TBGB Pick of the Week: August 26, 2008

“Stomp”
Shekinah Glory Ministry
From the 2008 Kingdom Records CD Jesus
www.kingdomrecordsinc.com

Warrior worshippers stomping metaphorically on the Devil’s head and feet.

That’s what Shekinah Glory Ministry’s “Stomp” is about, at least at first blush. An incessant thumping rhythm prodded by a bouncy, wordless call to battle offers an aural image of legions marching forward in lockstep, taking turns tenderizing the red hued, horned and pitchfork wielding guy’s extremities right out of circulation.

Or so it seems. By the end of the seven-minute “Stomp,” however, you realize that the song is not just a metaphor but a real call for direct social action. It means stomping on the lower-case devils who drag communities down. Drug dealers, gangbangers, substance abusers, the government. Thus, when the leader sings “Take It Back,” he is commanding the metronomic marching warrior worshippers to reclaim the soul of their neighborhoods, schools, communities and homes.