Hey, does anyone here listen to anything other than Switchfoot, Blindside, Pillar, POD, Chevelle, TFK, 12 Stones...you know, all the big Christian bands...it just seems like all the threads here are about them. You guys like any indie bands, or someone who isn't well known?

one of my favourite bands is a little known one from Atlanta, Georgia. they are actually friends with Third Day, but not as popular, which i'm cool with. :) The Waiting is one of the coolest bands out there that has country under-tones. their lyrics are awesome. check out the bridge to "Hands in the Air."

Light from my window sill, make my way to the door
I hang my head and still, I know you're wanting more
Over the threshold now, I move across the yard
All that my will allows, my every step is hard
Now in the garden I carve out six feet of space
There make my will comply, lie down upon my face
Been toe to toe too long, I'm tired of fighting You
I see You were too strong 'cause I am black and blue
But now I understand a loser's due to win
How every dying man is sure to rise again
So I raise my left hand one, I raise my right hand two
Under the morning sun, my spirit cries to You

i like antiskeptic (no one has responded to my antiskeptic thread here) and hardly anyone who lives outside australia knows them, and even in australia not many people know them.
and i like falling up (sum people know them, and probably more people as they get more popular coz they haven't been around for long)
and i like naked heart (aussie christian metal) and hardly anyone heard of them. even ive only heard one of they're songs, and its a cover of Confide in me, and i ain't got their cd.
and theres lots of other aussie bands noon would've heard of. and theres lots of other bands, but i can't think of them all now, anmd i ain't got their cds yet anyway.

Okay, well, this is who else I like that may or may not be well known:

- The Benjamin Gate
- Dead Poetic
- Seventh Day Slumber
- Atticus Fault [disbanded]
- Further Seems Forever
- Strange Occurrence
- Stereo Motion
- Common Children
- Edify
- twothirtyeight
- Anberlin
- Massivivid [old]
- Finechina
- All Together Seperate [disbanded]
- Saviour Machine
- Chasing Furies [disbanded]
- Burlap to Cashmere [disbanded]

last i knew Common Children was disbanded too (unless they've rebanded)

i love the elms, the normals, clear(disbanded), silars bald.... (but skillet is probably about as 'hard' as i go, so you might take that for what its worth)

i like everyday sunday

That's what really sucks though, is that most of the really good Christian artists that used to be around have broken up...like BeanBag. After the wreck they were in, they just decided to pack up and head back to Australia. They were my all time favorite Grunge/Metal band ever...and they left me only two CD's... :'(

last i knew Common Children was disbanded too (unless they've rebanded)
No, you're right.. I'm pretty sure they're still disbandededed.

Bands I like that aren't "big"- or disbanded:

the Rock and Roll Worship Circus
Shaded Red [disbanded. brothers doing a new band Indio, or Indeo...still have yet to find out about them more, and i hope to see them in concert one day...great guys..]

Chasing Furies [disbanded]
Fono
Seventh Day Slumber
David Crowder
Riley Armstrong [i like his ballads, and he's a really nice guy]
the benjamin gate
sanctus real
seven day Jesus

that's all i can think of right now.

geez, no one posted Bride yet.. they're soo cool.

Favorite Bands...
MxPx
Staple
Everyday Sunday (get their new cd may 18th 2004)
Kids in the Way
Eisley
Blindside
Copeland

Dude, I forgot about Bride! Bride was sweet till they went rap-core in "Fistful of bees" I haven't heard their latest cd "This is it". But I think "The Jesus Experience" was their best cd.

Some other bands:

*Disciple (One of the most underrated Christian bands out there.)
*Seven Day Jesus (Disbanded)
*Grammatrain (Disbanded)
*East West
*Wyrick (I think he's into producing now-a-days.)
*Lloyd (Who had like three members of Imagine This. Disbanded)
*Staple is awesome, haven't gotten their new cd yet.

Locally, there are some sweet bands. I never really knew Columbus actually had a local scene till I was in a band lol. But Penitence, Menile and a few other bands are pretty awesome.

I dunno, I don't really like much of the recent Christian stuff out there. It's either emo or alternative rock anymore.

But Skillet and Disciple are neck and neck tho for #1.

-J

Favorite Bands...
MxPx
Staple
Everyday Sunday (get their new cd may 18th 2004)
Kids in the Way
Eisley
Blindside
Copeland


Copeland is awesome!
as is Blindside!
other bands:
Demon Hunter
Echocast
Fighting Jacks
Dakona
Foolish Things
Strike Thurman
Audio Vent
Embodyment (disbanded...NO!!!!come back!!)
there's more......

FIF (disbanded)<------ if it was any band that should come back

i like:
Lucerin Blue
Chandelle
Ghost of the Robot (Spike from the tv show Buffy's band...yes he has a band lol)
Mae
Pennylane

some smaller christian bands I like-

joy electric
starflyer59
fono
smalltown poets (I think they quit. After 3/5 of the band departs, I think it's inevetable)
Rock and Roll Worship Circus
Burlap to Cashmere
The Normals
The Waiting. They have one song, on their self titled record, which is just simply awe-inspiring- "Hands In the air". But their new(ish) record dissapointed me.

fono
Remember how they went on hiatus for a while after the fires destroyed their studio [and new material]? Well the other day Chrishna informed me that they're back on the touring circuit. And with a chick bass player in tow!

