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Exactly What It Says on the Tin, Christian Rock is Rock music written and performed from a specifically Christian perspective. Far from being just Rock songs with words about God, or rock stars like Elvis Presley who happen to be Christian and cover the odd Gospel song here and there, Christian Rock is its own distinct category of music, with dedicated Christian Rock record labels, music festivals, bands, radio, charts, awards, and more devoted to the genre. The genre began in The '60s with Christian musicians who, contrary to the attitude of many churches at the time, thought that Rock could be a good vehicle for expressing their faith. If the older generation didn't get it, well, that's what makes it Rock 'n Roll. The genre became popular with Christian audiences in The '70s, and took on a life of its own as musicians experimented in the many emerging forms of rock. During the 70s and 80s it maintained a sizable, er, cult following, very popular among Christian youth although earning its share of odd looks and criticism both from secular rock fans and from the sort of church folks who believe all rock is of the devil. It exploded in popularity in The '90s, as many mainstream churches began to embrace the success of the style in appealing to a wide audience. Some artists have managed to become crossover hits who appeal to Christian and secular audiences alike, while just as many others are content to be primarily for Christians (The latter group is often described under the catchall term CCM, Contemporary Christian Music). It's also not unheard of for an artist or group to start in the Christian scene, and then move on from it as they achieve more mainstream success (or experience a Crisis of Faith). Or, for that matter, an artist from another genre might happen to be a Christian and record an album or two of worship songs for their Christian fans. What they all have in common is a distinctively rock sound (in any style) and lyrics that are specifically about Christianity. If it's Ambiguously Christian, it's probably not Christian Rock. There's often a perception that Christian variations are watered-down imitations of popular genres, typically with low production values, and sometimes bands just shoehorn Christianity into the lyrics to get played on gospel stations. The common Shallow Parody of Christian Rock involves an opportunistic Christian group taking an existing rock song and swapping the word "baby" for "Jesus." The reality is quite different. As with any genre, production values and talent vary greatly between bands, but they're on average no more derivative than any group playing on mainstream radio. Additionally, Christian Rock is less The Moral Substitute than is popularly believed. Most often, it is simply a chosen way for its performers to entertain, enjoy themselves, and/or express their faith. People who are liable to condemn rock music simply because of its genre (without regards to its lyrical content) often don't listen to Christian rock, either. Some church groups (and Jack Chick) believe that all rock music, including Christian rock, is something to be avoided. Also, with the popularity of various Christian Rock/Metal acts such as Skillet, Underoath, and As I Lay Dying outside of the core CCM audience, the "Christian Rock as a Poor Man's Substitute" version of this trope may be becoming at least partially discredited. It should be noted that this genre can be as diverse as the secular form of rock music. Just as diverse. Everything from Soft Rock to the various forms of Heavy Mithril will be covered. And it's erroneous to assume what the viewpoint/theology of any Christian band or its members is, because Christian rock's theologies are as diverse and unpredictable as the entire population of Christians, which is pretty diverse. This does sometimes make for a degree of Lyrical Dissonance, as many of the harder rock genres aren't normally associated with the positive and hopeful aspects of Christianity. Nonetheless, Christian Rock artists have found success making every form of rock music, even Black Metal (its devotees wryly call the Christian version "Unblack Metal"). Concerts often differ somewhat from regular rock or metal concerts. Because a band is Christian, parents will often allow younger children to go to their concerts. As a result, some concerts will be held at a lower decibel level (though there are still a great many that will send you home with ringing ears). Mosh pits are rare, and usually at smaller, late night concerts if at all. It should also be remembered that an artist's personal religious affiliation can have absolutely nothing to do with what genre they sing in. Christian rock refers exclusively to music that is about Christianity. Christians may (and often do) sing in other genres as well. Non-Christians making Christian Rock would be rarer, but not entirely unheard of. And of course other religions may have their own musical genres as wellnote Many Jews and Buddhists have similarly been incorporating overt religious themes into pop-music acts over the past decade; Islamic pop groups, although not unheard of, are quite rare, largely because the strictest sects of Islam forbid all music. Quite a few rappers, however, are Muslims.. Conversely, rock bands such as U2 may have Christian members and address Christian concepts in their lyrics, but see their audience as the mainstream public rather than just the Christian crowd, so most people would not consider them to be Christian Rock as such. The definition of the genre is not "rock musicians who happen to be Christians" or "rock songs that happen to be about God or religion" but "rock acts that specifically focus their primary output on Christian themes and/or Christian audiences". For further reading on the history of the