what christian metal albums are a must have?

There are plenty of albums that I don't have, so which do you recommend? Specially from the 80's and 90's heavy metal and hard rock eras

These are recommendations of albums I know:
rage of angels - s/t
guardian - miracle mile
guardian - fire & love
haven - age of darkness
haven - your dying day
messiah prophet - master of metal
bride - live to die
deliverance - weapons of our warfare
deliverance - s/t
everything from stryper
everything from sacred warrior
everything from impellitteri
everything related to ROB ROCK
angelica - rock, stock, and barrel
everything from bloodgood
saint - to late for living

What else? So far this is what I can remmember of

I love old-school christian metal too bro, the message was so strong from some of those bands.

Heres a few I can think of off the top of my head..........

Messiah Prophet--Rock the flock
Mortification--"Scrolls of the megiloth", "Break the curse"
Seventh Angel--"The Torment", Lament for the weary"
Vengeance Rising--"Human Sacrifice", "Once Dead"
The Crucified--"s/t", "Pillars of Humanity"
Narnia--"Awakening"
Lightforce--"1986-1988"
Rose--
Sacrament--"Testimony of Apocalypse"
Rez Band--"Hostage"
Daniel Band--"straight ahead"
Living Sacrifice--s/t, Reborn
Ultimatum--Into the pit


I'll think of some more............

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deliverance - weapons of our warfare
deliverance - s/t

Both Incredible.

Bride - Live To Die and Ultimatum's Puppet Of Destruction are must haves as well.

Mortification's Scrolls Of The Megilloth & Post Momentary Affliction, Believer's Extraction From Mortality, Sanity Obscure, & Diminsions, Living Sacrifice's s/t, Nonexisitant & Inhabit, & Paramaecium's entire discography.

Messiah Prophet - Master Of The Metal
Barren Cross - All minus rattle your cage
holy soldier - first two

Here's some threads you should find answers in:

http://www.heartofmetal.net/search.forum?search_keywords=christian&show_results=topics

Lots of Christians here, lots of threads on Christian bands.

IMHO:

TEMPLE OF BLOOD - Overlord
SACRED WARRIOR - Master's Command
FAITH FACTOR - 7/7/7
DELIVERANCE - Weapons of our Warfare
STRYPER - To Hell with the Devil
STRYPER - In God We Trust
TOURNIQUET - Stop the Bleeding

The Crucified - all
Believer - all
Livivng Sacrifice - s/t, Reborn and CIF
Deliverance - s/t and Stay of Execution
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
VR - Once Dead
Tourniquet - First 3
Mortification - First 3
Sacrament - all

Recon- Behind Enemy Lines

Temple of Blood wrote:

IMHO:

TEMPLE OF BLOOD - Overlord

Yeah, right, humble.

Stender wrote:

Rez Band--"Hostage"
Daniel Band--"straight ahead"

Good bands, but not their strongest albums, IMO.

For Rez, I would recommend:

Civil Rites
DMZ
Colours
Innocent Blood

And for Daniel band, definitely get Run From The Darkness.

Saint - In the Battle

As has already been said the first two Holy Soldier are a must have. My two very favorites for sure. Out of what hasn't been mentioned I would probably add Sardonyx - Majestic Serenity to the list.

First three BRIDE albums are killer, also their early demos under the band name MATRIX are very good in my opinion.
Also the debut of GUARDIAN is very good, and the early demos under the band name GARDIAN are great.
Love the two mini´s and one cd that the band LIGHTMARE did back in the 90s.
Everything BLOODGOOD released (their first metal albums, and then also their cool hard rock albums). Their guitar player, DAVID ZAFFIRO released two good melodic hard rock albums that are also good to have.

everything from Saint (except The Perfect Life)

Both Seventh Angel albums are a must along with both My Silent Wake discs.

What a subjective question! I will keep this list a bit short and only give 10....

Believer - Sanity Obscure
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command
Deliverance - s/t
Sacred Warrior - Obsessions
Guardian - Fire and Love
Bride - Live To Die
Whitecross - Hammer and Nail
Detritus - If But For One
Rob Rock - Holy Hell
Stairway - No Rest No Mercy

There are undoubtedly others, including other albums by these same bands, but those 10 are among the best Christian metal albums of all time.

Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall
Saviour Machine - Legend I
Undercover - Balance of Power
Narnia - Enter the Gate
Place of Skulls - The Black is Never Far
Saint - Time's End
Believer - Demensions

Believer would be cool, but the vocals are awful, imo. I can't get through three of their songs in a row.

SUC - I'm with you. I finally just traded/sold all my Believer stuff. I was lying to myself!

