Skillet has made some cool stuff, Future of Forestry has made some good Christmas music, and I guess Owl City counts as a Christian band now
Quite a lot of folk hymnals absolutely slap.
Check the soundtrack for O Brother Where Art Thou?
There’s always Calibretto 13 (I copied the name hence the large font). A Christian punk band. I’ve only heard a couple songs.
I just know of them because at least some of the members (including the guitarist/singer/songwriter aka the frontman) made another band:
Harley Poe
Pretty much the opposite of a Christian band, and I love it (used to be religious long ago). But it’s pretty much peak folk/horror punk. Really great music. But like I said…the opposite of Christian music.
Would recommend (their version of) “the hearse song” or “transvestites can be cannibals too” (same album) or "Music for teenagers.
Bach. Anything after that’s pretty cheesy…
Addendum: https://youtu.be/KSTFKJqy9AQ
Bach rules.
Five Iron Frenzy. Christian ska band.
What other band is going to write a song about Different Strokes? FIF is still part of my regular rotation.
Also, basing a love song on a reference to Gauntlet.
It’s not technically a Christian band but Creed has a couple banger songs that are very clearly about God/religion.
If a song slaps a song slaps. I don’t care if it slaps while it talkes about something I don’t personally believe in. I still listen to all kinds of hardcore rap and I have never done any drugs harder than shrooms or shot anybody.
Christian or not, Creed does not slap.
To each their own. I fuck with creed.
WITH AHHHHMS WIDE OPEN~~~
Can you take meeee hiiigherrrrr (banawanylanaoooo)
It’s only possible to sing along to this song with your full chest.
Is Skillet a Christian band? They’ve got a couple songs I like.
Monster, Hero…
They are not a Christian band but they are heavily themed on Christianity from what they said in an interview.
They sure did play a lot of Christian music festivals in the 90s.
They still do, however, they refer to themselves as a entertainment focused band that loves Jesus and not a Christian focused band. Basically they defer to leaders in the church to actually teach and just promote that. You should listen to your pastor/priest and love Jesus! .To put it another way, all rectangles are parallelograms but not all parallelograms are rectangles sometimes it’s a square.
Ok, but when I think of Skillet, I think of this guys worship-gasm face:
Depends what you call Christian music
NF got pretty big for a while, and pretty sure he never swore because of his religion and talked often about Christianity and his faith while promoting the Christian beliefs that are actually in the Bible and admitting his own struggles and overcoming them thru faith and hard work.
That is Christian music to me.
I mean, it’s not even really debatable, he’s signed to a label exclusively for Christian musical acts.
But music that is explicitly all about Jesus is usually just cashgrabs with zero meaning behind it. It’s playing to the low denominator for things where “safe” is the most important part of music.
So, TLDR:
NF
I hate cashgrab music. You can clearly tell the difference between it and Christian music written (much of it centuries old) out of passion and love
Carol of the Bells
I used to get down with some Collective Soul.
I always respected that they refused to identify as a Christian rock band. From what I recall their response was something like “We’re a rock band, that happens to be Christian.”
They’ve got a lot of good material, glad to see them in this thread
Slayer, Demon Hunter, Celldweller.
“Collapsing” by Demon Hunter slaps. Thank you, Killing Floor 2, for introducing me.
Sister Christian by Night Ranger. 😉
