Critical Mass wins Best Rock Album Honours at the Canadian Gospel Music Association Covenant Awards

Oct 22nd, 2005. Toronto - Critical Mass received Best Rock Album of the Year honours for their third release, Grasping for Hope in the Darkness, at the 27th annual Canadian Gospel Music Association Covenant Awards, which took place October 22nd in Toronto, Ontario.  This is the second award for the band, which won in the same category in 2000 for their album, Completely.   The song, Carry on Wayward Son, a cover of the classic Kansas tune, was also nominated for Best Rock Song.

"This is an incredible honour", says David Wang, the lead singer for Critical Mass, "The Canadian Christian music scene has been improving in leaps and bounds over the past 5 years and the quality of the nominees this year were better than I have ever seen".  As a testament to that fact, artists that have received significant secular attention- Paul Brandt, Reliant K, Carolyn Arends and Thousand Foot Krutch- were also winners at this prestigious event, with Canadian icon Tommy Hunter receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Grasping for Hope in the Darkness is a modern rock concept album tracing a man's journey from darkness back to redemption.  Produced by Gemini and Juno nominated producer, Andrew Horrocks, this album is ground breaking in the manner in which it combines a storyline along with its lyrical content.  A comic book for the album can be downloaded from the band website at www.CatholicRock.com.

Critical Mass is made up of band members Luke Kupczyk on guitars, Lawrence Lam on keyboards, Scott McKendrick on bass, Tracey Doyle on percussion, Paul Kieffer on drums, Harvey Armoogan on the mixing console and David Wang on vocals.

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