Stender wrote:

I love old-school christian metal too bro, the message was so strong from some of those bands.

Heres a few I can think of off the top of my head..........

Messiah Prophet--Rock the flock
Mortification--"Scrolls of the megiloth", "Break the curse"
Seventh Angel--"The Torment", Lament for the weary"
Vengeance Rising--"Human Sacrifice", "Once Dead"
The Crucified--"s/t", "Pillars of Humanity"
Narnia--"Awakening"
Lightforce--"1986-1988"
Rose--
Sacrament--"Testimony of Apocalypse"
Rez Band--"Hostage"
Daniel Band--"straight ahead"
Living Sacrifice--s/t, Reborn
Ultimatum--Into the pit


I'll think of some more............

I can get into Messiah Prophet's Master of the Metal, but I didn't really care all that much for Rock the Flock.

Thanks for including Ultimatum.

I'm surprised to see you include Lightforce. I didn't think there were too many other people beside kmorg and I that liked them.

Here's a list I put in a past thread:

Recon - Behind Enemy Lines
Place of Skulls (any and all! / doom)
Generation - Brutal Reality (industrial metal)
The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity
Believer (all)
Bloodgood (all)
Seventh Angel (all)
Ashen Mortality
Narnia - Lone Live the King, The Great Fall, Enter the Gate
Rez Band/Resurrection Band
Oracle - Selah
The Moshketeers - Downward Spiral
Barren Cross (all)
Bride - Live to Die, Kinetic Faith, Snakes in the Playground
Deliverance - s/t, Weapons, Stay of Execution, Learn, Intense Live Series
Holy Soldier - s/t, Last Train
Rose - Healing
Detritus - Perpetual Defiance
Eternal Decision - s/t
Betrayal - Rennasiance by Death
Die Happy - s/t, Vol. 2, Intense Live Series
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command, To Hell With the Devil, Against the Law
Sacred Warrior (all)
Seventh Avenue (German power metal)
X-Sinner - Get It
Whitecross - s/t, Hammer & Nail, Triumphant Return
Ken Tamplin - Tamplin & Friends
Veni Domine - Fall Babylon Fall, Material Sanctuary
Tyton - Mind over Metal
Mass - Voices in the Night (very Stryper-ish)
Sardonyx - Majestic Serenity
Main Line Riders - Shot in the Dark
Titanic - Maiden Voyage
Final Axe - Axe of the Apostles
Angelica - s/t (w/ Rob Rock on vox)
Jesus Freaks - Socially Unacceptable
Fear Not - s/t (has a Skid Row sound to 'em)
Harmony (melodic Euro-metal)
Haven - Your Dying Day, Age of Darkness
Joshua - Surrender (Jeff Fenholt on vox), Intense Defense (Rob Rock on vox)
Crimson Thorn (any / old school death metal)
Metanoia (all / Australian old school death metal)
One Bad Pig (unique band mixing thrash, punk and metal)
Paramaecium (death/doom)
Eternal Ryte - Anthology (L.A. BIG HAIR metal! Anthology has all their recordings on two CDs.)
Once Dead - Return with a Vengeance (DVD! I am quite proud of this one)

I'm going to add to this list:
My Silent Wake - Shadow of Sorrow

Deliverance - S/T and Weapons Of Our Warfare
Living Sacrifice - S/T and Reborn
Believer - All
The Crucified - Pillars Of Humanity
Bride - Snakes In The Playground
Recon - Behind Enemy Lines
Rage Of Angels - S/T
Holy Soldier - S/T and Last Train
Barren Cross - State Of Control and Atomic Arena
Messiah Prophet - Master Of The Metal
Saint - Time's End
Stryper - All
Vengeance Rising - Human Sacrifice and Once Dead

ultmetal wrote:

I can get into Messiah Prophet's Master of the Metal, but I didn't really care all that much for Rock the Flock.

Thanks for including Ultimatum.

I'm surprised to see you include Lightforce. I didn't think there were too many other people beside kmorg and I that liked them.

oh yeah dude, Ultimatum definately deserves a place on the list of must haves. I absolutely love Lightforce! they encompass so many different styles. Punkish vocals and a overall tribute to Iron maiden in my opinion, I listen to "metal missionary" like every day!

Both of Messiah prophets master of metal and rock the flock are equal in my opinion, as for that third one.... atrocious.

I've just joined the site, so forgive me for posting on a thread two years too late... but I think a few other must haves are Extol's albums Burial and Undecieved; as well as their EP Paralysis.

ALTAR BOYS!!!!!!!

When You're a Rebel and Gut Level Music are two of the greatest all-time Christian punk/metal albums!!!!!

GLM IS STILL JUST AWESOME!