Barren Cross

On the cover

January 1986 Heaven's Metal

1987 Heaven's Metal

January 1994 Heaven's Metal

June 2008 Heaven's Metal

Media coverage

• Jan 1986 in Heaven's Metal "Metal For The King", by Doug Van Pelt
• Jul 1986 in Heaven's Metal "Concert Review: Barren Cross", by Doug Van Pelt
• 1986 in Heaven's Metal "Metal For The King", by Doug Van Pelt
• Oct 1986 in Pure Rock Newsletter "PURE ROCK NEWSLETTER: Barren Cross, Messiah Prophet, Saint"
• 1986 in Heaven's Metal "Barren Cross Ha s A Message For you"
• 1987 in Heaven's Metal "Concert Review: Barren Cross", by Doug Van Pelt
• Feb 1987 in Pure Rock Newsletter "PURE ROCK NEWSLETTER: BARREN CROSS prepares for upcoming battle", by Dan Milette
• 1987 in Heaven's Metal "Barren Cross", by Doug Van Pelt
• Oct 1987 in CCM "In Concert: Memorial Auditorium, Porterville, CA", by Darin Bunch
• 1987 in Heaven's Metal "Barren Cross", by Doug Van Pelt
• 1987 in Heaven's Metal "Metal Mardi Gras", by Doug Van Pelt
• Mar 1988 in Heaven's Metal "The Mighty Sound of Barren Cross", by Doug Van Pelt
• Mar 1988 in Heaven's Metal "Concert Review: Metal Heaven or Nothing", by Doug Van Pelt
• Apr 1988 in Heaven's Metal "On The Road With Barren Cross"
• Jul 1988 in Notebored "Barren Cross"
• 1988 in Zunrise "Los Angeles Metal: Barren Cross", by Eric Kristensson
• Sum 1989 in Harvest Rock Syndicate "Metal Shop: Full Volume Love On a Stage of Intensity", by Ernest P. Strange
• Aug 1989 in CCM "Still Rockin' For The King", by Bruce A. Brown
• Oct 1989 in Heaven's Metal "Tackling Issues With Barren Cross", by Marc Carpenter
• Dec 1989 in Heaven's Metal "Poster: Ray Parris (Barren Cross)"
• Dec 1990 in Heaven's Metal "The State of Intensity", by Doug Van Pelt, Beth Fadeland Whitaker
• May 1991 in Adonai Metal Roxx "Interview: L'un des géants du metal chrétien, prend un sacré virage"
• Jan 1994 in Heaven's Metal "Still Rockin' For The King", by Andrew Crump
• Jan 1995 in Heaven's Metal "Released and Ratting Cages", by Andrew Crump
• May 1995 in Heaven's Metal "Concert Review: Barren Cross", by Paul Doty
• Mar 2005 in Sangre Suficiente "El Desfile Del White Metal Biografías De Los 80: Barren Cross"
• Jun 2008 in Heaven's Metal "Barren Cross Is Back... Preaching Repentance", by Todd Walker
• Apr 2012 in HM "The Stage of Re:intensity", by Daniel Frick, Andreas Vosseler
• Jan 2014 in HM "Heaven's Metal: A Conversation with Michael Drive (Lee)", by Charlie Steffens

Albums & reviews:

Award Summary ^{(Nominations / Wins)}

• 1990 Dove Awards
  • Metal Album: State of Control 

Books about Barren Cross

• "0272 Barren Cross" in Headbangers: The Worldwide Mega-Book of Heavy Metal (Mark Hale, 1993).
• "Barren Cross" in The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music (Mark Allan Powell, 2002).