When I was a kid it always made me upset that no one knew about Audio Adrenaline because they were so much better than most of the major Christian bands, but they were a bit edgier than the other bands (as far as Christian music can be considered edgy). Quite honestly I didn’t even know the WOW CDs were anything except praise and worship (I only knew of them through TV commercials), nor did I realize how prevalent they were because in my mind they were “old person music”.

In retrospect it makes sense though, because I remember being confused that people suddenly started knowing who Audio Adrenaline were, but none of the songs they knew were their best ones. It was always really tame and safe songs like Big House or Chevette; and to be fair, Chevette wasn’t a bad song, but it wasn’t Some Kind of Zombie or The Houseplant Song.

I also always had the feeling that I started making older adults uncomfortable when I introduced them to Audio Adrenaline and I never understood that. In hindsight I don’t think they liked hearing a supposedly Christian band compare Christians to zombies, nor do I think they liked hearing them criticize and make fun of the “metal sends to you hell” crowd.

That’s kinda how my Christian experience was growing up though. The youth group didn’t have strong feelings about gay people or just thought they were weird (or tried to find loopholes in the Bible that’d let gay people be saved while somehow missing the big glowing neon sign that said “Jesus saves”), while the adults (especially the seniors) thought the gays would sneeze AIDS onto them. The youth group was asking themselves “What Would Jesus Do” while the adults just thought it was a cute phrase and ignored it. They’ll never understand that they drove more people away from voluntarily identifying as Christian than any “”“demonic forces”“” could.