JSP Releases 'No More' A Declarative Rock Banger Featuring Disciple's Kevin Young
Australian husband and wife rock duo JSP have released “No More (feat Kevin Young),” their third single in the lead-up to their November debut album. The single is streaming everywhere now. The music video will premiere on the band’s YouTube channel on Saturday, October 11 at 6 PM (U.S. Central Time).
The song is a nu-metal-flavored banger that sees the hard rock outfit kicking their sound up a notch with the help of producer Josiah Prince (Disciple) and a vocal feature from Kevin Young (Disciple). The musical intensity marries with the song’s core message of defiance.
“I wrote the chorus to No More nearly 20 years ago,” explains guitarist James Petterson. “In those times, I was questioning myself and the circumstances that I was facing.”
Two decades of hurt and healing later, James was at the piano playing a new riff as a verse took shape. He realized it fit perfectly with that long-ago chorus. He and his wife and vocalist Sarah Petterson would finish writing “No More,” a complete song coming together quickly after decades of waiting.
James says, “This was very symbolic. It was as though the puzzle and the parts of me from over the years, from the place of hurt to the place of healing, had come together to become this song that encapsulates the journey Sarah and I had been on and summed it up in two words: ‘No More.’”
The way these words felt like a sacred summary made it easy to choose this song as the album’s title track. At its core, the song is about refusing to believe the lies of shame, distorted identity, fear, and distraction.
“These lies we believed were the result of the hurt and pain we had walked through… You believe that those things that happened to you were your fault. And because of that you must not be good enough for God, because if you were, it wouldn’t have happened,” James says, expanding on the throughline of this track and the album as a whole.
He continues, “No more is a break-up song with Satan’s lies. It's an emphatic cry from the heart based on James 4:7: ‘Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.’ After living with these lies for so long and believing them, this song is redemption.”
After sharing the demo of the song with Josiah during the pre-production phase, they mentioned in passing how strong the song couple would be with Kevin Young’s vocals. To their surprise, Josiah took them seriously, pitching the feature to Kevin. He was instantly on board, offering a nu-metal flavor that lends texture and dynamism to an already explosive track. The result sets the stage perfectly for the full-length album to come.
The couple sums it up this way, for anyone who needs to hear it:
“No More will we live with guilt and shame.
No More will we believe the lies that we are not good enough for God or that he cannot use us.
No More will we be defined by our past and what happened.
No More will we be distracted and taken away from what God has called us to do.
No More will we be silent.”
