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Our featured guest this week on The RockDown Show is Cindy Blankenship - aka "Mothership," founding committee member of the Grizzly Awards and host of Backstage with Mothership. She's recapping the 3rd Annual Grizzly Awards and looking forward to the 2023 selections and show. We feature the rock and metal songs of the year from Seventh Day Slumber and Memphis May Fire, respectively.
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In this week's Artist Spotlight, Josh Haynes, one of the brothers behind Torn Sky (formerly known as X'd Out), joins us to talk about the band, his everyday ministry, and present some new music from Torn Sky, a single called "The Storm." Plus, check out two songs from the guys as X'd Out.
We also name many of the winners from the recently broadcast 3rd annual Grizzly Awards.
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Dale Vaughn, founder of As We Are, joins us this week to talk the band's transition from full-time on the road to settling down in ministry for all three of the guys. It's a particularly ironic transition for Dale, who's found the one who formerly relied on the hospitality of others now has a calling to provide it. Plus, more on the band's transition over the years from a more punk driven sound towards harder rock - and it favors them!
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At the RockDown, our love of Relentless Flood goes far beyond their music to the guys themselves. Marshal Huffman joins us for this week's Artist Spotlight to give us a below-the-surface intro to the guys and fill us in on what the band is currently up to.
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As it turns out, Jonah33 isn't back per se, but Vince Lichlyter is definitely up to something. Hear his best memories of the band and what he's up to in this week's RockDown Artist Spotlight.
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Nashville-based "nautical grunge" rockers and previous RockDown guest Rusty Shipp visits with us this week about their latest music as we broadcast the show on the road from Effect Radio in Twin Falls, Idaho.
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In this week's Artist Spotlight, Grizzly award-winning vocalist Laura Respondek joins us to talk about a refocus for her band, Adelaide, as the younger members of the band embark on greater life adventures and Laura shifts focus Upward. We check out her new song "What Really Matters," released on January 1 and born of compassion walking with a friend through the heartbreak of divorce.
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Frontman of the former Sleeping Giant joins us to talk Human Trafficking Awareness Month and how he is helping the fight through his running organization, "I Run Against Traffic." As it turns out, Brian "Head" Welch is joining in!
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Kutless lead guitarist Nate Parrish joins us this week about the surreal experience of getting asked to join one of his favorite bands and what the past eight years have been like with the band. Nate is also a solo artist with new music out – we check out his latest!
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In addition to this week's hottest top ten straight from Christian Music Weekly, check out the top four highest ranking songs in Christian Rock for all of 2021!
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Whether it's refined acrobatics - his literal balancing act - or an attempt to bring some 80s flavor into the Christian Rock scene, Munday Martin fits the marquee! He's in this week's Artist Spotlight on the RockDown Show.
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In addition to the hottest ten songs of the week in the Christian Rock world, we bring you three brand new rock Christmas jams this year from three different artists in the Christian Rock circle: Wisdom & Wages, Bayless, and Kardia Complex, plus a bonus Christmas throwback from Thousand Foot Krutch.
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Wrapping up our two-part Christian Hip-Hop Crossover, H-town (Houston) original Lil Raskull (Ras) joins us on his move from hip-hop of the streets to a hope driven message that still reaches out the North Houston communities of his youth and beyond to the rest of the world. Plus, we visit with Rare of Breed (Rob Hardin) of North Carolina on his brand of country-influenced CHH he calls God Twang.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Just like Christian Rock has much to say, so does its hip-hop counterpart. In fact, we share a lot – like the idea of curb stomping Satan’s guts out like a scorpion showing up in our music from time to time… it’s Biblical too, check out Luke 10:19. In this week’s Artist Spotlight, we visit with “Imma Beast” Eddy Puyol, formerly performing as Rawsrvant, and bump a little rap. As Eddy says, “catch me in my ice white sneaks, and I’ll stomp ya.”
