Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands was a Grammy Award -winning Christian rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian College in Grayson, Kentucky. During the band's 17-year existence, they were awarded two Grammy awards, multiple Dove Awards and they released 17 number one singles. They were regular performers at the annual Creation Festival, Spirit West Coast festival and Agape Musical Festival. Audio Adrenaline also performed at the Alive Festival every year up to their last performance in June 2006.

Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands, along with other Christian music acts like dc Talk and Newsboys Christian rock bands, helped fuel a revolution in the "alternative" Christian music genre. This was started by bands like Sincerely Paul, Under Midnight. Mortal, Circle of Dust and the indie labels Blonde Vinyl, Frontline/Mvx, Tooth & Nail and 5 Minute Walk.

Over the course of the band's career, several other Christian artists have been influenced by Audio Adrenaline. The interviews with these Christian rock bands are available at the Audio Adrenaline website. These Christian rock bands include MercyMe, Sanctus Real and Hawk Nelson Christian rock bands.

This Christian rock bands band was formed in 1986 under the name of A-180 by Mark Stuart, Barry Blair, Will McGinniss, David Stuart, and Phil Vaughan (As of 2007, Stuart and McGinniss are the only remaining original members.) The guys all attended Kentucky Christian (College) University. The next year, 1987 the band temporarily disbanned when Mark went to Haiti for a semester. Upon Mark's return to Kentucky, the band reformed with Ron Gibson on drums. Mark, Barry, and Will, along with Ron Gibson (drummer 1988 - 1991) and Mark's brother, David (keyboards and vocals), became a popular local band, booked by the school nearly every weekend; traveling as far west as Texas, north to Chicago, south to Florida and most points between. The band did over 100 shows during this time and recorded two independent releases under the name A-180. The first was "You Turn" in 1989 and "Reaper's Train" in 1990. Reaper's Train featured the original version of the song DC-10, also found on the first Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands release.

This Christian rock bands big break would come in the form of Bob Herdman. Bob went up to Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands (A-180 at the time) with two songs he had written, "My God" and "DC-10". After "My God" was recorded at Landmark Recording Studio (www.landmarkrecording.com);under the band name Herdman had created, "Audio Adrenaline"; it was sent to radio stations and scaled the charts quickly. ForeFront Records decided to offer a record deal to A-180 but had them change their name to Audio Adrenaline. The name "Audio Adrenaline" comes from an incident in which Bob Herdman had been listening to some rather loud and fast secular music, he was so enthralled by it that he apparently exclaimed "This is like... Audio Adrenaline!" while jumping wildly. Bob then joined the band as songwriter and sound man. Late in 1991, David Stuart left the band to focus more on his family. Ron Gibson left in December 1991 as Forefront Records was guiding the band into hip-hop and away from the band's rock roots.

Their first album under Forefront, the self-titled Audio Adrenaline, was released in 1992 and contained the only track from the original A-180 recordings. That being the song "DC-10". The follow-up album, Don’t Censor Me, came the next year and featured one of the biggest hit songs in Christian music history - "Big House". In 1996, their third album, bloom, was released. Bloom put Audio A back into its rock roots, which they continued with from then on. It marked guitarist Barry Blair's final album with the band, although Barry appeared on "Some Kind of Zombie". Barry became and is a successful music producer.

With Blair gone, Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands needed a new guitarist. They found a temporary fill in Brian McSweeney (Seven Day Jesus / Matthew) who decided to stay with his fulltime act. From there, they turned the guitars over to Tyler Burkum, who joined this Christian rock bands at only 17 years old, in time to record some guitars on the 1997 Some Kind of Zombie album. This was also the first album to feature Ben Cissell as the band's full-time drummer, though Cissell had played on percussion the record bloOm as well. In 1999, this Christian rock bands released Underdog, its fifth studio album.

Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands greeted the new millennium by releasing their first greatest hits compilation, Hit Parade, in 2001. In the winter of that same year, they released a new studio album, Lift, in the time between the releases of those two albums, Bob Herdman left this Christian rock bands to become president of a new record label, Flicker Records, which he founded along with Stuart and McGinniss. In 2003, this Christian rock bands released its ninth album, Worldwide. It was a more worship-based effort that emphasized their style of ministry and love of mission trips. The band's "Hands and Feet Project" and "The Go Show" tour also served to encourage missionary work. Worldwide, like Lift before it, wasn't as 'rocking' in the traditional sense as their previous efforts, mostly because of the focus on softer and more praise-oriented material. Worldwide went on to win a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2004 which would be the first of two Grammys for the band. In 2004, the band, along with former member Bob Herdman, founded a project in Haiti called the Hands and Feet Project, in which the band built an orphanage for children.

This Christian rock bands tenth album, Until My Heart Caves In, was released on August 30, 2005. It received a Grammy for Best Rock Gospel Album in 2006. "Clap Your Hands" was also played on ESPN with highlights of the football games.

Among Audio Adrenaline's Christian rock bands most notable performances are three of their most popular songs, "Big House", "Hands and Feet", and the live staple "We're A Band", as well as a duet with The O.C. Supertones, "Blitz", from the album Some Kind of Zombie.

On January 18, 2006, Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands announced that they were retiring from active music ministry. This Christian rock bands cited Mark Stuart’s "ongoing vocal challenges" stemming from vocal cord damage after years of performing as the primary factor.]On July 27, 2006, this Christian rock bands played at the popular Christian music festival Creation West for the last time. They had performed at Creation West every year since it began. On August 1, 2006, they released their final album, Adios, a farewell album containing two new tracks as well as the band's greatest hits. For their final national tour in February until April 2007, Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands opened for MercyMe on the "Coming Up To Breathe Tour". The band performed their last live concert on April 28, 2007, at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu, Hawaii, Their final project, which was released on August 28th, 2007, is a live CD/DVD combo entitled "Live From Hawaii: The Farewell Concert".

On March 21, 2008, Australian festival Easterfest announced that Audio Adrenaline Christian rock bands would be getting back together for a world exclusive concert at Easterfest '09 in Queens Park, Toowoomba.