Soul Asylum

Artist Ransom

Label Intense Records

Released 1992

Type Full-Length

5/5 (1 rating)

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Album Info

Ransom burst on to the Christian music scene in 1990 featuring the fiery female fronted vocals of Lisa Faxon, the amazing guitar work of Tony Ortiz and the beautiful bass sounds of Michael Preciado as the core members of Ransom. In a male dominated world of hard rock and metal bands, Lisa would rise above bringing the polished vocal sounds of Ransom to the forefront of the Christian rock world throughout the early 90's.
Releasing their self-titled debut album in 1991 on Intense Records the band was ready to take the Christian rock world by storm. Hot on the heels of this critically acclaimed release the band began working immediately on their sophomore follow up release. In 1992 the band would release "Soul Asylum" again receiving accolades and critical acclaim throughout the industry. Alas the turn of the hard rock and metal community was upon them with grunge starting to overturn the hard rock world in the early 90's and this would ultimately be the final release from Ransom.
Soul Asylum was a masterpiece of an album being produced by Lanny Cordola, who also played on several tracks and handled some of the writing duties, as well as a very special guest appearance from Oz Fox of Stryper. The original pressing of this album has been long out of print and tough to find for fans.