Josh Dies

Biography

Josh's music is most famously represented by the experimental art-punk band, Showbread. The band sold tens of thousands of records, appeared on the Billboard top 200 and the Billboard Top Heatseekers charts, and performed more than a thousand concerts across a dozen countries in a career spanning nearly two decades. Post-Showbread, Josh remains musically active in his dance-punk outfit The Bell Jar, an analog synth-pop project called Church of Agony, and the industrial duo Annihilationism. He is one of the primary contributors to the Van City Church music collective, End of Death. Josh is the creator and co-host of You Hate Movies, the podcast where casual movie goers, film lovers, and cinephiles argue about movies. Josh has a Masters in Biblical and Theological Studies (MaBTS). He is the pastor of teaching and creative vision at Van City Church in Vancouver, Washington. Josh is also an author and has written several books including Punk Rock Vs. The Lizard People, Death to Deconstruction: Reclaiming Faithfulness as an Act of Rebellion, With All Its Teeth: Sex, Violence, Profanity, and the Death of Christian Art, and others.