March 1989. Greg Sostrom saw The Crucified at a few shows and offered them a recording contract with his new start-up label, Narrowpath Records. The band accepted the offer and started to record songs at Casbah Studios in Southern California. The 15-track album was titled The Crucified. It was released in compact disc format, which was a new format in the late 1980s. After the album's release, the band started to tour around California, including appearances at the Cornerstone Festival as well as opening for D.R.I., G.B.H., and Pantera. Johnson was fired from the band due to personal differences and the guys started looking for a new bassist. Chaffin responded to an ad in a newspaper posted by Jeff Bellew, citing The Crucified as an influence. Bellew joined the band and drove for four hours from his home in So Cal to Fresno every weekend to practice. Eventually the drive became too costly, and he moved to Fresno to practice with the band. The Pillars of Humanity and breakup (1991-1995) After recruiting Bellew, the band started to write and record for their second studio album, The Pillars of Humanity. When the album was released 1991 on Ocean Records the band did not tour very much for the album. In 1993, the band announced their breakup. However, they did not play their final show until 1995, at Cornerstone Festival. The circumstances of the band's breakup are unclear. According to Bellew, Minier had been kicked out of the band at the time due to a controversy that the band did not want to address. With Minier out of the band, the band briefly hired Jon Maddux of Deliverance to fill in on guitar. By this time, Salomon had moved away to a different part of California and struggled with finding a job and the meaning of his life, which left Bellew and Chaffin as the only members remaining nearby, until Chaffin disbanded the group. In 1995 the band reunited and played their final show at Cornerstone Festival. The members all went on to join new projects including, Stavesacre, Neon Horse, The Blamed, CHATTERbOX, and Applehead. In 2010, HM Magazine listed The Pillars of Humanity as #37 on their list of the Top 100 Christian Rock Albums of All Time. Drummer Jason Dunn of No Innocent Victim and Sonny Sandoval of P.O.D. commented on the album's legacy as part of HMs list, with