‘Outsing The Angels’ — Cory Asbury Releases Comeback Album

After five years away from the Church and worship ministry, Cory Asbury returns with Outsing The Angels, a deeply personal 15 track studio album shaped by questions, uncertainty, healing and a renewed desire to worship.

The new project arrives after a season when Asbury was not even sure he had another record in him. Rather than forcing his way back into music, he took time away and wrestled with questions about his calling, his faith and the direction of his life.

Now, that long season has produced a new sound and a renewed sense of purpose. Outsing The Angels captures Asbury returning to worship with fresh wonder and a willingness to embrace the kind of wholehearted praise that first shaped his musical journey.

The album does not simply mark the return of a familiar voice. It reflects the story of an artist who stepped away, questioned what came next and eventually found his way back with a deeper appreciation for worship.

For Asbury, the title itself carries a bold idea. It challenges believers to worship with such freedom and passion that their praise becomes an expression of childlike wonder rather than careful performance.

“Outsing the Angels is a call to outlandish, unruly worship,” shares Cory Asbury. “It’s the childlike, almost foolish notion that we, mere mortals, could somehow contend with the very beings created for the sole purpose of worship. Honestly, it’s preposterous. But it’s a reminder that we were once young and wild and full of life and passion, before the mundaneness of the everyday dulled our love for Him. Let’s choose again to sing like nothing ever hurt us. To laugh in wonder like the moon is chasing us.”

That statement captures the emotional centre of the album. Asbury is not simply asking listeners to sing louder. He is calling them to recover something that can become difficult to hold on to as life grows more complicated.

The everyday routine can make faith feel ordinary. Pain can make worship harder. Disappointment can quiet the excitement that once came naturally. Yet Outsing The Angels responds to that reality by encouraging listeners to rediscover wonder.

The album carries the sense of someone choosing to worship again after experiencing enough life to have reasons not to.

That makes the project particularly significant for Asbury, whose career has been closely connected to modern Christian worship. He became widely known through the triple Platinum hit “Reckless Love,” a song that reached listeners far beyond traditional church spaces.

For more than five years, however, Asbury stepped away from the Church and worship ministry. During that period, he questioned whether he would ever return to making another record.

That uncertainty forms an important part of the story behind Outsing The Angels. The album emerged on the other side of that difficult season, carrying with it a renewed calling and a fresh willingness to worship without reservation.

Instead of pretending that the years away never happened, Asbury allows the experience to inform the music. His return feels less like a simple comeback and more like a personal rediscovery.

“This album is for the ones done playing it safe, who break the jar and pour out everything like Mary at His feet, who’d rather be labeled wasteful than careful,” Asbury continues. “Lungs burning, voice breaking, nothing held back.”

That imagery of breaking the jar and pouring everything out adds another layer to the album’s message. It points to the biblical picture of Mary giving Jesus an extravagant offering without worrying about how others might judge her.

For Asbury, that becomes a picture of worship without restraint. It is about choosing devotion over appearance and surrender over caution.

The phrase “Lungs burning, voice breaking, nothing held back” also captures the physical and emotional intensity he wants the project to carry. Worship, in this vision, is not simply something performed neatly. It is something that comes from the deepest part of a person.

That approach gives Outsing The Angels a strong sense of vulnerability. The album comes from an artist who has experienced seasons of uncertainty but has chosen to return with his heart open.

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Asbury’s story with music began in church when he was 14. By the age of 21, he had become a full time performer, building the foundation for a career that would eventually place him among the most recognized voices in contemporary Christian music.

His breakthrough came with the 2018 album Reckless Love. The project topped the Billboard Christian Albums chart and earned Asbury two Dove Awards as well as a GRAMMY nomination.

The title track became an even bigger milestone. “Reckless Love” spent 18 weeks at No. 1 and earned recognition from Billboard, ASCAP and BMI as Christian Song of the Year.

The song later received triple Platinum certification from the RIAA, establishing it as one of the defining Christian songs of its era and cementing Asbury’s place within contemporary worship music.

In 2019, he followed the success of Reckless Love with To Love A Fool. The album included “The Father’s House,” another major song in his catalogue that has since earned Gold certification from the RIAA.

However, Asbury’s musical journey did not remain in one place. After relocating to Tennessee with his family, he began exploring a different musical direction and incorporated traditional country influences into his work.

That evolution became more visible with the release of Pioneer in 2023. The project represented another chapter in his creative journey and featured songs including “My Inheritance,” “Misunderstood” and “These Are The Days.”

The move into new musical territory showed an artist willing to explore beyond familiar expectations. Now, Outsing The Angels brings another kind of evolution, one shaped less by genre and more by personal experience.

The album represents a return to worship, but it is not a return to the exact place where Asbury began. The years away have changed his perspective, and that experience gives the new music a different emotional weight.

There is also a sense of freedom in the project’s message. Asbury is encouraging listeners to let go of the pressure to make worship look perfect.

Instead, he points toward something more honest. He invites people to worship with the joy, passion and wonder they may have carried when their faith first felt new.

That message can resonate with anyone who has experienced a season of spiritual distance. It speaks to people who once felt passionate but became tired, people who have wrestled with disappointment and people who are trying to rediscover the joy they once had.

In that way, Outsing The Angels becomes more than a personal record. It becomes an invitation.

The album asks listeners to consider what might happen if they stopped worrying about appearing composed and simply returned to wholehearted worship.

Asbury’s own journey gives that invitation credibility. He is not speaking from a place of pretending that every season has been easy. He is speaking after years of uncertainty and distance.

His return also carries a message about renewal. A calling can become difficult to understand, and passion can become difficult to maintain. Yet seasons of uncertainty do not always have the final word.

For Asbury, the road eventually led back to music and worship.

This new chapter will also extend beyond the album through live performances. This fall, Asbury is scheduled to perform at Magnolia’s Silobration in Waco, Texas, alongside Mt. Joy, The Fray and Dylan Gossett.

Asbury will take the stage on Sunday, October 25, bringing the new music and its message of renewed worship to a live audience.

For an artist whose recent journey has been defined by stepping away and finding his way back, the live stage represents another meaningful part of the story.

Outsing The Angels arrives, therefore, not simply as another album in Cory Asbury’s catalogue. It stands as a reflection of a long and complicated season that ultimately brought him back to a place of worship.

The record carries the sound of renewed wonder, but it also carries the weight of experience. It celebrates the freedom to worship while acknowledging that life can sometimes make that freedom difficult to find.

Asbury now chooses to sing again with that reality in view.

He is inviting listeners to become young and wild again in their faith, to recover the joy that everyday life can dull and to worship with enough freedom to look foolish in the eyes of others.

That is the heart of Outsing The Angels.

It is a call to stop playing it safe, break open what has been held back and pour everything out in worship.

For Cory Asbury, the return is not about recreating the past. It is about stepping into a new season with greater honesty, deeper wonder and a renewed willingness to give everything he has.

Asbury and his wife live in Tennessee with their five children, where this latest chapter of his musical and personal journey continues to unfold.

After five years of uncertainty, Outsing The Angels makes one thing clear. Cory Asbury is singing again, and this time, he is inviting listeners to sing with nothing held back.