Christian Metal

[Zhou Tai 04]

That stuff is too much of a steaming pile to even be called trash, but the other bands in that list are just either really really average or really really below average in their genre. Many of them don't even have more than a single album or two out. Encryptor is one of the lamest excuses for death metal around, it's like all the worst material of Cannibal Corpse with vocals that sound like the suction of a super-powerful toilet. Becoming the Archetype gets a lot of praise today, but for what? I could tolerate the first half of the album, but everything on it after "Elegy" just felt like tremendous amounts of filler. Maybe not filler though, maybe even worse than filler.

On a more positive note, I can also give some credit to DivineFire (which is a side project of Renascent) and Rob Rock. Those guys also know what they're doing. But most everything else I've heard on that list is just regurgitated through that cycle of bad influences that I talked about before. There are some of those bands that get so pretentious that they totally change their entire style though, or try too hard at being something unique and just end up sucking. Sanctifica used to be generic black metal until they went "progressive" and ruined what little they had. I don't care for Virgin Black either, because of all their gothic experimentation that seems to build up to nothing.

Anyway, I said most of that stuff is trash, because most of the people I know would agree with me on that opinion. But I also said you can call it an "acquired taste" because I realize everybody likes at least one band that others are bound to despise. I just think there are much better bands out there, Christian and secular. Your list was just merely too generous.

Well then what would you consider to be better Christian bands than those?

 

[Ender Rises]

HELLO? TROUBLE?

that being said, I dislike Christianity because I am a follower of the left-hand path.

Not posted by me, posted by a freind of mine, and GOD DAMNED was a joke.

 

[LuminousAether]

Just how exactly are they trash? Trash would be stuff like As I Lay Dying, August Burns Red, Haste the Day, Norma Jean, The Chariot, Still Remains....nothing at all like what I listed.

Those bands beat the unholy shit out of Narnia, one of the absolute worst bands I've ever heard.

 

[CF87]

Bands like norma jean,as I Lay Dying etc.. are why I would never lump myself in with a religion regarding music if I was actually 'religous'.

 

[LuminousAether]

Norma Jean kick ass.

 

[Post_Scriptum]

It's all been said/done before.

 

[Under The Oak]

I think you mean Norma Jean suck ass.

Other than what I previously listed, I find these Christian metal bands to be the best of the best:

Abdijah
Armageddon Holocaust
Believer
Betrayal
Deliverance (first 3 or 4 albums)
Excurses
Firethrone
Frosthardr
Gaoth Anair
Horrific Majesty
Opus Majestic
Seventh Angel
Sympathy
Tourniquet
Trouble
Vaakevandring
Vengeance Rising

A lot of those unfamiliar names can be listened to on MySpace.

 

[LuminousAether]

No, Norma Jean kicks ass. They have a somewhat original sound for metalcore (albeit owing a bit to Botch) and they have a varied sound with excellent breakdowns.

Having a bias against metalcore is idiocy, sad to say.

 

[CaGeD iN]

i cant stand most of norma jean either

 

[Under The Oak]

No, Norma Jean kicks ass. They have a somewhat original sound for metalcore (albeit owing a bit to Botch) and they have a varied sound with excellent breakdowns.

Having a bias against metalcore is idiocy, sad to say.

I don't have a bias against metalcore, so don't be an assumptuous dumbass. I just happen to find Norma Jean's music to be very migraine-inducing, repetitive shit.

 

[ohiogrinder]

No, Norma Jean kicks ass. They have a somewhat original sound for metalcore (albeit owing a bit to Botch) and they have a varied sound with excellent breakdowns.

Having a bias against metalcore is idiocy, sad to say.

not really...most of its pure shite, sad to say.

if you want to listen to REAL metalcore, listen to Botch, the band Norma Jean ripped off.

 

[Impudent]

Six Feet Under is my favorite Christian metal band

They are Christian?

Norma Jean are funny live.

 

[Zhou Tai 04]

I think you mean Norma Jean suck ass.

Other than what I previously listed, I find these Christian metal bands to be the best of the best:

Abdijah
Armageddon Holocaust
Believer
Betrayal
Deliverance (first 3 or 4 albums)
Excurses
Firethrone
Frosthardr
Gaoth Anair
Horrific Majesty
Opus Majestic
Seventh Angel
Sympathy
Tourniquet
Trouble
Vaakevandring
Vengeance Rising

A lot of those unfamiliar names can be listened to on MySpace.

I don't like raw black metal or old school thrash very much, and other than the ones that we both mentioned, Trouble, Frosthardr, Vaakevandring, and Excurses are the only ones I like.

 

[Thasis]

Zao are good Christian Extreme Hardcore, or atleast that's what I think it's called... any better classifications? Like honestly, they're not just normal hardcore... to much screaming vocals.

 

[Under The Oak]

I don't like raw black metal or old school thrash very much, and other than the ones that we both mentioned, Trouble, Frosthardr, Vaakevandring, and Excurses are the only ones I like.

I feel deeply sorry for you then.

 

[Thasis]

Raw Black Metal... not like... *looks puzzled*

 

[CaGeD iN]

They are Christian?

Norma Jean are funny live.

look at their lyrics

 

[LuminousAether]

Zao are good Christian Extreme Hardcore, or atleast that's what I think it's called... any better classifications? Like honestly, they're not just normal hardcore... to much screaming vocals.

ZAO are metalcore.
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[Impudent]

Zao are good Christian Extreme Hardcore, or atleast that's what I think it's called... any better classifications? Like honestly, they're not just normal hardcore... to much screaming vocals.

Metalcore?

Edit: ^ Beat me to it.

 

[Impudent]

look at their lyrics

No thanks. They're a pretty horrid band if you ask me. "BRINGER OF BLOOD!" ad nauseum. :Smug: