Christian Metal (UnderOath) or Death Metal (Job For a Cowboy)???

haha yes! I LOVE HASTE THE DAY!

 

kinda funny that they are going on the saints and sinners tour as the only "christian" band and hollywood undead is a coheadliner....christian and HU together?!?!?!?!?

not to mention that Gwen Stacy would be a "christian" band as well...funny that zack seperated them into the TABOO genre of DEATH METAL. haha

personally i think gwen stacy sucks...i mean, they play what they play really well but they sound the EXACT SAME as countless other bands out there right now and have nothing new to offer, they are completely unoriginal in their writing and therefore....boring

I think you need to get your genres right.

And both those bands totally blow.

Who wastes enough time to learn 56429064582 different genres? I'm more concerned on whether I like the band or not. As a Christian, and this isn't to insult for flame or whatever, I tend to look at lyrics a bit more. While I could find a lot of death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, or whatever combination of whatever random genre wordings to have good instrumentals, I would not listen to them because of lyrics. There's just a limit to how much improper thought that I can surround myself with, and I try to keep it to a minimum. It's not a shot as someone who likes Disturbed or Slipknot or whatever, but I personally won't listen to them because I do not agree with the message in their songs, or at least the way they deliver it (i.e. in hateful lines/cursing).

Lil Frier wrote the following post at 02-21-2009 5:24 AM:

Who wastes enough time to learn 56429064582 different genres? I'm more concerned on whether I like the band or not. As a Christian, and this isn't to insult for flame or whatever, I tend to look at lyrics a bit more. While I could find a lot of death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, or whatever combination of whatever random genre wordings to have good instrumentals, I would not listen to them because of lyrics. There's just a limit to how much improper thought that I can surround myself with, and I try to keep it to a minimum. It's not a shot as someone who likes Disturbed or Slipknot or whatever, but I personally won't listen to them because I do not agree with the message in their songs, or at least the way they deliver it (i.e. in hateful lines/cursing).

 

 

ok, WAKE UP!!!
the whole point of this is basically saying that "christian" music doesn't really exist in the rock/metal plus whatever subgenres are underneath those two catagory.  While there are tons of christian bands out there, most of them don't have much to there music that seperates them other than not swearing or sometimes having a more positive message.
Sure there's some bands that try to be specifically christian but that doesnt remove them from a genre of music. Christian bands play death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, grindcore, black metal, folk metal, goth metal, industrial metal, power metal, progressive metal, or whatever kind of metal you can find, there's probably a band playing it and the members happen to be christians.

and for a lot of those bands, they're some of the best bands in the genre and most of their fans don't even know they're "christian" but just like the music

 SkreminCamel86 wrote:

Lil Frier wrote the following post at 02-21-2009 5:24 AM:

Who wastes enough time to learn 56429064582 different genres? I'm more concerned on whether I like the band or not. As a Christian, and this isn't to insult for flame or whatever, I tend to look at lyrics a bit more. While I could find a lot of death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, or whatever combination of whatever random genre wordings to have good instrumentals, I would not listen to them because of lyrics. There's just a limit to how much improper thought that I can surround myself with, and I try to keep it to a minimum. It's not a shot as someone who likes Disturbed or Slipknot or whatever, but I personally won't listen to them because I do not agree with the message in their songs, or at least the way they deliver it (i.e. in hateful lines/cursing).

 

 

ok, WAKE UP!!!
the whole point of this is basically saying that "christian" music doesn't really exist in the rock/metal plus whatever subgenres are underneath those two catagory.  While there are tons of christian bands out there, most of them don't have much to there music that seperates them other than not swearing or sometimes having a more positive message.
Sure there's some bands that try to be specifically christian but that doesnt remove them from a genre of music. Christian bands play death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, grindcore, black metal, folk metal, goth metal, industrial metal, power metal, progressive metal, or whatever kind of metal you can find, there's probably a band playing it and the members happen to be christians.

and for a lot of those bands, they're some of the best bands in the genre and most of their fans don't even know they're "christian" but just like the music

and thank god YOU are here to tell us

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 Lil Frier wrote:

Who wastes enough time to learn 56429064582 different genres? I'm more concerned on whether I like the band or not. As a Christian, and this isn't to insult for flame or whatever, I tend to look at lyrics a bit more. While I could find a lot of death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, or whatever combination of whatever random genre wordings to have good instrumentals, I would not listen to them because of lyrics. There's just a limit to how much improper thought that I can surround myself with, and I try to keep it to a minimum. It's not a shot as someone who likes Disturbed or Slipknot or whatever, but I personally won't listen to them because I do not agree with the message in their songs, or at least the way they deliver it (i.e. in hateful lines/cursing).

And some people listen to  music because it sounds good to them. Whatever floats your boat. As far as subg genres being a waste of time, there is a practical use for them. The OP says he likes "death metal", so say he's looking for recomendations, since he used a sub genre name, people can help him find what he's looking for, better than if he just said I like "metal". Since you couldn't figure that out on your own I'll assume that I'm talking to someone to whom that dosen't make sense.

Say rather than music, someone wants to buy a car. If he goes to a car dealer and says "I want a car" is he going to waste more time knowing a little about cars in the first place and knowing what he wants? Or is he going to waste more time test-driving a zillion different kinds of care trying to find out what he wants?

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 SHAGGGADELLIC wrote:

 Lil Frier wrote:

Who wastes enough time to learn 56429064582 different genres? I'm more concerned on whether I like the band or not. As a Christian, and this isn't to insult for flame or whatever, I tend to look at lyrics a bit more. While I could find a lot of death metal, speed metal, metalcore, deathcore, or whatever combination of whatever random genre wordings to have good instrumentals, I would not listen to them because of lyrics. There's just a limit to how much improper thought that I can surround myself with, and I try to keep it to a minimum. It's not a shot as someone who likes Disturbed or Slipknot or whatever, but I personally won't listen to them because I do not agree with the message in their songs, or at least the way they deliver it (i.e. in hateful lines/cursing).

And some people listen to  music because it sounds good to them. Whatever floats your boat. As far as subg genres being a waste of time, there is a practical use for them. The OP says he likes "death metal", so say he's looking for recomendations, since he used a sub genre name, people can help him find what he's looking for, better than if he just said I like "metal". Since you couldn't figure that out on your own I'll assume that I'm talking to someone to whom that dosen't make sense.

Say rather than music, someone wants to buy a car. If he goes to a car dealer and says "I want a car" is he going to waste more time knowing a little about cars in the first place and knowing what he wants? Or is he going to waste more time test-driving a zillion different kinds of care trying to find out what he wants?

Agreed.

 Zack Daley wrote:

I personally think that Christian is better because of the melodic choruses but still can melt your face off.

Here are som more Christian and Death metal bands.

Christian: Devil Wears Prada, Blessthefall, Norma Jean, Four Letter Lie, and All that Remains

Death Metal: WhiteChapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Gwen Stacy, Hatebreed, Five Finger Death Punch

becasue whitechaple is deathcore, hatebreed it hardcore, 5 findger death punch is mathcore.

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I am a christian and really love christian metal because i like how i can listen to it without any cursing in it. however its a personal opinion on whether death metal or christian metal is better. I think the bands you chose under death metal aren't really death metal though, and all that remains isn't christian.

I'm not christian but some bands I listen to have a christian message, ones not mentioned: Burden of a Day (not so much the first cd), Here I Come Falling (broke up but put out one good cd), For Today (heavier then the other 2)

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