Released 25 years ago this past Friday, this is the first live album by Sonicflood and contains mostly live versions of the worship songs they had on their self-titled debut two years earlier. By the time this released, the band had mostly dissolved and been re-formed by the last remaining member, but this live recording from a Christian music festival in Amsterdam in summer 1999 was released. The band, led by worship leader and artist Jeff Deyo, leads the audience through their two original songs early in the set and then performs covers of popular '90s worship songs from other artists, some of which were on their album and some not. New songs include "Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble" by Delirious? and praise classics like "Lord, I Lift Your Name On High" and "You Are Worthy Of My Praise". The songs pretty seamlessly flow from one to another, and there are moments of spontaneous worship, unplanned jams with prayer. As with their debut, these are not the simple, worship versions on the Hosanna and Vineyard albums, but souped-up, guitar-laden rock/pop versions while still maintaining a worshipful tone. I honestly didn't pick up this album until a few years ago, and it's not required listening in my opinion, but it is an interesting moment in time captured here as the Christian music industry moved from feel-good radio pop/rock to being mostly modern music for church services. Sonicflood and groups like Passion as well as, in the few years after this, artists like Michael W. Smith brought the music of Matt Redman and church collectives like Vineyard Music to a much bigger audience, which in turn brought the music into churches more. The music of Sonicflood was never my favorite and they didn't really stick around in this form long, but they caught a wave of music trends and were riding it well for a moment here.

Release Year: 2001
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