Some bands are artistically innovative boundary breakers with an unwavering ability to cast their nets wide and attract an audience that literally spans all walks of life.
Others put their focus exclusively on unabashed praise and are so anointed they can literally usher listeners into the presence of God with a single strum of a chord. And while Worth Dying For certainly fits both impressive character profiles, the California-based troupe of praise purveyors is actually something much grander in the form of an all encompassing movement spanning worship, the arts and the church as a whole.
On the musical side of the coin, Worth Dying For is currently readying the release of Live Riot, its third national long player and fitting follow-up to 2011’s Love Riot. The collection of 10 brand new songs and a few live versions of already familiar material was culled from a praise service at the Ammunition Conference, which the group hosts annually to unite worship leaders and speakers from all the world over. However, the members of this ministry team don’t just serve on stage but literally roll up their sleeves in the trenches, as evidenced in their forthcoming FEARLESS church planting efforts in Los Angeles.
“Worth Dying For is a faceless army of worshippers that’s not about certain people in a band or ministry,” explains co-founder Christy Johnson. “We really believe in investing in people and raising them up. We don’t use people to make ministry happen. We use ministry to make people happen and we love seeing whensomeone starts out as an intern and is later able to get up in front of people and usher thousands into the presence of God.”
Indeed, the journey of all Worth Dying For’s facets is an unconventional one, dating back to 2007’s self-released debut Ammunition and winding through 2008’s self-titled label debut on Integrity Records (which found the troupe leading worship on Creation Festival: The Tour). Come 2011, the group returned to the self-releasing route on Ammunition Records, the home of both Love Riot and Live Riot, the latter of which features original members Christy Johnson, Josh O’haire and Sean Loche, as well as new worship leaders Dalisha Turner, Deanna Joven, Nick Morris, Rochelle Leguern and Sarah Agbayani.
Worth Dying For is back with their third album - Live Riot - Available from Ammunition Records on February 7th!
Check out the (incredible!) new “Rebuild” music video:
Shot entirely on location in San Francisco with the revolutionary RED CAMERA®, the groundbreaking music video is the first true glimpse of the band’s upcoming album, Live Riot, which will be available everywhere from Ammunition Records on February 7th.
“Our mission is to give a generation of last day warriors an anthem to fulfill the destiny that God has put them on this earth to fulfill, which is to infiltrate culture with the love of Jesus, to destroy what is destroying them with the love of Jesus and to rebuild what God intended from the beginning,” explains the band’s pastor, Jeremy Johnson of Ammunition Movement, who provides the prominent vocal track for “Rebuild.” “This poem of the three, infiltrate, destroy and rebuild, is our charge to a generation to rise up from the ashes and become the army that God’s called them to be. I hope this video encourages you in that way.”
The modern worship band with an aggressive rock sound has drawn obvious comparisons to musical counterparts such as Skillet and Evanesence as well as Hillsong United, Planetshakers and Jesus Culture. Listeners will find that their upcoming collection of 17 live songs creates a worship experience unlike any other.
Fans are already enjoying Live Riot’s first single, “Savior,” which is now available at iTunes. In an effort to capture their live worship experience for all, Worth Dying For shot live music videos for nearly every song on Live Riot. Starting on the release date, one video will be posted weekly on the official website at www.worthdyingfor.com.
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