The TRUTH about Christian metal (Sonny Sandoval of POD) 

Thanx man!

Rapture in December, new moon, during Hanukkah, when light 1st returns to the moon!!! It's time!!!

With major labels, they make artists because witches before they'll even show em a contract. When they sign the "record deal," they sign in their own blood, making deals with devils. Their works are full of hexes and curses. Is this truth? I'm very curious

Did you see them live at The Crush by any chance? That's where I saw them alongside countless other T&N bands

@@RedeemedPrepper It could gave been, i dont remember the name of the venue, but i know it was fairly small

Praying to the god who made us vulnerable to cancer? If god does exist...

​@@theunholinesswithin70just by your name I can tell your beliefs are tied to the Christian faith. You're just on the "anti" or "opposing" side of the whole debate. And I think that's just fine. What a strange and glorious time to be alive. God bless you. 😂

@@worldssickestmedia2713 Cool story bruh... Mr Strawman here.

This made me cry bro!

Awesome story. Thanks for sharing.

@@austincooleymusic yeah man it was really really rough. Little did I know that was just the beginning. I was trying every way as a newish Christian man and husband and father to my beautiful son and I had so much knowledge I wanted to pass on to him. I was a product of the Los Angeles foster system I was placed in there when I was about 12... And I came from a really terrible upbringing so many things that would have killed a kid or man. That system was a place for predators to stalk children. That whole system should be burned to the ground. It does nothing but hurt children and teach them even worse things. That's just a little teeny bit of background, All of my friends say my story needs to be a movie or a book. But yes it got really worse. I'll never forget the worst cry and feeling of pain inside when I was in fetal position on the floor all night when I asked God let me take on her problems. And I said God. Please take your holy scalpel to me and please take out whatever is wrong with me... Oh boy did he let me lol... I never want to taste of that again. I believe he was letting me say I'm supposed to take that pain not you. So here you can have it. I remember going to work the next day and my boss took me aside and she said Tim. Are you okay? I feel like I'm watching you die right in front of me. But that little moment was Sonny gave me some more Hope to keep fighting and go through it. After all that, God inspired me to write a ton of music and poems that I wanted to with the vision I had it was going to be a production and concert mixed to help others and give others the same Hope and share my story in music and poems the music I wrote is still therapy to me when I listen to it . I mean songs were just flying out of me lol. It's basically I hope someday to see Sonny again and thank him and talk about life. Hey Sonny, if you're ever in Show Low Arizona come on up bro and enjoy the beautiful mountains and serenity. I live around now. Thank you for your reply my friend! And God bless anybody going through this and if anybody ever wants to talk about anything going through the same thing, reach out. You can get a hold of me through my RU-vid channel and my music channel is linked to it and you can totally get a hold of me there. I'd like to give somebody the same. Hope that even through a train wreck in the worst pain in your life that you think it is, you can get through it and come up even better with more knowledge. The cool thing is God did not let me become a hateful person and become a bitter hateful person. I became the opposite. It softened my heart even more.

@@Lewis-me7jr You're very welcome. Blessings to you!

​@@AtomicGarden68💪🙏💪

Hebrews 10:39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

"If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you." John 15:18-19

Yeah, you should be very ashamed😂 Google “Christian torture devices” some time.

What about when your religion is just fine about touching kids and trying to hide it??

@@ryanmccoy3844 The jews have you wrapped around their finger. Go read another book that actually enlightens and doesn't glorify rape, slavery, animal sacrifice, murder, and incest.

Still have the Lonely House album, a real highlight of 90's "Christian " music.

You were an amazing band!

Oh wow, I used to listen to you guys back in the day! Good stuff!

I loved you guys. I was in a Christian metal band as a kid named Bethlehem Steele. We had a chance to open for Bloodgood but we broke up. They went on without me for some time. They were never signed. Later on in a less serious band, we tried to cover one of your songs but our drummer couldn't keep up with you haha. I'm sure he'd laugh now also now that were just a bunch of old guys that never got to quit their 9-5's. Really liked and appreciated your music. Thanks and God bless.

