Discernment Media

I guess I’ve always been a little bit out there. I mean, I’m a dreamer right. I kind of think a lot and I’m not the best  conversationalist, unless it’s about the Lord. Man alive, I will hold a conversation about Yeshua probably until the sun comes up! 

Musical Instruments, I love them, I play a few different things on the album, well almost everything apart from the kit. I love creating music, once I get into a song it’s like a jigsaw puzzle to me, it’s such a blessing working out how and where the sounds should go. 

Lyrics, I find these the most difficult. On ‘Just before you go’ it was the music that came to me first and then I added the poetry. The living breathing word gave me the lyrics. They’re mainly about how the world has been trashed, the world in the church, it’s such a mess. Every one of the Ten Commandments have been dismantled, by the church and the world, there’s a kind of new narrative in town and it stinks! If you toe the line, your cool. I just can’t do that… man I need to protest, herald the gospel. That was my mission in all our music but particularly on ‘Just Before You Go!’ 

Admittedly, I love to change my style, but the Lord Yeshua inspired me, and helped me to put together something that bites a little bit. My early music adventures helped me get here. However, this new album Is so “right now” with all that’s happening in the world and the church. Man, alive this is really looking like the end of the age, it’s so dark out there.  You know, it’s like the gospel and Yeshua can still be preached, but to continue to do that may start costing more than some of us bargained for. Hey, but God bless the persecuted for Christ, the world is not worthy of them, full stop. 

I grew up in Essex, went to school in London, got an education from the sport of kings. However, my life did not start until I was rescued by the King of Kings! I love the God of Israel; how could I ever thank him enough. What a mighty, Saviour. I was a little bit naughty growing up, way to many sins to be counted, but that was before Christ reasoned with me from his word. I had to stop my love of sinning and get born again. 

The Lord has been and is so gracious toward me. Yes, music really helped me in school and growing up. Despite being afflicted with remedial teaching all the way through my early education.  Music was something that engaged me and gave me a focus.  My Family didn’t have much, it was all home-made clothes, food grown in the garden, chickens, goats that sort of life way down in deepest darkest Essex .  But it was the good life, happy days. My dad gave me my first instrument when I was 9. It was a white electric guitar and amp. It’s funny I would listen to Bowie, Bow Wow Wow, Lene Lovich, Madness and The Police. I would try and copy their sound.  I really liked that sort of sound, I still do. 

Mum and dad were in a band, and I used to watch them rehearse. They were just a couple of guitars and four awesome harmonists. I can still remember these lyrics, although it’s a bit sketchy “Goodbye everyone, goodbye Rosellita and he asked me omega and Jesus Maria… you won’t have no name when you ride the big aeroplane. All they will call you is deporte”. I was so young, but that song touched me somehow, it made me want to do something, shout about injustice, make a noise! I feel that way now. Personally, I think the church is way too quiet in this country for my liking. The times are tough, but the freedom to practice Christian faith according to the bible is being eroded, ground has been taken, preachers arrested. Governments are blatantly headed up by Satanists or freemasons and they regularly do business with nations that persecute Christians for their faith. They have the dragon’s agenda; they are trying to clear the path for the ultimate world government and antichrist. And it seems if a few Christians get taken out on the way its power for their cause. The press always stand back from the Christian plight. The mainstream media are in the hands of Satan they are his propaganda police patrol.  

Anyway, we hope you love latest album, please buy our songs as revenue goes to ‘Barnabas Fund’. And they just do the most amazing work. 

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Hi everyone/shalom,

Just to say... its lovely to share a little bit about myself, but why do we find it difficult when asked? I mean we talk about ourselves all the time, noise, noise, noise 24/7, everywhere we look our lives are saturated with the glorification of self and self-image. Constantly bombarded by the sound of our own voices and ego, we can't escape the ‘me, myself’ the ‘I.’ Just like Agent Smiths iconic lines from the Matrix film franchise, "Me, Me, Me… Me too. The best thing about being me... There are so many "me “s, Matrix Reloaded 2003.

Today the lines between fiction and reality are so blurred, we were never created to worship self but rather our creator, encountering Jesus is truly a life changing process. We tried to convey this transformation in a previous song: “like the sea at dawn you sway into my every day (and) in your holiness, I'm reborn", Sea at Dawn, 1995.  

Christ Jesus is present always in my heart because of the Holy Spirit, helping me to think outside of the box, to see past the ‘me’ or the ‘I’, beyond the here and the now. Reading the bible and gaining godly wisdom following years of spiritual darkness (living mostly within the sphere of self and my own worldview), has taught me the future is bright with Jesus! It’s not rocket science, I believe “…you got to open up your eyes child and see the sunset, this life will make you blind if you let it," Brushdance, 2008-10.

