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MercyMe are an American contemporary Christian band, originally formed in Greenville, Texas in the mid-1990s.
The result of a praise and worship band experience, MercyMe was formed in 1994 by Bart Millard, Jim Bryson, and Mike Scheuchzer. Millard and Bryson met while working on a mission’s project overseas. The two agreed to start a new band in Oklahoma City with Scheuchzer, whom Millard already knew. It didn't take long for the band to build a solid fan base and they soon found themselves opening up for bands such as Audio Adrenaline.
Following a move to Nashville, Tennessee and then back to Millard's hometown in Texas, the band added bassist Nathan Cochran and percussionist Robby Shaffer to the roster. The band signed with INO Records in 2001 and released their first album, Almost There, which propelled them into the mainstream spotlight with the smash hit "I Can Only Imagine". The album went on to sell more than 2 million records in only three years and earned the band an American Music Award nomination.
In 2002, the band released their popular second album, Spoken For, which produced two more Top 10 hits. The combined success of the band's first two albums garnered a nomination for the Favorite Contemporary Inspirational Artist at the American Music Awards.
In 2004, MercyMe released Undone which produced two Top 10 hits: Here with Me which also hit Billboard’s Top 100 chart that same year, and In The Blink of an Eye which, as of the end of 2005, was at #5 on R&B's top Christian hits. This album also features the song Homesick, which also received notice by Christian and mainstream stations. This song was written in dedication to loved ones that the band had lost that year.
Since then, MercyMe has released one more album Coming Up To Breathe in 2006. While this album keeps to the same style and appeal of its predecessors, Bart Millard wrote that the band was not seeking to meet its previous popularity, but rather a more personal album that was written for God. Despite this conviction, MercyMe's eleventh album has hit no. 13 on the Billboard charts and features the hits So Long Self, Coming Up To Breathe, and Hold Fast.
Among the songs found in the 11th Album, Coming Up To Breathe is written a song titled I Would Die For You. This song was made in dedication to BJ Higgins, a young boy who contracted Bubonic Plague on the mission fields of Peru. Since then I Would Die For You is used to raise money for The Go Foundation, which was born out of Higgins' untimely death.
Audio Adrenaline was 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 band was formed under the name of A-180 by Mark Stuart, Barry Blair and Will McGinnis. (As of 2005, Stuart and McGinnis 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.
Their 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. They found one in Tyler Burkum, who joined the band at only 17 years old, in time to record 1997's Some Kind of Zombie. This was also the first album to feature Ben Cissell as the band's full-time drummer, though Cissell had played on bloom as well. In 1999, the band released Underdog, its fifth studio album. To this day, Underdog remains Audio Adrenaline's largest critical success.
Audio Adrenaline greeted the new millennium by releasing their first greatest hits compilation, 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 McGinnis. 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 received a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2006.
Among Audio Adrenaline's most notable performances are three of their most popular songs, "Big House," "Hands and Feet," and the live staple "We're A Band," as well as 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 retiring. The band cited Mark Stuart's "ongoing vocal challenges" stemming from vocal chord damage after years of performing as the primary factor. On July 27, 2006, the band played at the popular Christian music festival Creation West for the last time. They had performed at Creation West every year since it began. On August 1, 2006, they released their final album, Adios, a farewell album containing several new tracks as well as the band's greatest hits. For their final national tour in the Fall of 2006, Audio Adrenaline opened for MercyMe on the "Coming Up To Breathe Tour."
In 2004, the band, along with former member Bob Herdman, founded a project in Haiti called the Hands and Feet Project, in which the band built an orphanage for children.
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