Jesus Musical Influences: Led Zepplin, Jefferson Airplane, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Pink Floyd, Budgie, Blind Faith, The Who, ZZ Top, Rory Gallagher, Rush, Others...
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Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Blues Rock, Metal, Some New Wave.
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Resurrection Band Music To Raise The Dead 1972-1998 BOX SET (2008)
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3 CD's Of 52 Digiatally Re-Mastered Songs
1 DVD of over an Hour of Live Music and Commentary and other Videos.
Large Booklet spanning the History of REZ
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Retro Resurrection Band Tshirt (2008)
The Retro Resurrection Band Logo T Shirt Is now Available! Pick One or Two up at Grrr Records Today!
Before they are gone.
Ampendectomy (1997)
Resurrection Bands acoustic sets were highly popular at Cornerstone Festival so REZ did a CD of many of their songs unplugged. This CD's production is very clear and separated, with none of that background hiss that may be associated with other acoustic offerings. The songs "Shadows" and "2000" have a nice cello in the background that adds quite a bit to the music.
The bluesy rendition of "Love Speak" is really fun, while
The song "Broken Promises" has the same moving emotion to it that it had on the first record.
"Irish Garden" and "Colours" are almost 2 different songs but just as enjoyable!
REZ BAND unplugged... a nice finish.
LAMENT (1995)
Ty Tabor from Kings X was brought in to produce this one. A Concept album about someone searching for God and finding! This was a great album. If no one has heard of REZ I suggest they get this or colours! The songs are great and the lyrics and vocals are top notch. Resurrection Band tried something different and it worked big time! the last CD of all new material and what a way to go out! This CD is truly a roller coaster of sounds and feelings ending with the answer to it all Jesus! Ty Tabors producing was a creative plus for this band.
Reach of Love (1994)
Reach of Love was more of a pop metal CD.
The opening song "Hearts Desire" reminds one of Foreigner when they truly rocked. "Land of Stolen Breath" sounding like a hit made for FM radio!
Hints of blues still ran thru the CD with "On My Dying Bed" and the Hendrix inspired "Thought I would Never Love Again." A well produced album of what would have been big hits if this were a secular band on the main market.
XX Years LIVE (1992)
Most of REZ BAND's favorite songs on this 2 Disc set! Celebrating 20 Years of Music Ministry you can hear Rez rock and preach with the same intensity and life! Great live renditions of "Shadows" and "Bargain", They also do the classics like "Afrikaans", "Paint a Picture" and "Waves!" Lots of music live what else could you want!
3 new songs on these live CD's.
Civil Rites (1991)
In the same genre as Innocent Blood. A rendition of Jefferson Airplanes "Somebody to Love" here. Wendi does a great GRACE SLICK vocal. Glenn's vocals are haunting on the floydish "Lincoln's Train."
"Mission Bells" and the opening track "Love Speak" all had that Hard Rock Blues sound only REZ could do. This ones a keeper! NOW RE-RELEASED ON CD at GRRR RECORDS! Click Below.
Innocent Blood (1989)
Innocent Blood was more of a metal record but still had a lot of blues involved. "Altar of Pain" ripped your eardrums off and the song "Where Roses Grow" have one of the best screaming blues guitar solo's by Glenn, I have ever smiled upon! The lyrics of the song almost made you feel you were stepping into heaven yourself. The song "Fiend or Foul" told about the horror of abortion and the abuse of the poor, Wendi's voice sending chills with every word. One of the better Rez albums of the time. P.S. THE WHO'S "Bargain" Rocks!! What a closer!
-MP
Silence Screams (1988)
it would be almost three years before we would see another REZ release. REZ busy with family and Church (2 members of the band being Elders at Jesus People USA and the other members serving as deacons)but it was worth the wait. 1989 REZ came out with Silence Screams. Roy Montroy filled Jim Denton's (who was busy going to seminary) shoes on Bass. Many songs about the homeless, poor and those being torn apart by greedy people. a dark album with a Sabbath-AC/DC feel to it. Clapton's "Presence of The Lord" on this one, Many fans say they like this one better than Blind Faith's. If you love the blues you will connect with "Rain Dance" the music as well as the lyrics will move you deeply. Awesome blues-based Hard Rock comeback! -MP
great CD, Great Music, Great Lyrics!
Between Heaven N' Hell (1985)
The new wave leanings were almost gone on this album.
the thunderous "Main Event" started this album out with Wendi's in your face vocals and Stu and Glenn's heavy guitar licks! "Love Comes Down" was on heavy MTV rotation at the time as well as a popular AC/DC inspired fan favorite. "Shadows" was a great song that told a story of drugs, death and a answer to find hope and renewal, as well as one of REZ BAND's best written songs. Keep your eye out for a re-release of this one. Now available on CD!! -M.P.
Hostage (1984)
The Mid 80's were upon us and this album had a number of new wave sounding tunes as well as a few hard rocking metal numbers. The Keyboard driven "S.o.S." song was popular among teenagers in the 80's but the heavy song "Crimes" was the video MTV would feature everyday for quite sometime. "Tears in the Rain" was one of the best songs ever, along with the ZZ Top inspired "Souls for Hire" and the almost punk "Defective Youth". You think a record like that would come off sounding disjointed but it all seems to work for a very enjoyable sounding eighties classic.
Bootleg LIVE (1983)
This is REZ Bands first live album.
"Military Man" opens in thunderous applause!
a couple of new wave sounding cuts on this live set but do not be fooled this is a hard rock album! Songs like the bluesy "Quite Enough" and "White Noise" prove that!
