Zone, the music that As I lay dying plays is very catchy to the ear of any one who can appreciate metal. The lyrics of the song always remind me to put my focus back not on my self or my own feelings but on God's word. However, I am not dependent of that music to realize this. This lyrics are inspired by the Holy Spirit and it the music is pleasant to listen to.
Is Christian Metal bad?
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Exactly. We agree on something 
That was kind of a joke... but since you put it out there...
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
How do you know that it's not sung to metal? There's no music...
Here I'm going to post a metal song. It's a Christian one and it really does praise God in a similar way like that above. Please tell me what you think of the song after you listen to it and the lyrics... You don't have to like it but, I still wouldn't mind hearing your opinion (or anyone in the "metal is bad camp")
Here is the song: YouTube - ‪Theocracy - On Eagles Wings‬‏
And here's the lyrics so you can read and listen and understand everything:
"The tears stream down her face onto the cold hospital bed
Just like a prisoner between four ugly walls
The fear she can't control is running rampant in her head
With every day she spent just waiting for that call
And I will never leave her side
We walk the tightrope between faith and fear
Each moment of our lives
But then the darkest hour of night is turned to day
Another miracle, another act unfolding in this play
And I'm blown away
The wine overflows, and my cup runneth over again
My thankfulness grows
with these blessings I can't comprehend
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
I looked him in the eye and played these words
over and over in my mind
But that can't be what he just said
I heard it for myself and know that life can be unkind
But can't you see I'm much too young to lose my dad?
But I'm blown away
When you laugh at the odds
for the doctor's cannot know your plans
I'm blown away
You hold the keys to all life and death and all time
in your hands
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
Every tribe and every nation
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Lift a song of praise on high on eagles' wings]
All in heaven, all creation
Let the tongues of men and angels
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Let your heart reach to the sky on eagles' wings]
All ye blessed, all ye thankful, sing!
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You life the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings"
That was kind of a joke... but since you put it out there...
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
How do you know that it's not sung to metal?
There's no music...Here I'm going to post a metal song. It's a Christian one and it really does praise God in a similar way like that above. Please tell me what you think of the song after you listen to it and the lyrics... You don't have to like it but, I still wouldn't mind hearing your opinion (or anyone in the "metal is bad camp")
Here is the song: YouTube - ‪Theocracy - On Eagles Wings‬‏
And here's the lyrics so you can read and listen and understand everything:
"The tears stream down her face onto the cold hospital bed
Just like a prisoner between four ugly walls
The fear she can't control is running rampant in her head
With every day she spent just waiting for that call
And I will never leave her side
We walk the tightrope between faith and fear
Each moment of our lives
But then the darkest hour of night is turned to day
Another miracle, another act unfolding in this play
And I'm blown away
The wine overflows, and my cup runneth over again
My thankfulness grows
with these blessings I can't comprehend
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
I looked him in the eye and played these words
over and over in my mind
But that can't be what he just said
I heard it for myself and know that life can be unkind
But can't you see I'm much too young to lose my dad?
But I'm blown away
When you laugh at the odds
for the doctor's cannot know your plans
I'm blown away
You hold the keys to all life and death and all time
in your hands
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
Every tribe and every nation
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Lift a song of praise on high on eagles' wings]
All in heaven, all creation
Let the tongues of men and angels
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Let your heart reach to the sky on eagles' wings]
All ye blessed, all ye thankful, sing!
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You life the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings"
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Exactly. We agree on something "
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That was kind of a joke... but since you put it out there...
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
How do you know that it's not sung to metal? There's no music...
Here I'm going to post a metal song. It's a Christian one and it really does praise God in a similar way like that above. Please tell me what you think of the song after you listen to it and the lyrics... You don't have to like it but, I still wouldn't mind hearing your opinion (or anyone in the "metal is bad camp")
Here is the song: YouTube - ‪Theocracy - On Eagles Wings‬‏
And here's the lyrics so you can read and listen and understand everything:
"The tears stream down her face onto the cold hospital bed
Just like a prisoner between four ugly walls
The fear she can't control is running rampant in her head
With every day she spent just waiting for that call
And I will never leave her side
We walk the tightrope between faith and fear
Each moment of our lives
But then the darkest hour of night is turned to day
Another miracle, another act unfolding in this play
And I'm blown away
The wine overflows, and my cup runneth over again
My thankfulness grows
with these blessings I can't comprehend
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
I looked him in the eye and played these words
over and over in my mind
But that can't be what he just said
I heard it for myself and know that life can be unkind
But can't you see I'm much too young to lose my dad?
