There is a horizon of the soul that is seen by the eyes of very few. It is that line that brings the depths and the heights to meet in the middle, and there, relativity and division seem to meld together. We are all faced with that line, and we are all staring at the sky or the ground and questioning what it is that might make sense of them both. The line seems to bring two worlds into perspective: the physical and the spiritual, and leads us to inquire if that aching question of “Why we are here?†can be answered. It’s the searching for that meeting that leaves us in the desperation for the response. If anything is the foremost desire of Endeavor the Seas, it is not to barrage your mind with sound and melody or dazzle you with any sort of stage antics, but it is to make it known that their passion and their purpose is something much deeper than what they can simply say, and so, they strive to do so with their music. It is well known to them that too often there is music that is empty and heartless flowing in and out of the youth of today. It was a little over a year ago that guitarist Joe McElroy, former drummer Dave Culp, and bassist Laura Reitzel came together as Endeavor the Seas. The musicians put their hearts for the hopeless, their desires to follow Christ, and their talent together, holing themselves up in a little cabin at a summer camp where they wrote what was impressed upon their hearts and minds. The resulting style was a refreshing yet gritty relationship between breakdown and melody, with intricate guitar work, mathy-breaks, rhythmically framing bass lines, and solid, artistically structuring drums wrapped with vocals alternating between screaming and harmony. While the band had undergone 2 line-up changes in the past year, (last fall when drummer Bryce Hardin came into the position, taking the band further until Bryce responded to the call to begin speaking, deciding to leave soon after the beginning of March. All the band members were at peace with his decision, and are glad of his pursuit. The second came when current drummer Ben Trussell made the move from Massachusetts in order to become a part of the trio.) They still strive to craft music that maintains its undulating cloud of intense indie/hardcore, keeping the bridge between the genres intact while maintaining their ultimate goal of sharing their hearts with their audiences. “Music verges upon the connectivity of people; because, when it’s honest, it is the revelation of something we believe and feel out there in the open. A conduit between the soul and the world around us, if you will. Our hearts have settled inside (a God) greater and more wonderful than ourselves, and if we can even begin to express that to people and they begin to understand, we have been allowed to accomplish something.â€
