Brothers Dale and Troy Thompson have pounded away in Bride for more than a decade. From their early days as a metal band with screeching vocals and hard-edged music, Bride has changed and also matured over the years, as backing members came and went. Eight albums later, Bride arrives in style with The Jesus Experience, a lusciously loud recording chock-full of modern hard rock that relies on catchy songwriting dipped in the spicy dressing of classic rock influences. Producers John and Dino Elefante know that rawness rules in modern hard rock, and put little polish on the album. The Jesus Experience sounds as if Bride went into a big, open room that had great acoustics, cranked their Marshalls to ten, and hit "record." This raw, expertly-produced recording takes the listener through a captivating array of distortion-drenched tunes, each dripping with intensity and seriousness about the Gospel. Whether it's "The Worm," with its stripped-down verse and irresistible hair-raising chorus, the Led Zeppelin-meets-Lenny Kravitz feel of "'Til the End of the World" or the swirling melody of "One Race," this is one experience which deserves a serious listen.