''God's Favorite Sons'' is the debut
EP by Canadian
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
band
Organ Thieves
Organ Thieves is a southern and soul-influenced experimental hard rock side project by Brown Brigade guitarists Chuck Coles and Dave Baksh, formed by Coles in mid-2008. It has since become their main project.
History Formation and ''God's F ...
(then known as The Organ Thieves), self-produced and released in March 2009.
The EP includes 5 first demo songs recorded by the band in
Jesse Smith and
Jason Bone's studio "The Boom Cave" in
Oshawa, Ontario, in January 2009. The EP was co-produced by the band and former
Cauterize
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bassist
Jason Bone.
The music on the EP ranges from simple
hard rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...
to more bass-driven
reggae tracks, as well as more
country and
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
influenced
southern rock songs.
The songs "Fix the Hearts of the Hollow" and "Question Your Crown" were later re-recorded for the band's first full-length album ''
Somewhere Between Free Men and Slaves
''Somewhere Between Free Men and Slaves'' is the first full-length studio album by Canadian hard rock band Organ Thieves, released on April 24, 2012, through MapleMusic Recordings, through the Canada iTunes service, later followed by a physical C ...
'', which was released in 2012.
Track listing
Personnel
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Chuck Coles
Chuck Coles (also known as Chuut Coles) (born 20 March 1980 in Oshawa, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. He was the guitarist for heavy metal band Brown Brigade and the lead singer, guitarist, and "band leader" for the band The Organ Thieves ...
- lead vocals, guitar
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Dave Baksh - guitar
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Ben Davies - guitar, mandolin
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Mike Smith – bass
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John Owens – drums, percussion
2009 EPs
Hard rock EPs
Organ Thieves albums
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