Throwback: Li'l Raskull – Gory 2 Glory (1999)
Listener's Choice: Skillet – Surviving the Game (2021)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: it’s a story of perseverance, not taking “no” for an answer, and refusing to be limited. It’s solo and collaborative artist Matt Sassano in our Artist Spotlight. He speaks on the road from the Hope and Recovery Tour, where he’s currently opening for Seventh Day Slumber, about his life with disabilities like cerebral palsy, and how all that plays into a new song he just released this weekend called “Not My Name.” #DoNotBeDefined
Throwback Vault: RED – Ordinary World (2009)
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This week on The RockDown Show, Pennsylvania rockers join us in our Artist Spotlight with a name that will still make many of the original Halo generation break out in a cold sweat as they remember trying to help Master Chief escape the doomed Pillar of Autumn. But Mawcore has such a greater story to tell than even that.
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Enjoy our 1st anniversary episode, featuring John Cooper of Skillet in our Artist Spotlight and P.O.D. in our Throwback Vault!
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It’s World Series week, and all eyes are on the Atlanta Braves as they take on the Houston Astros in the 2021 Fall Classic… we definitely know of some Braves fans in the Christian Rock circle! It’s also a little known secret that there’s a lot of faith in the baseball community… think of how many prayers have been offered up since the first World Series in 1903! Just days ago, we learned of a guy who lives and breathes baseball… for him, a strikeout revelation one day pointed him towards where the glory truly belongs, something Leland Wetzel now lives out and shares with every turn of a lathe. We sit down this week from a ranch outside Wichita Falls, Texas, as the founder of Xylo Bats shares his testimony.
Plus, the exclusive world premiere of FaithHead's new single “In Between,” heard for the first time publicly only on The RockDown Show!
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Gravity is defined by Merriam-Webster in these words: the natural force that tends to cause physical things to move towards each other. It’s nearly impossible to defy, and is the most certain scientific force on the planet. So what’s the most certain force in the universe? @lovelikegravityofficial wants to shout the answer… well… with such gravity that they’ve named their band after it. They’ve shared stages with everyone from @thebandred to @officialkutless and are no strangers to the Christian Rock top ten: they’re currently on the RockDown with their latest, “Devil’s In The Details.” You chose them as this week’s Listener’s Choice winner, it’s Love Like Gravity in this week’s Artist Spotlight.
Throwback: @decyferdownofficial – Memory (2013)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: when you’re a solo artist… you’d think it wouldn’t be as difficult to make it for fourteen years since you can’t break up with yourself… or can you? Hey Matt… come sit down with us, grab a “pop”, and tell us about life. It’s Michigander rocker Matt Moore in this week’s Artist Spotlight. Plus, RockDown host Dustin Tatro reminds us that whatever label the world throws on you, you’re not worthless… you’re WORTHY.
Throwback: newsboys – Take Me To Your Leader (1996) &
dc Talk – Supernatural (1998)
Listener's Choice: Nine Lashes – Dear Self
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Do you remember the 1990s Mr. Frear’s Ear shorts on Nickelodeon or those cool natural sound pieces you sometimes see on CBS Sunday Morning that seem to challenge us to listen from a different perspective? What the world must look like to a Grizzly Award winning drummer of the year! TD Benton recently went on a creative drumming journey around Nashville he chronicled in a video called “Drumming Around Nashville.” We visit with TD to find out what the world looks like through the ears of an award winning drummer, as well as about the message behind the music of he and his wife Veronica’s band, White Collar Sideshow, this week in our Artist Spotlight.
Listener’s Choice: Love Like Gravity – Devil’s In The Details (also moving to #2 this week)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: No, this isn’t Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” narrative of the Dust Bowl, nor is it the Old West, it’s modern day Amarillo, hometown of Divided Me, a Christian Metalcore band that’s been flying under our radar far too long. Spencer and DeAnne join us in this week’s Artist Spotlight.
Throwback: Switchfoot – Oh! Gravity. (2006)
Listener’s Choice: Classics Week Artists – Guardian, Holy Soldier, and DeGarmo & Key
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: It's our first ever Classics Week as we linger in the Throwback Vault... Guardian and Holy Soldier take us on their own Throwback journeys as far back as 1969. In our second half, it's a favorite from Eddie Degarmo and Dana Key! Plus, we feature brand new music from Bloodlines.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Most of the Christian Rock circle knows Randall Broadhead as the frontman of We Are Vessel, but did you know he is also the recent founder of Broadhead Music Group – a new label in the Christian Rock circle, that he mentors new and growing artists, and owns a production company? Randall tells us all about those ventures plus what’s going on right now with We Are Vessel in this week’s Artist Spotlight. Plus, a special feature of a single from Slick Shoes' recent first album in 17 years called "Whispers."
