John Cooper, founder and lead singer of Skillet will be on Fox & Friends Saturday on the Fox News Channel at about 7:45 am USA/Canadian Central Time. He will be interviewed regarding his first book he’s authored called Awake & Alive To Truth. Cooper says they sold out their first print run on release day and that a second print run is starting up.
Disciple has postponed their second online concert until Saturday January 23, 2021, due to someone in one of the bands’ households testing positive for Covid-19.
In other group news, Disciple has multiplied into two bands. The second band is Honor & Glory , the name for the new worship arm of the band.
Disciple says this about their offshoot band Honor & Glory: Where the mission of Disciple is to reach the unreachable, the vision of Honor & Glory is to create a musical atmosphere where hearts, minds, souls, and voices center on the greatness and wonders of our amazing God through worship.
The debut album from Honor & Glory drops on BEC Records in 2021.
Love And Death will FINALLY have some new music for us in just a couple of days!
Here is a preview: https://www.facebook.com/LoveandDeathMusic/videos/396634098366212
The Protest has a video out for its new track Greater. This is a fabulous video with a funny ending…wait for it!
https://www.facebook.com/theprotest/videos/2750537755167182/
Skillet picks up two more Dove Awards:
We have two reactions to this. The fact that we love the band Skillet and we love its members has us saying: “Congratulations! We are very happy for you.”
But the sarcastic/jaded side of us says…
Well, of course Skillet continues to win Dove Awards now!
They are accepted within the realm of mainstream Christian music and records.
This is bittersweet for us long-time Skillet fans that are still upset about the fact that they were passed over in favor of much less deserving bands like The W’s back in Skillet’s early heydays.
Polling of The Blast audience indicated that Demon Hunter War should have been the winner in the Rock album of the year category, but we highly doubt any band with the name demon in it, with such heavy music, will fare well in a “Rock/Contemporary” category against a band that has been accepted in the circles of mainstream Christian radio.
Most of the voters probably saw Skillet on the ballot and saw the other 4 contenders and said “Who are these guys?”
We’re not confident that there is a lot of actual knowledge about Christian Rock (and about the other great bands that were nominated for these awards) among the Dove Award voters.
Fireflight has released a video for Who We Are, the debut single from the highly anticipated new album The Head And The Heart, out now on Rockfest Records. Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I0GNx0dL38&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1w0qKGrc661p5FRrqSAM3JNwUKQpWhL7CoNRntCKAQDm7WusKIyS_MVso
Ignescent’s new single Exodus (featuring Jeremy Valentyne)…will have an accompanying video out to the public on Halloween. Here is a preview of this video for this song which we’ve been Blasting for a few weeks on TheBlast.FM:
https://www.facebook.com/ignescentmusic/videos/268598621206100/
Horseshoes & Hand Grenades was a big album for TheBlast.FM when it came out in 2010 and for a couple years after that. We played Battle Lines, Comedy Tragedy, and Disasterpiece, and we still play all three songs.
So this is very exciting news for us, plagiarized from Disciple’s Facebook page:
Demon Hunter has released a video for the song Cut To Fit, which we’ve been Blasting for a little over a year. It is found on the War album: https://youtu.be/CKUN48QWL1U #DemonHunter
Friday, The Blast’s Colin Cruz chats with Spoken lead singer Matt Baird about some of their recent songs; their next album; the possible inclusion of a re-worked old song on the new album; about the impact of Covid-19, and about guitarist JR Bareis. It’s in the 2 PM Hour, in the USA/Canadian/Mexican Central Time Zone. To compare that to when it is in your time zone, use this page: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/
