Live Life Loud is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band Hawk Nelson

Hawk Nelson

Hawk Nelson is a Christian rock band from Peterborough, Ontario. The band has become very popular in the Christian music scene and was voted "Favorite New Artist" by CCM Magazine in their February 2006 Reader's Choice Awards. In 2006 Hawk Nelson won a No...

. It was released on September 22, 2009. According to Daniel Biro, the dog on the cover is Jason's dog Murphy, and the album was packaged with a pair of 3D glasses that are needed to be worn to view the albums CD booklet, as it is printed in 3D.
The album peaked at No. 54 the first week at Billboard 200 and at No. 3 on The Billboard Christian Albums charts.

Concept and musical style

Bassist Daniel Biro describes the album as "really about encouraging our fans to do just that. To live your life loud, to embrace all that life brings your way and experience every moment of it to the fullest extent. This is the message we want our fans to come away with after they hear the album."

The album is the first time that the band wrote songs together by just jamming as a band, although the band collaborated with Chris Stevens, Matthew Gerrard, TobyMac

TobyMac

Toby McKeehan , better known by his stage name TobyMac , is a Christian recording artist, music producer, hip-hop/pop artist, singer-songwriter, and author....

, Trevor McNevan

Trevor McNevan

Trevor McNevan , also known as Teerawk, is a Canadian musician and lead singer/songwriter of Thousand Foot Krutch and pop punk side project FM Static along with Steve Augustine...

, and Bart Millard on the record.

Track listing

1. "Live Life Loud" - 2:57
2. "Never Enough" - 2:57
3. "Eggshells" featuring tobyMac
   TobyMac
   Toby McKeehan , better known by his stage name TobyMac , is a Christian recording artist, music producer, hip-hop/pop artist, singer-songwriter, and author....
   
   - 3:25
4. "Meaning of Life" - 3:47
5. "Alive" - 3:22
6. "Ode to Lord Stanley" - 1:55
7. "Long Ago" - 3:25
8. "The Job" - 2:54
9. "Shaken" - 3:45
10. "Lest We Forget" - 4:46
11. "'Tis So Sweet" - 4:05
12. "The Final Toast" - 5:02

Bonus track

• "Live Life Loud" (Acoustic)

Personel

• Jason Dunn - vocals
• Daniel Biro - bass and backround vocals
• Jonathan Steingard - guitar and backround vocals
• Justin Benner - drums

Awards

In 2010, the album was nominated for a Dove Award for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the 41st GMA Dove Awards

41st GMA Dove Awards

The 41st Annual GMA Dove Awards were held on April 21, 2010 recognizing accomplishments of musicians for the year 2009. The show was held at the The Opry Entertainment Complex in Nashville, Tennessee, and was hosted by Bart Millard....

. The title song was also nominated for Short Form Music Video of the Year.