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This Week on The RockDown Show: We sit down in person with Shawn and Michael Cavallo of Manic Drive to hear about their rock roots and what they're doing with those influences 15 years later. Plus, a special Throwback Vault request from Chad Fenner (Concert Fotos by Chad) for a new band to the RockDown, Stavesacre, hailing back to the early days of Tooth & Nail Records with At The Moment.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: there’s no denying that the Lone Star State is a huge part of rock… from places like La Grange… to China Grove… to… Denton?
A cornerstone of the current Texas Christian Rock movement is a bunch of ladies and gentlemen that studied music, like, seriously at the University of North Texas. But it’s not strong musicianship that says… you really need to get to know them. It’s Drive Thru Society in this week’s Rockdown Artist Spotlight.
Featured: last week’s Listener’s Choice winner, Matt Moore – Broken Pieces
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: You heard them as we featured “Change” last week… now it’s time to get to know the three guys of the new Texas band, DeadSin. Since we’re on the road at Finding Hope Music Festival in Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend, it’s a perfect time to sit down with Bryan, Keagan, and Cameron from their hometown and hear all about a new band with one of the coolest names we’ve heard in a while. Plus, they’ll introduce us to another hard-hitting DeadSin track, “Recreate!” Congratulations to your Listener’s Choice winner, a shocking write-in victory for Michigan’s Matt Moore!
Throwback: Rich Mullins – Damascus Road (1984/1995)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: In 2021, there’s one group that can report on what’s going on in the Christian Rock community faster than any other medium – our writing press. Mary Nikkel of Rock on Purpose and Katie Slater of Jesus Wired visit with us this week about the role of Christian Rock Journalist. We’ll also check in with the new Finding Hope Music Festival, focusing on mental health and bringing live Christian Rock back to North Texas on August 28. Congratulations to this week’s overwhelming Listener’s Choice favorite, DeadSin! We look forward to visiting with this new Texas band on next week’s broadcast.
Throwback: [Thrice] – Red Telephone (2017)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: from Birmingham, Alabama, Nine Lashes has brought us such feel good, drive fast songs of hope as “Never Back Down,” “Adrenaline,” and now for two weeks in the RockDown Top Ten, “Dear Self.” Oh yes, and they’re celebrating their 15th anniversary as a band this year. Jeremy Dunn and Jon Jefferson are in our Artist Spotlight this week as they reflect on a journey so life changing they’re literally married into it. #DarknessHasNoVictory #DearSelf #DarkToLight.
Throwback: Righteous Vendetta – With Love (2013)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: A band by the name of Jackie on Acid blew up on the San Antonio rock scene in 1998, performing with the likes of Papa Roach and Bowling for Soup. Consumed throughout by hatred and anger, they quietly disappeared in 2003. By the time that three of the original JOA members reformed two years ago as Saving Jackie, they had one powerful redemption testimony to go along with their music. They share a journey that's entirely hatred to hope and feature their new song "It's Critical" on the RockDown this week. If a hope-driven, female fronted band with elements of Rage Against the Machine, P.O.D., and Limp Bizkit sound like your thing, you'll want to check this out.
Throwback: P.O.D. – Alive (2001)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: A "theody" as defined by Merriam-Webster is a “hymn of praise to God.” Theody (the band) lives that out through some great rock. From their homes in northwestern Arkansas, Lauren, Charles, and Chad join us in our Artist Spotlight to share more and feature their latest single “Tempest.”
Throwback: Pillar – Frontline (2004)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: rising from the former XIII Minutes, Kardia Complex is a new hard rock concept based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their hotly anticipated debut release happens August 1. Drummer and producer Jamie Kucinski joins us in our Artist Spotlight this week to tell us everything we need to know about Kardia Complex… in short, he says to “get ready!”
