Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…
Addendum: https://youtu.be/KSTFKJqy9AQ
Bach rules.
Five Iron Frenzy. Christian ska band.
What other band is going to write a song about Different Strokes? FIF is still part of my regular rotation.
Also, basing a love song on a reference to Gauntlet.
Is Skillet a Christian band? They’ve got a couple songs I like.
Monster, Hero…
It’s not technically a Christian band but Creed has a couple banger songs that are very clearly about God/religion.
If a song slaps a song slaps. I don’t care if it slaps while it talkes about something I don’t personally believe in. I still listen to all kinds of hardcore rap and I have never done any drugs harder than shrooms or shot anybody.
WITH AHHHHMS WIDE OPEN~~~
Can you take meeee hiiigherrrrr (banawanylanaoooo)
It’s only possible to sing along to this song with your full chest.
Christian or not, Creed does not slap.
To each their own. I fuck with creed.
Sister Christian by Night Ranger. 😉
Ha
“Spirit In The Sky” -by Norman Greenbaum (himself Jewish)
I used to get down with some Collective Soul.
I always respected that they refused to identify as a Christian rock band. From what I recall their response was something like “We’re a rock band, that happens to be Christian.”
They’ve got a lot of good material, glad to see them in this thread
P.O.D. - Satellite and earlier albums.
Seeking the Wise still makes it onto my rock playlists.
Depends what you call Christian music
NF got pretty big for a while, and pretty sure he never swore because of his religion and talked often about Christianity and his faith while promoting the Christian beliefs that are actually in the Bible and admitting his own struggles and overcoming them thru faith and hard work.
That is Christian music to me.
I mean, it’s not even really debatable, he’s signed to a label exclusively for Christian musical acts.
But music that is explicitly all about Jesus is usually just cashgrabs with zero meaning behind it. It’s playing to the low denominator for things where “safe” is the most important part of music.
So, TLDR:
NF
I hate cashgrab music. You can clearly tell the difference between it and Christian music written (much of it centuries old) out of passion and love
Starflyer 59!!
Quite a lot of folk hymnals absolutely slap.
Check the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou?
Black gospel music has often been the only Christian-oriented music that really did it for me. A lot of blues, soul, etc was created by folks who got their start in black gospel music, and used what they learned there in secular genres. Hugely influential in so many different types of music.
August burns red
The devil wears prada
Underoath
Silent planet
Texas in july
Wolves at the gate
Memphis may fire (some lyrics are cringey though)MXPX started out as a Christian punk band, but the members grew out of the religion and kept making music. —Punk Rawk Show, I’m Ok/You’re Ok, Chick Magnet, Move to Bremerton. All bangers.
Different vibe, but Pedro the Lion, same deal- started out Christian, then rethought his world view. Slowcore/90s emo. — Of Up and Coming Monarchs, Of Minor Prophets and Their Prostitute Wives, Big Trucks, Rapture, Backwoods Nation.
I’m still Christian and I adore both bands. David Bazan (Pedro the Lion) is recording some of the most theologically rich music of his career now, back under the Pedro name, as he’s come through his whole wrestling with faith. Not sure what he considers himself these days, but it’s clear that he’s never going to shake his Christian upbringing.
Like MxPx, their inclusion of faith in their lyrics became so much more honest and less forced once they left their Christian music label. They introduced me to punk.
