{"id":2098258,"date":"2025-10-17T18:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2098258"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:06:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:06:51","slug":"nate-parrish-expands-punk-musics-horizons-on-new-album-make-me-a-mountain-tcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/nate-parrish-expands-punk-musics-horizons-on-new-album-make-me-a-mountain-tcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Parrish Expands Punk Music\u2019s Horizons On New Album &#8216;Make Me A Mountain&#8217; &#8211; TCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Independent punk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thechristianbeat.org\/nate-parrish-thats-just-life\/\">Nate Parrish<\/a> is expanding the horizons of the punk genre with Make Me A Mountain, his third full-length studio album. The project is streaming now, and can be found on all major platforms at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nateparrish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.nateparrish.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1760796247659000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0UvEYgI7WIJGVTh3X-zISB\">nateparrish.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For this third solo venture, Nate continued to helm writing, vocals and most instruments, but he turned to Josiah Prince (Disciple) for production support, Darren King for mixing and Sam Moses for mastering. With a studio team best known for diverse hard rock production, Make Me A Mountain expands the borders of the sound Parrish previously established on his sleeper hits I\u2019m A Wreck (2020) and Soul Surgery (2022). At the same time, the project is conceptually coherent.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhile this is not a concept album, it definitely has a consistent theme running throughout, and it even has a recurring melody that you\u2019ll hear in several songs, sort of like a movie soundtrack,\u201d Nate Parrish explains. \u201cWhen I was growing up, my friends used to call my dad \u2018Smokey Mountain\u2019 because he was a big guy with long white hair and a white beard. I wanted to be like him. He was strong, seemingly immovable, reliable and a safe place to hide: everything I think a father should be. Although my dad was rough around the edges and not a regular church attender, he really exemplified the character of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" id=\"embedPlayer\" style=\"border: 0px; border-radius: 12px; width: 100%; height: 450px; max-width: 660px;\" title=\"Media player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/embed.music.apple.com\/us\/album\/make-me-a-mountain\/1836474756?itscg=30200&amp;itsct=music_box_player&amp;ls=1&amp;app=music&amp;mttnsubad=1836474756&amp;theme=auto\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Having a safe place to return to when the world shakes feels timely on a global level. But even in the months immediately leading up to the record\u2019s release, it took on new meaning for Parrish personally.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He says, \u201cAs I was getting everything finalized for the release, I was laid off from my position as Pastor\/Creative Director\/Worship leader at the church my wife and I had served for the past 9 years. It\u2019s been one of the most painful and confusing times of my life. I find myself listening back to songs like \u2018Small\u2019 and realizing that I wrote that song for future Nate. I had an \u2018aha\u2019 moment when I posted about this situation, and my friend Joyce Carlsen quoted my lyrics back to me:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cIt\u2019s like I\u2019m walking on a tightrope<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>If I look down, if I let go will I be captured by the sky?<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I need a new dream \u2019cause I can\u2019t sleep<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I need Your eyes \u2019cause I can\u2019t see why I still need to try (need to try).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">These songs are laying the foundation for a new dream, for whatever lies ahead. And they\u2019re doing so with more verve and eclecticism than ever before: the artist\u2019s list of musical elements encompasses hip-hop, strings, robotic synthesized voices, piano and spoken word. Listeners can expect all the crackling, electric punk realness they\u2019ve come to expect from Nate Parrish, but with an even wider breadth of sonic palette. To complete the experience, Parrish pulls in pop punk legend Jason Dunn (Hawk Nelson) for a feature on \u201cUnder the Weather\u201d and Josh Kemble (Dogwood) for \u201cPendulum People.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The album releases as the single \u201cThat\u2019s Just Life\u201d enters CMW\u2019s Christian Rock Charts strong, proving a strong follow-up to the top-5 charting success \u201cSmall\u201d achieved. Nate Parrish also just wrapped a stint in Germany, closing several full-band shows as Nate Parrish and The Wreck at a sold-out Loud and Proud Festival.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Even as his audience and influence grows, his do-it-yourself musical pluck and commitment to speaking truth to power remain \u2014\u00a0rooted deep in an eternal hope that a song is always more than just a melody and some lyrics.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt sounds very School of Rock, but I truly believe in my bones that one great show, one great song, one beautiful piece of art can build bridges where nothing else can,\u201d Nate Parrish concludes. \u201cI can\u2019t remember what I had for breakfast, but I remember when I first heard my favorite band. I remember my first concert. Creating is all I\u2019ve ever wanted to do, it\u2019s risky, it\u2019s difficult, it requires vulnerability, it\u2019s not lucrative, but it\u2019s who I am. It\u2019s why I\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.thechristianbeat.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent punk singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nate Parrish is expanding the horizons of the punk genre with Make Me A Mountain, his third full-length studio album. The project is streaming now, and can be found on all major platforms at nateparrish.com. For this third solo venture, Nate continued to helm writing, vocals and most instruments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2098259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2098258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Nate-Parrish-Expands-Punk-Musics-Horizons-On-New-Album-Make.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2098258"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2098260,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2098258\/revisions\/2098260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2098259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2098258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2098258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2098258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}