Hardcore Music

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Joe_5859 said:
So what type of music do you listen to? I’m very curious! Most people that condemn rock music seem to elevate classical music with the same motion. It’s very interesting to me that you criticize both of them!
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I listen to Gregorian Chant
and Korean Catholic Requiem Chant
 
Music is a fantastic representation of the remarkable gifts of creativity that God has graced us with, and it can take many forms. As long as the music in question isn’t a perversion of God’s gifts and it won’t damage you, go right ahead.
 
There is actually a style of music called hardcore, for anyone who didn’t know that. It’s a broad category for music heavily influenced by punk and metal, but with most genre classifications, the lines are fuzzy. I listen to a lot of Christian punk, hardcore; and a lot in between.

take a listen to some of my favorites:

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profile.myspace.com/anberlin
profile.myspace.com/ohsleeper
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profile.myspace.com/beloved
profile.myspace.com/jesuswept
profile.myspace.com/warofages
profile.myspace.com/xlookingforwardx

Christian Record Labels: metal / hardcore
facedownrecords.com/news.html
solidstaterecords.com/main.php

Sort of Christian: indie / powerpop
toothandnail.com/front.php

There is nothing even mildly wrong with heavy music with a moral and positive message. I’m willing to bet that outwardly christian bands have helped plenty of teens find or stay true to their faith, no matter how heavy they are. I have listened to heavy music for a long time: it hasn’t turned me into an evil creature out to corrupt and ruin souls.
 
Some of those are pretty good, I listen to like Underoath, ect.
 
I find nothing offensive about any music but listen to mainstream rock mostly.
 
‘Hardcore music’ is vague. It’s really the lyrics that matter, not the instrumental music in itself. But as someone person touched on the point here that it depends on the person.

I had a rather depressing end of teenage year, when I was around 18/19. I used to listen to Megadeth all the time, their lyrics were rather depressing and I never seemed to get out the cycle. Now Megadeth has absolutely no effect on some others, but for me, when I hear them, it takes me back to my trouble times.

Some people hear depressing songs and are actually strengthened by it, the fact that others experience the same troubles and they connect with the artist, but some don’t.

Blasphemous music isn’t allowed. I used to listen to Iron Maiden at some point, I still do, but I limit what I listen to, I do not listen to ‘The Number of the Beast’ or anything with references to Satan.

So examine the lyrics and examine how you feel about such music, if it’s negative, you shouldn’t be listening to it.
 
Kitteh,

Kamelot is cool, but for Prog-Metal I prefer Dark Moor or Rhapsody…y’all listen to them at all?
Kitteh said:
I listen to a lot of heavy metal, as well as classical music, jazz (big band, lounge), alternative, electronic. I find good heavy metal to be very inspiring and driving. I do not listen to death metal (Cannibal Corpse for instance), because the way the vocals are screamed in that deep, roaring way make me feel physically uneasy and ill and there’s really no astounding talent involved. Besides, the lyrics are horrible. One of Cannibal Corpse’s songs is called “Meat-Hook Sodomy”. There you go. :eek:

However, there is some fantastic metal I listen to, with great, meaningful lyrics. One of my favorite metal bands is Kamelot (progessive metal; metal with strings or an orchestra to accompany them.). Here’s the first verse to one of their songs, “The Human Stain”:

Talk about the growing hunger
Ask why with deep concern
Don’t you think
the human race is ceaselessly vain

But it hurts to be alive, my friend
In this silent tide we’re driftwood passing by
Don’t you wish you were a child again
Just for a minute
just for a minute more

Though the lyrics are depressing and dark, I love this sort of music because that is how I feel sometimes. It makes me feel better to listen to music that expresses how I am feeling at the moment.

As a musician myself, I think metal, when done well, can be extremely moving and powerful. I don’t think it’s healthy to listen to music loaded with f-bombs and derogatory sexual language, but I’m not sure if it’s necessarily a sin.

