First Christian Metal Album?

tohostudios wrote:

candlemass wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Petra's S/T

That's metal?!

It was at the time.

No, not at any time, ever!

GrandNational wrote:

metalhead777 wrote:

i still love it and the track blindsided sounds just like it came out of a metallica album. there drummer KILLS lars!

I think just about ever drummer out there kills Lars. You are giving him too much credit.

yeah hes not the best drummer in the world. mabey the guy from tourniquet

candlemass wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

candlemass wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

Petra's S/T

That's metal?!

It was at the time.

No, not at any time, ever!

Far be it for me to dispute the findings of the Almighty Genre Arbiter.

BTW, post-80s Rush sucks a BIG one.

tohostudios wrote:

BTW, post-80s Rush sucks a BIG one.

+1

I LOVE 80s and early 90s Rush!

First Christian Metal Album Resurrection Band - Colours 'American Dream', 'N.Y.C.', 'City Streets'.... got it in 1983 ... it came out in 80... Other wise Barnabas 'Approaching Light Speed' very metal... in 1983...

Everything didn't start to pop until summer of 84 when YABA came out...




I love all versions of Rush (but you probably already guessed that!)

tohostudios wrote:

BTW, post-80s Rush sucks a BIG one.

Once again you are in error!

Seriously, by what strech of any imagination could you consider Petra's s/t lp to be metal?

Petra have NEVER been metal, IMO. I still think they are great for a hard rock act, though.

Stryper's Soliders Under Command

Trouble Psalm 9, but I wasnt a christian.

Deliverance s/t and TQT Stop The Bleeding were the albums that ministered to me and brought Jesus into my life.

stepcousin wrote:

Trouble Psalm 9, but I wasnt a christian.

Deliverance s/t and TQT Stop The Bleeding were the albums that ministered to me and brought Jesus into my life.

What does that have to do w/anything?

stepcousin wrote:

Trouble Psalm 9, but I wasnt a christian.

Deliverance s/t and TQT Stop The Bleeding were the albums that ministered to me and brought Jesus into my life.

Really? You became a Christian through Christian metal? That's pretty cool.

I acquired my first Christian metal totally by accident. I picked up Mortification-Blood World on cassette in 1994, (in WALMART of all places!!), and was reading the liner, and that's when I found out about their faith.

tohostudios wrote:

BTW, post-80s Rush sucks a BIG one.

Addy wrote:

Stryper's Soliders Under Command

A great place to begin a Christian metal collection! 10/10

detuned wrote:

tohostudios wrote:

BTW, post-80s Rush sucks a BIG one.

Toho is a great friend of mine, but I'll never understand why he doesn't fully embrace ALL decades of Rush. (Thanks for defending the faith, detuned. )

I'm just giving him grief. Anybody that likes Kaiju films as much as I do is okay with me.

detuned wrote:

I'm just giving him grief. Anybody that likes Kaiju films as much as I am is okay with me.

I know. He gives grief and he gets it back, too. Thanks!

To Hell With The Devil was my first metal abum, and christin metal album.

DenimAndLeather wrote:

To Hell With The Devil was my first metal abum, and christin metal album.

Just out of curiosity, what were you listening to prior to that?

for "metal" it was To Hell With The Devil.

But my first Christian Hard Rock (sometimes verging on metal) were the first three from The Rez Band. Also gotta mention Bob Dylan's "Saved" years, as well as The Osmonds "The Plan". That's right!, a bubblegum Glam album that actually contains some clumsy hard rock with a vaguely Mormon theme!

For "spititual" proto-hard rock, check out the s/t from the band Help (1970), or some of the stuff from the band Gravy Train. Not formulaic, but they definitly had God on their minds without a doubt.

First one I purchased on cassette was probably either Angelica's "Rock, Stock & Barrel" or possibly Whitecross' "Love on the Line" EP. First CD purchase was probably Tourniquet's "Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance".

Stryper - Yellow and Black Attack was the first.

Sacred Warrior - Rebellion was the second.