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Ex-IMPELLITTERI Singer ROB ROCK: Jesus Rocks!

May 7, 2004

Singer Rob Rock (ex-IMPELLITTERI, DRIVER, JOSHUA) has spoken to The Daytona Beach News-Journal about the influence on his lyrics of the biblical tales of pharaohs' rampaging armies, plagues, judgment day and good vs. evil.

"For me personally, Jesus does rock," said Rock, who will perform with his band, called RAGE OF CREATION, tonight (May 7) at the Full Moon Saloon in Daytona Beach. "But I don't believe I'm called to be a preacher. What I sing or write comes from my heart, so that gets in there. I'll deal with the kings and queens and the war stories out of the Bible, and Judgment Day and the Revelation — that fits really well in the music.

"It means a lot to me if a Christian fan can enjoy my music and get the Christian thing out of it, as well as some guy in Europe or Japan or even in the States who's not a Christian — if he can hear the metal anthems and hear the pharaoh stories and say 'Hey, check it out.' That's in God's hands."

Rock also spoke about the popularity of his self-described style of "melodic metal" in Europe and its "underground" status in the U.S. compared to the more extreme forms of metal with what Rock calls "the Cookie Monster vocals."

"I don't like that because I don't understand it," Rock of the black/death metal genre. "But there's some group of kids who do understand it. God bless 'em but I don't get it.

"They take the most extreme thing to get the most attention, because it works," Rock added. "At one point Ozzy was the outcast, Ozzy was the extreme. Then every five or 10 years, the bands keep going farther and farther out.

"I saw some T-shirts at the last metal fest we did that are offensive to me, and I'm a metaller: 'Four-letter-word Jesus this' and 'Jesus that.' I'm like, 'Why are they so apt to destroy or fight against something that they obviously don't understand?' " [Read more]

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