Best Christian Thrash Band?

Who is the best Christian Thrash Band? If you vote please give your reasoning and if you vote "Other" please tell us which band you think is best. I know Theocracy isn't Thrash but they have a decent amount of Thrash influence. I vote Tourniquet. I love Vengeance Rising more, but they only have four albums, and only like two.

Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Theocracy?

TQT, by a large margin. Best riffs, most compelling songwriting, great lyrics. One of the only Christian thrash bands that can stand up to the big boys in the secular realm.

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Mosaic has some thrash-influenced riffing. But yeah, they are nowhere near being a thrash band.

Tourniquet,  with Deliverance a close second.

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Highly debatable.

What was the “other” vote? I’m thinking Torn Flesh.

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Highly debatable.

Hardly.

Speed does not equal thrash.

Pethead wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Mosaic has some thrash-influenced riffing. But yeah, they are nowhere near being a thrash band.

They def have thrash influence. Laying The Demon To Rest(especially the bridge), Paper Tiger(especially the verse), Nailed(main riff has a Blackened sound), Stir The Embers(main riff). And a lot more, the final part of The Gift Of Music is a little thrashy. The drums have always felt somewhat thrashy to me.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Highly debatable.

Hardly.

Speed does not equal thrash.

I agree. That's not why they feel thrash influenced. That may be part of it but far from the only thing.

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Stir the Embers main riff is literally a better version of War Ensemble riff. And LtDtR middle section has a riff that wouldn't feel out of place on Scrolls. They aren't a thrash band at all. But they have thrash influences

Tourniquet is the best, but I voted Deliverance because they're my favorite.

StevenCressler wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Stir the Embers main riff is literally a better version of War Ensemble riff. And LtDtR middle section has a riff that wouldn't feel out of place on Scrolls. They aren't a thrash band at all. But they have thrash influence

Yes. Also, Castaway from Ghost Ship is pretty thrashy. Kinda reminds me of something off Hardwired.

Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

I agree, that’s why I specified they have thrash influenced riffing, but are in no way a thrash band.

Black Rider wrote:Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

Ik. I agree that they aren't thrash. I'm just saying it's not true that they have no thrash influences

Black Rider wrote:Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

Again, I said "they're not thrash, they have thrash influence"

StevenCressler wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Stir the Embers main riff is literally a better version of War Ensemble riff. 

better?  Not at all.

They used half of the same chords and gave it a hard rock/groovier feel.

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

Again, I said "they're not thrash, they have thrash influence"

But they don't really, more NWOBHM influence at times.

Black Rider wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

Again, I said "they're not thrash, they have thrash influence"

But they don't really, more NWOBHM influence at times.

Listen to Castaway, Nailed, and Paper Tiger and tell me there's no thrash influence.

Black Rider wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Playing a kind of riff doesn't make you thrash, otherwise Judas Priest would be thrash.

Again, I said "they're not thrash, they have thrash influence"

But they don't really, more NWOBHM influence at times.

Early thrash had a ton of NWOBHM sound. Theocracy has a few riffs that wouldn’t be out of place on one of those early thrash records.

But I don’t think they have enough to classify them as anywhere near a thrash band.

Temple of Blood wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:Theocracy has no thrash influence.

Stir the Embers main riff is literally a better version of War Ensemble riff. 

better?  Not at all.

They used half of the same chords and gave it a hard rock/groovier feel.

When I first heard the War Ensemble riff the exact riff I was hoping it would turn into was the one used in Stir the Embers. The one with the melodic sting after the step-climbing chords

Some of these riffs wouldn’t sound out of place on those early 80s thrash albums, especially the riff that comes in around the 20 second mark. Now it’s not a thrash song by any means, but I hear some influence here:
https://youtu.be/ZKFcKbEdXNQ?si=rqICLRIPPM-M1cTX

Okay, what loser voted for Theocracy?  

My money is on ToB.