Lonely House is an amazing album

When that song randomly comes on while shuffling my music, I turn it up..loud

I'm astonished you mail ordered music that wasn't from Columbia house😂

That Satellite album was so well produced and the songs were pretty dang good

@@hadzmat758 The BMG club was where I got the Metal Church debut and Queensryche Rage for Order on cassette. 6 for a penny! (plus a SMALL shipping charge, lol). But the Enigma mail catalog was awesome. Wish I had kept a couple. To sound even older, because I was a teenager, I didn't have a checking account, so I would go to the grocery store and buy a money order to send in the mail with my order form.

Why we trying to hold up against the world.

I did a double take…. Then “wait I recognize those outfits!”

As a kid who came up with POD as a idea of Christian metal / rock, where can I start with Stryper? I'm listening to 72 Seasons for the first time, and Barbie' soundtrack tonight

I think their bassist was called “OzzFox” because his voice sounded like Ozzy Osbourne when he sang or something like that

@@dellebelphine-moralez3510that’s the guitar player. He’s a beast

I remember Alien Ant Farm LOL

In Berkeley?

Soooo different than their studio sound, especiallyRobert. I learned to play the drums by listening to To Hell With the Devil. The first time I saw them play it live, I realized he is such an underrated drummer.

They don’t sound like glam metal today. There’s a harder edge to their sound. I still love 80’s Stryper but today’s Stryper has more ⚽️ 🏀 🏈

That was one of my favorite shows ever. I had never listened to them, but they came to town. I was right in the middle of the front row and Michael Sweet sang to me the entire concert. It freaked me out. I was 15 and my boyfriend was mad. They sounded great though.

They are still pumping out great music. Saw their current tour in March and they still rock.

Their last four or five records are absolutely killer Especially no more hell to pay

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A christian without discernment? No worries..that falls on the kid's parents on that one. You are forgiven 😂

Super underrated band. Them and 6 feet deep were my favorites. I had type of parents

Conceived in Fire and their debut are classics!

I listened my Reborn CD to death. Still one of my favourites.

Living Sacrifice and 90lb Wuss were two bands I really wanted to see live and never got the chance. They're both highly underrated, imo.

We were playing in a touring Christian hardcore band when Reborn came out. We actually played a show with Sacrifice as the headliner and went on right before them. It was a great night hanging out with them.

Man, I had an X-Sinner tape that I wore out in high school! To me, they had a very similar sound to AC/DC.

I still have some cassettes of pretty much all those bands, Light Force, Scaterd Few, etc. and started getting CD's around the early '90s when I could afford the upgrade -- the Crucified, Deliverance, Believer, Mortal, Circle of Dust/Brainchild, etc... Lots of great stuff IMO. 8) I also saw Petra in the early/mid-'90s and was a bit bummed they didn't play Not of This World. :D

@@Rushtallica I’ve still got some early Petra CDs. Beat The System was a good one too. Originally had them on vinyl. Listened to a lot of Daniel Band too.

@@ChrisDavis1975 I'm glad we each still have those. And it brings back good memories for me. 8)

Oh man, thanks for mentioning Argyle Park and reminding me they exist! I got huge into them around the same time I discovered Klank and Celldweller, now I'll have to revisit their stuff at some point soon

Well said, I was thinking the same thing. I grew up in the 80s, i knew all the christian and nonchristian bands.

If it helps you, I didn't really know about Christian bands before I became a Christian which happened in 2007.

The 80's had a ton of great Christian metal bands though, like Sacred Warrior, Barren Cross, Bloodgood, Messiah Prophet, Watchmen, Jerusalem, Angelica, Zion, Straightway, etc., as well as those bands like Riot, Helloween and even Omen that had songs openly expressing their faith.

Fundamentalists hate any competition for your attention.

Him and Trevor from Thousand Foot Krutch. Both had massive crossover success, and still are putting out great tunes.

Are they true Christians?

@@brentj.peterson6070 yes, my friend

@@brentj.peterson6070 John Cooper (the vocalist/bassist) has a podcast talking about it. It's called 'Cooper Stuff'.

My brother saw Skillet at a christian community thing on my college campus in Mississippi. Skillet members were still a small christian band at the time.

Funny enough, I discovered and fell in love with stuff like Antester, Crimson Moonlight, SorrowStorm, and Vaakevandring at a point in my life where I pretty much wanted nothing to do with anything Christianity (the joys of being a nihilist in my youth), and yet for some reason these bands really still hooked me in and appealed to me even then. Hell, even now, decades later, I still marvel at how Christian extreme metal lyrics tend to be equal parts uplifting and badass.

very cool

I've seen Living Sacrifice 4 times, live in Colorado!

