The group toured with Automatic Loveletter in July 2008,in the fall they toured with Family Force Five and The Maine, then embarked on their first headlining tour (entitled "There Came a Tour") with There For Tomorrow, In:Aviate, and The Lives of Famous Men. The band is currently a four-piece and working on new material.
In February of 2009, they premiered their music video for "Days End" on AbsolutePunk.net -- the video, filmed in mid-2008, includes their former guitarist and then was featured on the Summer Bailout tour with Emery, Maylene and the sons of disaster, Closure in Moscow and Secret & Whisper then finished out the year on the Vans Warped Tour.
During July & August of this year they toured alongside Dance Gavin Dance, Silverstein, and Emery on the Scream it Like You Mean It Tour. Ivoryline is currently on Creation Fest the Tour 2010 with Thousand Foot Krutch and Disciple.
The newest album is entitled "Vessels" and was released July 27th.
Passion and intensity have become the buzzwords of an industry in which myopic self pity has become its own brand of conformity. Enter Ivoryline, a band’s whose spiritual integrity bypasses musical wallowing and goes straight for the mainline of your emotional jugular with intensely personal lyrics and dense blasts of guitars. There is no “wink” from Ivoryline informing the listener they are steeped in the apathetic irony governing the charts; at long last a band has arrived that has the guts and the talent to enter a brave new world of sincerity. Ivoryline just gives you life, yours and theirs as a package. Singing their songs feels less like a drug and more like a journey into your own heart of darkness where you may ride their lyrical insights to new levels of self actualization.
How is it that these five boys from Tyler are able to bring the sophistication without being weighed down by the trappings of pseudo-intellectualism into a pompous self congratulatory excess? The answer is lucid and elegant, like the rock they make. They did it the old fashioned way, making music for the sake of music....not to get girls, not to be stars, but for a love of music. The Ivoryline Highway was constructed from an authentic love of music and listening to their songs makes you wonder where the notes begin and the cells of their bodies end.
The band members’ shared tastes brought them together to explore new territory while their roots remained firmly planted in the roots of rock-n-roll. The music they made stuck to them like an electrical shock and soon what started out as a few shows and penning some songs turned into a full time gig. They knew they were onto something when they were hand selected for the Vans Warped Tour in 2006. The storm grew stronger when the boys caught the ear of executives at mini-major Tooth and Nail Records, who had the foresight or the luck to be the company who can say they discovered Ivoryline. Crowds grew from a few dozen to a few hundred and sometimes into the thousands and a legend was born. As the crowds grew so did the feverish fervency of the fans. The fact that Ivoryline composes songs as a unit is somehow transferred to their audience, and when they perform live one is struck by the intense duality of the many becoming one voice, an audience so bound to the music it is as if they are its author. Make no mistake, it is the Ivoryline fans that own these songs. With hands raised and eyes closed the crowd becomes charged with electricity, light traveling in particles and waves through the room and materializing through the vocal chords of hundreds of fans. This is the foundation of Ivoryline’s allure. You, the fans, are their song.
Walking Dead
Ivoryline Lyrics
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Between skin and the call of me
Why do we live so pretentiously
In our own skin, we're all hiding
God forbid that we step on someone's toes
A living, breathing generation of the walking dead
Believing nothing is wrong but everything always is
Is this all for the greater good?
We built the bridge from Earth to Hell
Even the craze could really save us all
We just can't seem to get over ourselves
God forbid that we step on someone's toes
A living, breathing generation of the walking dead
Believing nothing is wrong but everything always is
All the things we think we need
All the things we need have taken his place
All the things we think we need
Have taken his place, have taken his place
God forbid that we step on someone's toe
And God descends, his shape of leg, his heart of stone
A living, breathing generation of the walking dead
Believing nothing is wrong but everything always is
The opening lines of Ivoryline's song 'Walking Dead' expose society's tendency to mask the truth with a façade of bravery. The next line, "Between skin and the call of me" refers to the unfiltered instinct or "call" that exists within every individual behind the layers of society's expectations. The following two lines condemn the tendency of human beings to lead pretentious lives and constantly hide behind their own skin. The verse concludes with a sarcastic remark about how people become too afraid to step on someone's toes, with the fear of being judged and criticised impeding people's ability to be truthful and transparent with each other.
The chorus aptly describes contemporary society as a "living, breathing generation of the walking dead." People tend to believe that there is nothing wrong with the status quo, but the truth is that there are always things that need to be fixed. The line "Is this all for the greater good?" asks a rhetorical question about whether ideals and beliefs are worth pursuing. The "bridge from Earth to Hell" could refer to the overall negative impact of human behaviour on the planet as a whole. Even crazy solutions (such as collectively reducing carbon emissions) would have the potential to save the world, but people are often too self-absorbed to pursue such solutions.
The second verse continues with the idea that people have lost sight of what is truly important. Our obsession with material possessions takes priority over more meaningful pursuits. The pre-chorus repeats the phrase that one's fear of stepping on someone's toes is limiting people from achieving breakthroughs. The bridge of the song refers to a hypothetical scenario where God descends from above and sees people's shortcomings. The final line of the song reinforces the idea that contemporary society is living only for themselves and not being aware of the negative impact their actions may have on the world around them.
Line by Line Meaning
Why immerse the truth? Caught our bravery
Why hide the truth? We are afraid of the consequences
Between skin and the call of me
Between our physical selves and our true thoughts and feelings
Why do we live so pretentiously
Why do we put up a facade and pretend to be something we're not
In our own skin, we're all hiding
Even within ourselves, we're hiding our true selves
God forbid that we step on someone's toes
We're so afraid of offending others that we hold ourselves back unnecessarily
A living, breathing generation of the walking dead
We're alive but not truly living, going through the motions without experiencing real emotions
Believing nothing is wrong but everything always is
We don't see the errors in our ways and continue to make mistakes
Is this all for the greater good?
Are our actions really benefiting everyone around us?
We built the bridge from Earth to Hell
We've created our own destruction and consequences from our actions
Even the craze could really save us all
Even some madness or chaos could potentially bring about positive change
We just can't seem to get over ourselves
We're too stuck in our own ways to make any real progress or change
All the things we think we need
All the material possessions we crave and feel we require for happiness
All the things we need have taken his place
Our wants and desires have replaced our true needs and priorities
Have taken his place, have taken his place
This has become a recurring theme in our lives
And God descends, his shape of leg, his heart of stone
A symbol of punishment and consequences for our actions
Contributed by Aiden B. Suggest a correction in the comments below.