Vinyl Throwback: Stryper – Makes Me Wanna Sing (1985)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: a forefather of #ChristianRock, John Schlitt of Petra fame joins us to share his testimony, one so extreme that we follow him from getting fired over cocaine addiction from a band whose name came from a member's acid trip to finding faith and being invited to join one of the biggest bands in faith driven music of all time. Plus, we hear about John's recent work with the Jay Sekulow Band and feature a single from John's latest album, Go. Also, this week on the show, Above Only makes their RockDown debut with their new song Listen Friend.
Throwback: Petra – This Means War (1987)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Sean Green of Behold the Beloved is in our Artist Spotlight sharing about what the band stands for, especially its stance on sharing hope and encouragement with both the churched community as well as outsiders that are struggling through the unique ministry of rock music.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Two new entities supporting the Christian Rock genres are showing that yes, this all does matter to people. Christopher Adam with For The Rock focuses on reviews and reaction videos with a particular interest in visuals. Mike Huddleston's Mpulse Rock is a new podcast that gets to know the artists in our community – way in depth. Is this growth a sign of health in the Christian Rock circle? We think so and look forward to what Christopher and Mike have to say on the show this week.
In our second half, not one, but THREE brand new tracks featured! #newmusic
Memphis May Fire - Blood & Water
Collision of Innocence - #Possessed
Relent - #ghost
And Reclaim The Day makes their #RockDown debut with Sentenced to Life.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: paradoxes are the name of the game for Death Therapy – musically and theologically alike! One recent reaction video claims that Jason Wisdom has invented a new genre of music, and we think that’s pretty close: you could most closely describe it as a mix of bass guitar-driven electronic metal, but that’s still not quite it. Whatever it is, it keeps you listening for what DT will throw at you next. It’s all in the name of embracing your future of freedom and purpose by allowing your old spiritual self to die away – directly biblical! Jason is in our #ArtistSpotlight this week. #MelancholyMachines #PlsSndHlp
Throwback: PAX217 – “Prizm” from TwoSeventeen (2000)
Next week, two new ministries are helping highlight the health of the Christian Rock circle. We'll visit with For The Rock and Mpulse Rock.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: While Bloodlines has been around about 5 years after some of the guys attended a For Today concert, the band has really taken off including a signing with Facedown Records – the same label that carried For Today! Alexis Rodriquez joins us to talk the band’s latest projects and how big a deal his personal faith is to his family.
Throwbacks: DeGarmo & Key (1989) & RED (2013)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: You can’t avoid this… humans altogether are fallen. It doesn’t matter how good… or bad… you think you are… you’re only in need of pardon, you are completely pardonable. “And I was ONCE a dead man…” is a classic from Wolves At The Gate… lead vocalist Nick Detty is in our #ArtistSpotlight this week to talk why that’s such an important concept to remember and how it’s influenced their music – including the new single “Stop the Bleeding.”
Throwbacks: Thrice and Jars of Clay
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A loaded week on #TheRockDownShow: following an emotional, vulnerable, and unorthodox social media post with a partial cover of Killswitch Engage's “I’m Broken Too” by Sports Illustrated's Inside the Texas Rangers writer Chris Halicke, we immediately had to invite him on the show. His thoughts and experience with #MentalHealth is a must-hear as we wrap #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth.
Also, Kingdom Come Festival joins us to share more about the largest #ChristianRock festival in North America coming up in just a few weeks.
New Music Feature: Wolves At The Gate - Stop the Bleeding. Next week, Nick Detty joins in our #ArtistSpotlight to talk about it.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: #scifi, outer space, and the #paranormal realm - do they have a place in #ChristianRock? Sure, they do! It's a sign of mature faith to examine sciene and the Word together through reason and faith. Jared Lacey of Poetic Descent explains how those ideas keep showing up in the band's music in this week's #RockDown Artist Spotlight.
Throwback: Blindside (Sweden) - Caught A Glimpse (2002)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: the RockDown goes #PunkTown as Homeplate goes three for three with great punk rock, positive energy, and an obvious love of baseball. Too bad that between David and Cody, they're Cubs and Reds fans. Keeping the pop punk theme rolling, we've got stuff from Hawk Nelson and news on fresh music from eleventyseven - who reunited in 2016 if you were under a rock.
Throwback: Hawk Nelson - Letters to the President (2004)
New Music: Requested Convictions - The War That Followed Me Home
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Toronto-based rap giant Manafest has finally let his true colors show: he's a rocker. Chris shares in our #ArtistSpotlight how his musical tastes have been driven by NuMetal greats Linkin Park and Limp Bizkit, why writing books is a personal outreach, and what his latest single #SaveYou is all about.
