To each his own, your opinion is valid, I just tend to like Christian music because I don't get my ears cussed out of my skull and don't get some overused bullshit lyrics that have been used in every fucking song before them. Not that most Christian bands don't do that too, I just hate most secular stuff because that situation occurs alot more.

I listen to bands who write lyrically about everything from suicide to drug use to straight edge to national pride to racism to egalitarianism to whatever the hell else, but the fact that there are few Christian bands in my collection kind of says it all really. I mean I guess all the great composers of days gone by were all influenced by God to a certain degree but in modern rock music Christian bands have a fair few things to struggle against. Years and years of crazies declaring rock is Satan's music because look at that man Elvis and the ungodly way he shakes his hips, or silly nonsense about old bluesmen selling their soul for the perfect guitar sound and how because all modern rock is derived from blues that it's all inherently evil and corrupting and we should all go back to listen exclusively to Gregorian chanting. And then you've got the aesthetic. My favourite example is Christian black metal, or as some douchebag decided to call it, white metal. Yeah, I know. But I mean black metal was founded by a bunch of angry young Scandinavians who hated Christianity and how the Christian church had decimated their native "pagan" culture, sometimes swinging into realms of satanism (not the LaVey sort but actual proclamations about worshipping demons or whatever the fuck). And so somehow after metal being for years and years a sort of reaction against mainstream beliefs, and all the stories of records telling folk to murder and blah blah blah, I find it highly ironic than someone has taken the nihilistic, pagan church burning sounds of black metal, and while keeping the sound which is still quite "evil", they've flipped the aesthetic on it's head. But the problem is that I'd love to hear a really good white metal band but they just don't seem to have "it".

There's a reason that godless bastards like me have a history of saying that "the devil has all the best music". And that's because the church, as the official bastion of reaction in the western hemisphere will almost inevitably put its self against new forms of music in the beginning because they challenge the status quo in a way that religion does not ever like.

Incidentally, The Devil Wears Prada is one of the single shittiest band names I've ever come across. And I fucking hate metalcore, it's even less worthwhile musically than nu-metal.

Well, even in the bible it says that Lucifer was the highest ranking angel, being the angel of music and all. When he fell, he took all of the talent with him. Yeah TDWP is a stupid name and alot of their songs sounds like crap.

Edited by user 01 September 2009 09:27:47(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

No, I'm thinking of Isaiah 14:3-20. Until now, I've never even heard of Paradise Lost, nor do I associate myself with it.

I agree with Paul's post in general, but am flabbergasted that you have never even heard of Paradise Lost.

Yes

Oh, guilty peasures.

Place Of Skulls are a good wee band, and also happen to write about Christian themes in their lyrics, and are Christians.

I remember only getting into all these Christian extreme metal bands a year or two ago when one of my good friends needed a musical intervention. He listened to things like Linkin Park and DragonForce, which had to be stopped. The issue was that he was a Christian and was, at that time, a very sensitive one, not wanting anything to do with anything even remotely anti-Christian. So, I had to seek out Christian bands within the genres I wanted to show to him and happened to stumble upon some really killer music.

In the non-metal world, Neal Morse makes tremendous Christian prog. Which is surprising, since most Christian prog tends to suck so bad. Granted, he does tend to slip into CCM tendencies sometimes, but it is tolerable when it happens, being as it is sandwiched between thick, thick slabs of modern symphonic prog.

More classic metal for Jesus: Australian death metal legends MORTIFICATION.


They suck big hairy cocks nowadays, but damn me if they weren't brilliant in their heyday.