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Joel Zaloum


  • Name: Joel Zaloum
  • Role At JFH: Review Writer
  • Age: 26
  • E-mail: Staff Contact Form
  • Marital Status: Single
  • Job Status: Music Director at a Christian Private School, Private Music Teacher
  • 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.

     


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    Music Out This Week


    This Wednesday, October 29, 2025
    ALBUMS
    Brandon Lake Amazon Music Songline [Provident]

    SINGLES
    Tikae Maestro Dwell (ft. Kingdmusic) - Single [Tribe Rua]

    This Friday, October 31, 2025
    ALBUMS
    1K Phew What's Understood 3 [Reach]
    Hope Deferred Darkness Remains [The Charon Collective]
    Vic Lucas The Journey [Syntax]
    MORIAH Nice Life - EP [F2]
    SEU Worship What A God [Live at JOGS] (feat. Abbie Gamboa) - EP [Provident]
    Testimony of Apocalypse Agony in the Garden [Roxx Records]

    SINGLES
    Alphein Working - Single [Syntax]
    Chris Caro It's Okay - Single [Syntax]
    Drea LP & OnBeatMusic Still - Single [Syntax]
    Dreamers My Heart His Home - Single [DREAM]
    Dust and Grace He Made It All - Single [MTS]
    Roxanne Grace Try Again - Single [DREAM]
    Jericko Skeletons - Single [Syntax]
    The Light Superior Ghost - Single [Rottweiler]
    Lock & Chi Do To Me - Single (independent)
    John Long Simple Pursuit - Single (independent)
    My Place Was Taken Rude Awakening - Single [Rottweiler]
    No Vain Glory ROYALTY (CHOSEN) - Single [Syntax]
    Polished Arrow Music LOTW - Single [Polished Arrow Music]
    Poor Old Lu The Hurting - Single (independent)
    Razzie & Joz NEW PETRO (ft. 4KL) - Single [Syntax]
    Saints in Exile Pain is My Best Friend (At My Best) [ft. THE EXILED] - Single [Syntax]
    Jordy Sam Hard Days (ft. IAN) - Single [Syntax]
    Silent Reflection The Air - Single [Syntax]
    Still Remains The Wound and the Weapon - Single (independent)
    Warren Zeiders How Great Thou Art - Single [Warner]

    This Saturday, November 1, 2025
    SINGLES
    Relentless Pursuit He Is Coming - Single (independent)

    Next Friday, November 7, 2025
    ALBUMS
    Biscuits Country Fried LoFi - EP [Circle Back]
    Jekalyn Carr JEKALYN X LEGENDS [WayNorth]
    DAMIAN DAMIAN [DREAM]
    Josh Garrels Peace To All Who Enter Here, Vol. 2 (independent)
    Amy Jay Mnemonics (independent)
    (UN)WORTHY From the Belly of the Beast - EP (independent)

    SINGLES
    Damian If I Should Fail - Single [DREAM]
    Hillside Recording Everlasting Father - Single (independent)
    Ian Austin, Heather Suzanne Somewhere Far - Single (independent)
    Life.Church Worship Tanto - Single (independent)
    Sacrificial Betrayal Take Risk - Single (independent)
    Zane Walls YOU ARE THE FIRE (feat. JontheKid) - Single (independent)
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