Punk rock listeners don’t usually go to a concert expecting to hear Shania Twain songs.

But when the band is Roper, and the song is a cover of Shania Twain’s “You’re Still the One,” the combination of mixing the un-mixable is great.

“Because the band is named Roper, we thought it’d be funny if we went with a country-western theme,” says Reese Roper, the lead singer for the group.

Roper says the band plans to continue the theme by doing more covers of country songs and maybe even making punk-rock songs into country ones.

Roper is a new band, but many of its members have been in other bands. Roper was the lead singer of Five Iron Frenzy before starting Roper with several friends from Scum of the Earth Church in Denver.

“I just suckered them into joining this band,” he says.

Roper says the fact that all the members of the band are Christians has played an important role in the band’s formation.

“[Christianity] is the driving force of my life,” he says.

Roper, who writes most of the band’s lyrics, says Christianity and the books he is currently reading are influences for many of the songs on the album.

Roper started putting an album together last April and finished it in August. Roper says a lot of the writing was done in the studio, with the help of Ethan Luck from Supertones in co-writing the music for several of the songs.

The band was on tour for several concerts before its album came out, and Roper says audiences were not as receptive.

“It was weird starting out without an album,” Roper says. “A lot of people were watching us with their arms crossed trying to figure out if they like us or not.”

Roper says many of the band’s fans are former Five Iron Frenzy fans.

“It seems like at every show some kid wants us to play a Five Iron song,” he says.

Roper says his band should not be confused with Five Iron Frenzy, although some experiences have brought back memories for him. Currently, Roper is touring with nine people in a 15-passenger van. Roper says he did the same thing for five years with Five Iron Frenzy.

“It’s like this bad deja vu,” he says.

Roper hopes his new band will go further than Five Iron Frenzy.

“We want to make more in-roads in the market than Five Iron was able to do,” he says. “The test of a good band is if you can pull it off, not just in the Christian market, but in the general market.”

Who: Roper

Where: 7 Flags Events Center, 2100 NW 100th St., Clive

When: 7:30 p.m. Friday

Cost: $8 in advance or with costume, $10 at door