D.M.Z. (1982)
I love this album even more today then I did in my teens. The guitars on the heavy songs like "Military Man" and "Babylon" are chunky and brick smashing! there is more of the "New Wave" that had crept in though. I guess it was the 80's and it had to happen sooner or later. However it does not sound as new wave to me as it did in the 80's. Roy Montroy writes his first song for REZ, "Whitenoise" with the intro. ala Van Halen type "Eruption Solo". Lots of great songs on this LP (or CD if you have it.)
Listen to Military man on this Shoutlife site.
Mommy Don't Love Daddy Anymore (1981)
A rockin' record of lyrical hardships that many teenagers like me were going through at the time. while much of the rest of the church were trying to ignore
the struggles going on in American homes, REZ was pointing to answers in the midst of little hope. Brutal, Honest, Biblical. The lyrics on this album say it all with heavy numbers like "Stark Spare", "Alienated", "The Chair", and the title track! Great Rock but if you bought this album just for the lyrics it was worth it. -M.P.
Coulors (1980)
This is one of REZ's best albums (loved by the fans!). The production was really "up to date" for the time. The production reminds me of Rush. I see glimpses of speed metal on Colours from "N.Y.C." and "American Dream". Some songs sound similiar to AC/DC or Rush if they were heavier, but this album was uniquely REZ. The lyrics seem to be getting better with each release. All the unsaved guys in my high school seemed to own this album sandwiched between their Ozzy and Rainbow records. I wore Colours out so many times in school...I bet i bought it five times.
Another amazing gatefold cover.The children in the pictures inside the cover were members of JPUSA; Rez Band's Church
Rainbows End (1979)
This album was recorded at Pumpkin Studios where STYX did some hit albums. This album had influences from Aerosmith to Sabbath to Zep all with a style all their own.
This is still one of the best Rez albums ever (some say its the best) Just because of the great songwriting! "Afrikaans" with the lyrics "God makes the color but the color doesn't make you God", is the first song about South Africa's problems of apartheid (Christian or Secular). "Paint a Picture" is one of my Favorite Rock Ballads ever, and "Rainbows End" is just moving. "Wolf Song" sounds a lot like ZEP, and if you do not cry during "Everytime it Rains" you just aint human!(aint is a word in the dictionary). The Artwork is Awesome with a very different approach. I heard STAR SONG had a hard time with the cover, awesome pull out so you could have two different backgrounds to the cover.
-MP
Awaiting Your Reply (1978)
This was the album to change the face of Christian Music. A Christian Band that had the musical influences of Zep, Airplane and Sabbath, and the lyrical input of a Brimestone Preacher. The Jesus Movement was about to get a shot in the arm of some really good heavy rock. This album ushered in a slew of Metal and Rock bands on the Christian scene. The artwork was totally hippiefied and scared the Christian bookstores with the bubble-haired sirens. You usually had to buy it under the counter. That did not stop the sales though. Rez put Star Song records on the map.
One of the best Jesus Rock albums ever! not the first but the best up to that point with good distribution. The songs were just plain great. and the vocals and musicianship were topnotch.The production was pretty good for the pricetag of only $8,000. The gatefold cover is worth seeking out. Now Available on CD!
-MP and KS
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Resurrection Band formed in 1972, helping to bring in a brand of Classic hard rock glorifying Jesus Christ and focusing on issues that spoke to that generation. Rez Band for short, put out a homemade demo tape in '74. They called it "Music to Raise the Dead" and a more folky "All Your Life". Rez would play anywhere, Street Corners, Jails, Schools. There First album did not hit the stores (usually under the counter at your local Christian Book Store)until 1978.
The story that didn't get told back then, even in Cornerstone(Rez Band's Church Magazine), was that Rez and JPUSA (Jesus People USA; Rez Band's Church and Community) ended up funding the album's production and recording costs. A friend lent them the eight thousand dollars, and after recording at Schaumburg, Illinois' Hedden-West studios, Rez took the record to various companies. Star Song, a then-tiny label, told Rez that they had been warned away from the project by other record companies' executives. "Everyone had heard it, and thought that Awaiting Your Reply was a good record; no-one wanted it affecting the gospel music status quo." Star Song, who had nothing to lose in light of the fact the project was already complete (even the artwork!), decided to risk it.
To the Gospel music industry's great surprise A.Y.R. went to number six on Gospel music sales charts.Though others (including Petra, E-Band, and Agape) had recorded rock albums, it was Resurrection Band's album that forced the door open for Christian heavy metal's mainstream acceptance. C-stone enthused regarding the finished studio product: "[Awaiting Your Reply] has become a milestone in the common vision shared by the band and our community. Since the ministry's inception, the band has been considered an outreach to those who are unsaved, as well as a tool to build up Christ's body. . . . This album is not just the dream of a band; it is the results of a Christian community's effort to reach out in love to a battered and dying world. It isn't just rock and roll; it's a message bearing life to all who will listen."
Meanwhile, Resurrection Band had supposedly upgraded to a secondhand school bus nicknamed Dawn Treader in reference to a mythical ship in one of C. S. Lewis's children's stories. Stu Heiss, guitarist for the group and all-around Mr. Gadget, assured everyone that the refrigeration unit he'd bolted on top of the bus would serve as an air conditioner. Galvanized ducts, supposedly to carry the cool air, ran from the refrigerator throughout the bus. When the refrigerator unit refused to work on its maiden voyage during a blistering summer tour, Resurrection Band members experienced new levels of discipleship.
Resurrection Band are Playing at Chelsea Coffee House on October 10th at 8PM at Friendly Towers, 920 W Wilson Ave, Chicago IL Cost: $10.00- all money goes to Project 12 Discipleship School. Come early for a good seat!
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REZ BOX SET REVIEW
8/14/2008 - 11:21 AM
Review with song list Here (Scroll Down to the bottom of the Blog for the Review):
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REZ BAND BOX SET Available
7/18/2008 - 10:40 AM
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