Artist Profile: Last Day

Last Day’s challenge and their goal is to get everyone, but
especially young people involved in worshiping and praising God through music
and thereby experiencing God in a whole new way. Another hope of Last Day would
be to influence other young musicians to consider sharing their musical talents
for the glorification of God instead of turning to secular music.
Last Day was formed in 2001 and as with most bands has seen the normal ebb and
flow of band members. The present lineup in Last Day consists of Andy Henry who
plays multiple instruments, but primarily confines his talents to guitar,
keyboard and backing vocals for the band. Lead guitarist with his superb guitar
picking skills is John Brockmeier and he also lends his voice to backing vocals.
Matt Jackson is also a skillful guitar player on both acoustic and electric and
the band’s distinctive sound stems from his powerful lead vocals. The newest
addition to the band is our bassist, Joe Tabeling. Then, last but certainly not
least, supplying the driving beat of the band, is our rockin’ drummer, Nathan
Lubbers.
From their roots as leaders of their church’s youth group band, the members of
Last Day have progressed to exciting crowds throughout the US. In 2005, they
self-released a full length CD entitled ‘Astray’ with such crowd pleasers as
“Eternity” and “Circles”. In March 2006, they released what promises to be their
most successful project to date, another full length CD entitled “Happy Medium”
produced by Rick Andress of Fox Studios, Cincinnati.
Last Day is not about putting on a concert or show, their mission is to write
and perform music that helps lift your heart, mind and soul to God. Where ever
possible they display their lyrics so people can worship right along with them.
Their sets consist of their own original songs with thoughtful and meaningful
lyrics along with powerful rock music and a few favorite cover songs because
they truly want everyone involved in their shows. So, where there is apparently
a place for screamo and metal bands in Christian rock, Last Day is neither. Nor
do they sit around the campfire singing ‘Kumbaya’
- well, hardly ever. Seems like Last Day is a ‘happy medium’ with their own
unique sound and that is basically, solid rock. So crank up your CD player, plop
in Happy Medium and start rocking along because Last Day is coming… Are you
ready?
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