7 Hills Worship Releases Broken Open EP Nov 6

7 Hills Worship released its new five-track EP, Broken Open, on Friday, November 6, 2026. The worship collective from Florence, Kentucky, built the project around surrender, prayer, God's goodness, and thanksgiving, and it is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and other major platforms.

There is a moment in every church service when the music stops being performance and starts being prayer. The band knows it. The room knows it.

The hands go up without anyone asking. 7 Hills Worship wrote Broken Open for that moment, and they wrote it first for their own congregation, not for the charts.

Broken Open EP: five songs from Calvary to thanksgiving

The EP opens with "O Calvary," a moment of reflection on the cross, and continues with "Take It To The Throne," "How Good You Are," and the title track "Broken Open" before closing with the gratitude-filled "Thank You Lord." The five songs run just under 25 minutes on Apple Music, short enough to listen to in one sitting, long enough to sit with.

The track order tells a story. It starts at the cross, moves to prayer, remembers God's goodness, breaks open, and ends in thanks.

That is not an accident. It is the shape of a testimony: what God did, what it cost, and what it means now. The title track gives the project its name, and the name gives the project its idea — that brokenness is not the end of worship, but the beginning of it.

Broken Open is distributed exclusively by Wings Music Group. It follows the group's 2025 live album Beautiful Life, alongside earlier projects such as Looking Glass (Live) and Like Poetry. Each release has grown the collective's reach a little further, but the heart has stayed the same: honest songs for real people in a real church.

Who is 7 Hills Worship?

7 Hills Worship is the music ministry of 7 Hills Church in Florence, Kentucky, which serves the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky region. The collective writes original worship music for its own congregation first, and for the wider church second. That order matters.

Songs written for Sunday morning in Florence have to work for people the writers actually know, people carrying real grief, real bills, and real hope.

That local-first approach is why the EP sounds the way it does. There is no stadium polish for its own sake, no chasing of whatever sound topped the charts last month.

The songs are built to be sung by a room full of ordinary people, and the lyrics leave space for a congregation to answer back. It is worshp music in the oldest sense: a community singing to God together, not an audience watching a band.

The wider worship world has been moving toward bigger names and bigger stages, and small church collectives often get overlooked. But the songs that last are usually the ones that started small. A worship song written for one church on one Sunday can travel further than a single engineered for radio, because it carries something real inside it, like the live worship captured in LO Worship Releases The Drought Is Over Live Album.

Why Broken Open matters for worshippers this season

The EP arrives as churches head into the final stretch of the year, when gratitude and reflection sit side by side. Thanksgiving is days away, Advent follows close behind, and many congregations are looking for new songs that fit the season. A five-track project about surrender and thankfulness lands exactly where churches need it.

The theme of brokenness will also find listeners far beyond Kentucky. Everyone knows what it feels like to be broken open — by loss, by failure, by a prayer that went unanswered for years.

The EP's promise is that God meets people in that place, not after it. The title track does not rush past the pain to get to the praise. It stays in it, and lets the praise grow out of it.

For worship leaders, the practical news is simple: five new songs, under 25 minutes, ready to stream and easy to learn.

For everyone else, the invitation is simpler still. Put the EP on, start with "O Calvary," and let the five songs walk you from the cross to the throne to a thank-you.

Broken Open is a small record with a large heart, and it asks one question of everyone who hears it: what would happen if you stopped hiding the broken places and brought them to God instead? The answer, the songs suggest, is worship — and it starts the moment you open your hands.

The EP also lands in a crowded season for Christian music. Chris Tomlin's Christmas record arrived the same day, as Chris Tomlin Good News of Great Joy Christmas Album November 6 2026: Songs, Book and Tour shows, and young artists like Forrest Frank keep finding new audiences, as in Forrest Frank Announces The Jesus Generation Album for December 4 With Lecrae KB and Michael W Smith. In that crowd, a quiet five-track EP from Kentucky has to earn its listeners one song at a time — and Broken Open is built to do exactly that.

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