My parents were bible-believing loving and creative people, our home oozed inventiveness, my mum is an amazing seamstress, an intelligent, inspired person. Dad is now with the Lord, but he too was a talented, artistic and an imaginative individual. He initially trained as a stone mason in Jamacia, and they went on to achieve so many things in their lives. Vivid childhood memories of sitting on his knee learning how to draw people and afternoons spent making kites as a family make for treasured recollections.

On Sundays following church us kids would always invent plays, make costumes, dance, sing and listen to music. Jim Reeves and Gospel favourites could always be heard with a little bit of John Holt and Co. thrown into the mix. Mum and dads’ musical tastes were eclectic, and we were introduced to numerous musical genres, our parents are from Kingston Jamaica and so listening to music was a huge part of our lives. Being a large family meant we couldn’t afford musical instruments or lessons, so we had to listen and sing along.

A healthy diet of all types of reggae, including Jamaican and American gospel music by various artists was enjoyed, but the sacred and secular songs that resonate in my mind are: The Old rugged Cross and It Is No Secret What God Can Do - Jim Reeves (1958), Precious Lord - Mahalia Jackson (1956), I’ll take You There - The Staple Singers (1971), 54-46, Toots and the Maytals (1973), Real Gone guy - Nellie Lutcher (1947), Rockln’ Good Way - Brooke Benton and Dinah Washington (1971), Tenderly, Sarah Vaughan (1958), Smokestack Lightening - Howlin’ wolf, Muddy Waters (1956).

There are far too many songs, musicians, and friends to mention, to whom I owe gratitude for sharing with me their diverse musical gifts, knowledge, and appreciation of their abilities. Reggae gospel artists, and the likes of Reeves, Jackson, and The Staples all inspired me to sing gospel music. But the likes of Lutcher, Benton, Washington, and Vaughn secured my love of jazz singing and obviously Wolf and Waters blues. Though my musical and artistic education began at home, they lay dormant at school due to the limitations placed on creative subjects but then were developed privately as my personal journey expanded.

A significant breakthrough occurred over time following my meeting of dear friends Neil Suddes (RIP) and Graham Harding, creatively it was like going home. Neil owned an extraordinary collection of Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Funk and Rare Groove vinyl, and we spent hours with other friends simply absorbing and appreciating decent music. My favourite discoveries from this period are numerous but four resound: The Creator has a Master plan, Leon Thomas (1969), Norman Connors, and the Starship Orchestra (1977), Precious Memories, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1968) and, In my Father’s House (unknown). I was not a Christian at that point, but in retrospect I can see that God can use anything to speak into our lives, the question is, are we listening?

Creating things, came naturally to me and is a gift, for which I cannot take any credit, it’s a blessing, one that I have neglected in the past and not always taken seriously. The same can be said of the bible, its truths, guidance, and warnings, absent from our lives for many years until, both my husband and I had a clear calling in 1995. It was then that the Lord began to transform me, and in so doing the way I thought about him, life, others, the world and inevitably my creative gifts. I could see how God was using collectively our relationship with him, the bible, marriage, and our family to develop our gifts and a creative pathway.  

It’s hard, I know for our finite minds to imagine that the bible is the remedy to all humanities problems, especially at a time when ‘we all want to be in charge.’ Though, it must be said the best advice I’ve encountered to live my life by, are the words of truth found in the bible. Divinely inspired and written for our benefits to save, protect, comfort, heal, warn, and challenge and convict us, help to deliver the soul, and bless our sinful hearts. I had to learn this lesson the hard way as I rebelled as a child, consequently spending many years searching for that which was never hidden. But God is so good, he never gives-up on us even when we give up on him spectacularly.

So, ‘Just Before You Go’ as I worked on this mind-boggling project, I couldn't believe what I was reading, singing, and working on… God was allowing me to be a part of this ground-breaking album with a message and a mission. At first glance, I thought yes, the title has an urgency about it... But then bam! it just hits you, like an altogether divine intervention delivered with a musical prowess that surprised me. The content is a powerful testimony, an honest witness, a declaration of Gods truth, that further reinforces the albums need to be heard. Malachi’s lyrics purports the plight of the voiceless, we’re indeed reminded that the persecuted Christians are our brothers and sisters in Christ, as we join with them in Malachi’s prayer at the start of ‘Persecution’. We experience their pain and injustice but are reassured as Malachi heralds God’s condemnation of man’s inhumanity to man and journey on in the knowledge that Gods righteous justice for his people will prevail.

The persecution of our brothers and sisters are very dear to our hearts, and I was moved to tears on several occasions as the album evolved. ‘Just Before You Go’ took on a life of its own, and became a tour de force, an unforgettable diatribe that reaches far into our hardened listless hearts. Nudging at everything that is wrong with the existing majority worldview. The album speaks of what are fast becoming forbidden truths in a secularised world of no absolutes, increasingly no free speech, and endless pandemics. A desolate place for us Christians where preachers are arrested and sections the bible are now to be defined as hate speech. Hope in Christ is all but deleted and ‘resetting’ and ‘building-back better,’ slogans are presented instead as our only our hope?

