Showbread

The Fear Of God

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The year is 1986 and an upstart Christian rock band have reached their pinnacle, dressing in garish yellow-and-black costumes and caked-on eye makeup, saying the Lord’s Prayer before every show and hurling Bibles into the crowd. Sound familiar? That group, of course, were Stryper, glam rock’s most holier-than-thou band. Skip ahead 20-plus years, sub the yellow-and-black outfits for red-and-black ones, and you have Showbread, the latest Christian-rock sensation. Starting out The Fear Of God with, ahem, a version of the Lord’s Prayer, the Guyton, Georgia, band proceed to sleepwalk through metallic emo-rock, keyboard-driven glam-core and enough good/bad vocals to fill an entire season of COPS. The album is also chock-full of asinine combinations of metalcore, dirty rock and pop-punk, as if the band were looking to cover all bases within their prepubescent target market. In particular, “Shepherd, No Sheep” is so vapid and juvenile, it sounds like the kind of tune a disgruntled Christian teen would crank in their bedroom on Sunday afternoon after being forced to sit through a particularly boring church sermon. Then again, we suppose that’s the whole idea. (TOOTH & NAIL) Jason Schreurs



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