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EliasReign.

A worship songwriter making records that don't pretend to be anywhere but where they are. The new album, STAY, is out now.

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“Every song is just a prayer wrapped in melody. Where words run out, worship begins.”

/// The new record, by the numbers

14.tracks · one calendar year, January to December
46:56.minutes · soul-rooted worship, folk and gospel

/// The room you came here for

STAY.

STAY is Elias Reign's most ambitious record — a concept album about a man who keeps performing a faith that no longer feels his own. Wes Bennett is a fictional worship songwriter who wrote a stadium-filling hit called "Unshaken." Over the course of one calendar year, January to December, he watches the certainty inside the song slowly come undone — while continuing to sing it to crowds who have no idea.

The album is bookended by two spoken meditations from Elias Reign himself, framing the record as fiction while honouring the moments most of us have walked through in pieces — the Sunday morning where the song meant less than it used to, the week in April where the bridge wouldn't come, the 3 a.m. where the blanket was the only honest thing in the room.

Sonically rooted in soul-leaning worship — warm Rhodes, gospel choir, intimate close-mic — STAY stretches across cinematic ballads, gospel celebration, ancient hymn arrangements, and a sub-60-BPM 3 a.m. centrepiece. The opening track "The Hit" and the closing track "Stay" share the same chord progression. Same notes. Different words. Different man.

A record for anyone walking through their own quiet year.

/// The year, in 14 scenes — tap a month

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

January

The Hit

Wes on stage singing his stadium hit — smiling, swallowing a stone.

2 · 3:49

Open track
01 / 12

/// Tap a track for the opening lines

/// The trick of the record

№ 02 · January

The Hit.

December · № 13

Stay.

Same chord progression. Same notes. Different words. Different man.

Wes on stage singing his stadium hit — smiling, swallowing a stone.

December. The closer. The same melody as Track 2 — different words, different man.

/// Press play

The whole record, in 46:56.

STAY is best heard front-to-back, headphones on, no skips. The opening track and the closing track share the same chord progression — the year between them is the album.

/// The body of work

Records.

Eight to date. From the first single to the concept album that broke him open.

STAY cover
202614 tracks

STAY

A story album. The year Wes Bennett almost left.

Glass Between Heaven cover
2025

Glass Between Heaven

Single — ethereal, transcendent worship.

Alive in You cover
2025

Alive in You

Single — vibrant praise.

Heaven Touches Earth cover
202512 tracks

Heaven Touches Earth

A nativity journey in twelve cinematic songs.

Stand in the Fire cover
202510 tracks

Stand in the Fire

Bold, anthemic, passionate.

The Prodigal Road cover
202512 tracks

The Prodigal Road

Reflective, journey, redemption.

Where the Light Begins cover
202412 tracks

Where the Light Begins

Modern worship — hopeful, dawn-light, congregational.

Christmas cover
2024

Christmas

Warm, traditional, Christmas.

/// Featured visual

Alive in You.

Alive in You — Official Music Video

Alive in You — Official Music Video

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/// On the man

He grew up beside his mother's piano. His father — a carpenter and church deacon — passed away early. His grandfather read Psalms by oil lamp. He'd hide a notebook of song lines under his pillow.

His music blends modern worship with Southern gospel, folk, and the kind of soul that sits at the piano late at night. Songs about prodigal roads, broken hallelujahs, and the grace that meets us wherever we are.

The longer story
Elias with guitar

↑ Back porch, spring 2026

/// Elias Reign · MMXXVI · All songs, all years

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