I am currently sitting here rockin' out to the very 1st Deliverance cd. I'll never forget when I first heard this. Someone my Mom knew in her church gave her the cassette to give to me because she'd mentioned once that I was into metal & at the time,really there wasn't anything as heavy christian as there was secular. I was about at my wits end with listening to Stryper all the time. I remember popping the Deliverance cassette & my jaw hitting the ground. I got on the phone to my best friend at the time & said "Dude,you gotta get yer' buns over here & listen to this band I just got..they're christian & it's soooooooo heavy!" needless to say,all my friend's believer & unbeliever,all thought Jimmy P. & co. were the bomb digity. Not long after that,I discovered Vengeance Rising,Barren Cross,Sacred Warrior,Believer,The Crucified,Circle Of Dust...and so on...I just got in on the ground floor of when christian metal was breaking it's teeth. It was an awesome time & when I hear this 1st Deliverance album those are some of the memories it's invokes. Good times indeed!