Remember how they went on hiatus for a while after the fires destroyed their studio [and new material]?
Nope. Now I know why there has been a five year hiatus since goes around comes around.

...with a chick bass player in tow!
Great!
I'm glad they didn't quit, which is what I thought happened. Good to know!

and these bands are good:
Falling Up,
Sky Harbor,
East West,
Big Dismal

Nope. Now I know why there has been a five year hiatus since goes around comes around.Great!
I'm glad they didn't quit, which is what I thought happened. Good to know!
After goesaroundcomesaround they toured quite a bit with the Goo Goo Dolls, Third Eye Blind, and some other bands I think. They'd been working on a new album and when the fires were here this past winter, their studio got destroyed along with most of the masters of their new stuff. But they're working on coming back now. There's more info at their site: www.fono.net

KJ~52!! I that guys so cool! Hes addicted to mountain dew!

well, skillet wasnt listed in the first post....i have a bit of a thing for them ;D lol (ok, maybe more than a bit of a thing...more like "My Obsession"......bad pun intended.....

Anyway...i didnt really get to hear big dismal in concert cuz they started early and didnt play long, but i just barrowed the cd from my friend a couple of hours ago and immediately ordered the cd online...I really like them! Also, I'de like to comment that Riley Armstrong, though not real well known, has visited and performed here at Spring Arbor University, and he lived in my dorm building all weekend both times with the resident director...which i thought was awsome ;D

Other bands i like that arent quite so big are Luna Halo (are they together?), Earthsuit (disbanded :'( ) And I like By the Tree's, The Elms, and Tree63's first albums....not so much the later ones......oh, and is justified considered a well known band? i love them....saw them in concert twice, first time when the opened for skillet before i liked them (pillar was there too) and again a little while ago in a church in town

I'll shut up now...unless i think of others....oh, i like fono's song: collide, but the rest im not sure about....and some of bleaches songs (heartbeat etc)....

oh, im sorry...i almost forgot....."altered" contacted me, they're a new band in VA, and they saw PH.org and liked it and asked me to redo their flash intro (i am also redoing their website and logo) They sent me a few of their songs and they sounded really good! I havent heard more than the 3 songs the lead singer, adam, sent me....but he's sending me a copy of the album...... www.altered-band.com (http://www.altered-band.com) is their site, he uploaded some song downloads if you want to hear them.....note that the new site isnt up yet...

ok, i think im done typing now ;D

wait!....oh never mind, thats all i got

KJ~52!! I that guys so cool! Hes addicted to mountain dew!
I love that song, lol,
And John Reuben

Hey, check out Seventh Day Slumber, Relient k (they're pretty ell known),

ah, pax217...really like them....and i cant believe i forgot Jonah33! John and Korey wrote a few of their songs!......i love "death and life" and "God of My Life" (written by John Cooper and Korey Cooper, respectively)

The Waiting. They have one song, on their self titled record, which is just simply awe-inspiring- "Hands In the air". But their new(ish) record dissapointed me.
seriously tho. :) see my previous post in this thread on that song.

which new(ish) album are you talking about? Unfazed? (which isn't that great) or Wonderfully Made? (which is more worshipful folk/pop/rock)

love Pax217, and Jonah33 has grown on me as well. But one huge band i just started listening to that i love is Project 86, talk about awesome music.

United Live (Hillsong band from Australia)
Dayz Wage (Ska band from Canada, great group of guys. disbanded i think)

Demon Hunter, 38th Parallel, Grits, ya thoughs too.

yah, I saw that post unshakable, and I had intended to post a remark agreeing with you, but I think I forgot to.

I'm speaking of their newest one. Wonderfully Made. It is by no means wonderful.
Actually, I disliked Unfazed too. It's just their first record that I liked. It isn't very original music, but that one song is just amazing. It's one of my favorite songs ever.

i agree on Unfazed. it left me, well, unfazed. ;) Wonderfully Made, however, i enjoy. not as much as self-titled .which is not their first btw. their first, if you don't count their very first which is more like a demo record, is Blue Belly Sky. i so want that CD. from what i've heard, it sounds a lot like their self-titled.

can ya tell i like The Waiting a lot? ;)

I know of Blue Belly Sky. My Step mother owns a copy 8)
But I always considered it a semi record. An EP, though I don't think they ever called it that.

The Normals have left Forefront records. Which means there ain't any bands left on that label that I like. Bennygate and grammatrain quit, skillet and Bleach left, and now the Normals left.
Mark Lockett-
"We are off ForeFront Records finally...feels like a piano was lifted off our chest."

I know of Blue Belly Sky. My Step mother owns a copy 8)
But I always considered it a semi record. An EP, though I don't think they ever called it that.
i understand. but what about the rerelease they did after self-titled? :) would it be an EP as well? either way, you're one lucky dog to have access to that CD. i need to get me a copy one of these days, hopefully soon. :)

The Normals have left Forefront records. Which means there ain't any bands left on that label that I like. Bennygate and grammatrain quit, skillet and Bleach left, and now the Normals left.
Mark Lockett-
"We are off ForeFront Records finally...feels like a piano was lifted off our chest."

yeah, i haven't heard great things about forefront...

