Christian Metal

The Retro Twelve – Metal Hour

Sundays at 7:00PM Central

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There’s a unique kind of nostalgia in the Christian rock and pop songs of the late 80s, 90s, and early 2000s — a sound that instantly brings back youth‑group road trips, festival summers, late‑night radio, and the era when melody, message, and energy all collided. These songs weren’t just background noise; they shaped friendships, memories, and entire seasons of life. And for many listeners, they were part of a vibrant parallel universe to mainstream pop and rock — familiar in feel, but with its own artists, its own stories, and its own chart history.

The Retro Twelve brings those years back each week with a countdown built from the actual Christian pop, rock, metal, and rhythmic charts of the era. Each episode revisits a specific chart week, featuring the hits you remember, the songs you forgot you loved, and the deep‑cut gems that defined Christian music’s golden age. The show is clean, music‑first, and focused on rediscovery — no preaching, no filler, just the sound and spirit of the time.

It’s a fresh, nostalgia‑driven retro show — a look into a corner of pop culture that ran parallel to the charts that listeners already know. Familiar energy, familiar production, familiar era… just from a different lane. Whether you grew up with these songs or are discovering them for the first time, The Retro Twelve delivers a weekly hour that feels warm, energetic, and unmistakably retro — a specialty show that stands out without breaking format.


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We are an independent internet radio station created to spotlight the music that often falls outside the usual Nashville industry boxes. Our station blends familiar rock favorites, alternative classics, current tracks, independent artists, local bands, and unexpected songs that deserve to be heard. You may hear classic rock, modern rock, alternative, indie, folk-rock, Southern rock, pop-rock, punk, metal, acoustic-driven songs, local Nashville artists, and emerging independent acts. And every hour, we play an “out-of-the-box mystery song” that could be rock, could be metal, could be classic, could be pop, could be a deep-cut, could be a remix, could be a mashup, or could be a song you never heard or one you loved but forgot about. This is radio for listeners who still love discovery.

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