Disciple
Christian hard rock outfit Disciple rose out of Knoxville, Tennessee, in the mid-'90s, eventually breaking out with their Dove Award-nominated second album, 1999's This Might Sting a Little Bit. Over the following decade, Disciple's heavy alt-metal style continued to earn fans thanks to popular albums like Scars Remain and Southern Hospitality. By the 2010s, they'd also established themselves as a consistent crossover act, extending beyond the Christian charts onto Billboard's Hard Rock and Top 200 charts with releases like O God Save Us All and Attack. After a handful of crowdfunded projects, Disciple signed with Tooth & Nail at end of the decade and released Love Letter Kill Shot in 2019.
Disciple was formed in 1992 by friends Kevin Young, Brad Noah, Tim Barrett, and Adrian DiTommasi (who would leave the band shortly after inception) in an attempt to spread the gospel while playing the loud, metallic music they loved. Over the years, their style evolved into one similar to many secular alternative metal groups, as they toured churches, high schools, colleges, and similar venues. Their self-released debut, What Was I Thinking, came out in 1995, followed by an EP, My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy, on Warner Resound in 1997. Their sophomore full-length effort, This Might Sting a Little Bit, followed two years later on Rugged Records. By God followed in 2001 on the same label.
2003's Back Again found the band on a new label, their own independent Slain Records. That year, the trio became a quartet with the addition of bassist Joey Fife to their lineup. The group signed with INO Records the following year and released a self-titled LP in June of 2005. Scars Remain arrived on Integrity in late 2006. After years of nominations, the album won the band their first Dove Award for Rock Album of the Year.
In 2008, Noah and Fife stepped down from the band and their spots were filled by bassist Israel Beachy and guitarists Andrew Welch and Micah Sannan. Southern Hospitality arrived later that year. Before their next release, founding drummer Tim Barrett would also part ways with Disciple, replaced by Trent Reiff. Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, Disciple's eighth LP, came out in April 2010. It topped the Christian chart and entered the Billboard Top 50. As the band's popularity grew, they embarked on a handful of tours with other top Christian acts like Thousand Foot Krutch and Skillet.
2012 saw the release of O God Save Us All, as well as a flurry of lineup changes. After four years with Disciple, Welch left the band to join Thousand Foot Krutch, while Sannan and Beachy were replaced by Josiah Prince (Philmont) and Jason Wilkes (High Flight Society). By early 2013, Reiff exited and was replaced by Joey West. Andrew Stanton also joined the band, leaving Young as the only original member.
The refreshed quintet forged ahead with the crowdfunded release of 2014's Attack, which became their highest Billboard 200 entry to date, peaking at number 44. Produced by longtime Disciple producer Travis Wyrick, Attack also rose to the number two spots on the Hard Rock and Christian charts. It would be the first and last album with Wilkes on bass, who left the band the next year. Vultures, a six-song EP recorded during the Attack sessions, was released at the end of 2015. Another EP, Live in Denmark, arrived the following year, accompanied by a series of concert videos from Denmark's RiverFest.
The band -- now a quartet -- issued another crowdfunded effort in 2016. Their 11th album, Long Live the Rebels, debuted at number 125, making it the group's sixth Billboard 200 entry to date. After signing with the Tooth & Nail label at the end of 2018, Disciple released their 12th full-length, Love Letter Kill Shot, in September 2019. A deluxe version landed the following year with three previously unreleased tracks.
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Love Letter Kill Shot (Deluxe)
Rock - Released by Tooth & Nail Records - BEC Recordings on 18 Sep 2020
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Horseshoes & Handgrenades
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Fair Trade - Columbia on 14 Sep 2010
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Scars Remain
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Ino - Columbia on 7 Nov 2006
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The Best of Disciple
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Fair Trade - Columbia on 7 Aug 2015
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Attack
Miscellaneous - Released by Disciple Music on 23 Sep 2014
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O God Save Us All
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Fair Trade - Columbia on 13 Nov 2012
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Disciple
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by SRE - EPIC on 7 Jun 2005
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Dear X, You Don't Own Me
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Ino - Columbia on 26 Apr 2011
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Love Letter Kill Shot
Rock - Released by Tooth & Nail Records - BEC Recordings on 13 Sep 2019
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Things Left Unsaid
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Ino - Columbia on 20 Jun 2006
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Southern Hospitality
Humour/Spoken Word - Released by Ino - Columbia on 17 Oct 2008
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Long Live the Rebels
Rock - Released by Tooth & Nail Records - BEC Recordings on 14 Oct 2016
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My Daddy Can Whip Your Daddy
Rock - Released by Rhino - Warner Records on 1 Jan 1997
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Vultures
Miscellaneous - Released by Slain Records on 25 Sep 2015
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This Might Sting A Little
Miscellaneous - Released by Slain Records on 1 Jun 1999
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Back Again
Miscellaneous - Released by Slain Records on 30 Nov 2022
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Vultures
Miscellaneous - Released by Slain Records on 25 Sep 2015
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