Religious Metal Bands (not Christian)

I´d like to know if there are any religious metal bands that are not Christians. I´m some kind of a New Ager / Spiritualist these days and I attend meetings of 2 religions ( spiritism and seicho no ie )

Maybe something like CYNIC or ORPHANED LAND? Or NILE is you're into Egyptian stuff.

Cro-Mags (Hare-Krishna)

Orphaned Land are awesome. Lyrics are probably not 'religious', but they do deal with Abrahamic religions as a whole.

How about satanic black metal, like Dark Funeral?

Maybe Acrassicauda from Iraq.  I bought this I think from emusic I think.  This is the only song I really like on the LP.  It's pretty good.  The other songs slow down a bit too much for me.  They have a kickstarter for a new album, so that should be good to hear when they get er done.  

I think Martin Walkyier might be a Wiccan (and Skyclad is a Wiccan term for ritual nudity), but I don't know much about the religion and its practices so I couldn't say how much of it comes across in his lyrics.

Citanul wrote:

I think Martin Walkyier might be a Wiccan (and Skyclad is a Wiccan term for ritual nudity), but I don't know much about the religion and its practices so I couldn't say how much of it comes across in his lyrics.

They don't. Especially not with Skyclad, but there's definitely more religious/anti-religious themes in Sabbat lyrics.

Try Rudra, Hindu band:

Lari wrote:

Citanul wrote:

I think Martin Walkyier might be a Wiccan (and Skyclad is a Wiccan term for ritual nudity), but I don't know much about the religion and its practices so I couldn't say how much of it comes across in his lyrics.

They don't. Especially not with Skyclad, but there's definitely more religious/anti-religious themes in Sabbat lyrics.

Yeah, I didn't think so, but I know very little about Wicca beyond the fact that it exists, so Walkyier could have been incorporating Wiccan aspects into his lyrics but I wouldn't have known.

At last! A thread to put Sabbath Assembly into   





SA's songs are mostly re-workings of hymns of The Process Church of Final Judgement, a crazy cult from the late '60s who worshipped Jehovah, Jesus, Lucifer & Satan and believed that they would be unified before the final judgement!   

I don't know how seriously they take the religious element, but the music's great! (Not metal but they are so much a part of the underground metal scene that I think they can be included)

Their stuff doesn't entirely deal in the spiritual realm. But they have a lot of songs that do.  Warning:  this album has one of the most embarrassing songs of the last twenty years (co-written by Lemmy)

yeah..the biggest one of all time is Led Zeppelin....tons of their songs are based on new age and Alister Crowley teachings...

DakotaRogers wrote:

Cro-Mags (Hare-Krishna)

And on the hardcore front, there were a few other Krishna bands that may or may not be to your liking:
-Shelter
-108
-Terrorzone
-Antidote

Probably others.

I think Rudra is really interesting , I´d like to study some Vedic literature.

Ted Nugent. He worships his own greatness

manny wrote:

Ted Nugent. He worships his own greatness

  

Cannabis Corpse - Rastafarianism

I don´t think Cannabis Corpse is really rastafarian, but Bad Brains are.