TheVaine said:
Anyone put Buddha's balls into play?
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Christian Metal.... why is it called "Christian Metal"?
Hell, I'm christian and if I form a band, I'm sure as hell not about to go ahead and right a metal song about jesus being the Savior.. at least not in a "Positive" way....
Should be called religious metal actually...
Not all of the lyrics are positive. Pretty much the only Christian metal band I know of that has overly positive lyrics (excluding the power metal and hair metal bands) is Mortification, and I don't really care for their music. Some are actually quite depressing/dark, like, say, Paramaecium, Antestor, Sympathy, Crimson Moonlight, Frost Like Ashes, and the like. I much prefer lyrics like that. Here are a few examples: (from
www.darklyrics.com )
Antestor - Depressed
Fighting seems so in vain
Weakened by my own brain
Mindless torture blackening my thoughts
I'm flying away to my deepest decay
I'm falling through the black hole
I've lost my tears now I'm cold
Deeper deeper deeper I'll fall
I have no strength hear my call
My soul is screaming let me free
Take away this pain I see
Descending feelings where are you leading me
Desires of death rules in my darkness
In the shadows I'll die all alone
Blinding sorrow there's no tomorrow
There's no place my soul can hide
Slain by the thoughts that lied
Fighting seems so in vain
Weakened by my own brain
Sympathy - Love Me and Despair
welcome to my lair
where I have slain the mighty
and tasted the blood of the righteous
the ashes and remains
of their rotted flesh
is fetid on the breath of my mouth
I am the tempter
the alluring lech and harlot
I call as a siren unto all
come and taste
of my wine and secret pleasures
surrender your will unto me
embrace the night
to share my gifts
bow unto me
love me and despair
I am the lust
that festers like a wound
and poisons your mind with every thought
I am the hunger
that weakens your resolve
and consumes your heart and soul
I offer you all the pleasures of your flesh
just bow and give your worship to me
I offer you all the luxury of wealth
just swear your allegiance to me
I will give you all your heart desires
but you will be bound unto me
abandon all hope
ye who enter here
for mine is the gateway to hell
my snares will entangle
and my claws grip your flesh
and you will become my thrall
Paramaecium - The Voyage of the Severed
The disciples, they were crucified, burned alive, decapitate
Those of the Reformation rejected the establishment of Rome
The likes of Luther at the diet of Worms
Others put to death in utter cruelty for failing to submit to a church of corruption
Denying transubstantiation|
But they overcame them by the blood of the Lamb
And the word of their testimony, and they loved not their lives unto death
That church, you think you're right all the time
You think you know what life means
Silence, see your crime, for things are seldom what they seem
As though to breathe were life
Darkness begins to rot your mind, putrefaction has left you blind
Your traditions and lies have left you less than whole
For what will it profit a man if he gains the world but loses his soul