Love And Death is joining the online concert fray, with a show of their own on Friday February 12th!
It’s been a long time, and Love And Death fans are eager to finally see the band in concert again.
The Blast was the first Christian Rock Radio station to jump on to the new song Down, on November 14, 2020.
To find out more info about the show, go to http://LoveAndDeath.Veeps.com
This is a far cry from what’s happened in America…where secularists have tried to kick God out of our schools:
In Croatia, they are asking for Bibles to be donated to their public school systems, where they are teaching the Bible!
Christian Rock bands Disciple and Kutless are getting involved in the efforts.
Learn more about the program and how to donate here:
https://www.facebook.com/disciplerocks/videos/704368403545701
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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.
Talk about chart dominance!
Not only is Disciple’s song Darkness Dies atop TheBlast.FM chart this week…it is #1 nationally again this week on the Christian Music Weekly chart…AND…Behold The Beloved Come Alive (featuring Kevin Young–of Disciple) is # 2!
Christian Music Weekly (CMW) is a free online publication. The Blast reports to the CMW Rock Chart. You can read more and subscribe here: http://christianmusicweekly.com/
In 10 days, Disciple does their second online concert…performing the entirety of the Horseshoes And Hand Grenades album (to commemorate its 10th anniversary). They will also perform Darkness Dies for the first time in front of an audience. You can purchase tickets here: https://www.itickets.com/events/449963
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.
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/
Wednesday, August 12th, 2020 in the 1 PM hour (USA/Canadian/Mexican Central Time)…Colin Cruz interviews Disciple lead singer Kevin Young about Love Letter Lockdown, covid, and their current Blast hit, “Chemical Wisdom”. Listen in on: https://TheBlast.FM
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/
