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Pioneering modern worship and GRAMMY© nominated band SONICFLOOd announces the March 8 release of This Generation (INO), their new studio project featuring ten original songs.

The Album, This Generation is a proclamation to people everywhere to fulfill the fundamental purpose of our existence, which is to worship God. Frontman Rick Heil hopes that this project will encourage people to remember that "God's heart is truly good and He is more in love with us than we will ever know." Heil continues, "Although it is a simple concept, during difficult circumstances we tend to doubt God's heart and forget He's faithfulness. The Lord says that He will never leave us or forsake us."

Understanding God's goodness is something Heil has experienced recently as he rejoices over being healed from Crohn's disease, a painful intestinal disorder he's lived with for years. Those diagnosed with this disease normally struggle with it for life; yet, last March Heil underwent treatment and surgery to repair some scarring issues when doctors discovered he no longer had any signs of the disease to treat.

For many years, Heil praised God through his pain, and he's thrilled to celebrate that the Lord has given him back his health. No matter how he's doing physically, however, Heil knows it's easy to give in to doubt, to believe that God doesn't have our best interests at heart. That is where the concept behind This Generation was birthed.

"I think worship is the strongest tool we have in fighting those negative messages," Heil says. "You are what you're filled with. The great thing about music is it is always available. If you feel overwhelmed by this life, you can crank up the tunes and let the Lord minister to you and get refocused."

Creating a project to refuel people, SONICFLOOd teamed up with three different producers, Marc Byrd (City On A Hill: The Gathering), Jim Cooper (Building 429, Across the Sky) and Dan Muckala (Mandy Moore, Joy Williams). In addition Heil teemed up with Cooper and Regie Hamm for the track "The Prodigal Song," which is a reminder of how much God loves us. The song, "Your Love Goes On Forever," clearly states the theme behind this CD, "For all You've done/ And your infinite love/ We lift our hearts to worship/ For Your sweet grace/ We lift Your name/ Let Your praise go on and on forever more."

"People underestimate this generation," Heil says. "They want the Truth…people want what's real, what is eternal! Our enemy is hard at work and he is focused. There's no time to play around!"

On his journey to gather this generation together, Heil traveled to India with the International Missions Board in 2004 by special invitation to tape a music video for SONICFLOOd's hit song, "Cry Holy." This video was created for The Task program to introduce missions to youth, showing opportunities to serve. This video is currently on TheTask.org web page and used worldwide to stress the importance of missions. A limited edition bonus CD containing the video, along with footage from the taping in India, and screensavers will be included with the release of This Generation.

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