Top 5 Favorite Christian rock/metal bands

Ah! Impossible.

Bride
Mortification
Deliverance
Impellitteri
Tourniquet


This thread highlights how many GREAT Christian bands there are.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Pethead wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Warlord
Faith Factor
Sacred Warrior
Tourniquet
Stryper

Do you know if there’s any possibility for more Faith Factor? Ski is such a killer singer.

FF is done but he has 2 other albums in various states of completion.

Also Alone Records is re-releasing their album with an extra track (probably their cover of Lizzy Borden's "American Metal" would be my guess).

I wish they had tacked their 7/7/7 EP on it as well, and their "Nightrider" cover.  That would've been all their recordings in one.

Too hard to narrow/combine to rock and metal, but here it is:
Theocracy
Saviour Machine
Tourniquet
Believer
Daniel Amos

Bloodgood
 Martyr / Betrayal
 Tourniquet / The Flood
 Warlord
 Wytch Hazel

or Saviour Machine
or Seventh Angel
or Vengeance Rising
or Believer

No 5 ?
sometimes Bride or maybe Deliverance or maybe Extol or maybe Mortification
or in some case Stryper or for some reason The Crucified or does Trouble and does King´s X count?

Petra "This Means War"
Bloodgood s/t
Deliverance "Weapons of Our Warfare"
Tourniquet "Stop the Bleeding"
The Lead "The Past Behind" (R.E.X. recording)

stevegarveyfan wrote:Petra "This Means War"
Bloodgood s/t
Deliverance "Weapons of Our Warfare"
Tourniquet "Stop the Bleeding"
The Lead "The Past Behind" (R.E.X. recording)

Geeat to see some love for The Lead here, so underrated.

Saviour Machine
Bloodgood
Petra
Theocracy

These four stand out for me. Then there are many others I like, but can't decide who should take the fifth place...

77s
Barren Cross
Bloodgood
Sacred Warrior
Kerry Livgren/AD

Dang this is tough. Here we go.

1. Antestor. They've grown on me a lot recently. There are very few bands that are as consistently good as they are, having produced four incredible albums that are all quite different from each other.

2. Crimson Moonlight. Primarily their early stuff, up to and including Veil of Remembrance. After that the music dropped in quality a little bit, and by the release of Divine Darkness they became blatantly Eastern Orthodox which is a major turn-off for me. The Covenant Progress was themed around The Pilgrim's Progress, leading me to believe that they were Protestants earlier on. Anyway, the early symphonic stuff is great, and their first two albums are pretty much unmatched by any other Christian black metal. Just awesome stuff.

3. Skald in Veum. Stridslysten is my favorite Christian metal album of the past 10 years and I super look forward to whatever these guys bring next.

4. Theocracy. Consistently great music and some of the best lyrics in Christian metal. You could say they have been given "the gift of music".

At this point I am not sure what to list next. I really like early Tourniquet, Deliverance, and Mortification but all three of those (especially Morty) went downhill over time. There are also several bands whose one album I adore but they have not done anything else. And then there are bands like Kekal that started great but went totally off the rails ideologically. Or bands that started in one style and then switched to a completely different one (Lengsel, Sanctifica).