Awaiting Your Reply & Rainbow's End

Rez | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 13, 1992)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: StarSong
• ASIN: B00000E8HP
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #361,912 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pioneering Christian heavy metal, March 22, 2003

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Tom Richards (Vienna Austria) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awaiting Your Reply & Rainbow's End (Audio CD)

First off - I love this album. Emotionally, I give it five stars, but some of that is nostalgia. Resurrection Band was the first true Christian heavy metal band, at least that I knew of. The fact that they all lived in a commune made them seem even cooler. Then there was the music...

Rez band was heavily indebted to Led Zep in their opening album - the opener, "Waves," is patterned after Black Dog with a back-and-forth thing between vocals and a guitar riff. Irish Garden and Ananias echo Led Zep's acoustic guitar work, both folk and blues influenced. Irish Garden is gorgeous - the flute and acoustic guitar intro, clear guitar solo, kicking into the heavy metal verse. Ananias is a delta-blues song done on an acoustic slide guitar. "Awaiting Your Reply" is bold, daring, aggressive and an adventure.

Why four stars? Production is poor - this album was recorded on a shoe string and it shows. A couple of songs are real dinosaur-plodders as well, particularly the title track. You need to be a fan of heavy metal and/or early Christian rock to really appreciate the album. If you are, or if you had the vinyl LP long ago, this CD is for you.

The CD can still be ordered new at ChristianDiscs.com for retail prices. They also have "Rainbow's End," Resurrection Band's second album, and their last before "Colours" moved them to a 'modern' heavy metal sound without the acoustics, flutes, sax, piano, and the spirit of experimentation. Check out the website before you pay a lot for a used disc.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 30 years ago it blew me away, July 6, 2008

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Dewaine James (Granbury, TX USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awaiting Your Reply (MP3 Download)

I was living in Blanket Texas (google map it, its a real location) in the late 70's. This album came out and it had me from the first cut on. I could not believe a Christian band could be this "ROCK". I had the first Petra album (I meant "Upon this Rock" the real first album) and it was a fav but this one blew it away......

All these years later, and Amazon turns me on to it again... thank you Amazon because it is STILL GOOD. This band did more stuff, became more mainstream....etc..... but this album is Rez Band to me..... excellent.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How'd this get in the stacks?, February 3, 2011

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Stratiotes Doxha Theon "2 Thes 2:15" (Richmond, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Awaiting Your Reply (Audio CD)

Resurrection Band's debut album awoke a generation. The lyrics are potent calling to repentance and a heart entirely lost in the love of God. Lyrically reminiscent of the Psalmist but with the raw musical edge of the 70's heavy metal enthusiast, they fire enthusiasm and inspire us to live what we say we believe. This has always been a band with deep roots in Christian mystics such as the late A. W. Tozer and that influence is strong in their challenging lyrics and driving passion. They followed this album with many more in the decades that followed but this first album is as fresh and inspiring as it was the first time we heard it.