar player Bill Meis joined them for "Center of Attention" and "Angels Don't Burn". On May 14, 2012, Alove For Enemies announced a reunion show for August 17 at the annual Long Island Fest 3 day Hardcore Festival. No further shows have been announced.

Alove for Enemies - Call It Faith