genre, John J. Thompson's book Raised By Wolves: The Story of Christian Rock & Roll provides a detailed overview, and also focuses on a few key figures - including Christian rock pioneer Larry Norman, the acclaimed guitarist Phil Keaggy and the new wave band Daniel Amos - in depth. Also recommended is the Tumblr blog An Atheist's Guide to Christian Rock, a blog on Christian Alternative Rock written by music critic J. Edward Keyes, a former Christian who still has fondness for the music he grew up with (Sadly, the blog has been on hiatus since Keyes became the editorial director for Bandcamp's music journalism vertical). Christian Metal is the even more controversial subgenre.note If you guessed that it's Heavy Metal music from Christian perspective, give yourself a gold star. See also the sister genre Gospel Music, which has similar messages, but pulls from a different musical tradition. Compare Song of Prayer, which addresses God in the lyrics and God-Is-Love Songs (in which the Christian elements are understated). The opposite is Religion Rant Song, for music that takes a negative view of faith. Contrast with The Moral Substitute. Definitely not to be confused with Chris Rock. |
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The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus are another group which is on the fence; their first album, Don't You Fake It, emphasizes the general theme of being a good person (see their breakout single and anti-abuse song "Face Down"), but Lonely Road and Am I The Enemy? have more heavily Christian themes in the lyrics. For example, "Believe", from Lonely Road,talks about needing "a little help from above" to change the world. "Wake Me Up", from Am I The Enemy?, more straightforwardly discusses Christian redemption: | |
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An episode of The Simpsons had the Hair Metal band Quiet Riot become the Christian metal band "Pious Riot". Larry Norman made a similar joke in the early '90s. "I mean, replace 'baby' with 'Jesus'...". Allegedly, Ray Charles once said something similar about the blues and gospel — one's about God, the other's about women. Played with in another episode when Ned expressed his happiness with scoring tickets to a Christian Rock concert. When he shows the tickets to Homer, we see that they are actually for a Chris Rock concert. There's also Ned's love of the Christian AC/DC tribute band AD/BC with their hit song "Kindly Deeds (Done For Free)". Also this exchange as Reverend Lovejoy reads the church bulletin: Or when the Sunday service had musical guests in the form of the fictional band Covenant: And when Bart replaced the sheet music for the service with "In the Garden of Eden" by "I. Ron Butterfly". |
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In Privilege, pop star Steven Shorter's handlers strike an agreement with the government and the Church of England for Steve to "convert" to Christianity in order to promote conformity. The violence is removed from his stage show, and his band starts playing rock versions of songs like "Onward Christian Soldiers." | |
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In one episode of King of the Hill, Hank tries to get his son interested in Christianity again. He is horrified when Bobby becomes an aficionado of Christian Rock and starts hanging around with a group of "Christian Skaters" (played by guest stars Sum41); the horror is partly due to their appalling fashion sense and musical taste, but mostly because Hank doesn't want Bobby to treat Christianity just like another youthful fad. | |
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Delirious were a British Christian Rock band that existed from 1992-2009. | |
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In Metalocalypse, Murderface attempts to find what religion is right for him; one of his first attempts takes him to a Christian rock concert, where he tries to groove with the horribly lame music with a pained look on his face. | |
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Ed Kowalczyk, in his solo career outside of Live, plays a lot of straight-forward Christian songs. Still doesn't stop him from dropping one and other Cluster F-Bomb in older songs like "Waitress". | |
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Red is a Christian rock band (although if you don't pay attention to their lyrics you wouldn't know). If you don't believe it, listen to "Already Over". | |
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The Newsboys: absurdly popular among Christians, unheard-of elsewhere. Which is too bad, 'cause their music is really catchy. (One example: "Shine") | |
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Barlow Girl. Their single, "I Need You To Love Me", is to date the longest number one hit in CCM radio history. | |
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Theocracy is a Christian Progressive Power Metal band. | |
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Red Dwarf: Krytie TV: In an attempt to ruin Kochanski's date with ex-boyfriend Tim, Kryten helps Lister trash Tim's quarters. Kryten gives Lister a number of Rimmer's possessions to place around Tim's quarters. Apparently the pièces de résistance are some Christian rock music CD's, given "if they don't scare her off, nothing will!". One of the CD's is titled "Frank Assisi and the Apostles - Hymns in Rock". | |
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Andy Hunter and his contribution to the Need for Speed: Underground soundtrack, "The Wonders of You". It is, in fact, Christian Techno. | |
