Throwback: “I Am The Lion” by Phinehas!

A month after the release of their fifth studio album “The Fire Itself” via Solid State Records and we find ourselves at the 10th Anniversary milestone of the debut album “thegodmachine” from Californian Metalcore merchants Phinehas. The irony of that is that the band actually formed ten years prior to the release in 2001, taking 8 years to release a debut self titled EP in 2009 with no less than seven line up changes taking place in those years leaving vocalist Sean McCulloch the only original member of the outfit in the line up today. From the critically acclaimed album “I Am the Lion” was chosen for the full red carpet music video treatment, one of two cuts re-recorded from that self titled EP, the other being “Grace Disguised by Darkness“. So in celebration of all that, here it is…