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Most Sunday nights, Kevin Max plops down in front of the TV for a strange trip through the world of the paranormal.

"Yeah," says Kevin, "I'm a big X-Files fan."

So he was the first in line when Scully and Mulder hit the theaters last summer. Like millions of other X-philes, he couldn't wait to see the movie.

His verdict? A major thumbs-down.

"I thought it was really pathetic," says Kevin, who recently changed his last name from "Smith" to "Max." "But I'm glad Scully and Mulder didn't kiss."

Ah, but it was just a movie, a mere piece of celluloid fiction. When it comes to things truly supernatural—the real truth out there, found only in God—Kevin is never disappointed. And he finds that much more fascinating than the fictional stuff.

"There are a lot of things going on around us that cannot be explained," he says. "And it's just natural human inclination to wonder what the supernatural world is all about. You know, what does an angel look like? What does heaven look like?"

Kevin's best friends, fellow dc Talkers Toby McKeehan and Michael Tait, have been asking the same type of questions lately. And in their search for answers, they've come up with 12 fresh songs for their brand-new record, appropriately titled Supernatural (ForeFront/ Virgin).

"There's a lot of hoopla these days about supernatural this and supernatural that," says Toby. "It's so intriguing. But to us, God is intriguing. And God is supernatural."

The seeds for the new record were planted one afternoon when Michael was writing a first draft of what would ultimately turn out to be the title song for Supernatural.

"When I got to the chorus, I just wanted to sing the word supernatural," Michael says. "The song had such a mystique about it, I felt like it should be about God and his mysterious ways."

God has worked his ways with these guys for a long time, especially since the release of their last studio album, 1995's hugely successful Jesus Freak, which sold more than a million copies.

Campus Life caught up with Toby, Michael and Kevin just as they were wrapping up the new album. We talked about things supernatural, and, of course, things of this world. And just about everything in between.

Whenever dc Talk heads into the studio, Toby's always the first to arrive and the last to leave.

He wants everything perfect—every note, every chord, every last mix of every single song. Yeah, he's a Jesus freak. But he's also a control freak. And he's the first to admit it.

"I used to go to bed at night thinking about what else I could've done in the studio that day," he says. "Now I just like to relax with a book and forget all about it—and so I can forget about the cymbals on the song 'Supernatural,' or whether or not we should've done a triplet on that 14th bar."

Toby's learning what it means to let go—especially in his relationships with other people.

"I've always had sort of an independent personality," he says. "I'm not real good at delegating or depending on others. But for the last few years—and this is an ongoing process—I'm learning to be more dependent. And that translates to my Christian walk.

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