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Phoenix
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Their first album was their only specifically Christian one, and their first "mainstream" album brought back a lot of the songs from that first album, including "My Immortal". "Origin" was their only one intentionall marketed as Christian. "Fallen" was originally put into Christian stores because of the previous promotion of "Origin" until a few months after the release of "Fallen" in 2003 when Evanescence's own record label requested Christian retailers to remove the album from their shelves. Within a month after that press release, Ben Moody left the band while on tour because of the change in focus of the band.
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Cako53
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I agree, TFK is amazing same with Pillar, but these aren't metal bands? well i guess it should come to the question. What do you guys consider metal?
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Phoenix
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cool i guess i'll look into evenescence again.
yeah skillets cool i can play monster on guitar. i am working on an acoustic version of hero but i dont know what to do for a strumming pattern.
so do you reccomend listening to their album fallen? or a different one?
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Phoenix
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Cako53
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Okay glad we are on the same page. When Ben started to post Pillar, TFK, and Skillet, I thought I should check, because I would have included them if I had known you guys considered them to be metal.
i guess, i more get into adrenaline-pumping, guitar-driven music....tfk and pillar dip into other forms of music, too, but they play a lot of the hard stuff....i guess for me, metal is less a definition than what style of "rock" it is....i'd group red along with bands like tfk and pillar in "hard rock" category, and probably have other categories like "ballad rock" and "pop rock"....focus mostly being vocals in the ballad stuff, the rhythm/movment in pop, and the guitar/adrenaline in hard...
that's my definition, for what it's worth
i'm a huge fan of skillet for their inclusion of symphonic sounds into hard rock music....the same way i enjoyed 38th parallel's blending of sounds in other ways before their breakup....
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SteffanM
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A lot of black metal is anti-christian, but there is something pro-christian here:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1cMntg58c[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4Wxf6slHQ[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_1cMntg58c[/video]
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf4Wxf6slHQ[/video]
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Cako53
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Well either way you have a great taste in musici guess, i more get into adrenaline-pumping, guitar-driven music....tfk and pillar dip into other forms of music, too, but they play a lot of the hard stuff....i guess for me, metal is less a definition than what style of "rock" it is....i'd group red along with bands like tfk and pillar in "hard rock" category, and probably have other categories like "ballad rock" and "pop rock"....focus mostly being vocals in the ballad stuff, the rhythm/movment in pop, and the guitar/adrenaline in hard...
that's my definition, for what it's worth
I do get what you mean now though.
sorry, i completely ignored your second question in my first response....fallen has a lot of origin on it, but you'd struggle to find origin songs anywhere but online, so i guess check out fallen as the songs were written with at least a Christian overtone, though the band took the performance of the songs to a different realm soon after the album's release...so the lyrics and intent of the songs are alright, but their display in a live setting maybe not so much....
this coming from a guy who has seen a lot of non-Christian hard rock bands live, though, so take that for what it's worth...
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Phoenix
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Jesusfreakz
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Ok, what I have to say is this:
I personally like Christian metal bands (demon hunter, disciple, etc.), but those others, as Jordan9 says, "They have bits and pieces of the Truth". It isn't holy, it's called secular music for a reason. Slipknot is a band I hear many (by their words) Christians at my school listen to. It is not a godly band, in fact quite the opposite. Many of these bands I have noticed seem to turn towards spiritual things more, but to me it seems as if they want to draw people who are Christian into their music, feeding them half-truths, and unholy fruits. I would avoid them at all costs, I try to avoid secular music, and sometimes it is hard, but it matters not what we want, rather, what our Father in heaven wants.
I personally like Christian metal bands (demon hunter, disciple, etc.), but those others, as Jordan9 says, "They have bits and pieces of the Truth". It isn't holy, it's called secular music for a reason. Slipknot is a band I hear many (by their words) Christians at my school listen to. It is not a godly band, in fact quite the opposite. Many of these bands I have noticed seem to turn towards spiritual things more, but to me it seems as if they want to draw people who are Christian into their music, feeding them half-truths, and unholy fruits. I would avoid them at all costs, I try to avoid secular music, and sometimes it is hard, but it matters not what we want, rather, what our Father in heaven wants.
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wwjd_kilden
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Oh yeah, been listening to Extol?
I forgot all about this thread...
yeah... a guy at my bible study listens to a lot of christian metal and prog rock, so he got me hooked
hmm, I'd listen to my Petra CD, but I'll just end up waking up my neighbor
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Tegelik
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I really got in to bands like Korn, Rammstein, Metallica, Apocalyptica etc. I tried to find good christian metal, but I never seemed to find good enough bands.
Lately I had this feeling, that I only want to listen to christian music, so I stopped listening to all these secular bands.
Some christian metal bands I think are pretty ok: Demon Hunter, The Showdown, Brian Head Welch, East West. I might get into Living Sacrifice. I think I can't find more christian bands I'd like, although I would want to.
I don't really know if I'm gonna listen to any secular metal anymore. I mean.. Rammsteins lyrics always seemed ok, but recently I found out they made a new music video, which is.. basically porn.
Lately I had this feeling, that I only want to listen to christian music, so I stopped listening to all these secular bands.
Some christian metal bands I think are pretty ok: Demon Hunter, The Showdown, Brian Head Welch, East West. I might get into Living Sacrifice. I think I can't find more christian bands I'd like, although I would want to.
I don't really know if I'm gonna listen to any secular metal anymore. I mean.. Rammsteins lyrics always seemed ok, but recently I found out they made a new music video, which is.. basically porn.
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Cako53
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Listen to Brian "Head" Welch. He is the former guitarist from Korn, he became a christian and has a great cd out, it's called Save Me From Myself. I used to be quite the Korn fan myself, but it is hard on your spirit. Brian brings that same Korn sound, with a christian twist
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Tegelik
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Listen to Brian "Head" Welch. He is the former guitarist from Korn, he became a christian and has a great cd out, it's called Save Me From Myself. I used to be quite the Korn fan myself, but it is hard on your spirit. Brian brings that same Korn sound, with a christian twist
If you read my whole post, you'll see I already am listening to that guy.
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