{"id":9111,"date":"2025-11-04T05:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9111"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:05:18","slug":"louder-than-the-music-rend-collective-releases-christmas-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=9111","title":{"rendered":"Louder Than The Music &#8211; Rend Collective Releases &#8216;Christmas In Belfast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"icon fa-newspaper-o\">Rend Collective Releases &#8216;Christmas In Belfast&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p><span class=\"date\" style=\"float:left; clear:left;\">Nov 02 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of Capitol Christian Music Group\u2019s top-performing Christmas music artist, Rend Collective announces the release of its highly-anticipated new holiday album today. On the project titled Christmas In Belfast, the platinum-selling worship band from Northern Ireland delivers a cozy collection of three intimate originals, plus five Irish-folk inspired versions of beloved seasonal classics. <br \/>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nChristmas In Belfast follows the notable success of the band\u2019s two previous Christmas album releases, Campfire Christmas, Vol 1 (2014) and A Jolly Irish Christmas, Vol 2 (2020), which included the fan-favorite, jovial original \u201cChristmas In Killarney.\u201d Both seasonal albums have tallied over 100 million combined streams to date.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want this album to feel like being in the neighborhood pub with your loved ones before heading off to Christmas Eve service,\u201d describes founding member Chris Llewelyn.<\/p>\n<p>In that vein, the \u201cChristmas in Belfast (Sl\u00e1inte!)\u201d title track is a festive Irish sing-along anthem for all, while the album also features tender originals \u201cThe Reason\u201d and \u201cRoom At The Inn\u201d (with singer-songwriter Chris Renzema), bringing listeners into a more intimate setting much like the night Jesus was born. The group adds its signature Celtic production to classics \u201cCarol Of The Bells\u201d and \u201cFeliz Navidad,\u201d and worshipful radio singles, \u201cMary Did You Know\u201d and \u201cA Christmas Hymn (to the tune of \u201cCome Thou Fount\u201d). The merry album experience wraps with the instrumental \u201cA Spontaneous Outburst of Joy,\u201d showcasing the group\u2019s spirited, communal modern worship sound.<\/p>\n<p>1 Christmas Hymn<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n2 The Reason<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n3 Christmas in Belfast<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n4 Mary did you know<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5 Room at the Inn<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n6 Carol of the Bells<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n7 Feliz Navidad<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n8 Spontaneous Outburst of Festive Joy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rend Collective Releases &#8216;Christmas In Belfast&#8217; Nov 02 2025 One of Capitol Christian Music Group\u2019s top-performing Christmas music artist, Rend Collective announces the release of its highly-anticipated new holiday album today. On the project titled Christmas In Belfast, the platinum-selling worship band from Northern Ireland delivers a cozy collection of three intimate originals, plus five<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[814,813,812,536,252,541,811],"class_list":{"0":"post-9111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-videos","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-christmas","10":"tag-collective","11":"tag-louder","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-releases","14":"tag-rend"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}