Vinyl Throwback: Petra - This Means War
Bonus: Some FEEL Good music: Pillar covers Collective Soul
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: when your band hails from southwestern Minnesota - arguably the medical epicenter of the world - it makes sense for your band to be focused on healing as a message. All four members of Light45 - Justin, Mark, Ian, and Scott, will be in our #ArtistSpotlightthis week how their brand of faith-driven rock evolved out of the #grunge movement and featuring a rare unmastered cut of one of their favorite songs.
Throwback: Audio Adrenaline - DC-10 (1992, requested)
Request: Disciple - Enemy
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: the faces of evil surround us – #Dragons lurking everywhere, from SE Asia to homes in our neighborhoods. Human trafficking is a major affront to justice and something must be done. David Zach with Remedy Drive joins us in this week's #ArtistSpotlight to share how recent music from the band reminds us that the reflection we see in the mirror isn't always reality, and how the band partners with The Exodus Road to fight against trafficking on the frontlines. #ImagoAmor #Image #love
This week's Throwback: 12 Stones (2004)
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Eric Bjorkland brings boiling point into our #ArtistSpotlight with a captivating story of how the band got caught up in producing some songs for the famous Dude Perfect youtube channel, as well as their mission work in Sierra Leone. Their single #HopeLivesHere (ranked in our top ten for a few weeks) was actually written there under mosquito netting, plus, as a #RockDown EXCLUSIVE, you'll hear the new song Monuments for the first time on radio ANYWHERE.
Vinyl Throwback: Whiteheart - "Convertibles" Burnin' rubber baby!
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Barry Blair - Guitarist got his professional start in #christianrock with a bunch of guys he met in college, later known as Audio Adrenaline. 35 years beyond those humble beginnings with "A-180" at a Kentucky Bible college, Barry has found new life as a collaborating, rock-arranging solo performer and creator of awesome covers. Dustin catches up with Barry in this week's #ArtistSpotlight.
Throwbacks: Stryper (1984), Audio Adrenaline (1995)
RockRadio #classicrock #christianradio #rockcovers
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Mik and Erin Rowe with Gandhi's Gun shared about the studio process for their latest project as well as the band's latest single, "Feed the Lion."
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Dustin catches up with Demon Hunter's Ryan Clark who's in our #ArtistSpotlight this week as the band releases an entirely unique new project that reimagines many of our favorite DH ballads over the years called "Songs of Death and Resurrection." While we've been impressed with the level of detail and lushness in orchestration on Demon Hunter albums, this album features a virtuoso pianist, full strings, bagpipes, and even a guest appearance from a rather unexpected vocalist. Plus, we'll hear what drives the band to find ways to help and uplift people as well as Ryan's perspective on responding to the general view on rock and metal as a medium by the faith community majority.
Features: "Collapsing" & "Dead Flowers (Resurrected)"
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Christian Metal is as important as the other subgenres, and is active. Case in point: a whirlwind #SpringBreak2021 tour featuring Bred 4 War, Becoming Sons, FaithHead, Divided Me, and Zahna. The bassist of Bred 4 War, Jay Mallot, is in our #ArtistSpotlight this week talking the metal scene, the spiritual impact behind it, and featuring the band's song Prevail.
From the Throwback Vault: 1999 vintage ska from The O.C. Supertones, plus a bonus special off-countdown track from Set For The Fall's 2016 album Three Nails.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Mark & Sarah Anthony from The Letter Black are in our Artist Spotlight to talk new music (actually, it's their first release in four years), a cool long-standing connection between the band and Pillar (that leads to a Pillar artist on the new TLB release), and Sarah's struggle with self-harm and how faith helped her overcome it.
Throwback is Pillar, and it has a connection to Sarah!
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Roger G, frontman of Becoming Sons and founder of the Sound for the Crown festival joins us on the show this week to talk more about the need for festivals like this one, not just in South Texas but around the world.This week on #TheRockDownShow: The lifeblood of any music scene is the ability to enjoy art "in the moment." It's awesome to see big planning for festivals in 2021, and the soonest and newest is coming up FAST in the small town of Poteet, Texas - known for its famous Poteet Strawberry Festival and located just south of San Antonio.
