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Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of Grade, Zyon and New Day Rising, The Black Maria present their new album, “Lead Us To Reason”. While each member of the band has a long history of success in music – The Black Maria has nothing to do with those stories, rather it is a group vision, evolving in the process of invention, and it is a story all its own. With evocative lyrics and a gorgeous, layered musical framework, their music defies category, walking the razor edge of genre toward their own precise statement. Forming in 2002, the band began writing and playing, polishing early demos and letting inspiration take its course. They named the band after the notorious police vans of the early 20th century. Their first show was in Toronto in 2003, with Piebald and Cave In and the band has played constantly since then, sharing stages with Queens Of The Stone Age, MxPx, The Distillers and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists.

The songwriting process has been a steady evolution since t...