Daniel Band
| Daniel Band | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Christian metal, Christian rock |
| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Streetlight, Lamb & Lion, Benson, Refuge, Lexicon-Spectra, Magdalene/M8, Retroactive |
| Members | Tony Rossi Dan McCabe Bill Davidson Stu Christie |
| Past members | Peter Cosman Bill Findlay Matt Delduca Wayne Morgan |
The Daniel Band is a Canadian Christian metal group formed in 1979 in Toronto. They played in the contemporary Christian music industry with a sound that ranged from hard rock to heavy metal.
The group originated in 1979 in suburban Toronto, Ontario, and were based out of a Brethren Assembly in Scarborough, Ontario called Bendale Bible Chapel which held a weekly coffeehouse, The One Way Inn, in its church basement, that featured various Christian rock groups, that the band members played in.
The band placed as a top three finalist in the 1982 Homegrown concert sponsored by Toronto radio station Q107, and played at the El Mocambo with the champion, Oliver Heavyside (listed in One-Hit Wonders--US and, as the Partland Brothers, as One-hit wonders in Canada) and runner-up, The Cameo Blues Band, both longtime professional bar bands on the Toronto scene.
Their first album, On Rock (1982), offered a progressive rock sound that was typical of the era, in the tradition of April Wine and Boston, but with a harder edge. The solid rock guitar and high register vocals reminded fans of the Canadian rock group Rush. Their sound grew heavier with Straight Ahead (1983), and by the time of their third album Run from the Darkness (1984) they were a heavy metal act with all the trappings. This was their spandex and studded dog collar stage, with a sound that was closer to AC/DC.
The band has never officially broken up, although a "farewell concert" was held in Toronto in April 1988, and its members have been involved with various projects in Churches, including Bendale, and Schools where the members now live. Tony Rossi released a blues based album on R.E.X. Records in 1990. Dan McCabe was involved with a band called Dreamer which released one album in 1991 titled Full Metal Racket, released a solo CD and played with his older children in a band called Nine-O-Five.
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