Speaking of the South Texas #ChristianRock scene, Gaston with Relent will be in our New Music Feature this week presenting the band's latest song "Think You Got It." Like many previous Relent bangers such as Rise, Surrender, Low, and of course, Last Days, we believe #ThinkYouGotIt will be one of 2021's favorite tracks.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: from a state smaller than some cities, Saved By Skarlet is made up of two twins and two guys that might as well be their brothers. They've riding in from the horizons of the Christian Rock scene for a couple years, but when the recent release of an official music video of one of their songs became relevant on a global scale, their momentum skyrocketed. How the color red, street racing, and marine ecology all come together in our Artist Spotlight. We'll also pay tribute to Carman Licciardello in this week's Throwback Vault.
RhodeIsland #RhodeIslandRock #ChristianRock #Skarlet #Rahab #Syndrome #pandemic #COVID19 #carman #SatanBiteTheDust #WhosInTheHouse #Champion
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: It's The Grizzly Awards time... ALMOST. Mary Nikkel and Cindy Blankenship jump on air with us to share the motivations behind the Grizzlies and how you can participate in The 2nd Annual Grizzly Awards Special Saturday night, 2/20 at 7c. We'll also check out some clips of some of the nominees in different categories, including rock, electronic, and classic metal song of the year.
In our #NewMusicFeature: south Texas metal band (here comes TEXAS with it's exploding #ChristianRock scene, again) Bloodlines just got signed with Facedown Records and has released a new single called Colder. You're gonna love it. Speaking of the Texas CR scene, we're dedicating this week's #VinylVaultThrowback to those folks, remembering some legacies with a cut of Vital Signs from the pressing of WhiteHeart's live show at Six Flags Over Texas way back in 1986.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Matt Baird and JR Bareisof Spokentalk their future, breaking down generational boundaries (JR was ONE when Spoken formed), JR's latest project to bring Michael Jackson into 2021, Relent, and request some Stephen Curtis Chapman... Don't scoff - there's an awesome story behind it. There always is.
Requested Thousand Foot Krutch, and news on some fresh #SKA on the scene!
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Brandon and Caitlin from The Midnight Wedding talk the band, their new concept album that attacks the various darknesses surrounding people – and why that's personal for Brandon, and introduce the lead off single from that album, #Enforcers. Enforcers focuses directly on those who judge others. The full album will be out everywhere in February. Plus this week's pick from the Vinyl Throwback Vault (hand selected by Brandon), the announcement of this week's Listener's Choice, this week's contest prize winner, the latest news from the #ChristianRock circle, and this week's ten hottest songs in Christian Rock.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Disciple has brought the rock for now over 25 years – that's a quarter century! Over the years, many have joined frontman Kevin Young - Disciple in studios and on stages around the world with the strongest message that the enemy can never win. Current drummer Joey West joins Kevin in this week's #ArtistSpotlight even as they celebrate the tenth anniversary of the landmark album Horseshoes & Handgrenades over the weekend. They'll talk more about early influences, what the message has meant over time and how it's influenced the music, how artistically they find ways to stay at the forefront of #ChristianRock, their new worship-driven side project Honor & Glory, and what's next for the band.
Also, specially-requested #Metal from Phinehas with #Fleshkiller, and all new starting this week, the beginnings of #VinylThrowbacks from the RockDown vault. This week's selection was hand-picked by Kevin Young, representing one of those early Disciple influences, Petra with "Adonai" from Beat the System.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Samuel Day of the band Reclaimers talks shop in this week's #ArtistSpotlight about how a background as a jazz musician led to a friendship with a like-minded guitarist, how their love for prog rock, jazz, and Disciple influences their brand of rock, and how the reality of #Victory plays into all of it.
Plus, Kevin Young - Disciple and Joey West of Disciple make a surprise call into the show to talk their big livestream event #AnniversaryX celebrating the tenth anniversary of the landmark album, Horseshoes & Handgrenades. They're giving away an admission package to a lucky RockDown listener as well! All you've got to do to enter is visit www.therockdownshow.com! (Deadline 6pm CT 1/19)
All that plus the ten hottest songs in #ChristianRock on the RockDown Show!
