TORONTO, October 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The band Critical Mass has received the Best Rock Album of the Year honours for their third release, Grasping for Hope in the Darkness, at the 27th annual Canadian Gospel Music Association Covenant Awards, which took place October 22nd in Toronto. The band is made up of seven solidly pro-life Christians include LifeSiteNews.com’s ownÂwebmaster Harvey Armoogan who runs the mixing console for the band.
Grasping for Hope in the Darkness is a modern rock concept album tracing a man’s journey from darkness back to redemption. The album, produced by Gemini and Juno nominated producer, Andrew Horrocks, features a pro-life storyline and deals with hard issues such as abortion, pornography, abuse and pre-marital sex.Â
This is the second award for the band, which won in the same category in 2000 for their album, Completely. The song, Carry on Wayward Son, a cover of the classic Kansas tune, was also nominated for Best Rock Song.
“This is an incredible honour”, says David Wang, the lead singer for Critical Mass, “The Canadian Christian music scene has been improving in leaps and bounds over the past 5 years and the quality of the nominees this year were better than I have ever seen”.
In addition to Armoogan and Wang, Critical Mass is made up of Luke Kupczyk on guitars, Lawrence Lam on keyboards, Scott McKendrick on bass, Tracey Doyle on percussion, and Paul Kieffer on drums.
A comic book for the album can be downloaded from the band website at www.CatholicRock.com
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