Rend Collective Has Nothing Left to Prove

After 15 years on the road, Rend Collective sounds lighter. Not louder or flashier—just lighter. Like a band that’s finally shrugged off the need to prove anything.The Northern Irish group that brought worship banjos to arenas and made praise songs feel like campfire anthems has grown up a bit. They’ve seen the inside of tour buses and hospital rooms, radio charts and family chaos. Somewhere along the way, frontman Chris Llewellyn says, they stopped worrying about what everyone else wanted from