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| origin = [[Denver]], [[Colorado]] |
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⚫ | | genre = [[Space-themed music|Astro]]-[[Rock music|rock]], [[Christian rock]], [[progressive rock]] |
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| years_active = 1999–present |
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| label = [[5 Minute Walk]], [[Tooth & Nail Records|Tooth & Nail]], Department of Biophysics |
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| associated_acts = [[Five Iron Frenzy]], [[Roper (band)|Roper]] |
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| associated_acts = [[Five Iron Frenzy]], [[Roper (band)|Roper]] |
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⚫ | | current_members = [[Reese Roper]]<br>[[Keith Hoerig]]<br>[[Dennis Culp]]<br>[[Andrew Verdecchio]] |
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'''Brave Saint Saturn''' (stylized as '''braveSaintSaturn''', '''brave saint saturn''' or '''BS2''')<ref name=Review/><ref name="Powell_Fe">{{cite book | last=Powell | first=Mark Allan | title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music | year=2002 | publisher=Hendrickson Publishers | location=[[Peabody, Massachusetts|Peabody]], [[Massachusetts|MA]] | isbn=978-1-56563-679-8 | edition=1st | pages=107}}</ref> is a [[Christian rock]] band formed in [[Denver, Colorado]] in 1999.<ref name=Review>{{cite web | url=http://www.facebook.com/#!/bravesaintsaturn?v=info&ref=ts | title=Brave Saint Saturn | website=Facebook Page | accessdate=June 30, 2010}}</ref> The band is a side-project of |
'''Brave Saint Saturn''' (stylized as '''braveSaintSaturn''', '''brave saint saturn''' or '''BS2''')<ref name=Review/><ref name="Powell_Fe">{{cite book | last=Powell | first=Mark Allan | title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music | year=2002 | publisher=Hendrickson Publishers | location=[[Peabody, Massachusetts|Peabody]], [[Massachusetts|MA]] | isbn=978-1-56563-679-8 | edition=1st | pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/107 107] | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofco00mark/page/107 }}</ref> is a [[Christian rock]] band formed in [[Denver, Colorado]] in 1999.<ref name=Review>{{cite web | url=http://www.facebook.com/#!/bravesaintsaturn?v=info&ref=ts | title=Brave Saint Saturn | website=Facebook Page | accessdate=June 30, 2010 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050408055255/http://www.facebook.com/#!/bravesaintsaturn?v=info&ref=ts | archive-date=April 8, 2005 | url-status=live }}</ref> The band is a side-project of members of [[Five Iron Frenzy]] started by [[Reese Roper]]. The band calls their music style "astro-rock", although Roper has stated that this "doesn't mean anything".<ref name=RadioInterview>{{cite web | url=http://thefurtheradventuresof.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/reese-roper-interview/ | title=Reese Roper Interview | date=October 15, 2008 | website=The Further Adventures Of... on KMNU Radio | accessdate=October 15, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718111609/http://thefurtheradventuresof.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/reese-roper-interview/ | archive-date=July 18, 2011 | url-status=live }}</ref> The trilogy of albums are meant to artfully represent early life, adversity, and death.<ref name="HM_09_136">{{cite journal |last=Newton |first=Adam |title=Brave Saint Saturn |date=March–April 2009 |journal=[[HM Magazine]] |issue=136 |pages=19 }}</ref> |
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==Background== |
==Background== |
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Before the band was signed, they were called Astronaut. As a result, "Astronaut Versions" of several early Brave Saint Saturn songs exist. The "Astronaut Version" of "Two-Twenty-Nine" is available on the compilation ''Manna 2 Go'' (fifty280 records). An otherwise unreleased Astronaut song, "Albatross," is also available on ''Green Manna'' (fifty280 records)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.drindustrial.com/labelInfoMain.php?label_id=211&cd_id=1572 | title=Label Info for Fifty280 Records | website=Dr. Industrial | accessdate=October 11, 2008}}</ref> |
Before the band was signed, they were called Astronaut. As a result, "Astronaut Versions" of several early Brave Saint Saturn songs exist. The "Astronaut Version" of "Two-Twenty-Nine" is available on the compilation ''Manna 2 Go'' (fifty280 records). An otherwise unreleased Astronaut song, "Albatross," is also available on ''Green Manna'' (fifty280 records)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.drindustrial.com/labelInfoMain.php?label_id=211&cd_id=1572 | title=Label Info for Fifty280 Records | website=Dr. Industrial | accessdate=October 11, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617184102/http://www.drindustrial.com/labelInfoMain.php?label_id=211&cd_id=1572 | archive-date=June 17, 2009 | url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Brave Saint Saturn often uses the vastness of space as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation. With this in mind, the band used [[NASA]] recordings and electronic samples on their first two albums.<ref name=Review/> One of the biggest influences on the band's sound was the [[Electric Light Orchestra]] album ''[[Time (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Time]]''.<ref name=RadioInterview/> Roper has said that because of this band he has tried to include more strings and orchestral sounds into the group's music. |
