Stryper on tour in 1987 to support their third album, To Hell with the Devil , which reached platinum status at a time when most Christian bands were going unheard in the secular market.[ 1]
This is a list of Christian rock and metal artists , including artists that played Christian metal at some point in their careers.
Christian metal, which is also known as white metal or heavenly metal, is heavy metal music with a Christian message. Christian metal is regarded more of a concept rather than a genre since it has no specific musical characteristics.[ 3] It emerged in the late 1970s as a means of evangelization to the wider heavy metal music scene and was pioneered by American bands Resurrection Band , Saint , and Barnabas , Swedish bands Jerusalem , and Canadian band Daniel Band . Los Angeles' Stryper achieved wide success in the 1980s. In the mid to late 1980s, extreme metal genres were popularized by bands such as Vengeance Rising , Deliverance , Believer and Tourniquet . In the early 1990, the Australian death metal band Mortification rose to prominence within its country's underground metal scene.[ 6] [ 7] At the turn of the 21st century, P.O.D. , with two platinum-selling albums, achieved a mainstream commercial success rivaling that of Stryper. The metalcore groups Underoath , Demon Hunter , As I Lay Dying and Norma Jean (dubbed by the magazine Revolver as "The Holy Alliance") also brought some mainstream attention to the movement in the first decade of the 2000s, achieving ranks in the Billboard 200 .[ 9]
^ Self-described as a Christian band.[ 83]
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^ Moberg, Marcus (November 3, 2008). Turn or Burn? The Peculiar Case of Christian Metal Music (PDF) . Heavy Fundamentalisms: Music, Metal & Politics . Salzburg, Austria: Inter-Disciplinary.Net. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 24, 2015.
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^ Alfonso, Barry (2002). The Billboard Guide to Contemporary Christian Music . Billboard Books . p. 200. ISBN 978-0-82307-718-2 .
^ "Underoath, As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean, and Demon Hunter" . Revolver . Archived from the original on June 24, 2010.
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^ Deming, Mark. "August Burns Red – Artist Biography" . AllMusic . All Media Network . Retrieved June 5, 2015 . Popular Christian metalcore group
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^ thrashboy (November 18, 2011). "Interview With 'The Beckoning' " . The Metal Resource . Retrieved October 17, 2017 .
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^ Barrett, Tyler (March 20, 2007). "Classic Case – Losing at Life (2007)" . Punknews.org . Retrieved December 12, 2015 . The other alumnus in Classic Case is Josh Moore, formerly of Beloved, a Christian metalcore band that shared the stage with the likes of Underoath and Norma Jean. Although that's probably enough to make anyone cringe, Classic Case is luckily nowhere near as appalling as either of those bands.
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