But I'm blown away
When you laugh at the odds
for the doctor's cannot know your plans
I'm blown away
You hold the keys to all life and death and all time
in your hands
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
Every tribe and every nation
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Lift a song of praise on high on eagles' wings]
All in heaven, all creation
Let the tongues of men and angels
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Let your heart reach to the sky on eagles' wings]
All ye blessed, all ye thankful, sing!
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You life the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings"
“Worthy are you, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they existed and were created.”
How do you know that it's not sung to metal?
There's no music...Here I'm going to post a metal song. It's a Christian one and it really does praise God in a similar way like that above. Please tell me what you think of the song after you listen to it and the lyrics... You don't have to like it but, I still wouldn't mind hearing your opinion (or anyone in the "metal is bad camp")
Here is the song: YouTube - ‪Theocracy - On Eagles Wings‬‏
And here's the lyrics so you can read and listen and understand everything:
"The tears stream down her face onto the cold hospital bed
Just like a prisoner between four ugly walls
The fear she can't control is running rampant in her head
With every day she spent just waiting for that call
And I will never leave her side
We walk the tightrope between faith and fear
Each moment of our lives
But then the darkest hour of night is turned to day
Another miracle, another act unfolding in this play
And I'm blown away
The wine overflows, and my cup runneth over again
My thankfulness grows
with these blessings I can't comprehend
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
I looked him in the eye and played these words
over and over in my mind
But that can't be what he just said
I heard it for myself and know that life can be unkind
But can't you see I'm much too young to lose my dad?
But I'm blown away
When you laugh at the odds
for the doctor's cannot know your plans
I'm blown away
You hold the keys to all life and death and all time
in your hands
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You lift the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings
Every tribe and every nation
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Lift a song of praise on high on eagles' wings]
All in heaven, all creation
Let the tongues of men and angels
(Lift your voices and sing)
[Let your heart reach to the sky on eagles' wings]
All ye blessed, all ye thankful, sing!
You raise my spirit to the sky above to fly away
To fly on eagles' wings
You life the fallen back on high again to coronate
The King above all kings
All honor
All glory
Raised to Your Majesty on eagles' wings"
if i need to have the written lyrics to understand everything i already have a problem.
the noise is not beauty, which is part of God's Holy Character.
the lyrics mention God, evidencing that apparently the person believes. that's it.
the rest of it is human nostaligia, sentimentality, and it is man-centered.
i get that you like it. that's cool.
so just call it music you like: but please don't represent it as holy or glorifying God - it isn't and it doesn't.
L
1 Kings 19:11-12
(11) And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
(12) And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
(11) And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:
(12) And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
J
There are those who think the majority of the music we play in many churches today to be inappropriate and some who think instruments of any kind in the church to be evil. While there have been times that I have had to alter lyrics before being personally comfortable with songs of different genres before playing them in a service, I have never found any genre of christian music to be evil. Perhaps some of it is simply not quite the joyful noise to one as it is to another, much like personal preferences regarding versions of scripture. There are even those who think the Internet is evil and may likely think all of us are as well for using it to discuss matters of faith.
King David, a man after God's own heart, was mocked for the way he celebrated before the Lord and the one who mocked him was punished, so we obviously need to be very careful about that.
Don't really have anything else to say on the topic...moving on.
I Corinthians 9 - 19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
King David, a man after God's own heart, was mocked for the way he celebrated before the Lord and the one who mocked him was punished, so we obviously need to be very careful about that.
Don't really have anything else to say on the topic...moving on.
I Corinthians 9 - 19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
19 Though I am free and belong to no one, I have made myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible. 20 To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), so as to win those under the law. 21 To those not having the law I became like one not having the law (though I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law), so as to win those not having the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some. 23 I do all this for the sake of the gospel, that I may share in its blessings.
I know this is an old post, but came across it while looking for christian metal. It's obvious reading through some of the responses here that opinions very greatly, and I tend to agree with adrian, princessbella, blindside_chick.
