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Tolerance

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Recently i have been saved. I am a musician myself. I have been attracted to metal and progressive rock for a good 30 yrs. Recently my eyes were opened to the deception in not just these genres but all genres. All of a sudden i was clearly seeing polyrhythems and mind control devises ( as crazy as it sounds ) in all my favorite stuff. E.g. Tool.
Ugh... now i am completely turned off by all music. I would like to find some wholesome stuff but cant bring myself enjoy gospel. I am hesitant about christain metal. The whole apeal of metal in the first place was the power and emotion, the deep growls and double bass. I cant take seriously Christian metal that growls. Why do they wanna sound scary ? Can someone point me in the right direction ? I really need some music. I cant pick up my guitar without automatically going to the old songs.
I guess im looking for someone who used to listen to the same stuff to tell what they did...
 
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Ultimatum77

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[video=youtube;mNnGTN0koxw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNnGTN0koxw[/video]

While not Christian metal, still very good worship album from the Newsboys (old group w/peter furler). Has a U2-esque sound in some of the songs. I think you may like it also is good for personal worship singing along to God. Jmo.
 
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Willie-T

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Here's "Hey Jude"
[video=youtube;7lq-H9e77MM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lq-H9e77MM[/video]
 
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Willie-T

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This one certainly isn't "music", but it tickles the daylights out of me.
[video]https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=&oq=apologetix+y&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS640US640&q=apologetix+yhwh&gs_l=hp..1.0l3j0i22i30l2.0.0.1.1527752...........0 .X-jXSYyh-94[/video]
 
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MadParrotWoman

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Yep I get where you're coming from. We don't see the evil in secular music before we are saved and then suddenly we notice dark undertones. Having said this I do still listen to secular music - not heavy rock or metal though. I also enjoy Christian music and old-style gospel. There is one Christian group who sing all old Motown stuff but with Christian lyrics....their name escapes me right now. I guess that wouldn't be to your liking either though...

I know it's tough converting.
 
Magenta

Magenta

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Jul 3, 2015
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matt maher alive again
[video=youtube;r6w5szlpedY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6w5szlpedY[/video]

I woke up in darkness surrounded by silence
Oh where, where have I gone?
I woke to reality losing its grip on me
Oh where, where have I gone?

'Cause I can see the light before I see the sunrise

You called and You shouted
Broke through my deafness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again

You shattered my darkness
Washed away my blindness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again

Late have I loved You
You waited for me
I searched for You
What took me so long?

I was looking outside
As if love would ever want to hide
I'm finding I was wrong

'Cause I could feel the wind before it hits my skin

You called and You shouted
Broke through my deafness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again

You shattered my darkness
Washed away my blindness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again, I'm alive again

'Cause I want You, yes, I want You, I need You
And I'll do whatever I have to just to get through
'Cause I love You, yeah, I love You

You called and You shouted
Broke through my deafness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again

You shattered my darkness
Washed away my blindness
Now I'm breathing in and breathing out
I'm alive again​
 
Magenta

Magenta

Senior Member
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Jul 3, 2015
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bebo norman never saw you coming

[video=youtube;ab4hOK6Yias]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab4hOK6Yias[/video]​


I am the lonely, the ones who slip away​
I am the secret, the words we dare not say
I am the promise I'm about to break again

I am the leader who cannot find the way
I am the preacher who somehow lost the faith
I am the beggar reaching out my hands again

And I never saw you coming
I could never dream of running
I have never known such love before my God

You come, come and breathe Your breath in me
Steal away what's left of me
'Til You are mine and I am Yours

I am the lover with no one to hold
I am the seeker with an empty soul
I'm everyone who's ever lost hope

And I never saw you coming
I could never dream of running
​
I have never known such love before my God

You come, come and breathe Your breath in me
Steal away what's left of me
'Til You are mine and I am Yours

Fall like stars
On my shore
Still you are
So much more

And I never saw you coming
I could never dream of running
I have never known such love before my God

You come, come and breathe Your breath in me
Steal away what's left of me
'Til You are mine and I am Yours
I am Yours

* * * * * * * * * * * *

I love modern praise and worship music!​


 
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Ugly

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Before I was saved the hardest music I listened to was 80s hair metal. And even some of that I was afraid of due to being told 'rock is evil'. After I got saved my interest in metal styles actually grew. I began getting into heavier and heavier Christian bands. 26 years later and I have grown in my tastes, but I am still a metal head at my core. I currently have nearly 2000 albums on my laptop. A large majority are Christian metal and other similar genres (punk, industrial, etc). Never once in my life have I second guessed my music.