Er…how does classical music dissipate the mind? That sounds like a joke. God gave musicians a gift, and he wishes for them to use it the way he intended.
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Anybody ever heard about Underoath. They are a hardcore death metal band who is Christian. Yes, here are the lyrics to one of their songs, it’s pro-life.

A Burden in Your Hands/Act of Depression/Underoath
Confusing and scared there is a decision made with this choice a child has to pay
She puts it’s life in her hands, and then she destroys it’s only chance to become someone in life
You should of thought about the baby before you had sex, because you have destroyed a gift from God
You kill, you destroyed
Never will this baby be able to grow up or show it’s love
You’ll never hear it say I love you, I love you
God does not give you the privilege to carry a child for nothing
When you kill, you destroy that child’s dreams and hopes
How innocent a baby is… how can you put it to death?
What if you were aborted… you could of never had life
And now you make a choice to take this child’s life because it is a burden in you hands
A burden in your hands
Destroyed out of convenience
They put an end to you life because you’re too big a burden and one that they can not have
So they take your life before your first breath
When will it stop, the killings continue
Babies die everyday because of a pro choice made
Helpless and innocent they are put to death
Then why did the parents choose to plant a seed and then destroy it?
Pray for the people who are killing the kids of tomorrow
How desperately they need Jesus Christ in there hearts
So they take your life because your a burden in their hands
Destroyed out of convenience
They put a end to you life because you’re too big a burden and one that they can not have
So they take your life before your first breath,
so they take your life before your first breath
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holdencaulfield said:
Anybody ever heard about Underoath. They are a hardcore death metal band who is Christian. Yes, here are the lyrics to one of their songs, it’s pro-life.

A Burden in Your Hands/Act of Depression/Underoath
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I’ve not heard of them. My favorite pro-life metal song is “If I Were A Killer” by the Galactic Cowboys. They’re not death metal, though, just melodic heavy metal.
 
7rosario said:
I listen to Gregorian Chant
and Korean Catholic Requiem Chant
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I really don’t think God cares what we listen to as long as it isn’t blasphemous. “The devil’s chord” (the diminished chord) may have been taboo in Palestrina’s days, but that was ages ago in the world of music history.
 
Isidore_AK said:
Kitteh,

Kamelot is cool, but for Prog-Metal I prefer Dark Moor or Rhapsody…y’all listen to them at all?
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I haven’t heard of them, I will have to check them out.

Concerning Underoath, I can’t stand death metal. The lyrics are not understandable, the lead singers scream themselves hoarse, and it just gives me a headache. Underoath’s music is decent, but I can’t stand the vocals.
 
Kitteh said:
I haven’t heard of them, I will have to check them out.

Concerning Underoath, I can’t stand death metal. The lyrics are not understandable, the lead singers scream themselves hoarse, and it just gives me a headache. Underoath’s music is decent, but I can’t stand the vocals.
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I like them, however I really like the lyrics. I think there whole goal was to secretly make people become Christian. They are the only death metal I listen to, on account of death metal is usually violent and blasphemous. Underoath seems to be one of the few exceptions.
 
Mystic_Warrior said:
I used to own Slayer albums, Dio, Metallica and many other metal bands. Slayer is absolutely Satanic. They themselves leave no room for question on that issue. This music is used to corrupt the masses and the wicked and vile, blasphemous pagan god Pan is the culprit. I was mislead for many years with this kind of music as a teenager. I now realize of course that Satan and his lower minions use music to implant doubts and invoke emotions that are unhealthy.

By the way, this weekend I’ll be updating my blog with a post about Pan and his relation to music.

Peace…

MW
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In defense of Slayer’s lead singer said that the song like God Hates Us All, he said, “God doesn’t hate, it’s just an aggressive song title” meaning he doesn’t really think God is evil or that Satan is really a great ally to humans. This point was backed up by him saying in that metal documentary (cant recall the name off hand) he said that they don’t really believe in Satan or that his power is real and it was more about shock, much like Black Sabbath was.
 
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