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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
yeah, this might be true for bands that sound like green day or papa roach, but black metal is a style of music where an anti christianity, pro satanist, or pro pagan stance is a given for every single band in the genre, so for a black metal band to come as being christian is firstly bizarre and pretty much antithetical to the founding concepts of the style, secondly has taken about 20 years to happen because who the fuck in their right minds starts a christian band within a supposedly satanic subculture? thirdly is marginalising yourself within something that is totally underground and obscure anyway, and fourthly the bands i linked are never going to sell many records (and by that i mean i'd be shocked if any of these groups sells more than more than 500 copies of their records) due the fucked up harsh nature of their music. which is to say no body who only christian music is ever going to hear about this stuff because of where is comes from and what it sounds like.
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I agree with you in regards to the artists, if they are sincere, after all, I am probably the only Orthodox Christian at the Subhumans casually ignoring the first line of
No because I so passionately believe in the rest of the song...
art reflects the human experience, and music is the most potent of these reflections..
but with current, commercial Christian music, there is often a nefarious agenda having nothing to do with either art nor Jesus, but rather a sinister plot to monopolize the $$$ of the industry, replacing so-called "secular music" (a term I have never in my life heard except from these christian music industry sleeze balls) with "christian alternatives"..
exploiting Jesus to sell albums just rubs me the wrong way, both as a musician first and a christian second, however, the genuine and sincere Christian music I can understand completely, because even Sonic Youth is christian to me, by the feelings it creates in me as a Christian, which after all is the point of art.. and at times, there is nothing darker and more depressing than Christianity, the dirges of Lent I think carry the exact feeling of the darkest metal..
All art is Christian to the devout Christian faithful.