Brave Saint Saturn often uses the vastness of space as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation. With this in mind, the band used [[NASA]] recordings and electronic samples on their first two albums.<ref name=Review/> One of the biggest influences on the band's sound was the [[Electric Light Orchestra]] album ''[[Time (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Time]]''.<ref name=RadioInterview/> Roper has said that because of this band he has tried to include more strings and orchestral sounds into the group's music. |
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Some reviewers consider Brave Saint Saturn as a generally more serious band than the often light-hearted [[Five Iron Frenzy]]. As the former leader of Five Iron Frenzy, Roper often found the band too straightforwardly fun for expressing feelings of loneliness and abandonment.<ref name=Review/> BS2 is the platform for the more depressed and sad lyrics which Roper has written.<ref name="Powell_Fe"/> When speaking of the band, Roper states that, "I've tried to show the redemption and peace of God through tragic things. I think overall the lyrics are about … hope."<ref name=Review/> |
Some reviewers consider Brave Saint Saturn as a generally more serious band than the often light-hearted [[Five Iron Frenzy]]. As the former leader of Five Iron Frenzy, Roper often found the band too straightforwardly fun for expressing feelings of loneliness and abandonment.<ref name=Review/> BS2 is the platform for the more depressed and sad lyrics which Roper has written.<ref name="Powell_Fe"/> When speaking of the band, Roper states that, "I've tried to show the redemption and peace of God through tragic things. I think overall the lyrics are about … hope."<ref name=Review/> |
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The third of the ''Saturn 5 Trilogy'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bravesaintsaturnstore.com/antimeridian-preorder.html | title=Anti-Meridian | website=Brave Saint Saturn | accessdate=October 10, 2008 | |
The third of the ''Saturn 5 Trilogy'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.bravesaintsaturnstore.com/antimeridian-preorder.html | title=Anti-Meridian | website=Brave Saint Saturn | accessdate=October 10, 2008 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081016015554/http://www.bravesaintsaturnstore.com/antimeridian-preorder.html | archivedate=October 16, 2008 | df=mdy-all }}</ref> ''Anti-Meridian'', was released on September 15, 2008. The physical album is only available through the band's website store, but digital copies were made available at various online stores for [[digital distribution]]. |
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{{quote box|width=23em|"The future of Brave Saint Saturn kind of hinges on how well this record does... I think that all of us would rather start new projects if this one is done for."|—Reese Roper on the bands' future in 2009.<ref name="HM_09_136"/>}} |
{{quote box|width=23em|"The future of Brave Saint Saturn kind of hinges on how well this record does... I think that all of us would rather start new projects if this one is done for."|—Reese Roper on the bands' future in 2009.<ref name="HM_09_136"/>}} |
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Roper has stated that the band originally planned to make a story arc that would go across three albums, but the band is in talks to create more music in the future beyond their first three albums.<ref name=RadioInterview/> There are plans for an album of b-sides, rarities, and redone songs titled ''Add-Infinitum''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reese Roper|url=http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2011/02/16/reese-roper/|publisher=Indie Vision Music|accessdate=November 7, 2011}}</ref> |
Roper has stated that the band originally planned to make a story arc that would go across three albums, but the band is in talks to create more music in the future beyond their first three albums.<ref name=RadioInterview/> There are plans for an album of b-sides, rarities, and redone songs titled ''Add-Infinitum''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reese Roper|date=February 17, 2011|url=http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2011/02/16/reese-roper/|publisher=Indie Vision Music|accessdate=November 7, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624201648/http://www.indievisionmusic.com/2011/02/16/reese-roper/|archive-date=June 24, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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== ''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' == |
== ''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' == |
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Brave Saint Saturn published their first three albums as the ''Saturn 5 Trilogy''. |
Brave Saint Saturn published their first three albums as the ''Saturn 5 Trilogy''. |
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''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' tells the story of a fictional NASA Saturn 5 Mission, where the crew of the spacecraft ''Gloria'' is sent to map the [[rings of Saturn]]. While in orbit around [[Saturn]]'s moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], the ''Gloria'' suffers a crippling disaster that leaves the craft stranded in [[geosynchronous orbit]] on the dark side of the moon. The crew is cut off from radio contact with Earth and the light of the sun, and both the crew and their families fear they are lost forever. |
''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' tells the story of a fictional NASA Saturn 5 Mission, where the crew of the spacecraft ''Gloria'' is sent to map the [[rings of Saturn]]. While in orbit around [[Saturn]]'s moon, [[Titan (moon)|Titan]], the ''Gloria'' suffers a crippling disaster that leaves the craft stranded in [[geosynchronous orbit]] on the dark side of the moon. The crew is cut off from radio contact with Earth and the light of the sun, and both the crew and their families fear they are lost forever. |
