Through their five-year existence, Manic Drive, a Christian band who hails from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have steadily built up a trail of chart-topping singles and awards. 2009 was a banner year for the band with the release of their latest album Blue and an invitation to tour with the legendary hard rock band Stryper. For Anthony, Shawn and Michael, it was a slow and steady race up to the top, beginning with accolades collected as a band on an independent label to growing into a nationally distributed, major label-backed artist. Success hasn't changed the threesome at all, though; Michael says, "Our shows are high energy and we like having fun with everyone there. We never take ourselves too seriously!”While the Manic Drive don't take themselves too seriously, they take their work, their music very seriously. They spent much effort to deliver something new with Blue, including a collaboration with Lu Rubino of StorySide:B “The new musical direction we are taking with Blue explores different styles of music with energetic dynamics that hopefully keep things interesting and make people move by laying a primary foundation of rock and adding elements of pop, funk, dance and hip-hop,” says Shawn. “The underlying themes found on Blue are lyrics that will encourage people to get up and make a move, both literally as well as in their faith. Songs such as 'Music' have a fun approach to challenging people to become radical and active.” Manic Drive strives to offer their fans an experience to remember--whether it's through their energetic live shows, through an intimate experience through headphones, or by adding their music to JamLegend.Though Manic Drive is most often filed under Christian rock, judging from the play count in the hundreds of thousands on JamLegend, their fresh take on rock seems to appeal to people of all faiths from around the world. Their song "NYC Gangsters" is almost at 200,000 plays, and the title track from their latest album Blue is close to 120,000 plays. We salute Manic Drive's positive attitude and message as articulated by Shawn: “We hope every Manic Drive release will be refreshing to our fans as we continue to grow artistically as a band and we hope our lyrics resonate with people and challenge them to take a stand in faith to impact the world around them.” You can check out Manic Drive's single "Blue" below. For more info about the band including upcoming live dates, please visit their MySpace page. You can buy Manic Drive's album Blue as well as their previous releases via iTunes.
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