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Kingdom Come Festival This Thurs-Sat Greentown, Indiana: Disciple, The Letter Black + 52 Other Bands

Disciple and The Letter Black are the headliners of this year’s Kingdom Come Fest, a free festival near Kokomo, Indiana.  It happens this Thursday through Saturday.  The Protest, Amongst The Giants, Fyrebrand, Ignescent, American Arson, Relent, Grave Robber, Zahna, Manic Drive, Chaotic Resemblance, Saved By Skarlet, Matt Sassano, Relesser, Matt Moore, Behold The Beloved, Symphony Of Heaven, Azell, Wayde 31, Reclaim The Day, As We Are, The AD/Windblown Media Records All Star Band, I Am The Pendragon, Brotality, Divine Martyr, Rusty Shipp, Samuel Day, and Theoterran are the Blast, Implosion and Blender bands that will be at the festival and there will be a total of about 54 bands.  TheBlast.FM was there the last 3 years and it was definitely worth the trip.

For more details, go to:  https://www.kingdomcomefestival.com/

 

The Protest Performing Their #1 Smash Hit Greater at KCF 2021

Indiana home boys The Protest did not disappoint at Kingdom Come Fest 2021.   And of course, the audience loved every minute of it.  Here is a video of them performing what may well be the #1 Christian rock radio song of the year 2021, Greater:  https://rumble.com/vjdhkt-the-protest-performs-their-smash-1-hit-greater-at-kcf-2021.html

 

 

David Pataconi Video + Interview Are Up

If you missed the interview The Blast’s Colin Cruz did with industrial artist David Pataconi, we have archived it on our new MeWe page for TheBlast.FM:   https://mewe.com/p/theblast.fm

And we have a video of him performing his hit song To Follow Our Own, here:  https://fb.watch/6rfyNlvwVa/

 

The Letter Black Interview Wednesday June 30th On The Blast / Concert Footage Link

The Letter Black was the headliner Friday night at Kingdom Come Fest near Greentown, Indiana.  We have the video of them performing Rise here:  https://fb.watch/v/1dJudYn2o/

The Blast’s Colin Cruz talks to Sarah and Mark Anthony from The Letter Black on Wednesday June 30, 2021.  Time: TBA (sometime between 9 am and 3 pm USA/Canada Central Time).

Gold Frankincense And Myrrh Official Video For “Where Were You”

Here’s Gold Frankincense and Myrrh posing with The Blast’s program director Colin Cruz at last year’s Kingdom Come Festival.  They’ll be back at the festival and so will we,  Fri/Sat June 18/19, 2021.   To help getcha ready, here’s the video for their new single we Blast called Where Were You :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm9Icw57KVw

Collabs And Band Member-Sharing At Kingdom Come Festival

Amongst The Giants lead singer Brian Boyd

Collaborations and band member-sharing.  There is a whole lot of both happening these days in Christian Rock, and a lot of it happened at the Kingdom Come Festival this month.  Matt Baird showed up on stage to do It’s OK with Death Therapy; Marco Pera (of Amongst The Giants) played bass for Disciple; Chaotic Resemblance’s drummer John Jakway banged the skins in an emergency for Spoken; and any time you have multiple Rockfest Records bands present, the Rockfest fam comes together.  Here is a snippet of  Amongst The Giants in concert, with help from Zahna and The Persuaded:  https://www.facebook.com/TheBlastFM/videos/732599020904851/

 

The Persuaded Performing “Unashamed” at Kingdom Come Festival 2020

The Persuaded at KCF 2020

TheBlast.FM shot a video of The Persuaded peforming Unashamed at the Kingdom Come Festival this month.  Here it is:  https://www.facebook.com/TheBlastFM/videos/1178241199219061/

 

 

Spoken Performing Their Current Radio Hit “The Way Back Home” at KCF 2020

That’s Spoken lead singer and founder Matt Baird above pouring his heart out through song at the Kingdom Come Festival near Greentown, Indiana earlier this month.  We have a video of them performing their current Christian rock radio hit The Way Back Home here:  https://www.facebook.com/TheBlastFM/videos/2762988670602682/

 

Gold Frankincense And Myrrh Was Taking Over Saturday Afternoon At KCF 2020

GFM performing Taking Over at KCF 2020

In case you haven’t noticed, there is a LOT of buzz about this band, Gold Frankincense and Myrrh.  The three teenage sisters from Florida put on a blistering set of GFM tunes at Kingdom Come Festival, and it was received by a very enthusiastic mid-Saturday afternoon crowd.

We have the video of them performing the song Taking Over here:

GFM-Taking Over live at KCF 2020

Gold Frankincense and Myrrh peforming "Taking Over" at Kingdom Come Festival 2020 (shot by TheBlast.FM)

Posted by TheBlast.FM on Monday, July 20, 2020

The Protest Battles Through Bus Breakdowns; Rocks The Stage at Kingdom Come Festival 2020

The Protest at Kingdom Come Fest 2020

Indiana’s own The Protest has a BIG following in the Hoosier state.   They are from New Castle, Indiana, about an hour and a half away from the venue near Greentown, a village near Kokomo.  Lead singer Joshua Bramlett says the band is “not a big deal in their hometown of New Castle.”

That lines up with Luke 4:24, where Jesus says “Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in his hometown.”  But in their nearby adopted hometown of Kokomo and in Greentown, and at the Kingdom Come Festival, they are huge. 

Here’s how we know that:  the crowd for the mid-evening The Protest concert on Saturday was larger than the crowd for the headliner Disciple.  And that is certainly not a knock on Disciple…it’s a testament to how popular The Protest is in their home state. 

The band left New Castle at 9:30 in the morning and didn’t finish that 90 minute drive until early evening, as their bus broke down three times in between New Castle and Greentown.

We know who didn’t want them to come, but the devil did not win.   God got ’em to the fest, bus and all, and they put on a great rock show.   Highlights included Welcome To The Freakshow, a rockin’ cover of Michael Jackson’s 1982 pop radio hit Beat It, and Noise Revolution, which is chronicled here:

https://www.facebook.com/TheBlastFM/videos/1574988186003990/