Why is is emotion and power a bad thing? We serve a God full of might and power.
We serve a God who came to earth and cried tears of sorrow with his followers. Whose power and anger caused him to turn tables and run people out of the temple. He experienced so much fear he literally cried tears of blood. He loved his family, his friends, his followers and everyone else met. He stood up and defied the religious government of his time with righteous anger as he rebuked them.
The story of Jesus and many others in the bible are full of emotion. Full of power.
To me there is no better music than a band playing with heart, power, passion, emotion and screaming out their lungs in praise to God. Or taking stands against the evils in this world.
Christians with no power and emotion are drones, and this is not how God created people to live.

A sinner celebrating and singing his sin with passion is more real and more respectable to me than a Christian half heartedly singing along to some trite, commercialized 'worship' music.
 
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Tolerance

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May 17, 2016
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I fully understand what you are saying and agree. I was trying to say , in regards to the emotion and power is the power of emotion in " secular " music mostly stemed from pain and anger, and hatred. After becoming saved those emotions have changed and now i find a void where i used to sympathize.
I suppose i am looking for something to help me transition into music that is pleasing to the lord. Isnt that what music is for ? To glorify God.
I like what you said about diversity. I hear you bro.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Dunno. I used to hate metal when I was younger. Then I started listening to Metallica, Hammerfall etc.... A bit later I discovered Opeth and Sonata Arctica. I still listen to it now and then. I don't like growling either, but that's just because I like understanding what's said in the lyrics :p

...Thing is, if you consider "worldly" music sinful, and gospel music boring.... then you just have to not listen to music :p

Try last.fm and browse the bands you like... it will list similar artists.
Or you can do a search by genre.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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What is pleasing to the Lord is when our hearts ae in it.

Praise the Lord.[SUP]a[/SUP] Praise God in his sanctuary;

Praise him in his mighty heavens.

Praise him for his acts of power;

Praise him for his surpassing greatness.

Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,

Praise him with the harp and lyre,

Praise him with timbrel and dancing,

Praise him with the strings and pipe,

Praise him with the clash of cymbals,

Praise him with resounding cymbals.


Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.


Praise the Lord.
 
Bushido8000

Bushido8000

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Tolerance said:
Recently i have been saved. I am a musician myself. I have been attracted to metal and progressive rock for a good 30 yrs. Recently my eyes were opened to the deception in not just these genres but all genres. All of a sudden i was clearly seeing polyrhythems and mind control devises ( as crazy as it sounds ) in all my favorite stuff. E.g. Tool.
Ugh... now i am completely turned off by all music. I would like to find some wholesome stuff but cant bring myself enjoy gospel. I am hesitant about christain metal. The whole apeal of metal in the first place was the power and emotion, the deep growls and double bass. I cant take seriously Christian metal that growls. Why do they wanna sound scary ? Can someone point me in the right direction ? I really need some music. I cant pick up my guitar without automatically going to the old songs.
I guess im looking for someone who used to listen to the same stuff to tell what they did...
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As a musician myself I understand exactly what you're talking about. Tool's music really dives headfirst into the occult. I unfortunately don't have a lot of advice for you. I still listen to secular bands but I do a lot of research into who they are and what kind of music they are pumping out.

The reason why you go to the old songs with the guitar is that there is an incredible imbalance of talent between secular and Christian bands. If you play like Slash or Sinister Gates, why in the world would you choose to play Christian metal/rock where half of your potential demographic thinks metal/rock is unChristian and secular listeners think you're a joke and wont listen to you because you're a Christian band?There's just no money in it and you have to fight an uphill battle your entire career.

This leaves mostly semi-talented artists to take the stage in the Christian music industry. Creative geniuses tend to want to get paid.

Sad but true...no pun intended...
 
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Nautilus

Nautilus

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[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uk7_8HUI3c[/video]

Maybe
 
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