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Katholicus (pronounced Ka-THO-li-cus) provides a high-energy guitar-dominated Christian power rock sound of both rock-praise music and music to edify and motivate. The music features a commercially oriented sound, straight-forward Christian lyrics, catchy power-pop rock melodies, and excellent rock guitar work with lots of power chords and double leads.

The style? Some call it melodic hard rock. Others may think our sound and style are similar to the big arena rock bands of the 80s. In other words, lots of over-driven power guitar chords, exciting guitar solos and double leads, and catchy power-pop melodies.

Katholicus is Adam Miller and friends. The lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter for Katholicus, Adam Miller, was formerly the lead guitarist and song writer for numerous unsigned bands including: Iron Cross, Wanted, Atom, Wysh, Both Worlds, Shockwave, RPM (Rock Praise Ministry), and now Katholicus (2005-). Miller studied guitar formally (both classical and jazz-fusion) for five years. In the past he has recorded in a number of studios along the East Coast, and has toured from the Atlantic to the Rockies.

Miller has been influenced by such guitar greats as Phil Keaggy, Michael Schenker (Scorpions, UFO), Uli Jon Roth, Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow), Vinnie Moore, and Steve Morse (Dixie Dregs, Steve Morse Band, Kansas), but his music sounds like none of them. It is in his guitar solos where you can hear such influences. He also has been told that in some of his songs his guitar solos sound like those of Stratovarius guitarist, Timmi Tolkki. In the solos of other songs you can hear the influence of the other guitarists mentioned. This means that those who may not be inclined to listen to the Christian rock genre, but appreciate these and other guitar greats, will also enjoy the music of Katholicus.

Miller used to jam with former Danzig lead guitarist, John Christ, when they were teenagers in the late seventies and early eighties. Says Miller, "Yes, I taught John Christ a few guitar riffs. He is younger than I, and back then looked up to me as a guitarist." Also in the early 80s, at a music festival at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., Miller's band Wysh once opened for Derek St. Holmes, former lead singer for Ted Nugent.

Miller’s hard rock group of the 1980’s, Shockwave, was offered an opportunity to sign by a Geffen Records A & R rep back in 1987, but they turned it down. Says Adam, "We would have been 'raped,' both financially and of our honor, had we accepted and submitted to their conditions… We decided to keep our integrity and our souls."

Miller and Shockwave appeared on Manhatten cable's popular "Citi-Rock" program back in 1988 and also were interviewed and had their music featured on the "Sagamore Satellite Music Program," the very first such program with world-wide audience potential before the internet. Miller appeared with Shockwave on the 1987 "Beast From the East" compilation album along with such nationally known groups as Child's Play and Wrathchild. Miller has written hundreds of songs and has recorded more than seventy of them in various studios along the East Coast.

Miller's friends, Bart Stern, Justus and Rachel Miller, and Morgan Koerner, all help in different ways to make Katholicus what it is today.

Songs of Katholicus have appeared (or will appear) on the following compilations CDs:

Catholic Music 2007 (Spirit Wing Records)
Rocking Romans (May, 200
Celebrate Radio's Faith Rocks III (2008 soon-to-be-released)
Ghetto Grove Records Christian Compilation (200
Glory Rock, Vol. 1 & 2 (Versailles Records; Fall, 200

The songs of Katholicus have found regular airplay on the following radio stations:
Catholic Jukebox.com,
Catholic Music 24/7 (The Pulse),
Celebrate Radio,
Christian Indy Radio
Christian Mix INet,
Iggy Rock's Online Radio
Pelican Radio (FL),
Praise Radio,
Rule Radio (NC),
Solid Rock Radio (SC),
The Spirit Radio,
WWOW (Ohio).

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