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Mandrakeroot View Drop Down

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Posted: July 20 2007 at 11:21

STRYPER?!? Sure one of my preferred bands!!!

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Posted: July 20 2007 at 13:53

Stryper pwns. They throw custom bibles at the crowd. what more do you want?

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Posted: July 20 2007 at 14:03

C'MON, ROCK ROCK ROCK!!! What a topic, man!

Their first three albums are really exciting. A really talented band.

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Posted: July 20 2007 at 15:57

TheProgtologist wrote:

GoldenSpiral wrote:

The Doctor wrote:

Black Sabbath were christian, right?

Doesn't Ozzy sing "God bless all of you" in Sabbath Bloody Sabbath?

My original post was rather tongue-in-cheek, but I'm glad to see it's got some responses.

Of course Stryper was a gimmick band, that's what makes them so lovably cheesy.

As far as Black Sabbath, take a look at the lyrics to "After Forever", a blatantly christian song; "NIB", a warning against deals with the Devil: and "Into the Void", which I've always interpreted as a metaphor for the Rapture.

Which album did you get Chris?

Soldiers Under Command and To Hell With The Devil aren't bad.I liked them when they jammed,but their ballads are very cheesy and cringe-worthy.

I saw them live around 83-84 and they pelted the crowd with bibles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It is Soldiers Under Command. Pretty rockin, I must say.

I found it in the used record section of half price books, and most of the reason I bought it was because it was on white vinyl

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Posted: July 26 2007 at 14:03

1800iareyay wrote:

Neal Morse is th only good Christian rock artist. unless you count early King's x before dog pinnick came out, was debased by the christian right, and left his faith. I count their first three as Christian rock, and they are awesome. Styper were a gimmick band.

Have you heard Believer? Late 80s/early 90s Christian thrash, with some very progressive tendencies; their album "Sanity Obscure" is worth tracking down. Trouble is another great band whose lyrics were very pro-Christian (especially on their earlier albums "Psalm 9" and "The Skull") and loaded with overt Scriptural references, yet somehow they claimed "not to be Christian"-- I don't know how that works... Confused