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Lamb of God is sometimes mistaken for a Christian band by those unfamiliar with their work, considering that their name is taken from one of the biblical titles for Jesus. More than a surface-level look, however, will quickly reveal they are very much not, starting with their debut album Burn The Priest. Word of God is vague but has said they picked the name mostly to stand out ironically from the satanic band names popular in the Heavy Metal scene at the time. | |
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And when Bart replaced the sheet music for the service with "In the Garden of Eden" by "I. Ron Butterfly". | |
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Family Force 5 deserves mention. "It's better than drugs/in fact it's sent from above" (from "Love Addict") is a reference to God, if indirect/vague; they've played at Christian concerts, and they even mention God directly in "Peachy". They also did a cover of the song "In My Minds Eye", originally done by DCTalk, mentioned above. | |
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It's debatable whether Creed is Christian Rock or simply Post-Grunge. Their lyrics tend to lean heavily into biblical imagery, but the band rejected the "Christian rock" categorization on the grounds that they didn't have an agenda to lead anyone to their specific religious beliefs. | |
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The Onion has run a few articles regarding this musical genre: "Christian Rock Uninspired" "Bassist Unaware Rock Band Christian" "Christian Rock Band Cleans Up Hotel Room "Heckled Christian Rock Band Knows How Jesus Felt" "Christian Rockers Deny Kicking Ass" |
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King's X: The three founding members were all fans of Petra and started their own band – then called The Edge – in 1980. In 1987 they changed their name and sound but stayed true to Christian and other spiritual topics, getting quite some recognition from the Christian Rock scene although they never openly aligned themselves to it. Their association with the genre got subverted when lead singer/bassist Doug Pinnick publically declared his loss of faith (as well as coming out as gay) and sang about it on the band's albums Dogman and Ear Candy among others. | |
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Lost Dogs: A folk-rock Supergroup consisting of the lead singers and songwriters of the Christian Alternative bands Daniel Amos, The Choir, The 77's, and Adam Again. The Lost Dogs recorded three albums before Gene Eugene's death, and decided to kept going as a quartet. They recorded five more albums after that. | |
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The 77s: Famously described by Larry Norman as being "Too Christian for the radio, and too radio for the church". The 77's were a new wave-influenced band who were poised to break out of Christian music altogether in the late-80s. The band got secular college radio airplay, earned critical praise for their albums and live performances, and wrote catchy alt-rock songs about explicitly Christian themes. They actually wound up getting a deal with major label Island Records, but unfortunately, their 1987 self-titled third album got lost in the label's promotional shuffle for U2's The Joshua Tree and underperformed. Their followup album, 1990's Sticks and Stones, is widely considered to be one of the best Christian rock albums ever recorded. | |
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In the Good Omens fic All The Best Tunes? by A.A. Pessimal, the demon Crowley and the angel Azaraphile have a go at pop and rock music promotion. On a visit to CBGB's in New York, circa 1974, they witness a young Patti Smith. Angel and Demon both find much to appreciate in her lyrics. Azaraphile realises the anger and the intensity of her performance of the 23rd Psalm (''Set Me Free!") is one of the most heartfelt, intense, prayers he has heard in a long time. He approves. It causes Crowley to flee and vomit in the bathroom, for exactly the same reason. Elsewhere, both claim the credit for Christian rock music as it can be claimed to advance the causes of both Heaven - and Hell. | |
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Stryper was a Christian hair metal band that hit near mainstream success in the 80s with their single "Honestly". Their version of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is one that has made even detractors of Christian rock step back and say "That was actually pretty good". Some hymns were just made for heavy rock. | |
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Ajalon was a Christian prog band who take their name from Joshua 10:12 in The Bible. Rick Wakeman has collaborated with them before (Wakeman is himself a professing Christian, and has released some Christian stuff, but it's not most of his output). | |
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Before many of these examples were the Bible-themed rock musicals of the early seventies, Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell. The albums of music from these shows (and later from the movie versions of each) showed many record executives that there really was a market for Christian Rock/Pop. | |
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Eddie DeGarmo and Bob Farrell: !HERO: The Rock Opera (2003)note Both DeGarmo and Farrell are Christian music veterans in their own rights. DeGarmo, the uncle of 2004 American Idol runner-up Diana DeGarmo, was part of the long-running 1978-95 group DeGarmo & Key with childhood friend Dana Key before settling in as a producer and record executive. Farrell, meanwhile, had been part of a short-lived early Jesus music group called Dove, later recorded several albums as part of the duo Farrell & Farrell alongside his wife Jayne before shifting focus to work primarily as a songwriter. | |
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Brian Welch, guitarist of Korn, left the band when he became a Christian and started a solo career. He rejoined the band in 2013. | |
