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Post by julienbakerfan on Mar 5, 2019 22:08:34 GMT -6
I listen go about 50% Christian, 50% mainstream metal. However, when it comes to other genres I listen go mostly mainstream music outside of a few bands. Let's post some Christian artists from other genres.
Try to stay away from the famous acts (Switchfoot, Newsboys, etc.) so we can all discover some lesser known artists.
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Post by jazzhead on Mar 6, 2019 10:29:07 GMT -6
In the jazz world, there's a trio called Children of the Light that are all believers. John Patitucci (bass), Brian Blade (drums), and Danilo Perez (piano) have all been sidemen with virtually every jazz legend in the past 30 years in addition to leading their own bands. The 3 of them realized they had a shared faith and decided to record together, hence the band name. They only have one album so far but I hope they do more.
Reggae music has tons of Christian artists, Solomon Jabby and Christafari being two of my favorites.
Rap & Hip-Hop has Propaganda, Beautiful Eulogy, Lecrae, Sho Baraka and loads more. All well worth checking out.
I listen to mostly metal, reggae/dub, and jazz, so beyond that I'm kinda clueless.
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Mar 9, 2019 17:34:08 GMT -6
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Post by julienbakerfan on Mar 9, 2019 21:30:33 GMT -6
Alternative rock, prog, punk, emo, post-hardcore, indie rock, some singer-songwriter folk. I primarily listen to music that involves guitars.
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Post by Deepfriar on Mar 11, 2019 9:20:30 GMT -6
One of my favorite non-metal Christian bands is Poor Old Lu. They were the best/most original artist to emerge from the 90's Christian grunge scene. Here's their best album (but they are all amazing): I'm sure you probably know of The Prayer Chain, but they are another Christian grunge band that was amazing. Shawl is their most popular album (and for good reason), but I'm rather enamored of the more spacey/experimental Mercury. Here are a couple songs from them: (you must keep listening to Sun Stoned... it builds up to some pretty breathtaking psychedelic stuff..) If you like the sound of Mercury, you would like Raspberry Jam - Oceanic. Very similar, with female vocals. Also, Hoi Polloi is a good Christian grunge band with female vocals. I'm sure you know Starflyer 59 but had to mention because it's so good... Stavesacre and Johnny Q. Public were a couple more Christian alternative/grunge bands that are really good but you probably already know... Andy Hunter is (as far as I know) the best Christian techno/DJ... He (Andy Hunter) did some Thousand Foot Krutch remixes that are AWESOME... I don't even care for TFK but the Andy Hunter remixes are definitely worth checking out.. If you like indie rock, here are a couple artists you might like: Abandon Starfield And the award for best Christian stadium rock goes to Downhere... Oh, and another indie/art rock that is AWESOME that you may not be aware of, is actually Ed Kowalczyk (former lead-singer for Live)... he was into Buddhism/Eastern religion I believe when he was in Live, but he now professes Christianity and his solo project lyrics reflect it: Check out The Waiting for some good southern rock from the 90's... Enjoy!!
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Post by nocturnaliridescence on Mar 13, 2019 16:11:35 GMT -6
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Post by SLAVE_HEART on Mar 14, 2019 14:58:26 GMT -6
working on an industrial/electronic album for his project "Shadow Cross It's funny because there was more hype over the underground Unblack Heart releases and feedback from people on facebook, etc. than the Shadow Cross project which was signed to a label. Considering this was a more mainstream genre than Experimental Unblack it was weird. However, It was a cd to put that project to a close. Before I started collectiong unblack 8 years I listened to EDM music. And at one point threw away my whole collection of cd's in a large cd case in the garbage, because I felt convicted that it wasn't of God. I wrestled with that as I dove head first intoi collecting as much Unblack and Christian death metal I could spend all my money on. Eventually I got a few clean tracks of Edm on my itunes playlist, 150 tracks for nostalgia sake, as for the other approximately Three thousand five hundred tracks; Unblack, Christian Death/Grind, Christian Gothic, Christian Industrial, the whole 80's power metal, thrash, doom and female fronted symphonic metal, and some of what I call "Popular Christian Metal", which designates common bands that if someone says they listen to Christian metal - (Red, Skillet, Project 86, Love and Death, and a little bit of Christian Metalcore which is what pretty much everyone in America plays or likes in the "screaming metal") - A little of that. Shadow Cross was the album to lay my Edm days behind but influenced by Christian Techno and Electronica artists. So thus I had to complete the project I had begun years ago and this one album was all of it combined in one fourteen track cd. I'm now not working on any music, as I'm working to design a Christian table top rpg in the manner of things like "Dungeons and Dragons", so thus if I did play around with music due to some reason of a break, etc. It would be in the hypothetical "third" unblack heart EP of which I am very close to releasing and have plans for.... absolutely nothing but a cover art picture and lyrics to one track called "From Womb to Tomb". The musician in me is going in the Shadows.
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