Christian Metal
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ender7227 said:It doesn't matter, this is a metal forum and Christianity therefore sucks here, i.e. Stryper. Name me one GOOD band with Christianity as the central theme. If you want to discuss religious ideals and you hate all things metal then why the fuck are you on this GOD DAMNED site.
Necuratul said:
Nice one.
ender7227 said:It doesn't matter, this is a metal forum and Christianity therefore sucks here, i.e. Stryper
How stupid! I don't think anybody hates metal or else they wouldn't be on the "ULTIMATE METAL" website. Not everybody who likes metal fits into one damn mold, that is the good thing about heavy metal. You have Christians, Satanists and all types but the central idea is damn heavy music.
Zhou Tai 04
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I posted this earlier on in this thread.ender7227 said:
Absurd2 (technical thrash metal)
Aletheian (progressive/technical death metal)
Antestor (black/death metal)
Ashen Mortality (gothic/doom/death metal)
The Awakening (gothic/progressive metal)
Becoming the Archetype (progressive death/metalcore)
Bleakwail (black metal)
Bloodwork (death metal)
Ceremonial Sacred (black metal)
Crimson Moonlight (black metal)
Divinefire (power metal)
Divine Symphony (black metal)
Drottnar (technical black metal)
Encryptor (brutal death metal)
Extol (different style on each cd)
Fearscape (progressive death metal)
Frost Like Ashes (black/death metal)
The Horsemen of the Apocalypse (technical death metal/grind)
Illuminandi (gothic metal)
In Vain (progressive death metal)
Inevitable End (death/thrash metal)
Lengsel (black metal)
Morphia (gothic/doom/death metal)
My Silent Wake (gothic/doom/death metal)
Narnia (heavy metal)
Pantokrator (death metal)
Parakletos (black metal)
Paramaecium (doom/death metal)
Random Eyes (melodic metal, female vocalist)
Renascent (death metal)
Rob Rock (heavy metal)
Royal Anguish (experimental death metal)
Sacrificium (death metal)
Sanctifica (black metal)
Schaliach (death metal)
Shadows of Paragon (black metal)
Slechtvalk (folk black metal)
Sorrowstorm (black metal)
Sympathy (death metal)
Synnove (gothic/doom/death metal)
Taketh (death metal)
Tortured Conscience (death metal)
Tourniquet (metal)
Virgin Black (gothic/doom metal)
Ender Rises
Wass sappening?
Ok disclaimer: that post that everyone's been sitching about was by a freind of mine, not me. Sorry, I do realize there are many great christian bands out there, he's dumb.
Zhou Tai 04
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Zhou Tai 04 said:
Because of my "protective" and religious upbringing, I've been listening to Christian metal since I was about 13, and I can easily say that only about 8 bands on that list are even worth checking out. Those being Antestor, Crimson Moonlight, Extol, Lengsel, Renascent, Slechtvalk, Sympathy, and Tourniquet. The rest are pretty much just trash, or an "acquired taste" if you can call them that.
The problem with the majority of Christian metal is that the bands don't listen to much secular music, which leads them to copy off all the other Christian metal bands around - creating a cycle of crappy bands that all draw influences from each other. You can find this phenomena in a lot of pop music today too, and in hardcore, metalcore, emo and all the off-shoots.
Zhou Tai 04
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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.
Zhou Tai 04
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We were referring to "trash" as in crappy music that's not really worth listening to, not thrash.
btw, Temple of Blood is a pretty good Christian thrash band; I forgot to put them on my list. I think I remember seeing a review of their cd here somewhere, but I could be mistaken.
btw, Temple of Blood is a pretty good Christian thrash band; I forgot to put them on my list. I think I remember seeing a review of their cd here somewhere, but I could be mistaken.
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This feels like a strange first post but Living Sacrifice (Reborn) first got me into metal when i was about 13, and their newer stuff is real good too i think as far as that melodic death metal sort of thing goes.. But mostly, due to the small number of bands i guess, there are not many that i would listen to.
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Zhou Tai 04 said:Especially their new cd.uke:
Ive only got one of thiers, cant remember the title, i must admit there is one good song on there though
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Zhou Tai 04 said:
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.
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TaylorC said:
i also have that upbringing, others are crimson thorn, death poems, vaakervandring, arvinger, vomitorial corpulence (hard as hell), immortal souls (sweet blackish metal), becoming the archetype (well i like them from what i have heard), figure four, as cities burn (i hate them)
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I heard Veni Domine resembled candlemass and solitude aeturnus. I'm curious in hearing them if that's true.
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ender7227 said:It doesn't matter, this is a metal forum and Christianity therefore sucks here, i.e. Stryper
HELLO? TROUBLE?
that being said, I dislike Christianity because I am a follower of the left-hand path.
