A while back I posted a link to a video from this band along with a few other “Christian metal” acts. This past weekend we made a pilgrimage to Target in Alexandria – the first time we’d been there since moving in back in July, so lots of household items to stock up on – and I noticed they had AILD’s new album, An Ocean Between Us, pretty cheap so I picked it up. And I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. AILD is not a “Christian band” in the pejorative sense (they’re on Metal Blade records, after all) and this is good straight-up thrash metal with metalcore influences (or vice versa):