Christianity: Details about 'Audio Adrenaline'
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Audio Adrenaline is a Christian rock band formed in the early 1990s at Kentucky Christian College in Grayson, Kentucky, USA. Along with dc Talk, Newsboys, and Jars of Clay, they quickly became one of the most successful Christian pop/rock bands of the 90s. They are best known for their 1993 hit "Big House," and are a main attraction at the annual Creation Festival, Spirit West Coast festival, and Agape Music Festival.
The beginningThe band was formed under the name of A-180 by Mark Stuart, Barry Blair, and Will McGinniss. (As of 2005, Stuart and McGinniss are the only remaining original members.) The three men, along with Ron Gibson and Mark's brother, David, became a popular local band—booked by the school nearly every weekend. The band's big break would come in the form of Bob Herdman. Bob went up to Audio Adrenaline with two songs he had written, My God and DC-10. After My God was recorded—under the band name Herdman had created, "Audio Adrenaline"—it was sent to radio stations and scaled the charts quickly. Forefront Records decided to offer a record deal to A-180 but had them change their name to Audio Adrenaline. Bob joined the band, and David left to focus on his family. The 1990sTheir first album under Forefront, the self-titled Audio Adrenaline, was released in 1992. The follow-up album, Don't Censor Me, came the next year. In 1996, their third album, Bloom, was released. It marked guitarist Barry Blair's final album with the band. With Blair gone, Audio Adrenaline needed a new guitarist. Tyler Burkum joined the band at only 17 years old, in time to record 1997's Some Kind of Zombie. Two years earlier, the band got a new drummer, just in time for the release of their studio album, "Bloom."—Ben Cissell—and a new studio album, Underdog. To this day, Underdog remains Audio Adrenaline's largest critical success. The 2000sAudio Adrenaline greeted the new millennium by releasing a greatest hits album, Hit Parade, in 2001. In the winter of that same year, they released a new studio album, Lift. In the time between the releases of those two albums, Bob Herdman left the band to become president of a new record label, Flicker Records, which he founded along with Stuart and McGinniss. In 2003, the band released its ninth album, Worldwide. It was a more worship-based effort that emphasized their style of ministry and love of mission trips. The band's "Hands and Feet Project" and "The Go Show" tour also served to encourage missionary work. Worldwide, like Lift before it, wasn't as 'rocking' in the traditional sense as their previous efforts, mostly because of the focus on softer and more praise-oriented material. The band's tenth album, Until My Heart Caves In, was released on August 30, 2005. It recieved a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2006. Among Audio Adrenaline's most notable performances are two of their most popular songs, "Big House," "Hands and Feet," and a duet with The O.C. Supertones, "Blitz," from the album Some Kind of Zombie. On January 18, 2006, Audio Adrenaline announced that they were disbanding. The reason cited was Mark Stuart was "experiencing ongoing vocal challenges." They are planning a farewell album called "Adios," to be released later in 2006. They recently started a new project in Haiti called the Hands and Feet Project. The band built an orphanage for children. Members
Former members
Side ProjectsMark Stuart was recently involved in !Hero the Rock Opera, a modern adaption of the story of Christ with former dcTalk band member Michael Tait, presently the front-runner of one of dcTalk's successors, Tait. DiscographyTapes (A-180)
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