“I Am Horrible at Processing Rejection” by Showbread ft. Whitney DePaoli & Loni Evans, Thursday, April 29, 2021
In 2016 raw rock band was pronounced dead in their final studio album Showbread Is Showdead. The cause of death was detailed in the band’s Labeled episode. The music industry, overcommitment with crowdfunding, and the band’s controversial views throughout the years are all contributing factors to the bands demise. As one of the last unabashed Christian Rock acts, Showbread pressed the genre way beyond the bounds of 'acceptable' music for Christian kids and incorporated literary, philosophical, and industrial/metal influences that were typically shunned by the church. Showbread is responsible for starting conversations around Nihilism, anarchy, patriotism, and idolatry, and gave Christian kids a vocabulary to enter those conversations with their references to literature, philosophy, and horror movies.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. I recently heard a podcast lambasting Skillet's Alien Youth album. The hosts joke about how Skillet's John Cooper listened to Korn and Nine Inch Nails once and decided to copy their sound. To be fair, John Cooper has said on Lead Singer Syndrome that he considers Alien Youth to be one of his least favorite albums. In contrast to Skillet, Showbread's music has pushed boundaries of the Christian market, from their dark imagery on No Sir, Nihilism Is Not Practical to their dual records Anorexia/Nervosa, which channeled NIN and Marylin Manson along with authors Bret Easton Ellis and Chuck Palahniuk in order to tell a dark story that culminates in a redemptive theme, to their statement on Religious Nationalism in the music video for "Vehement" which was a decade before its time. Showbread Is Showdead takes a jab at pastor/Reformed Theologian John Piper. Often Showbread's message is too radical for fans and as CD sales slowed down, this was a death blow to the strange band.
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