POD, P86, and Blindsided are the bands that made me a musician all those years ago lol

YES! YES! You know where greatness in music lies! Just slightly bummed it is their last album.

​@pmshrevecomm Blindside totally deserve much reconginition. They are just absolutely that good.

I would love to see P.O.D , Project 86 and Blindside tour one last time!!!

I saw POD and Project 86 at Mt. Oak church in Maryland. Five iron frenzy was there I think. Amazing shows.

Agreed!

I saw Stryper about 6 months ago at a local club. They absolutely killed it. Guitars, bass and drums were huge, sounded sooo good!!

Stryper live shows are legendary. I'm glad to hear they still tear it up, at their age.

Yep absolutely thought the exact SAME thing about "punk" during convid. Agree with you completely. It's all a smokescreen when going against the NWO.

What band were you in? Went to Tom fest in 96 97 98

@@stumanion3213 I played bass in Belva's Diesel, from Northern California. We played at either 0230 or 0300 AM on the first night of 96. We were friends with another band, Silage, who had a much more advantageous time slot. I remember there were a bunch of Officer Negative flyers in the communal bathrooms!

Very cool-great memories!

Yeah.. right in our own backyards...so many need help and guidance. Gotta start there before going overseas.

I played drums/bass in a couple church bands and I've come to the conclusion that it's all about the fruit in their life to determine who is real and who isn't. As an ex agnostic that came from the background of secular thrash/death metal I got into listening to the christian metal bands. I was into mortification, deliverance, living sacrifice and demon hunter. I was led out of all of it although at the time in my life I wasn't ready to let go of metal and it was better listening to christian metal than secular metal. God worked through this like for example the album "scrolls of the megilloth" by mortification was used by Holy Spirit to aid in my revelation of the reality of eternal judgement, hell being a real place and Jesus being the only way to Father. I wouldn't listen to christian bands that cussed or did anything directly against scripture but when Holy Spirit revealed why I loved metal so much I stopped listening immediately. He took me back to being a teen in a dysfunctional home hating my life and parents and that I had used metal to feel powerful in my warzone of a life. This is my experience and as far as churches (as with anyone) watch the fruit(Matthew 7:15-20) and if they practice antiscriptural behavior you are wise to be wary. Yes people fall short but I'm talking practice as in lifestyle or they don't think anything of their sinful behavior. Quite a few in my church groups smoked dope were fornicators with no desire to change and I had to leave. We must be careful who we hang with. Of course we aren't to look down our nose at people but judge righteously as mentioned in the scriptures.

Love that you mentioned Ghoti Hook. Those guys were awesome. A friend of mine knew them back in the day and we all hung out at Dennys till like 3 in the morning after one of their shows at a local church. Thanks for bringing back that great memory.

My thoughts exactly on Jesse Leach and KsE, the Alive or Just Breathing album has such beautiful lyrics and has clear roots in Leach’s faith. In regard to their success they certainly dodged a bullet, their music stands on its own without having to be cornered in the Christian sub unit of hardcore, they were able to make a legitimate mark on the metal genre at large.

Some of the heaviest bands I’ve loved were very devout like Living Sacrifice ‘the hammering process’ is so good..and Extol ‘Undeceived’ is insanely heavy. People deprive themselves of good tunes bc of belief systems

That seemed to be a really prevalent thing for secular bands to play the part of Christian bands to get signed to labels like tooth and nail and solidstate. Slick shoes, the agony scene, etc. etc. It seemed like the labels probably didn’t care much either and didn’t vet them too harshly as long as the talent was there.

The mid-90s to early-2000s was a GREAT time for Christian music, and I'm so glad I got to come up in it. My older brother was showing me stuff like 90lb Wuss and what not, but it was when I heard Project 86s "Pipedream" that I fell in love with music.

Supposedly zao is christian deathcore, if such a thing even exists

Its sad that you are missing the concept of Jesus Christ then. Maybe you should dig in.

@@A_T_O_M_I_C_Rooster no

@@markwrenn5965 Your funeral.

@@A_T_O_M_I_C_Rooster nope

Love Blindside. One of my favorites

I saw Blindside at slacker66 in Birmingham , Alabama. band was so good

And at this time none of these bands were in labels.

I love that. That is classic POD