Your very first Christian metal albums

I can remember the exact order of the first batch. 

1. Stryper - To Hell with the Devil 
(my mom bought it for me in 1989)

2. The Crucified - s/t
3. The Crucified - Pillars of Humanity 
4. Mortification - Scrolls of the Megilloth
5. Seventh Angel - Lament for the Weary
6. Tourniquet - Psycho Surgery 

After those, I’m not sure of the exact order I got them…

Deliverance - Weapons of Our Warfare 
Vengeance Rising - Destruction Comes
Living Sacrifice - Nonexistent 
Betrayal - Renaissance by Death


And most of the other well known thrash classics etc…

The first two metal albums I heard were Deliverance's Learn and Weapons

there's a lot of other Christian stuff before that,
such as DMZ by Resurrection Band, which you
could argue has metal in it, but as far as all metal I
believe it was...

Saint - Warriors Of The Son
Stryper - Yellow And Black Attack

in that order and both in '84

Limiting it to metal and not just hard rock, I think it was To Hell with the Devil.

Stryper--THWTD!

Tamplin s/t. Standing guilty of a naked crime, got your fingers in everybody's pie....

Petra - This Means War! 

If this doesn‘t count I guess Stryper - Against The Law

Both classics.

Very first was a compilation called Extremely Loud Guitar.

First album?  Either Tamplin - Tamplin or Stryper - Against the Law.

eatbugs wrote:Very first was a compilation called Extremely Loud Tape.

This was one of my first few albums as well. Through it I fell in love with Stryper, Shout, Bloodgood, Vengeance Rising, Bride. Maybe a few others, I can't quite remember.

crucifyd wrote:there's a lot of other Christian stuff before that,
such as DMZ by Resurrection Band, which you
could argue has metal in it, but as far as all metal I
believe it was...

Saint - Warriors Of The Son
Stryper - Yellow And Black Attack

in that order and both in '84

I got into secular metal/hard rock in 1988. I heard about the older Christian hard rock bands over the years… but I was still fresh to mainstream metal (let alone the obscure Christian stuff). Back then, I thought the only Christian metal was Stryper. Although I may have heard of Petra. 

My very first cassette I owned was Big Bam Boom by Hall and Oats. And then after seeing the movie Weird Science I became a fan of Oingo Boingo. Then I discovered the band KISS. Then I was fully into glam metal. I started buying albums by: Bullet Boys, Winger, Skid Row, Ratt, White Lion, Motley Crue and Lynch Mob.

By my first year in High School (1990/1991) I was a thrash fan. Also some old school death metal too.

Was D the first Christian thrash band?

Betrayal - Renaissance by Death
Bride - Kinetic Faith
Tourniquet - Pathogenic Ocular Dissonance
Whitecross - Triumphant Return

These were the first Christian metal albums I ever got. They were random gifts I had gotten from my aunt. 

StevenCressler wrote:Was D the first Christian thrash band?

Nope:

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Heaven%27s_Force/106582

https://youtu.be/H7N1wCfKO34?si=9U3Jx1UyQkhu9DUs

Sevenoneself wrote:

eatbugs wrote:Very first was a compilation called Extremely Loud Tape.

This was one of my first few albums as well. Through it I fell in love with Stryper, Shout, Bloodgood, Vengeance Rising, Bride. Maybe a few others, I can't quite remember.

Me too.  I had never heard of any of those bands before.  I bought the album sight unseen based on the name only.

Stryper - To Hell With The Devil, followed by the rest of their catalog at the time.

Other early acquisitions included:

Bride - Silence Is Madness
Saint - Too Late For Living
Bloodgood - Out Of The Darkness
Angelica - Walkin' In Faith
Sacred Warrior - Master's Command
Sacred Warrior - Wicked Generation
Shout - In Your Face

I also discovered more bands through the Hot Metal Summer comps.

For me it was Aletheian - Dying Vine.  I discovered them on Cynic's online forum and was shocked that Christian metal existed like that haha.  I think Shaliach's album Sonrise was soon thereafter.

I'd been listening to Rez, Jerusalem, Stronghold etc but they aren't called metal anymore so probably YABA.

My first one was the Sinbreed debut, back when they were a christian band. After that I think Mirror of Souls by Theocracy was my first (I gave my Sinbreed CD to someone else)

The first ones I got for myself back in the day were:

Messiah Prophet - Master Of The Metal
Bloodgood - self-titled debut

My brother also got me Petra - Beat The System on vinyl.

I also ordered a bunch from a distributer called Number One Son but they ended up stealing our money and I lost $100. 
 Years later I heard that the owner died, but who knows if he was a Christian or just a crook.

I got to hear a lot of other albums because friends had them.

Now the next question…

What did you all listen to before metal?

Like I said in my last post, I started with Hall and Oats and then Oingo Boingo. But I admit that I was growing up during Michael Jackson’s heyday, and I was a fan. My first rock/pop concert was at the L.A. Forum on his Bad tour.

TZ75 wrote:Now the next question…

What did you all listen to before metal?

Like I said in my last post, I started with Hall and Oats and then Oingo Boingo. But I admit that I was growing up during Michael Jackson’s heyday, and I was a fan. My first rock/pop concert was at the L.A. Forum on his Bad tour.

These were the bands I listened to mostly before getting into metal as a kid:

AC/DC
Duran Duran
Huey Lewis and the News
Skid Row
White Lion

TZ75 wrote:What did you all listen to before metal?

My mother played 60's easy-listening all the time...Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Tom Jones, The Association, 5th Dimension, Dionne Warwick, etc.  I never had my own musical tastes at the time.  Eventually I discovered classic rock.  Then pop, punk, disco, funk, r&b, prog rock, etc.   There wasn't much hard rock or metal back then, so I discovered it slowly as it dribbled to the airwaves in the 70's and early 80's.   Also the kids in grade school would bring albums in, and lend me their tapes.  In high school and college, my classmates also introduced me to other bands and albums.  Eventually I bought a few albums but not many because I was poor until I graduated from college.  I mostly relied on borrowed stuff and albums that others would tape for me.

I still like and appreciate a wide variety of music.

Before metal my favorite artists were Sherri Youngward and Jack Johnson. Eventually it became Skillet as I got into hard rock, and then I discovered Deliverance, they became my new favorite band, and I started getting more and more into metal from then on.

I started listening to Metal in my teen years but didn't get into Christian Metal until 2018.

The first albums that got me involved were Saint - Collection (1984-1999), Bride - Live to Die, and Ultimatum - Puppet of Destruction.

I was getting back into Metal as a whole after taking a break for some time. I wasn't sure if I would get back into Extreme Metal but it wasn't long til I found Crimson Moonlight, Antestor, and Vaakevandring.

Before metal I saw live: Petra, Degarmo And Key, Amy Grant, Her first husband, Farell and Farell, (Uncle) Randy Stonehill, Daniel Amos, The Choir, Steve Taylor, Allies, Rick Cua......I still listen to them  

My first metal purchase was Stryper THWTD on cassette....bought it twice.....