Divided Me plays Christian festivals and they play bars, and they walk into both asking the same question: how do we worship here?
"When we get there, it's let's see how we can worship to bring someone closer to God." That's Spencer. Deanne takes it further. Before they play Unbound, she tells the room how many children were abused in that county, and then they play it. People wait around afterward to ask for prayer.
Divided Me is a heavy band out of Amarillo, in the West Texas panhandle. Deanne sings, and learned to scream from Zahna, who ended up co-writing the EP. Spencer plays guitar because his dad started a messianic Jewish congregation at home and needed one. Clay plays bass, trained as a drummer, and has been through two church splits. Gio plays drums, services ATMs across three states, and asked to pray about it before he said yes. Four members, four different churches.
The hard part of this one is Clay's second split, which is recent enough that he says he doesn't want to get into it, and then gets into a little of it anyway.
Stay to the end. Kate prays over all of them.
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The Forgiven is a community and ministry for artists making heavy music for Jesus. We share their music, tell their stories, pray with them and support the work God has placed in their hands.
The show is hosted by Bill Branstetter—creator of Out of the Depths, a project setting every Psalm to metal word for word—and Kate Nardone, host of Rock of Ages on AscendFM.
CHAPTERS
0:00 "I don't feel him as much as I did": the line that became Take Me Back
0:39 Who is Divided Me?
1:48 Deanne: saved at eight, surrendered at a DNow
2:47 Clay: a children's pastor's kid who walked away from the drums
4:09 Spencer: Southern Baptist, Seventh-day Adventist, then messianic Jewish
6:24 Throwing ceramic Santas in the dumpster
9:20 Clay on two church splits and where he put his focus
11:37 Four members, four different churches
15:12 The new album: someone broken, then redeemed, then back on the path
16:35 Can metal be worship? Bar shows, and reading the county's numbers out loud
17:32 Who writes the songs, and what changed when Gio joined
23:07 Blind: Zahna, a flooded studio, and learning to scream
27:42 Take Me Back, a love song about finding God again
31:21 Day jobs: APS, CASA, IT, and ATMs
33:51 How they all met, and the phone call to Gio
38:07 Superlatives
48:20 Where to start if you have never heard Divided Me
52:02 How to pray for Divided Me
53:22 Kate prays over the band
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