Audio Adrenaline was a Grammy Award-winning Christian rock band that formed in the late 1980s at Kentucky Christian College in Grayson, Kentucky. Along with dc Talk, Newsboys and Jars of Clay, they quickly became one of the most successful Christian rock bands of the 1990s. They were a main attraction at the annual Creation Festival, Spirit West Coast festival and Agape Music Festival.
The band was formed 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 four men, along with Ron Gibson and Mark's brother, David, became a popular local band—booked by the school nearly every weekend.

The band's big break would come in the form of Bob Herdman. Bob went up to Audio Adrenaline 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, and David left to focus on his family.

On January 18, 2006, Audio Adrenaline announced that they were retiring from active music ministry. The band cited Mark Stuart's "ongoing vocal challenges" stemming from vocal cord damage after years of performing as the primary factor.