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Post by Josh on May 14, 2009 19:07:20 GMT -8
Ok, since I have learned the discipline of self-deprecation, I'm not afraid to start this thread.
Who else is not afraid to fly their ultimate freak flag and identify with one of the Jesus' Movement's rebel step-children?
Much of this music I laugh at now (but still from time to time take for a spin for nostalgia's sake). But some of it I really do credit with some serious spiritual formation in my life.
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Post by meghan on May 14, 2009 22:01:34 GMT -8
None of it. I'm too young. I recognize the names, from references, but just never listened. I'm more of a late 90's/early 2000s christian indie girl myself.
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Post by meghan on May 14, 2009 22:05:29 GMT -8
wait wait wait! The real question is who used to read HM (Heaven's Metal) back in the day!?
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Post by ryan on May 15, 2009 8:45:15 GMT -8
I did read Heaven's Metal a couple of times. I really got into Bride as well as a couple of the artists on the list. I am familiar with the other artists, but I wouldn't necessarily say that I "enjoyed" them. I knew people that got into Bloodgood, but I never heard much. It took me a while to get into Stryper, but I did. They came out with an album recently...I would be curious to hear it sometime.
In my opinion the best "Hard Rock" "Christian" act was King's X. Little known trivia: The bassist/ lead singer - Doug Pinnick and drummer Jerry Gaskill were on Phil Keaggy's Phlip Side album.
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Post by meghan on May 15, 2009 11:18:51 GMT -8
Wait- Wasn't King's X like... a cover band that changed lyrics ala Weird Al?
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Post by ryan on May 15, 2009 13:32:59 GMT -8
I don't believe that King's X has covered anything except a Jimi Hendrix tune. Their name literally means "King is Christ". They have successfully passed themselves off as a secular band, and a couple of the members have tried to distance themselves from traditional Christianity. Their sound, I would describe as Jimi Hendrix meets the Beatles and perform hard rock alternative.
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Post by Josh on May 15, 2009 15:57:29 GMT -8
Bloodgood was my first intro the world of CHM. Not the best, but their album Detonation was like nothing I had ever heard. As far as standing the test of time, I'd say Deliverance had some quality stuff. They even did a cover of Terry Taylor's "Horrendous Disc" and co-produced an album with him. Never really got into King's X but a friend of mine had one of their albums. Yeah, and was it autographed by Pastor Bob Beeman of the first church of heavy metal (aka the Sanctuary) ;D
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Post by Michael on Jan 9, 2011 11:00:48 GMT -8
Hey Josh, remember this band? Kind of a one-hit non-wonder, but I liked the title track. Plus the album cover artwork was really cool to a Christian teenage kid in the late 80's! I was playing this for my kids, and I think they had a hard time believing I used to like this kind of music....
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Post by stevekimes on Jan 9, 2011 21:21:00 GMT -8
I really used to like Bride as well as Bloodgood. Stryper had a couple songs I liked.
Later I found that most metal bored me. Daniel Amos and Pink Floyd were a lot more interesting to me.
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Post by Michael on Jan 10, 2011 18:04:51 GMT -8
Yeah, even in my teenage years, I actually would tire of heavy metal after a few songs. Then I'd go back to mellower stuff. As a forty year old today, I have a difficult time even getting through one song!
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Post by stevekimes on Jan 17, 2011 17:55:58 GMT -8
The funny thing is that I find a lot of 80's metal to be pretty tame compared to some of the music I listen to now. Nirvana-, U2- and Radiohead-influenced bands are a lot more intense (and interesting) than most of the old metal. There are some Switchfoot songs that run rings around the "hard" metal of yesteryear. And some of the newer worship bands like So Long Forgotten blow them all away.
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Post by ryan on Jan 28, 2011 12:15:05 GMT -8
I misspoke when I said that members of King's X were on Phlip Side. I am still pretty certain that they were on a Keaggy album somewhere. I have been getting into a Holy Soldier album lately. I've had it for a while, but never really played it. They had kind of a Whitesnake meets Queensryche.
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Post by Josh on Jan 28, 2011 17:26:57 GMT -8
What Holy Soldier album- first vocalist or second?
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Post by ryan on Feb 8, 2011 14:38:09 GMT -8
I was referring to their first album "Holy Soldier". Upon further listening over the last week or so, I hear a lot of influences.
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