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Surrender
Theory

Christian psych rock for the broken and recovering.

Surrender Theory.
Music for the rest of us.

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Latest single · 2026

The First Degree

This song is about pushing boulders up hills. Have you ever felt like the harder you try to do something, the harder it gets and the worse off you are?

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About the artist

Hey, I’m Scott

I’m the musician behind Surrender Theory. I started this out of a lifelong love of great music and a need to make sense of my own story, in the hope it might help someone with a similar one. I’m grateful every day that God carried me through addiction and the hurt and regret that comes with it. Even so, I'm still a bit of a misfit, and I’ve never quite related to standard faith-based music or culture. So I make the kind of music I always wanted to hear. It’s evocative, hard hitting, a little strange, and made for people who’d normally never give faith-based music a chance. I call it Christian psych rock. If any of this sounds like you, you’re not alone, and you’re in the right place.

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