The Demon Hunter is Searching for a Living Sacrifice

After seeing Anthrax and Iron Maiden the night before (May 30th), what better way to cleanse the soul than seeing 2 of the best Christian metal bands ever! Demon Hunter and LIVING SACRIFICE!! That's right, they are back! I was super excited about this night because Living Sacrifice has been one of my favorite bands for a long time, plus I have been a fan of the Clark Brothers ever since Training for Utopia. Remember that band? Unreal! Anyway, their latest band, Demon Hunter, is insanely good and they destroy every venue they play at. So you can see why I was so pumped for this show. I unfortunately missed Advent because I drove back out to Irvine to buy myself and TJ from War of Ages epic Iron Maiden tour shirts. And I do mean epic. You will probably see TJ rockin' his on a stage near you soon!

Needless to say, I really wanted to shoot some of these guys for my Faces of Music project. Things were way hectic after the show, but thanks to my buddy and Punk Rock, Hardcore Extraordinaire, Dylan Johnson, he was able to round up Jon Dunn of Demon Hunter, Alec Barainca and Patrick Judge of the Demon Hunter road crew and Bruce Fitzhugh of Living Sacrifice for me to shoot for my project, as well as himself. And thanks to my assistant Shaun Centers, we got Bob Martinez who works the door at the Glass House and Joseph Meersseman who does merch for Oh Sleeper. I also shot Mike Ojeda who is the General Manager for the Glass House and then Sonny Nigro who owns Needles and Pins Records. I owe Shaun another shout out for his gift of finding power outlets. He actually got someone who has a place along the alley to let us plug in from their place. It was completely random that he actually knew someone who was over at the time, but it all worked out and Shaun is the man! Another late night, but when is it not? Enjoy the photos!

I Shot Showbread, Now Watch as Each One DIES, 5-29-08

It's been awhile since I have posted anything about my Faces of Music project. It's not because I haven't been doing anything, it's because I have been doing a lot! I have shot almost 70 people for this project already and there's just no stopping me. I am trying to edit them as quickly as possible, but it takes a little time. I am overwhelmed by everyone's willingness to participate in this so far. It is kind of unreal.

Anyway, back to the story on hand. On Thursday May 29th, I headed out to the Stronghold in Chino to see my friends in Showbread. They just released a new album, so I was excited to see how the new songs sounded. These boys have always been crazy and they certainly didn't disappoint. I also got to see Josh's side project, DIES, for the first time. Going to the Stronghold is always a good time because I usually know half the people there. This night was no exception. It was a regular old party. You should have been there.

After the show, I convinced Patrick Porter, bass player of Showbread/DIES, to pose for the Faces of Music project. Thanks to him and my newly appointed Faces of Music assistant, Shaun Centers, we rounded up everyone in Showbread, Patrick's wife, 3 members of Ember Days, and the Youth Pastor at the Stronghold. I shot a total of 12 people. I would have lost it without Shaun's help keeping everything organized. It was another very late night. Shaun stayed till the end (1am or later) and he had to get up to open Starbucks at 4:15am!! I only had to be at work at 7am! Oh the things we do for the sake of art. Anyway, here are the 12 people I shot.













It was a crazy time trying to shoot these portraits with all the bands loading up and all the things they do to entertain themselves. Enjoy these videos I shot because I just had to, haha!