“Angels We Have Heard on High” traces back to an 18th-century French carol titled Les Anges dans Nos Campagnes, built around the echoing refrain Gloria in excelsis Deo. It was crafted not merely as a celebratory hymn, but as a call-and-response—meant for entire congregations to join heaven’s chorus.
Our version leans hard into cathedral-sized distortion, low-end rumble, and soaring vocal grit. The famous Gloria refrain rises not like a children’s chorus, but like a thunderous call from the hills, carried by walls of guitars and orchestral undercurrents.
It’s the same proclamation—but delivered with the weight of eternity behind it.
Angels we have heard on high
Sweetly singing o’er the plains
And the mountains in reply
Echoing their joyous strains
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be?
Which inspire your heavenly songs?
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come, adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
See Him in a manger laid
Whom the choirs of angels praise;
Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,
While our heart in love we raise.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!