The culmination of these rapid social, religious, and political shifts has and are causing us to spiral into a brave new world filled with chaos and fear, Christianity, the Church and what is stands for are now fragmented minority voice. The UK is rapidly becoming secularised the result of a subtle yet aggressive erosion of the Christian belief system and its values in recent years. A trend that has taken hold globally, a phenomenon which seeks to obliterate all that society and democracy was built upon, pushing instead for a radical collectivism and dare I say it, Marxist agenda. Sadly, as these global agendas emerge on the worlds stage, we are forced to wear the emperors-clothes and accept the majority narrative, but not so the Prophets of Doom. I loved the fact that it is these unwanted clothes that the album 'Just Before You Go' highlights, questions, removes and launders openly.

I believe the Prophets of Doom created an album that is gritty, real and to stick with the analogy of filthy clothes, ‘Just Before You Go' succeeds in presenting artistically several baskets of dirty laundry that is aired and washed in public. It’s a well-known fact that every few minutes a Christian somewhere is murdered for their belief and faith in Jesus. The album pushes back against this relentless tide of injustice against Christians and robustly champions the Christian faith and voice. ‘Persecution’ presents the persistent genocide and betrayal of Christians globally, shamefully fostered in the silence and inaction of the world’s governments. Unprecedented and diabolical crimes against humanity, for which the Nigerian, Chinese, North Korean, Iranian, Pakistani, other world governments and the UN need to be held to account. “We must continue to “Set the Trumpet to Our Lips!”

‘Ode to Israel’ like ‘Persecution’ challenges and confronts the so-called majority worldview and powers that be whilst warning and alerting its listeners to a God who is real, aware, all seeing, knowing and where nothing escapes his eternal gaze. Additionally, this plethora of in-ya-face home truths delivered by The Prophets of Doom serves to remind Christians and non-Christian’s alike, that one day we will each meet our maker. We will not get away with our sin or escape punishment, unless we put our trust in Jesus in the here and now, who died to take away the sins of the whole world. The message of ‘Just Before You Go’ speaks, shouts, and argues, loud and clear, time is of the essence and either blessing or judgement awaits us all, the looming choice is ours?

Friends, the bottom line: it’s not a popular choice these days to believe in the message of Jesus, sadly this is true even for some Christians. You see it’s just not fashionable or cool to read the bible or even believe that Gods word is absolute, as everything is relative…

BUT ‘Just Before You Go,’ ask yourself these questions:

"What if God is real, and the bible is his word and Jesus did in reality die for your sin to save you, what then?"

Despite humanity’s ignorance and rebellion against God, does it mean he ceases to exist?

Just because we reject and erase him from the present, invent our own palatable gods or try to usurp the gospel of grace, does it mean that we’re in charge or we won’t be held responsible?

The gospel of Grace… oh that sounds like a cue for a song or a song title, oh maybe it is.

You can read about Devorah (Deborah or Debora) in the Old Testament book of Judges chapters 4-5, she was a prophetess of the God of Israel, a judge and even a military leader in Israel.

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The Sea at Dawn – Darren and Rosemarie Thomas-Carr, 1995.

Brush Dance – Darren and Rosemarie Thomas Carr, 2008-10.

Old Rugged Cross – Jim Reeves?

It Is No Secret (What God Can Do) – Jim Reeves, 1958.

Precious Lord – Mahalia Jackson, 1956.

I’ll Take You There – The Staples, 1971.

54-46, Toots and the Maytals, 1973.

Real Gone Guy – Nellie Lutcher, 1947.

Rockin’ Good Way – Brooke Benton and Dinah Washington, 1960.

Tenderly, Sarah Vaughan, 1958.

Smokestack Lightening – Howlin’ wolf, 1956.

Smokestack Lightening – Muddy Waters, 1956.

The Creator has a Master plan (Peace), Leon Thomas (1969).

Norman Connors and the Starship Orchestra (1977).

Precious Memories, Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1968).

In my father’s house (unknown).

My name is Habakkuk and I play and record drums for Prophets of Doom.  I recorded 'Just Before You Go' in my home, approaching each track uniquely in terms of tuning and sound to suit the individual messages. The drums reflect the nature of the album as a canvas of related warnings that are expressed through lyrics and music, where each track makes its own contribution towards a call for repentance.

We play music to sound an alarm about the forgotten truths of the bible and the forgotten God of Israel, Jesus Christ. Christians are being persecuted across the world, the church has fallen away from the God it serves, and evil swamps our society. Each track in its own way acts as a sort of spiritual alarm clock shouting 'wake up'. We make music as a call for people to repent and be cleansed by the blood of the Lamb. Don't hit the snooze button.