Close Your Eyes

The double-time, rhythmic chords and scream/sung melodies of Close Your Eyes are something of a Trojan horse for songs that indicate a deep undercurrent of Christian faith. With the uplifting "Song for the Broken," off 2010 debut We Will Overcome, attaining virality in the post-YouTube, pre-streaming world, the group engaged in a half-decade marked by heavy music and almost heavier drama, with key band members passing through often before the group fell apart in 2015. Since 2022, many of the key members have reunited. Vocalist Shane Raymond and guitarist Brett Callaway met as...