For their last Tooth & Nail release, Showbread’s 2009 album The Fear of God serves as the final foray into shearing abrasiveness, while simultaneously foreshadowing the group’s future sounds.
Fear comes just a year after the massive double-disc release Anorexia/Nervosa , the band’s ambitious, story-driven concept album.
In this respect, it’s almost as if they didn’t let those records breathe. At all. Notorious for their ever-evolving lineup changes – the band has had upwards of 20 members come and go – perhaps the reason for this lack of letting an album flourish is the constant turnover. Maybe they were just eager to be done with Tooth & Nail after years of back-and-forth with the label that once served as the behemoth of alternative faith-based music, now struggling to remain relevant.
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