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: as a fiery young latina, Zahna was living out a calling to build up warriors to fight. What she didn't know was that the lyrics she wrote would soon become her battle cry in a war over life and death. Suzy talks that battle, her dream marriage to the soulmate she found behind a drumset on tour, her second album as it nears completion, and a new single: some
Taylor Swift , #Zahnafied. It's #Zahna in this week's #ArtistSpotlight.
Throwbacks from Random Hero and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, plus the top ten hottest songs this week in #ChristianRock!
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: if Christian Rock empowers us, then it must stand that it's making a difference for people like you EVERYWHERE. In the past few years, we've heard about the growth and impact of long-standing festivals like Germany's CVJM Loud and Proud Festival and Christmas Rock Night. Many of the most active artists and bands in the genre have traveled to participate and introduced us to German rock fan Maximus Weber. Maximus takes over this week's #ArtistSpotlight to talk personally what the music and friendships have meant to him, and on a larger scale what the music is doing in Germany.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: making waves in the #ChristianMetal scene, Bryce & Reece, two brothers from Rural #NewYork with their best friend, drummer Liam, are what you get when you mash up BRO and BRUTALITY: Brotality. That's not all... they're still in high school! They're in our #ArtistSpotlight this week, plus, we'll feature their new single "Prisoners of the Abyss."
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This Week on #TheRockDownShow: "Nautical" grunge rock band from Nashville Rusty Shipp goes in depth on this week's #ArtistSpotlight about some heroes of the grunge/Seattle sound movement and what their legacies have to say about hope. Also, new music from Collision of Innocence.
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This week on #theRockDownShow: Cindy Blankenship, known in the circle as #Mothership, fights valiantly for what victories have been worked through #ChristianRock and #ChristianMetal and has the personal impact story to back it all up. She takes over this week’s #ArtistSpotlight from a recliner somewhere in Georgia.
In our New Music Feature, The Midnight Weddingbrings a hard-hitting track featuring Disciple’s Kevin Young that directly calls out those who choose to judge and destroy your worth... the Enforcers. You’re gonna love it.
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This week on #TheRockDownShow: Welsh band Paradise Now. takes a break from studio recording their next album to share how the #covid pandemic has driven them to find new ways to share hope. You’ll love how the band, winner of the international band of the year for 2020 on The Grizzly Awards, combines the best of both pop and rock into one world.
Plus, former band For Today combines an advent hymn dating back 12 centuries with searing modern metalcore on “O Come, O Come Emmanuel.”
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This Week on #TheRockDownShow: eastern Oklahoma band Chaotic Resemblance is in our artist spotlight, and Stryper comes charging out of our Throwback Vault with the classic "To Hell with the Devil." Is there a connection? YOU BET there is! Chaotic Resemblance guitarist LA Ellis and frontman Travis McConnell tell us all about their relationship with Stryper's Oz Fox, their love of classic positive hair metal, how Oz is featured on their latest single, and how "Unto the Lamb" will help out a pillar of the Christian Rock circle.
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If you like POD and RATM, you’ll love San Antonio Nu-Metalists Relent pounding home a message of hope. They’re in this week’s Artist Spotlight as bassist Bruce Gonzalez chats with Dustin about hard rock, Dallas Stars hockey, and how the Texas metal band Pantera plays into all of this. Plus, their new single - talk about relevant for 2020! - “Last Days” is our new music feature. And we’re going petraphonic into the Throwback Vault... all that and the top ten songs this week in Christian Rock on The RockDown Show!
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In this week's broadcast, the sisters of Gold, Frankincense, & Myrrh, are in our artist spotlight, and former founding member of Audio Adrenaline, guitarist Barry Blair, brings us a brand new cover of Charlie Peacock's 1986 classic, "Down in the Lowlands."
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This week on The RockDown Show: Adam Reed, the new vocalist for Chattanooga hard rockers FaithHead joins us to talk faith, this year's Chains Unchained festival, and the band's new album. A special feature of grunge rock Rusty Shipp as they cover AudioSlave's "Show Me How to Live." Plus a throwback from P.O.D. and this week's ten hottest songs in Christian Rock.
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