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Amy Grant started out making explicitly Christian pop music — her catalog spanning from her Self-Titled Album, My Father's Eyes, Never Alone, In Concert Vol. 1 and 2, Age to Age, Straight Ahead, Unguarded. Nevertheless, her artistic inspirations were largely secular - the likes of Joni Mitchell (she would later cover Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"), Carole King and Elton John. She began dabbling in mainstream pop during the mid- and late 1980s, most notably with the Peter Cetera duet "The Next Time I Fall" (a No. 1 hit in 1986) and with several more explicitly Christian songs such as "Find a Way" (from Unguarded) and the title song from 1988's Lead Me On. With 1991's Heart in Motion, she made an all-out shift to mainstream music and found a receptive audience at Top 40 and adult contemporary radio, with the album going quintuple platinum and containing four Top 10 pop hits, including the US No. 1 and UK No. 2 smash "Baby Baby". Whether Grant could be honestly said to have left Christian music is debatable. It's true that in the early part of The '90s, she began downplaying her typical Christian subject matter in favor of songs with more universal themes, but she never quite abandoned it altogether; even Heart in Motion has two explicitly Christian songs, "Ask Me" and "Hope Set High". Despite receiving criticism from her more fundamentalist fans for "selling out", her music remained family-friendly, clean and positive, with some mainstream media outlets dubbing her the "anti-Madonna". And at any rate, since her mainstream success dried up in the early 2000s, Grant has drifted back toward religious music in recent years; two of her last three albums have been collections of religious songs. She hasn't promoted a single to mainstream/secular radio stations in several decades. And even at the height of her mainstream success, her albums were carried in both Christian and mainstream record stores, and she continued to release some singles (such as "Ask Me" and "Helping Hand") exclusively to Christian radio. |
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The Chariot | |
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Neal Morse of the Progressive Rock groups Spock's Beard and Transatlantic. After converting to Christianity, Morse produced the Christian themed concept album, Snow, with Spock's Beard, after which he focused on a solo career focused on his new found faith, often deviating from his prog rock roots, though he has produced several prog rock Christian concept albums, including ? about the tabernacle and Sola Scriptur about Martin Luther. | |
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Petra: One of the pioneers of the genre, founded in 1974. Their name is Greek for "rock", and that's pretty much the only descriptor of their style that's vague enough to remain accurate throughout their history (in the '80s alone, they went from sounding like Kansas to being a heavy metal band), with synthesizer-fueled pop-rock somewhere in the middle. They got a lot of flak early on for daring to play rock music (which many Christians at the time were still uneasy about), and levered a couple Take Thats to their accusers in response. Considered by many to be the pioneers of Christian Rock... they were the first band inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Not to mention their 4 Grammys and 11 nominations. | |
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Plumb. | |
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Cezare Bonizzi is a Capuchin monk, with long flowing beard and vows of poverty and all that... and he's also the lead singer of an Italian heavy metal band and is known as Brother Metal. He's appeared with such metal giants as Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Slayer. | |
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The South Park episode, "Christian Rock Hard", took this concept to the next level. In the episode, Cartman bets Kyle that he can form a band and earn a platinum album (one million copies sold), and starts a Christian rock band. But to avoid doing any actual song writing, he rips off a bunch of pop love ballads and just replaces all of the words like "baby" or "girl" with "Jesus", so most of his band's songs end up being about wanting to have sex with Jesus. He does end up getting a million copies of his album sold... but still doesn't win the bet, because in the world of South Park, Christian music has its own set of awards. Instead of silver, gold, and platinum; it's gold, frankincense, and myrrh. Since the bet was specifically for a platinum album, which Cartman did not earn, he loses the bet, and his following curse-filled tirade alienates his entire Christian fanbase. The "having sex with Jesus" nature was likely due to the tendency in some Christian rock to use metaphors that sound very sexually-loaded to some non-fans - e.g. repeatedly saying that one wants to "touch", "feel" or "hold" Jesus. |
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Apologetix is a Christian parody band, a la "Weird Al" Yankovic. Al's drummer even played on one of their albums. Their song "We're in a Parody Band" labels themselves as part Weird Al and part Billy Graham. | |
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2nd Chapter of Acts was a pioneering group. Brother/sisters trio Annie Herring, Nelly Ward, and Matthew Ward released their first singles in 1972 and their first album 2 years later. Known for their amazing vocal harmonies, they are probably the originators of the Christian concept album with The Roar of Love, based on C. S. Lewis's The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | |
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