Lifted by the passion and energy of 13,000 worshippers, Darlene Zschech and the worship team of Hillsong Church have created Hillsong LIVE: Saviour King, which will be released to Canadian Christian retail on August 7th.

Saviour King was recorded this spring live at Acer Arena, the largest indoor stadium in Hillsong’s hometown of Sydney, Australia. It’s the 16th offering of new live worship music from one of the most influential and innovative worship groups in the world. When it was first released earlier this month in Australia, Saviour King debuted at #6 on the Australian album charts.

Every Hillsong live praise and worship CD relies on powerful new worship songs and the expression of devotion to God shared by the live worshippers attending the recording. Saviour King is no exception, according to Zschech.

“On the night of the recording our church united as one to worship and give thanks to God. The atmosphere was truly electric as the sound of thousands of worshippers reverberated throughout the auditorium,” Zschech said. “These are real people with real lives, some of who are facing real struggles, taking time out to give expression to the faithfulness of their God. The album is meant to give encouragement not just to the worshippers here in Australia but throughout the whole world; to help express their love towards God.”

The whole Hillsong worship team contributed to Saviour King, with songs written by Zschech, Reuben Morgan, Marty Sampson, Joel Houston, Mia Fieldes, Brooke Fraser, Miriam Webster, Matt Crocker, Dylan Thomas, Paul Andrew, Ben Fielding, Ray Badham and Scott Ligertwood.

“The songs you hear have been crafted by a beautiful team, poured over and wrestled with, to see them become all we know they can be, but the true test of ANY song, whether musically profound or incredibly simple in its content, is always the church, as they decide which songs help them to express what is pounding in their hearts to say,” said Zschech. “The CD’s title track Saviour King has already become an anthem at Hillsong Church.

In addition to the live CD release, Integrity Music will release companion products including CD Trax, CD-ROM Songbook, print songbook and a DVD of the live worship event.

The release of Hillsong LIVE: Saviour King follows the successful release of Hillsong United’s All of the Above. With that CD, Hillsong United scored its first #1 album in the U.S. by landing atop the Billboard Top Christian/Gospel Albums chart and has remained #1 on Canada’s Top 50 retail music sales chart for the past three months.

Find out more about Hillsong LIVE: Saviour King at Hillsong’s YMZ artist page.

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