A surprising degree of brevity rests between hard rock outfit Skillet's latest release, Dominion, and their previous LP offering, Victorious. However, the two-and-a-half-year gap seems to have stoked a new element of creativity within a band where staleness had begun to run rampant. A marked number of improvements are seen, and Dominion does a fine job of blending a few different eras of the band's overall sound, leading to what is ultimately a successful project...

Futures is a pop/CCM group now a short four years removed from the release of their debut single, "Inspirations," a song that hit #1 on the iTunes Australian Inspirational Charts (bet you didn't know there was such a chart). Relocating to the Atlanta area from Australia, the members released a live full-length worship album, Just the Cross, through their relationship with Influencers Church, and then followed that with the 2020 EP, Reborn, a studio recording of many of the best songs from their debut. It is good worship music, but that's not a genre that is lacking these days, and when DREAM Records signed the group to their growing roster in 2020, a style change became necessary...

To kick off the new year, Passion released a five-song EP titled Burn Bright, which focuses on the impact Christ has on someone's life after they are saved. The worship band has not released a full-length album since 2020, adopting a formula for producing shorter EP's and singles for the time being.

Burn Bright opens up with a theme that revolves around what Jesus has done for us, as both "New Thing" and "What He's Done" portray the matter, with lyrics such as...