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The final album of the trilogy, ''[[Anti-Meridian]]'', chronicles the return of the crew of the U.S.S. ''Gloria'' in an escape pod called the ''Starling''. Lieutenant Hoerig saves the mission at the cost of his own life. The rest of the crew returns to Earth in one of the ''Starling''{{'}}s escape pods. Several of the songs deal with the crew's thoughts and remembrances in the aftermath of their safe return. |
The final album of the trilogy, ''[[Anti-Meridian (album)|Anti-Meridian]]'', chronicles the return of the crew of the U.S.S. ''Gloria'' in an escape pod called the ''Starling''. Lieutenant Hoerig saves the mission at the cost of his own life. The rest of the crew returns to Earth in one of the ''Starling''{{'}}s escape pods. Several of the songs deal with the crew's thoughts and remembrances in the aftermath of their safe return. |
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''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' uses the loss and subsequent rescue of the crew metaphorically touching on themes of [[death]], [[resurrection]], [[Redemption (theology)|redemption]], and [[self-sacrifice]] drawn from secular, mythological, and [[Christianity|Christian]] sources. |
''Saturn 5 Trilogy'' uses the loss and subsequent rescue of the crew metaphorically touching on themes of [[death]], [[resurrection]], [[Redemption (theology)|redemption]], and [[self-sacrifice]] drawn from secular, mythological, and [[Christianity|Christian]] sources. |
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Brave Saint Saturn
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Origin | Denver, Colorado |
Genres | Astro-rock, Christian rock, progressive rock |
Years active | 1999–present |
Labels | 5 Minute Walk, Tooth & Nail, Department of Biophysics |
Members | Reese Roper Keith Hoerig Dennis Culp Andrew Verdecchio |
Brave Saint Saturn (stylized as braveSaintSaturn, brave saint saturnorBS2)[1][2] is a Christian rock band formed in Denver, Colorado in 1999.[1] The band is a side-project of members of Five Iron Frenzy started by Reese Roper. The band calls their music style "astro-rock", although Roper has stated that this "doesn't mean anything".[3] The trilogy of albums are meant to artfully represent early life, adversity, and death.[4]
Before the band was signed, they were called Astronaut. As a result, "Astronaut Versions" of several early Brave Saint Saturn songs exist. The "Astronaut Version" of "Two-Twenty-Nine" is available on the compilation Manna 2 Go (fifty280 records). An otherwise unreleased Astronaut song, "Albatross," is also available on Green Manna (fifty280 records)[5]
Brave Saint Saturn often uses the vastness of space as a metaphor for loneliness and isolation. With this in mind, the band used NASA recordings and electronic samples on their first two albums.[1] One of the biggest influences on the band's sound was the Electric Light Orchestra album Time.[3] Roper has said that because of this band he has tried to include more strings and orchestral sounds into the group's music.
Some reviewers consider Brave Saint Saturn as a generally more serious band than the often light-hearted Five Iron Frenzy. As the former leader of Five Iron Frenzy, Roper often found the band too straightforwardly fun for expressing feelings of loneliness and abandonment.[1] BS2 is the platform for the more depressed and sad lyrics which Roper has written.[2] When speaking of the band, Roper states that, "I've tried to show the redemption and peace of God through tragic things. I think overall the lyrics are about … hope."[1]
The third of the Saturn 5 Trilogy,[6] Anti-Meridian, was released on September 15, 2008. The physical album is only available through the band's website store, but digital copies were made available at various online stores for digital distribution.
"The future of Brave Saint Saturn kind of hinges on how well this record does... I think that all of us would rather start new projects if this one is done for."
—Reese Roper on the bands' future in 2009.[4]
Roper has stated that the band originally planned to make a story arc that would go across three albums, but the band is in talks to create more music in the future beyond their first three albums.[3] There are plans for an album of b-sides, rarities, and redone songs titled Add-Infinitum.[7]
Brave Saint Saturn published their first three albums as the Saturn 5 Trilogy.
Saturn 5 Trilogy tells the story of a fictional NASA Saturn 5 Mission, where the crew of the spacecraft Gloria is sent to map the rings of Saturn. While in orbit around Saturn's moon, Titan, the Gloria suffers a crippling disaster that leaves the craft stranded in geosynchronous orbit on the dark side of the moon. The crew is cut off from radio contact with Earth and the light of the sun, and both the crew and their families fear they are lost forever.
The final album of the trilogy, Anti-Meridian, chronicles the return of the crew of the U.S.S. Gloria in an escape pod called the Starling. Lieutenant Hoerig saves the mission at the cost of his own life. The rest of the crew returns to Earth in one of the Starling's escape pods. Several of the songs deal with the crew's thoughts and remembrances in the aftermath of their safe return.
Saturn 5 Trilogy uses the loss and subsequent rescue of the crew metaphorically touching on themes of death, resurrection, redemption, and self-sacrifice drawn from secular, mythological, and Christian sources.
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2000 | So Far from Home | 5 Minute Walk |
2003 | The Light of Things Hoped For | Tooth & Nail |
2008 | Anti-Meridian | Department of Biophysics |
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