福音音乐团体Casting Crowns最初是一批在佛罗里达州的Daytona Beach的学生于1999年组建的。由歌手、词曲作者、青年牧师Mark Hall创建，最初的团队中包括弹奏者Juan ?DeVevo 和Hector Cervantes 和小提琴手Melodee DeVevo。然后就是发展发展发展 乐队的第一张专辑貌似不是很成功，只在billboard hot 200专辑榜中排到198名，但是他们的第二张专辑，这一张专辑的上一张，[Lifesong]一下窜红，首周进榜就空降hot 200 No.9 (不错的成绩了，top 10)。更为他们带来了一座最佳流行/当代福音音乐组合的grammy奖 The Midas touch continues. There may be an eventual misstep in the best-selling worship group's career -- they always come at some point -- but this surely isn't it. Rather, Peace on Earth is another victorious achievement. It boasts the same mass appeal of the group's three previous studio albums. Few fans of contemporary worship music are strangers to the Casting Crowns sound. Now putting that stamp on a holiday album, lead singer Mark Hall didn't have to reach very far to find a worship theme among the vast Christian holiday songbook. In fact, given Casting Crowns' immense popularity, it seems they could have laid down ten songs at random and probably created another gold record. But give credit to Hall and his impressive supporting cast for handpicking a cohesive set of songs that brings out the worship aspect of the holidays. Highlights include the original version of "While You Were Sleeping," which Hall first penned as a holiday song, and a sensational instrumental arrangement of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" that shows off Melodee DeVevo's sensational violin playing.