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INNER STRENGTH

Progressive Metal • United States


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Formed in 1986, Inner Strength are a US-based progressive metal band from Long Island, New York. At its centre is vocalist Scott Oliva, who has remained the sole consistent member through the group's various incarnations. The group began performing hardcore punk (with early guitarist Vic Dicara and drummer Alan Cage leaving to join likeminded bands Burn, Beyond and Quicksand) before Oliva shifted direction to a prog, power and thrash metal fusion, bridging the worlds of Psychotic Waltz, Enchant, Mekong Delta, Fates Warning and King's X. Inner Strength explored this style across four demos from 1989 to 1992, stabilising their classic lineup in the autumn of 1990 with the addition of ex-Arioch musicians Joe Marselle on guitar and Justin Hosman on bass, and drummer Joe Kirsch (later to be replaced in 1992 by Aftershock's Frank Todarello Jr.).

Inner Strength's first full-length, Shallow Reflections, was produced by Bob Van Der Mark and released in 1993 via Institute of Art Records. The German label folded shortly thereafter while attempting to connect Inner Strength with Dream Theater as tour partners on the European leg for Images and Words. The quartet continued to persevere in the intervening years, playing live and recording their tentative second album The Common Theme. Inner Strength ended in 1997 after the band changed their name to Tilt, followed by the departure of Marselle and Oliva. Most of its members remained active in projects in the meantime, with Oliva staying busy collaborating with Reverence, the Nightmare Stage and Scott Mosher/Oceans of Night (among many others), and Hosman and Kirsch forming heavy metal band Maya's Fist.

2019 saw Inner Strength reunite for a live performance, with Divebomb Records reissuing Shallow Reflections along with three demo compilations later that year. Oliva and Marselle were galvanised to continue making music, and began writing new material in the spirit of Inner Strength but intended for an auxiliary project. The duo reunited with Hosman and recruited former Dååth drummer Eric Sanders to assemble Sunrise Dreamer in 2020, which self-released their debut album, A World to Know, on the first day of 2021. Seeking to continue the momentum and record "the album we might have made in 1991 if we had the skills and experience we have today," Marselle, Oliva and Hosman invited Kirsch back into the fold, resulting in 2024's thrash-free Daydreaming in Moonlight LP, once more issued through Divebomb.

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1993
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Daydreaming in Moonlight
2024

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Babylon
1989

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