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Many times they would do cover songs written by the Gaithers, including "Get All Excited" and "Because He Lives." They introduced Andrae Crouch's music to the deep south in the early 1970s. In 1973 Truth performed "The Church Triumphant" to a standing ovation at the Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas, Texas. This opened ...
Undercover is an American Christian rock band based in Fullerton, California, formed in the early 1980s by Joey "Ojo" Taylor and James "Gym" Nicholson. [1] Through more than two decades and a few lineup changes, the band released eight studio albums and two live albums, and were pioneers in what would later be called alternative music in the Christian world.
Billboard magazine started to post the Top 10 Christian rock songs, and some radio stations [who?] started to play Christian rock. [citation needed] Bands such as DC Talk, Jars of Clay, Audio Adrenaline and many others achieved commercial success. [citation needed] This list excludes bands that are primarily heavy metal or hardcore punk.
Superchick recorded their song as a tribute to the band. [22] Godsmack was not named after Alice in Chains' "God Smack" from the Dirt album. Rather, the band's name came from an incident where lead singer Sully Erna "was making fun of somebody who had a cold sore on his lip and the next day (he) had one (him)self and somebody said, 'It's a ...
For Today were an American Christian metalcore [4] [2] [3] band from Sioux City, Iowa, formed in 2005. They released two EPs, Your Moment, Your Life, Your Time and Prevailer, and six full-length albums: Ekklesia in, 2008, Portraits in 2009, Breaker in 2010, Immortal in 2012, Fight the Silence in 2014, and Wake in 2015. The band split up in 2016 ...
ApologetiX rewrites secular songs with Christian lyrics to create parodies with Christian messages, and, in the song "We're In A Parody Band," ApologetiX refers to itself as a cross between "Weird Al" Yankovic and Billy Graham. The band's lyrical content is derived solely from Biblical passages and practices, frequently in a tongue-in-cheek ...
"The Truth" is a song by the Christian rock band Relient K. It was their only single from the Apathetic EP, and was only their second single to ever be released off an EP that was only found on an EP, the first being "A Penny Loafer Saved, A Penny Loafer Earned" from the Employee of the Month EP. Both songs were released for Christian radio.
Originally a Springsteen/Clash cover band called Direct Drive, the group changed both its music and name after frontman Vic Bondi visited Washington, D.C., in 1981 and saw a Bad Brains show that he describes as an “epiphany.” [3] AoF typically showed funk, reggae and jazz influences, accompanied by lyrics bemoaning the difficulty of finding freedom and fulfillment in consumer society.