Christian Lyrics vs Death Metal Growls

I donñt listen to christian lyrics, but not cause Im against them, I just dont usually like those bands. But I do like a ton of metal with growling... so...

I can't stand growling, and some of my favorite bands/artists are King's X, Neal Morse/Spock's Beard, and Kansas/Kerry Livgren.  I also liked Stryper and Petra (where Ty Tabor and Dug Pinnick of King's X met) back in the day, although admittedly cheesy hair metal.  I'm not a religious person and don't necessarily care for the preaching per se, but I still generally prefer the message delivered in Christian music more than the message delivered in Black/Death/Doom metal. 

MikeEnRegalia wrote: How about ... Christian Death Metal Growls?

^^ How about Orphaned Land's Mabool...not christian, but certainly Biblical Death Metal growls...

Growling for me. Which is odd coming out of my mouth... since I hated them years ago.

Easy Livin wrote: Careful now. threads like this have had to be closed in the past because of a lack of tolerance and respect. Remember this is a music section.

I have noticed in the forum lately that people seem to just want to have some fun,  the mood has been great around here lately I think..  any sign of trouble and I would expect this poll to close 

rushfan4 wrote: ^ I suspect that I probably would not like Christian Death Metal Growls either.  I don't suspect that there are any examples of that though.

Vompatti wrote: heyitsthatguy wrote: I think there's varying degrees of both, and the stereotypes come from both being done rather poorly  I find most Christian music (ESPECIALLY the soft rock/alternative stuff that my church sang) to be terribly uninspired....I think anytime you have a singular topic for all of your lyrics it will start to wear itself thin rather quickly That's exactly what's the problem with many Christian bands. The lyrics would be better and more convincing if Christianity was not the topic of the song, but something that shows through in how the topic is presented. (The good thing about death metal growls is that it doesn't matter what the topic is because it's impossible for anyone to decipher the lyrics.)

Generalization

I've had little trouble making out the lyrics in Opeth in the death growl vocal sections.



Edited by HughesJB4 - September 05 2008 at 03:32

Go figure.  One would think if there was one subject matter that wouldn't be breached with black/death/doom metal vocals it would be Christian music.  Of course, I suppose I thought the same about regular metal music and then Stryper came along.