O How The Mighty Have Fallen is the 11th studio release, and tenth full-length studio album, by Christian alternative rock band the Choir, released in 2005. Guitarist Marc Byrd officially became the fifth member of the band with this album. Background After receiving a Grammy Award nomination in 2002 for Flap Your Wings, along with years of interacting with fans on the Choir’s official website, the band was encouraged to go back into the studio and record another album. This time, the Choir turned over producing duties to Byrd, who had previously worked with lead singer and guitarist Derri Daugherty and drummer and lyricist Steve Hindalong on a variety of other musical projects, primarily the City on a Hill worship music series, as well as albums from Glisten, Between Thieves and Byrd’s previous band, Common Children. This was the Choir’s first album in 20 years not co-produced by Daugherty and Hindalong, and the duo’s transition away from producing this album was a natural evolution, according to Hindalong: “We haven’t made a record for five years, but we’ve been in the studio non-stop doing one thing after the other, and so much of the time, Marc’s been a part of our world. So, it [was] no step at all to say, ‘Hey, you be the producer.’ Marc is like a brother to us. He’s ten years younger. We wanted it to be cool, and we respect his sensibility so much.” Recording and production Because Byrd shouldered the production duties, Hindalong remarked that his work helped to “bring harmony amongst us all.” Daugherty agreed, saying, “this was definitely the easiest record for me that I’ve done with the Choir. At this point in our career, there are no expectations of anything. We just get to make a record, we go in and make it, we talk about what we want to talk about, and make the music we want to make. We don’t have A&R guy or record company saying ‘Oh, we need a radio hit,’ or ‘We need a remix of this.’ Dan Michaels tries to do that sometimes to us, and then we just get him out of the room.” As the band’s main lyricist, Hindalong did not go into this album with any preconceived ideas. The lyrical content of O How the Mighty Have Fallen was described as “comfortable with its own brokenness,” and Hindalong agreed. “The Choir’s always