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Whitecross is a Christian metal band that formed in 1986 in Chicago, releasing their first recording the following year. Christian metal is a form of Heavy metal music which as well as its many subgenres, contains Christian lyrics and themes Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Their early albums, which often invite comparisons to Ratt, are laced with fast, technical guitar work. Ratt is an American Glam metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s An electric guitar is a type of Guitar that uses pickups to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current which is made louder With the departure of guitarist Rex Carroll in 1992, the band's sound underwent a drastic change; so much so that many Whitecross fans show a strong preference for either the earlier or later work exclusively. Rex Carroll is a Christian metal guitarist and was well known for his work in the band Whitecross.

Whitecross has won three Dove Awards: two for "Hard music album of the year" with Triumphant Return (in 1990) and In the Kingdom (in 1992);[1] and one for "Come unto the Light" from the Unveiled album, which won "Hard music recorded song of the year" in 1995. The Gospel Music Association (GMA Dove Awards were created in 1969 by the Gospel Music Association to honor the outstanding achievements in Christian music [2]

In 1998, singer Scott Wenzel took a two-year break to do mission work in South America, and Whitecross was placed on hiatus. A missionary is a member of a Religion who works to convert those who do not share the missionary's faith someone who proselytizes. South America is a Continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a Little happened with the band for seven years, except for a couple of reunion gigs featuring both Wenzel and Carroll in 2002. Gig is a term commonly used by bands with reference to their live shows generally the bands play through a speaker system more recently however there has been the worlds first Silent

In 2005, Scott and Rex reunited to record Nineteen Eighty Seven, which featured re-recordings of nine of the ten songs from their self-titled debut (You're Mine being the exclusion), as well as a re-recording of the song Love on the Line (previously unavailable on CD) and a new guitar instrumental song by Rex Carroll.

There are plans to record new material for CD release as well as a possibility of Rex doing a guitar solo CD.

In 2008, on April the 5th, they played at the Legends of Rock festival in Ennepetal, Germany.

Contents

Albums

With Rex Carroll

Album Year
Whitecross 1987
Love on the Line (EP) 1988
Hammer and Nail 1988
Triumphant Return 1989
In The Kingdom 1991
High Gear 1992
To The Limit: The Best of Whitecross 1993
Nineteen Eighty Seven 2005

Without Rex Carroll

Album Year
Unveiled 1994
Equilibrium 1995
Flytrap 1996
One More Encore 1998

Members of Whitecross

Current members

Former members

Guitars

Drums

Bass


  Whitecross Hammer & Nail Triumphant Return In The Kingdom High Gear Unveiled Equilibrium Flytrap
Vocals

Scott Wenzel
Guitars

Rex Carroll

 Barry Graul

Quinton Gibson
Drums Mark Hedl Mike Elliott Mike Feighan

Troy Stone
Bass Jon Sproule Rick Armstrong

Butch Dillon

Scott Harper

 Tracy Ferrie

Brent Denny

References

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  2. ^ Dove Award Recipients for 1995. Gospel Music Association. The Gospel Music Association (GMA was founded in 1964 for the purpose of supporting and promoting the development of all forms of Nashville]] [[Tennessee]] Retrieved on 2007-03-12. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 538 - Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving

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Contemporary Christian Music (or CCM; also by its religious neutral term " inspirational music " is a genre of Popular music which is Glam metal (also known as pop metal) is a sub-genre of Heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. Ratt is an American Glam metal band that formed in San Diego and enjoyed significant commercial success in the 1980s
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