The Official Music Thread

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:22 am

I can't for the life of me find a good Christian metal band. There are tons of them, but none of them are what I'm looking for. I'm hooked on Disturbed and Breaking Benjamin, and that's the kind of thing I'm looking for, but there is just not one band that sounds like them.

Infern0 · Post by **Infern0** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 9:50 am

Try P.O.D..

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:15 am

Underoath?

Genre is "Gospel & Religious" (according to Itunes)

stephen10101 · Post by **stephen10101** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:20 am

Demon Hunter is my favorite Christian Metal band, you should check them out, they're good.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:04 pm

Christian Metal..
Lel.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 12:33 pm

^ Exactly what I was thinking.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:23 pm

Whoa. Alright, let me rephrase. How about Christian hard rock? Metal might be kind of misleading. Demon Hunter and Underoath are both hardcore, screamo bands. I'm not into that stuff, just stuff like Disturbed and Breaking Benjamin. Which... actually, are quite different. Ok, something like Disturbed is heavy guitar and stuff, but not death metal screamo stuff. It still retains a lot of rhythm without getting so hard you can't even determine when a verse ends and the chorus begins, you get what I mean? (At least, that's what it's like for me.)

Breaking Benjamin is actually quite different from Disturbed, now that I think about it. Ok, I know, the kind of "screaming" part of metal I like comes from BB. In all the other screamo bands you hear about, it sounds like some emo kid killing his throat screaming this high pitched shriek, which is what I absolutely hate. At least the singer in BB screams low, so you can understand what he's singing.

So that might have been kind of hard to understand, but that's kind of what I'm looking for. It's hard to describe; I have different interests than most people.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:50 pm

I listen to Red, which sounds a little like what you're describing. They're supposedly a Christian Band, but most bands* label themselves as such for marketing. (Unless I'm extremely mislead.

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* By 'most bands' I'm typifying the bands that do label themselves Christian.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:53 pm

I concur.

I've not recognized Gospel preaching in any of Underoath's songs.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:54 pm

Kinda like Christian Servers in online games... Usually games that are rated 'M'..
liek wtf.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:56 pm

I've never listened to Underoath, nor do I plan on it, but just in the band name, they don't sound 'Christian'. ;|

stephen10101 · Post by **stephen10101** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:04 pm

Umm, Switchfoot maybe? I think Crossfade is Christian Hard Rock as well.

On another note (I don't want to start an argument and this is not directed at anyone, I've just seen it in various places) Metal is not Screamo. Screamo is basically emo music with some screaming, it's still a bunch of whinny sissys who cry all the time and want to kill themselves. While metal has screaming as well, it's completely different. It's more aggressive than anything else and it isn't whining, it's more like fighting. I completely understand if some or a bunch of you think I'm retarded for saying this and having this opinion, I used to hate metal as well and think it was for depressed emos, but once I started listening to it, I fell in love with it. Metal also has some really soulful stuff in it if it's a good metal band. A good musician will mix a bit of Classical, Jazz, Blues, and Metal together to make something brilliant. I don't listen to any music without soul in it, a good song that has a really soulful solo in it would be Kissing the Shadows - Children of Bodom. That solo never gets old to me. Also pretty much anything Dimebag Darrel played he poured his soul into, so I'd recommend Pantera for metal with soul in it as well... Yeah, that's my opinion on music.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:13 pm

Well, since we're still kind of on the topic of Christian music, I listen to Reliant K, mostly. But I know Showbread is good, as is House of Heroes, mewithoutYou and Ruth.

Aumaan Anubis · Post by **Aumaan Anubis** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 2:53 pm

Is Reliant K Christian music? Cool. I use to like some of their songs.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:04 pm

I know their first and second albums were.

(Relient K and The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek, by the way.)

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 3:09 pm

Relient K, people. Get it right.

Underoath has vaguely religious lyrics in some of their songs. The song Some Will Seek Forgiveness, Others Escape is completely Christian.

I listen to all aforementioned Christian bands except for mewithoutYou, because they suck.

And Relient K has Christian music in all of their albums.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:15 pm

bibbit wrote:...except for mewithoutYou, because they suck.

Well, yeah, they're okay. I have two of their albums.

bibbit wrote:And Relient K has Christian music in all of their albums.

Kind of, some of their newer stuff doesn't as much, but they're still good and clean.

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 12:19 pm

TomClancey wrote:
bibbit wrote:And Relient K has Christian music in all of their albums.
Kind of, some of their newer stuff doesn't as much, but they're still good and clean.

Right. Not all of the songs have a direct Christian message, but the lyrics are still awesome, and the music complements them very nicely.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:52 pm

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RMWXyEHoN88

It's stuck in my head.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:07 pm

JK-47 wrote:http://youtube.com/watch?v=RMWXyEHoN88

It's stuck in my head.

The Reel Big Fish cover is stuck in mine. :3