Best Christian Thrash Band?

Pro-Zak wrote:Mortification

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Pro-Zak wrote:Mortification

They're death, not thrash. I know people say their first album is more thrash but I think it's still full death.

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

Which albums are those?

StevenCressler wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

That doesn't sound pleasant

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

Which albums are those?

I think he's referring to Scrolls and PMA

Temple of Blood wrote:No Betrayal on this list.  No Seventh Angel, Temple of Blood, Ultimatum, Adorned Graves, Consecrator, Detritus, Step Cousin, Living Sacrifice, Hating Evil, etc etc, etc.  But Theocracy made the cut.

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

Christian Thrash Rules wrote:

Black Rider wrote:Morty did two pure death  albums, death rash is a good way to put most their stuff.

Which albums are those?

I think he's referring to Scrolls and PMA

What would you say PRM is? That might be my fav mort sound.

Kerrick wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:No Betrayal on this list.  No Seventh Angel, Temple of Blood, Ultimatum, Adorned Graves, Consecrator, Detritus, Step Cousin, Living Sacrifice, Hating Evil, etc etc, etc.  But Theocracy made the cut.

I heard Temple Of Blood considers themselves more of a Christian-friendly, post-thrash metal band these days.  Not sure if they belong on this list.  

Temple of Blood wrote:A lot of my favorite Christian thrash is stuff that rarely gets discussed on here:  

Wraithkiller, Reckoned Dead, Immortal, Holy Sceptre, Have Mercy, Weeping Prophet, Embryo Chrysalis, Catscan, Join the Dead, Chained, Heavens Force, Viking, Aeturnus, Wickeds End, Avenger of Blood - first demo, Valor, Reborn, Demolish, Jesus Freaks, Minier, Deathless, etc.  

For me those bands would go above most bands on this poll.

Pro-Zak wrote:Mortification never put out a pure anything album, they were always a hybrid metal band. Even Scrolls has elements of power, thrash and doom, even more so on PMA! With the release of Bloodworld they were more thrash for sure, and continued in that direction.

StevenCressler wrote:

Pro-Zak wrote:Mortification never put out a pure anything album, they were always a hybrid metal band. Even Scrolls has elements of power, thrash and doom, even more so on PMA! With the release of Bloodworld they were more thrash for sure, and continued in that direction.

PMA is very doom-influenced

Pro-Zak wrote:

StevenCressler wrote:

Pro-Zak wrote:Mortification never put out a pure anything album, they were always a hybrid metal band. Even Scrolls has elements of power, thrash and doom, even more so on PMA! With the release of Bloodworld they were more thrash for sure, and continued in that direction.

PMA is very doom-influenced

Absolutely! You can hear it to lesser extent on the two previous albums. Back when Steve posted here and in Firestream, I once told him that Mort should make a doom album. He said that they had plenty of slow songs. I tried to explain to him that slow does not necessarily make it doom. Latter day Mort, beginning with the last two songs on ToM, had slower songs that plodded along at a snails pace, but they were not doom. So what makes it doom? I know when I hear it, but not sure if I can put my finger on it. The overall vibe, the minor notes, the bending of notes, the triade...?

Pethead wrote:

Kerrick wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:No Betrayal on this list.  No Seventh Angel, Temple of Blood, Ultimatum, Adorned Graves, Consecrator, Detritus, Step Cousin, Living Sacrifice, Hating Evil, etc etc, etc.  But Theocracy made the cut.

I heard Temple Of Blood considers themselves more of a Christian-friendly, post-thrash metal band these days.  Not sure if they belong on this list.  

They saw Believer’s interview and said, “how BRAVE.”

mothy wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:A lot of my favorite Christian thrash is stuff that rarely gets discussed on here:  

Wraithkiller, Reckoned Dead, Immortal, Holy Sceptre, Have Mercy, Weeping Prophet, Embryo Chrysalis, Catscan, Join the Dead, Chained, Heavens Force, Viking, Aeturnus, Wickeds End, Avenger of Blood - first demo, Valor, Reborn, Demolish, Jesus Freaks, Minier, Deathless, etc.  

For me those bands would go above most bands on this poll.

You might be the only person other then myself that liked Aeturnus.

Temple of Blood wrote:

Airola wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:How many THRASH albums does Tourniquet have?

Stop the Bleeding is thrash/speed/heavy hybrid.

Psycho Surgery is thrash.

Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance is thrash.

Vanishing Lessons is groove with a hint of "thrash influence".

Carry the Wounded is hard rock / soft rock.

The new tracks in The Collected Works are thrash.

Crawl to China is hard rock with a bit of punk and grunge influence.

The new track in Acoustic Archives is thrash.

Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm, Where Moth and Rust Destroy and Antiseptic Bloodbath are thrash with songs going to different subgenres here and there, often during the songs.

Gazing at Medusa is the other way around, being different subgenres but going to thrash here and there.

The last new bonus track is drone ambient doom.



I would say Tourniquet has 6 thrash albums, plus two compilation albums have three additional thrash tracks. Two of them are "pure" thrash (with a non-thrash track here and there), three if you count Stop the Bleeding. Three are genre hybrids based on thrash.

I think the later albums would not have thrash as their primary genre, but rather progressive metal.  Thrash would be secondary IMHO.

Airola wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:

Airola wrote:

Temple of Blood wrote:How many THRASH albums does Tourniquet have?

Stop the Bleeding is thrash/speed/heavy hybrid.

Psycho Surgery is thrash.

Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance is thrash.

Vanishing Lessons is groove with a hint of "thrash influence".

Carry the Wounded is hard rock / soft rock.

The new tracks in The Collected Works are thrash.

Crawl to China is hard rock with a bit of punk and grunge influence.

The new track in Acoustic Archives is thrash.

Microscopic View of a Telescopic Realm, Where Moth and Rust Destroy and Antiseptic Bloodbath are thrash with songs going to different subgenres here and there, often during the songs.

Gazing at Medusa is the other way around, being different subgenres but going to thrash here and there.

The last new bonus track is drone ambient doom.



I would say Tourniquet has 6 thrash albums, plus two compilation albums have three additional thrash tracks. Two of them are "pure" thrash (with a non-thrash track here and there), three if you count Stop the Bleeding. Three are genre hybrids based on thrash.

I think the later albums would not have thrash as their primary genre, but rather progressive metal.  Thrash would be secondary IMHO.

What is progressive metal though?
I think every subgenre can be progressive. But progressive metal in itself doesn't really tell us anything about the style of the music. Progressive metal could easily sound like death metal or power metal or black metal.