The podcast
Conversations about music, faith, and the people behind it. Bill and Kate share artists' stories and pray with them.
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The Forgiven brings together artists making heavy music for Jesus and the people who believe in what they are building. We tell their stories, share their music, pray with them, and support the work God has put in their hands.
What we do
Music discovery
Meet Christian heavy-music artists and hear what they're creating through Isaiah's music-discovery content.
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Our curated playlist brings Christian metal, metalcore, and hard rock together in one place.
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Christian metal, metalcore, and hard rock. Listen here or choose your music service.
The team
Bill Branstetter
Podcast Host
Bill is the creator of Out of the Depths, a San Antonio modern metal project setting every Psalm to music, word for word.
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Kate Nardone
Podcast Host
Kate hosts Rock of Ages on Ascend FM and co-hosts each conversation on The Forgiven.
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Isaiah O'Sullivan
Music Discovery & Playlist Curator
Isaiah creates music-discovery content and curates The Forgiven Radio playlist. He is studying filmmaking and pursuing his dream of making music videos for Christian metal artists.
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Artists, do you have a story to tell? Send an Instagram DM to @theforgivenofficial with your artist name, where you are based, a link to your music, and what you'd like to share on the podcast.
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