Fireflight

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Fireflight is an American Christian rock band. The band originated in Eustis, Florida in 1999. The band is signed by Flicker Records, and has toured with Seventh Day Slumber, Kids in the Way, Shoutfest and is featured on The Scars Remains tour with Disciple, Family Force Five & Decyfer Down in February 2007.

1 Lineup
2 Discography
3 Sound
4 Discography
- 4.1 Singles
- 4.2 Albums
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Lineup

The band is comprised of 5 members, with lead vocals by Dawn Richardson, Wendy Drennen on bass guitar and vocals, Justin Cox on guitar and background vocals, Glenn Drennen on guitar, and Phee Shorb on drums.

[edit] Discography

Their debut national album The Healing of Harms was released in July 2006 after the band had been together for over half a decade. The band released an EP in 2004 entitled On The Subject of Moving Forward. Prior to this, though, they put out the album "Glam-rok" on an independent label.

[edit] Sound

Fireflight says that their album "hints of emo-core, modern rock, and progressive metal permeate the record". ^[1]

They claim their sound is "Blindside with a dash of Evanescence," ^[2].

[edit] Discography

[edit] Singles

Their lead single off the first album is You Decide. The song features Josh Brown of Day of Fire, and was the top request at TVU music television in August 2006. The song was the second most played song on Christian Rock radio stations according to the September 1, 2006 R&R magazine airplay chart. The song peaked at #11 on the R&R Christian Hit Radio charts on October 23, 2006, and at #1 on the Christian Radio Weekly chart. "You Decide" was also was in the Top 25 of 2006 for the network radio station Air1.

Their second single to Rock radio was "Waiting", which reached #1 R&R and CRW Christian Rock chart, and stayed there for 3 consecutive weeks during the month of February 2007. They concurrently released the song "It's You" to Christian Pop radio stations.

[edit] Albums

The Healing of Harms (2006), peaked at #37 on the Top Christian Albums and #48 on the Top Independent Album chart ^[3]
On The Subject of Moving Forward (2004)
Glam-rok (2002)