CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

Hey guys,

I went into this week looking for goth/synthpop, but I wound up being pulled back to the best music ever, METAL!!! This thread is for your favorite "Christian" pure metal bands. What do I mean by pure? Along the lines of Stryper, Tourniquet, Narnia, Extol... What do I not mean? Disciple (my fave), P.O.D., Skillet?!, Pillar... Just to explain a little better... I mean musically not lyricaly. And yes, death is allowed. All hail the mighty Pantakrator!!!

Favorites; (In no particular order)
Theocracy
Tourniquet
Stryper
Bride (soft metal?)
Pantakrator (sometimes )

My favorite band of all time is a metal band: Precious Death

Others I like:
Tourniquet
Bride (their older albums had a more heavy touch)
Guardian (their olders albums like "Miracle Mile" is heavy metal in sound)

While "Circle of Dust" and "Klank" sound very, very heavy... I do not think they can be considered metal... maybe industrial?

Do Demon Hunter count? If so I mention them...

I really like Stryper. I usually don't like 80s music but Stryper I just really like for some reason! :S

Oh... Fine! You can have your silly Demon Hunter.
From now on signify Demon Hunter with;


LOL!

This is Pantakrator's little brother, he doesn't know i'm using his account. I like

These siggys are pretty cool to;

Well, I'm going to have to say that I like Pillar. What are you going to do about it?

Other than that, I like:

Demon Hunter
Project 86
Extol

Skillet is more...indsutrial techno i guess. I would consider Micheal W. Smith metal though





kidding

Argh! How did I forget Extol? Oops... Yeah, I have Synergy. I'm on the fence as to whether I like their new sound or not...

I was wondering if a thread like this would ever pop up.
If your looking for some good christian METAL heres a few:

Extol (of course)
Embodyment (demos, Embrace the Eternal)
Mortification
Antestor
Lengsel
Sanctifica
Immortal Souls
Kekal (new stuff mixes in a few smidgens of techno here n there, but still very good)
Exousia
Living Sacrifice (first 3 releases, after that they went more along the lines of metalcore)
Schaliach
Absurd2 (technical thrash metal)
Sympathy
Aletheian
Believer (thrash metal)

thats about all I can think of right now...

Eternal Decision too...

I know Skillet are more Industrial rock (a hard rock with Collide) but I gotta mention them anyway! Skillet are my fave band.

Nooooooooooooo! No more Skillet!

BTW, if you guys really like metal, especially the stuff coming out of Europe go to ;

http://www.victoryzine.com

Good stuff, I'm surprised I've never heard of that site before. Looking forward to the next Savior Machine album!

Crimson Moonlight is another one I forgot.

Saviour Machine are still making stuff? Their site hasn't been updated in bout 4yrs!!

You really can't put a finger on Skillet's style. They're a grunge-garage-tech-rock-hardcore band.

Yeah I know... They change style with every album :S Kinda one of their good points though.

Skynes wrote:Saviour Machine are still making stuff? Their site hasn't been updated in bout 4yrs!!

Yes they are. Go to ]http://www.victoryzine.com/news.html?PHPSESSID=88660723703afdf4c77d0b4d6143ce0e[/url]

Scroll down and there is a small blip about them. Oh, and did you guys read the rules? No Skillet!!!

And just so you guys know, I think Skillet is OK. There just not metal though...

What exactly defines 'metal'
Seems to change from person to person.

blindside

cinder

My favorites are the bands that put free tracks up on their websites or on other free legal sites.
Encryptor (brutal Panamanian Death metal)
Sorrowstrom (blistering South AMerican black metal)
Lament (Death tinged w/Mexican marachi, it works better than it sounds)
Eternal Descision (Bay Area Thrash lives!!!)
David Benson (Imagine if Ozzy got saved before the drugs completely decimated his ability to communicate)
Immortal Souls (Swedish blackend metal)
Frost like ashes (more black metal)
Narnia (shredding metal with tons of keyboards)

#1Narnia rocks and Grimmark is like a brother to me!! and Extol, (I like all of their albums, but my fav trak is Lighthouse on their Mesmerized EP)
Mortification will always have to be a fav because they were the first experience I had with christian death metal, and obviously, that was a positive experience
Vardoger, Kekal, Savior Machine are recent favs
ummm....Lament is alright, but I wish their vocalist would ease up a little, try a low g instead of whatever pitch he's 'trying" but failing to hit,
Project 86 is good, but too rapcore to me to be real pure metal

Eternal Decision are very cool. I have a few of their songs I got from Godcore. Very good stuff!

Hey Pantra - Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet! Skillet!


LOL!

The Finnish band V.I.P is a christian heavy metal(Real heavy) band. They have some english songs, one of them is "Can things get any worse?"... but still... its metal!!

If anbody mentions Skillet one more time, I'm going to close the thread!!!

This is awesome guys! We're up to three pages! And I thought I was the only metal head here...

Where can I get some samples of VIP? VictoryZine gave them 4 crosses and said they sing awesome progressive metal. Yay! I'm kind of trying to pull out of the death scene... Have you guys heard Theocracy? Awesome!!! You have to like the whole Neo-Classical/Symphonic/Power metal type though. You can check him out here;
http://www.theocracymusic.com

And add Petra to my list. Some of their songs from the 80s take me straight to God. Wow!!!

U can find some samples at VIP's homepage, but they are all in finnish...
http://www.vipmetal.net/levyt.htm

(4,5 crosses actually)

Theocracy sounded very good... thanx for the tip

I, my self are listening to Neal Morse - "Testimony" - you should too!! (5 crosses)

Thanks for helping me out with the MP3s. Oops! You're right VIP got 4 and a half crosses. They're awesome... Hmm, I'm not getting into Neal Morse, yet. Off to listen to more samples...

I didn't know of any Suomi bands. This is awesome, Im a quarter finnish myself, that is, Finnish American. Suomilainen
My grandmother is going to have a kick outta these guys

martinloyola wrote:I didn't know of any Suomi bands.

Sorry, I don't understand. What does that mean?

....skillet....jk, well there is a fairly new band called emery, i would consider them hardcore, not sure if its the same as metal, they are really good though

Suomi = Finland (in finnish)

I am half Finnish and half Norewegian

MartinLoyola: do you speak finnish? (at least you know the word suomalainen...)

There are actually a lot of bands coming from Finland... heavy bands.. I think they are known for that in Europa.. VictoryZine is sweedish as I understood, and he has some other finnish bands on his web page too(Sweden is neighbour to Finland)...

Europe, and mainly the Scandinavean areas (Norway, Finland, Sweden, etc...) have the best metal I am convinced. Both, secular and Christian.

Glitch 1501: No, hardcore isn't the same as metal. It's ahh... think of punk rock, only more aggressive with harsh, monotone yelling. Thats if your talking about old-school hardcore. New School... I hate those phrases, they just sound cheesy... or metalcore as it's called now is basically just that with metal influences. Metalcore covers a very broad area.. even though most of that area seems to have been covered and copied to the point of annoyance.