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Sanctus Real

A respected CCM band from Toledo, Ohio, Sanctus Real have been promoting their faith-based messages through buoyant, uplifiting alt-pop since the late '90s. After cutting their teeth with several independent releases, the group became a fixture of the Sparrow Records roster in the 2000s, winning a Dove Award for their breakout 2004 album, Fight the Tide. In the years that followed, Sanctus Real continued to build their fan base and consistently crossed over onto the pop charts with albums like 2010's Pieces of a Real Heart and 2013's Run. Weathering a major lineup shift, the band moved into a new era on 2018's Changed and continued to tour and record prolifically into the 2020s. Their tenth album, All Along, was released in 2024 on Framework Records. Sanctus Real was formed in 1996 while founders Chris Rohman and Matt Hammitt were still in high school. With Hammitt handling lead vocals, the duo added drummer Mark Graalman and bassist Steve Goodrum to round out the lineup. The group released three independent albums of melodic power pop (All This Talk of Aliens in 1998, Message for the Masses in 1999, and Nothing to Lose in 2001) before signing with the Universal-owned Christian label Sparrow Records. Working with producer Pete Stewart, Sanctus Real made their major-label debut with 2002's Say It Loud, following up a year later with a five-song EP supplement to Say It Loud, entitled SVERIGEEP. Their 2004 cover of U2's "Beautiful Day" for the Sparrow compilation In the Name of Love: Artists United for Africa became a Christian hit, earning the band their first GMA Dove nomination. That same year, their second LP for Sparrow, Fight the Tide, became somewhat of a breakout release, charting on Billboard's Hot Christian Albums and Top Heatseekers charts and winning a Dove Award for Modern Rock Album of the Year. With incoming bassist Dan Gartley replacing Goodrum, Sanctus Real took another step forward with 2006's The Face of Love, this time cracking into the Billboard Top 200 and notching a pair of Christian hit singles in "I'm Not Alright" and "Don't Give Up." The successes continued over the next few years, with 2008's We Need Each Other and 2010's Pieces of a Real Heart both earning Grammy nominations and paving the way for a greatest-hits anthology, Pieces of Our Past: The Sanctus Real Anthology. The band recorded two more LPs for Sparrow, Run (2013) and The Dream (2015), before frontman Matt Hammitt decided to step away from the group. His final recorded appearance with the band he'd founded was "Longer Than a Lifetime," a newly written track that appeared on their second greatest-hits collection, 2015's Best of Sanctus Real. Opting to carry on without Hammitt, remaining members Rohman and Graalman hired singer Dustin Lolli to be their new frontman. With Lolli and new bassist Tyler Mattiello, Sanctus Real began a new phase with the independently released 2016 EP This Is Love. Then the band signed with the Framework label and released two albums, 2018's Changed and 2019's Unstoppable God, in quick succession. Over the next several years, Sanctus Real shifted focus to making singles. The joyful "My God Is Still the Same" appeared in 2021, followed a year later by "How Many Times" and "Won't Let Me Go." Slowly, they began ramping up to their next album cycle and in 2024, they included all three of these singles on their tenth studio album, All Along.
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