I believe God is the creater of all things, and music is one of those things. Every form of musical sound(including metal) imaginable, is known to God long before humans discovered it . Nothing is new under the sun to Him who has made all things.
Metal at its heart(from a human discovery point of view) is simply a progession in music that fuses the sounds of various other musical elements. Just like many other musical styles that have come before it. How it is presented by the people who play it dictates its direction for good or bad in my opinion.
To me, christian metal has a real feel of spiritual warefare, and being vigilante. So no, I would say christian metal isn't bad, but it also isn't everyones cup of tea. I respect that, because I know God made each one of us different. Personal preferences shouldn't be forced on anyone in this regard.
I believe God is the creater of all things, and music is one of those things. Every form of musical sound(including metal) imaginable, is known to God long before humans discovered it . Nothing is new under the sun to Him who has made all things.
Metal at its heart(from a human discovery point of view) is simply a progession in music that fuses the sounds of various other musical elements. Just like many other musical styles that have come before it. How it is presented by the people who play it dictates its direction for good or bad in my opinion.
To me, christian metal has a real feel of spiritual warefare, and being vigilante. So no, I would say christian metal isn't bad, but it also isn't everyones cup of tea. I respect that, because I know God made each one of us different. Personal preferences shouldn't be forced on anyone in this regard.
R
Having myself booked a concert for As i lay dying,with Society's finest and riseoverrun back before As i Lay dying got signed to metalblade..i can concur..Tim Lambesis is a humble man..and was able to show Christ to the owner of the venue,who was an atheist Vegan straightedge guy..but who totally dropped his guard when he heard the band's music..
Not everyone is gonna dig Steven Curtis Chapman or DC talk..
So like Paul says..He became all things to all men..so he may win some..
I totally believe God can use whatever..even metal..i have seen it..ive seen the heart of these musicians..and others..like former bands now defunct, falling cycle and Point of Recognition..
Not everyone is gonna dig Steven Curtis Chapman or DC talk..
So like Paul says..He became all things to all men..so he may win some..
I totally believe God can use whatever..even metal..i have seen it..ive seen the heart of these musicians..and others..like former bands now defunct, falling cycle and Point of Recognition..
T
Zone,
LOL this christian
I read just about all your posts and your "beliefs," are opinion based, not truth. Give me scriptures proving that Metal is evil. Don't forget to use it in context
Oh and if Metal isn't music than play me Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater on guitar. If that is to easy for you, post me you doing the whole band cover by yourself (which you ALL learned by ear.) By the way, do you play a 7 string guitar atleast? Explain time signatures. What tone do you use on your amp? What kind or how many pedals do you need to have a Djent sound. What is Djent? Have a nice day
LOL this christian
I read just about all your posts and your "beliefs," are opinion based, not truth. Give me scriptures proving that Metal is evil. Don't forget to use it in context
Oh and if Metal isn't music than play me Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater on guitar. If that is to easy for you, post me you doing the whole band cover by yourself (which you ALL learned by ear.) By the way, do you play a 7 string guitar atleast? Explain time signatures. What tone do you use on your amp? What kind or how many pedals do you need to have a Djent sound. What is Djent? Have a nice day
H
Zone,
LOL this christian
I read just about all your posts and your "beliefs," are opinion based, not truth. Give me scriptures proving that Metal is evil. Don't forget to use it in context
Oh and if Metal isn't music than play me Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater on guitar. If that is to easy for you, post me you doing the whole band cover by yourself (which you ALL learned by ear.) By the way, do you play a 7 string guitar atleast? Explain time signatures. What tone do you use on your amp? What kind or how many pedals do you need to have a Djent sound. What is Djent? Have a nice day
LOL this christian
I read just about all your posts and your "beliefs," are opinion based, not truth. Give me scriptures proving that Metal is evil. Don't forget to use it in context
Oh and if Metal isn't music than play me Dance of Eternity by Dream Theater on guitar. If that is to easy for you, post me you doing the whole band cover by yourself (which you ALL learned by ear.) By the way, do you play a 7 string guitar atleast? Explain time signatures. What tone do you use on your amp? What kind or how many pedals do you need to have a Djent sound. What is Djent? Have a nice day