Metal Weekend - Another Trio of Heavy-hitting Positivity

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Another Christian Metal Sampler

Hello again, my fellow metal Steemians! I'm back again with another series of posts, and what better way to kick things off than with another trio of samples from my favorite musical genre. So, get your ears ready 'cause it's time to blast out some loud tunes again for another #metalweekend post.

For this blog I've decided to showcase again some samples from the unfairly maligned and often misunderstood style called Christian metal, and the subgenres it had spawned. Metal music began life as a heavier form of hard rock, and quickly became the anthem of rebelliousness, freedom, non-conformity, and hedonism of anti-establishment marginalized youth, with some even taking their rebelliousness to the extreme by being staunchly anti-Christian.

This prevailing anti-Christian attitude in the metal scene, particularly in the underground metal scene revolving around the extreme metal genres and subgenres largely followed by freethinkers, atheists, pagans, and Satanists, has led to the ostracization of Christian metal bands and their followers.

To metal purists, such bands were regarded as posers untrue to the metal cause of non-subservience and non-conformity, and in some cases even being threatened with bodily harm or death.

So, if metal is an expression of rebellion against accepted beliefs and establishments, with all this evil and Godlessness going on in the world becoming the norm nowadays, the positive attitude and message of Christian metal, serves as a perfect antithesis to the chaos and disorder going on in the world today.

That said, Christian metal cannot be accused of being untrue to the metal cause, when it is in fact being true to the metal spirit by upholding the right to freedom of expression, and providing a means to rebel against its oppressive brethren.

The Songs

This is a song from the crossover thrash band, The Crucified, and from their The Pillars of Humanity album released in 1991. I first heard this song in the radio back in 1994, during a Holy Week Christian Metal segment in the rock/metal station I listened to in those days. I wasn't able to get the name of the band, but the chorus was something I could never forget, so armed with that snippet of lyric, I was able to track them down on the Internet.

Here is a sample of a genre called black metal, known for its often anti-Christian pagan and blatantly Satanic themes. This song is from a Christian band who have adapted the black metal sound, and infused it with positive and unapologetically Christian lyrics. The band is Antestor, and they hail from Norway, the black metal capital of the world. They call their brand of music unblack metal, due to their lyrics being the polar opposite of pure black metal.

And, for the last, I bring you another tune from a progressive/power metal band I've featured before in another post, Theocracy. This song is from their Mirror of Souls album, and the track that introduced me to their music, back in 2009. Bible readers will recognize the verses from Ephesians 6:10-19 in the lyrics.

And that's it for this edition of #metalweekend. Until my next post, horns up, and keep on rocking! Thank you for reading, and I hope you were entertained, and found this post informative, or even helpful in some way. God Bless you all, and have a nice day.

Metal Weekend - Another Trio of Heavy-hitting Positivity

Another Christian Metal Sampler

The Songs

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