Probably why Skillet switched from Forefront to Ardent

Forefont is a devision of Ardent. Kinda like Tooth & Nail Records.. they have BEC and other companies as well. So Skillet switched b.c I think John said Forefront was busy with another new band so.. I dont know.. probably didnt help much. (just trying to show off my musical knowledge..lol)

any one heard of hank nelson?

who here likes Pillar? they're my other favorite band... (aside from skillet, i mean) go to www.pillarmusic.com . amazing Christian band. oooooooooh i love em! *throws Pillar demos to the poor souls who are Pillar-less*

did you see the thread on pillar on here [ph.org]? its somewhere in here.

no. but thanks!! ill check it out! massive kudos 2 u!! lol

ahh thanks!

All sad faces mean the bands went bye bye.
Earthsuit :'( (<-I loved their sound so much cuz it was so different!!!!!!!!)
The Benjamin Gate :'(
Fighting Jacks
Lucerin Blue
Thousand Foot Krutch
Justifide
Kutless
Pneumavox or Still Life Cinema, if you prefer
There's so many more but I'm having trouble thinking today...as always... ::]

I love The Waiting...

Number One Gun is good, too. I love the lead singer's voice! Wooooo-ooooo! It rocks.
Bleach.......ah.........
Further Seems Forever. They're interesting, too. And awesome.
I love music.

I love The Waiting...
& then there were three. :)


have i told you how much i like you lately? ;)

yeah, earthsuit was pretty cool.

lol@mike.

MeWithoutYou. Anybody heard of them?

I've heard of them. They're pretty good, I suppose. I had their cd for a while and I really liked their lyrics, they just weren't something I could get into whenever.

-Further Seems Forever
-MeWithoutyou
-The Benjamin Gate
-Lucerin Blue
-Dead Poetic
-Everypassing Hour(My friends band)
-Everyday Sunday
-The Rock 'N Roll Worship Circus
-Staple
-Blindside(NOBODY around here has heard of them, exept for Dave, everyone else looks at you weird if you mention them)
-Demon Hunter
-The Halo Friendlies
-Fighting Jacks
-Audio Vent
-Hawk Nelson
-MxPx(Nobody over here has heard of them either)
-Number One Gun

I have more because even Skillet isn't popular over here, and basiclly all I listen to is music that no one else has heard of.
Some people flame me for it, but I have a personality, and I'm bold enough to stray away from mainstream so I can decide what I like, not just what the media, and the popular kids(same difference)say is cool.

hmm...are we talkin just christian bands here or everything?

-Blindside(NOBODY around here has heard of them, exept for Dave, everyone else looks at you weird if you mention them)


no one here has heard of them? people in my school are freaking obsessed. there's actually a POD concert really soon in calgary, and most people are going to see blindside. yeah actually almost all those bands are like really popular. wow, people must have a very selected taste in music here.

hellogoodbye.. they are secular.. but I just like the sound soo much! and cold hand luke is cool as well. and so is Torn from Red.

nobody here has heard of blindside. or 12 stones. and some people dont even know who pod is. that is scary. actually, i met this one kid who didnt even know who evanescence was!!! i was like freaked out, especially since hes like a music freak. ive never met anyone who likes christian music at my school. whats cool tho is that alot of people know who switchfoot is, so i have something in common pertaining to music.:) give skillet a couple of months, and they will be the next evanescene. (popularity wise, they wont be a big bunch of sellouts messing with the christian music business)

I love Blindside!!!!!!! Awesome band.

hey Unregistered, would yuo happen to know of a Voronwe from a nother message board?

nobody here has heard of blindside. or 12 stones. and some people dont even know who pod is. that is scary. actually, i met this one kid who didnt even know who evanescence was!!! i was like freaked out, especially since hes like a music freak. ive never met anyone who likes christian music at my school. whats cool tho is that alot of people know who switchfoot is, so i have something in common pertaining to music.:) give skillet a couple of months, and they will be the next evanescene. (popularity wise, they wont be a big bunch of sellouts messing with the christian music business)

i've been listening to blindside, 12 stones, POD, and switchfoot for a long time! i like all four bands. ;D

i like some songs from 12 stones and POD (i have their satellite cd)

i have all of SF's cds, but i am liking their newest one the most. more rock and less pop-rock.

and cold hand luke is cool as well.

yes! i am really liking their cd called "the fires of life"

i really like their sound, the vocals, the lyrics...yeah...

Yeah, I have only like two or three friends who really listen to a lot of Christian music. All the other people I know are like "Who are they??" At least Switchfoot is gaining popularity. I hear people all the time that are like "Oh, I really like that new band Switchfoot," and it's funny cuz they're NOT new!

not new in the christian market. but new in the mainstream market. going mainstream, one has to re-introduce themselves. because not everyone knows who you are. regardless of how big you were in the christian market.


(oh, and props for including rrwc kittygirl. ;) )

^oui, oui, je sais!