JFH Former Staff: Joel Zaloum

Name: Joel Zaloum

Former Role At JFH: Review Writer

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts

Hobbies: Playing and listening to music, playing hockey, baseball, volleyball, or really any sport, playing video and board games with family, hiking, watching movies, studying and reading theology, staying up late

Pet Peeves: Letting people down, secular culture, when people try too hard to be funny, bad theology

Thing you MUST Know: I write my own songs, you can listen to them on my youtube channel. I lead worship at my local church. I was homeschooled all the way up till college, along with all my other siblings. I am 5th out of 7 kids in my family. We were part of a homeschool group which helped with socializing and learning things such as music.

Guilty Pleasures: Heavy Metal (does that count???), listening to theology debates. I don't need to lose weight so any food would be irrelevant here haha!

Favorite TV Shows: The Honeymooners, Psych, Dual Survival, West Wing, The Chosen, Murder She Wrote, Odd Couple

Favorite Movies: Lord of the Rings, Ratatouille, Miracle, How to Train Your Dragon, Chronicles of Narnia, Jungle Book, Prince of Egypt, School of Rock

Favorite Books: Lord of the Rings, Narnia (The Silver Chair if I had to choose one), The Holiness of God (Sproul), The God Who Justifies (White), Pilgrims Progress, Screwtape Letters

Favorite Theologians: R.C. Sproul, James White, John Macarthur, John Piper, Albert Mohler, Charles Spurgeon, C.S. Lewis, Robert Godfrey

Favorite Bands: Phil Keaggy, Mortification, Theocracy, For Today, Neal Morse, Demon Hunter, P.O.D., Stryper, Impending Doom, Tourniquet, Becoming the Archetype, The Getty's, Don Moen, Owl City

Favorite Soundtracks: Lord of the Rings (obviously!), How To Train Your Dragon, Prince of Egypt, Newsies, Adam Young Scores, Narnia

Favorite Live Shows: Neal Morse, Theocracy, P.O.D., Sleeping Giant, For Today, Phil Keaggy

Favorite Animal: Panda Bear, african animals, anything wild and exotic

Favorite Food: Ravioli, tacos, honey and butter on a bagel, anything with cheese on it

Favorite Breakfast Cereal: All time is corn pops, but recently probably any kind of granola

Favorite Drink: Green tea with honey

Favorite Candy: Sour patch kids, dark chocolate

Most Embarrassing Moment: Fainting on first day of junior high. Falling on a breakaway during a hockey game with no one around me

Little-Known Super Power: Making it look like I meant to play that F#m chord instead of G on stage. The ability to play almost any song by ear after hearing it once.

Music News Headlines

Provident Entertainment Signs Worship Leader Charles Weems
Fri, 22 May 2026 15:41:00 EST

Worship Leaders Philippa Hanna and Israel Houghton Release "Magnificent" Today
Fri, 22 May 2026 15:31:00 EST

Incendiary Metallers Tyraels Ascension Release "Bittersweet" through Rottweiler Records
Fri, 22 May 2026 15:19:00 EST

Presence Music Releases Hope-Filled New Single "Pick Up That Book"
Fri, 22 May 2026 15:09:00 EST

Steven Curtis Chapman and Caleb and John Team for "Proud"
Fri, 22 May 2026 14:48:00 EST

Cory Asbury Releases His First Worship Song in More than 5 Years
Fri, 22 May 2026 14:30:00 EST

Velvet Blue Music Drop New GVTH DVDDY and Starflyer 59 Singles
Fri, 22 May 2026 14:20:00 EST

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This Friday, May 22, 2026
ALBUMS

Jason Dunn Formerly Known As... (independent)

The Figs How Did We Get Here? (independent)

Grand Motel Tooth of the Lion: A Spring Perennial (independent)

Philippa Hanna & Israel Houghton Magnificent [Integrity]

Jenn Johnson HAPPY [Bethel]

Lakewood Music + Worship Together Thank The Lord - EP (independent)

Under the Myrtles The Curse is Broken - EP (independent)

Rusty Vining & His Friends Already / Not Yet (independent)

SINGLES

Cory Asbury Outsing The Angels - Single [BEC]

Autumn's Descent Caesar (I'll Haunt You Now) - Single (independent)

Caleb & John x Steven Curtis Chapman Proud - Single [Fair Trade]

CCV Music He's Working (Everything for Good) - Single [Harmony Group]

GVTH DVDDY Who Knows How It Ends? - Single [Velvet Blue Music]

J. Solo In the Good & Bad ft. Boannski - Single [Syntax]

Kamban No Chainmail (Freestyle) - Single [Syntax]

Myles Maestro LONELY SOUL - Single [Syntax]

Eddy Mann I Will Never Know the Desert Again - Single [MTS]

Darius Mullin Tombstone Blues ft. Paper Watch - Single (independent)

outr.cty, Zippy, OnBeatMusic CHEESIN' - Single [Syntax]

Presence Music Pick Up That Book - Single (independent)

Razzie, TUV�, & Baruch WEWHOOPINHELL - Single [Syntax]

Tyraels Ascension Bittersweet - Single [Rottweiler]

Wavorly EXILE - Single (independent)

Charles Weems I Will Follow - Single [Provident]

Ayiesha Woods No Rock (feat. Mr. Talkbox) - Single (independent)

Next Tuesday, May 26, 2026
SINGLES

Stryper I'm Alright, (I'm Okay) - Single [Frontiers]

Next Friday, May 29, 2026
ALBUMS

Benjamin William Hastings x Aodhán King Happy To Be Here [Anotherland/Capitol CMG]

Dojo Saints Dojo Saints (independent)

Heartbound Lamentations (independent)

Narnia X [Sound Pollution]

Skye Peterson Through Line (independent)

Mike Rogers Mike Rogers [Gaither]

Tenroc God Is A Person [Provident]

Various Artists Rock, Paper, Scissors, METAL: Vol. 4 [JFH Music]

Various Artists To Hell with the Devil - A 40th Anniversary Salute [Roxx]

SINGLES

Abandoned Pools Einstein's Space and Van Gogh's Sky - Single (independent)

Gracie Binion & John Wilds Show Me Your Face - Single [BEC]

KNGDM REVIVAL Psalm 44 - Single [Dream]

Hillside Recording Every Morning - Single [Ocean House]

Northview Worship Wildly Faithful - Single [BEC]

Matthew Plante Like You Do - Single [Dream]

Jordan St. Cyr Every Reason To Bellieve - Single [BEC]

VINYL

Newsboys Take Me To Your Leader (30th Anniversary Edition) [Red] [Girder]

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