Favorite Saint album?

One of Christian metal’s best and most consistent bands! What’s your favorite from these guys?

I love just about everything they’ve done. I always look forward to a new Saint album! But my favorite is Time’s End. I think it’s a perfect album.


(I’m leaving out The Perfect Life, but feel free to comment that it’s your favorite).

agreed, Time's End = metal perfection

Hell Blade for me but they have so many great albums.

Hell Blade is fantastic.

I don’t have one yet…

If you can believe it, I just started checking them out recently. 

So far, “Too Late for Living” sounds pretty good to me.

Too Late for Living is a stone cold classic. A little slicker than Time’s End with some great guitar and drum work.

I love almost every album, but I have to choose Too late for living.
Hell Blade would be my close 2nd.

I’ll check out Time’s End and Hell Blade next.

One of the bands I have a hard time getting into, because I don‘t really like the vocals. Same with Barren Cross and, to a lesser degree, Bloodgood. I find them a bit generic/bland. That being said Time‘s End is a classic and the cover art is hilarious, those furry  monsters almost look cute.

Raegoul wrote:One of the bands I have a hard time getting into, because I don‘t really like the vocals. Same with Barren Cross and, to a lesser degree, Bloodgood. I find them a bit generic/bland. That being said Time‘s End is a classic and the cover art is hilarious, those furry  monsters almost look cute.

lol, they look like cute angry bichon frise spawned from hell (no offense to the artist- it's a classic album cover). one of the few albums I owned on vinyl. Also had Petra never say die and some Beatles. Metal and rock album covers are always better of course. Yeah those bands are kind of generic, I know what you mean by that.

Saint have more albums than I Realized. Once owned Warriors of the son, Times end and too late for living. Been a long time between drinks but from memory It;s Gotta be Times end probably, but remember too late for living being a good release too. Heck, Wots was good as well. All on tape and then cd as well.

The Time’s End creatures remind me of the movie Critters.

TZ75 wrote:The Time’s End creatures remind me of the movie Critters.

lol. yes nailed it!

Raegoul wrote:One of the bands I have a hard time getting into, because I don‘t really like the vocals. Same with Barren Cross and, to a lesser degree, Bloodgood. I find them a bit generic/bland. That being said Time‘s End is a classic and the cover art is hilarious, those furry  monsters almost look cute.

Have you listened to Broad is the Gate or The Calf? There are different vocalists on those.

The only album I can listen to regularly and the only one I spent money n is The Calf. I love the new singer and think he fits the band way better. I know Im probably in the major minority.

I love Josh’s vocals and they’re big part of Saint’s charm to me. That being said, the new guy is fantastic and I have no complaints.

I've only ever heard Too Late for Living. It was one of those albums where I disliked the whole album except for one or two songs, which I loved. In this case, I love Returning and The War is Over. But I thought the rest of the album was sub-par Christian musicians trying to emulate secular metal. 

Having said that, I'm going to give them another listen, especially the albums that come out ahead in the poll. I know I've enjoyed--at least--a few of their songs; perhaps there's more out there I'll love!

Hot take:

While I would never say they’re a better band, I’d rather listen to Saint than Priest (other than Painkiller).

Sevenoneself wrote:I've only ever heard Too Late for Living. It was one of those albums where I disliked the whole album except for one or two songs, which I loved. In this case, I love Returning and The War is Over. But I thought the rest of the album was sub-par Christian musicians trying to emulate secular metal. 

Having said that, I'm going to give them another listen, especially the albums that come out ahead in the poll. I know I've enjoyed--at least--a few of their songs; perhaps there's more out there I'll love!

I’m not sure why you’d think they were subpar musicians. They’re not Rush, but the drum and guitar work on TLfL is on par with secular metal in general.

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:I've only ever heard Too Late for Living. It was one of those albums where I disliked the whole album except for one or two songs, which I loved. In this case, I love Returning and The War is Over. But I thought the rest of the album was sub-par Christian musicians trying to emulate secular metal. 

Having said that, I'm going to give them another listen, especially the albums that come out ahead in the poll. I know I've enjoyed--at least--a few of their songs; perhaps there's more out there I'll love!

I’m not sure why you’d think they were subpar musicians. They’re not Rush, but the drum and guitar work on TLfL is on par with secular metal in general.

I think it's another case of the bias when I was in high school: 1) young & judgmental, and 2) focused on fast song tempos. 

Sevenoneself wrote:

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:I've only ever heard Too Late for Living. It was one of those albums where I disliked the whole album except for one or two songs, which I loved. In this case, I love Returning and The War is Over. But I thought the rest of the album was sub-par Christian musicians trying to emulate secular metal. 

Having said that, I'm going to give them another listen, especially the albums that come out ahead in the poll. I know I've enjoyed--at least--a few of their songs; perhaps there's more out there I'll love!

I’m not sure why you’d think they were subpar musicians. They’re not Rush, but the drum and guitar work on TLfL is on par with secular metal in general.

I think it's another case of the bias when I was in high school: 1) young & judgmental, and 2) focused on fast drumming, which Saint is not. 

I understand. In high school, I was a Van Halen fanatic and compared all other guitarists to Eddie.

If it helps, compare Saint’s drumming to Dave Holland’s!

Sevenoneself wrote:I've only ever heard Too Late for Living. It was one of those albums where I disliked the whole album except for one or two songs, which I loved. In this case, I love Returning and The War is Over. But I thought the rest of the album was sub-par Christian musicians trying to emulate secular metal. 

Having said that, I'm going to give them another listen, especially the albums that come out ahead in the poll. I know I've enjoyed--at least--a few of their songs; perhaps there's more out there I'll love!

Im not sure about sub-par but I feel like they are a samey Priest inspired band and I just never enjoyed either of those bands. I feel like with the new singer The Calf and the new album they finally have their own sound. Thats just my 2 cents.

edit: I just tried Too Late for Living and only made it through 3 songs before I just couldnt listen anymore. I really wanted to like Saint more and the first time I went through their catalog I "liked" but didnt really have anything that jumped out at me and have never really gone back with an intrest to try again. The Calf on the other hand I listen aatleast monthly.

^No worries. The Calf is good stuff. Hopefully then next album continues in that vein!

Have you tried Broad is the Gate? It’s a different singer than The Calf or their old stuff.

Pethead wrote:^No worries. The Calf is good stuff. Hopefully then next album continues in that vein!

Have you tried Broad is the Gate? It’s a different singer than The Calf or their old stuff.

Yeah I have but the "sound" (the music is in the same cein as the others) to me.

That is why I love this forum, people can disagree and still get along.

mothy wrote:

Im not sure about sub-par but I feel like they are a samey Priest inspired band and I just never enjoyed either of those bands. I feel like with the new singer The Calf and the new album they finally have their own sound. Thats just my 2 cents.

edit: I just tried Too Late for Living and only made it through 3 songs before I just couldnt listen anymore. I really wanted to like Saint more and the first time I went through their catalog I "liked" but didnt really have anything that jumped out at me and have never really gone back with an intrest to try again. The Calf on the other hand I listen aatleast monthly.

Thanks, mothy. I'm going to give The Calf a spin.

Too Late For Living is the one for me. I actually think it is a big step up from the previous two. The songs are better, the guitar work is phenomenal, the drum work exceptional. The only thing it don't really like is I think the weakest track, The War is Over is the album closer and ends it on a down note.

When I started picking up the newer albums the first few were already out but since Hell Blade (my first Saint bought as a new release) each album has spent months if not over a year getting regular plays for me. They've been fantastically consistent. They haven't skipped a beat with the new singers either. I actually really love Brian's work on Broad is the Gate.