Rising Christian metal force Ashes Awaken are set to unleash their long-awaited debut album, Rise, on February 6, 2026. The album arrives on the heels of the band’s breakout single “A Better Way”, ...
Satan is unequivocally the most metal character in history. During the 1980s, bands embracing his evil imagery spurred the Satanic Panic, when straitlaced parents were terrified that their children ...
Thundering back-beats and shredding guitars. Emotion as high as the volume. Bodies colliding on stage or in a mosh pit. All for the glory of God. It adds up to Christian metalcore, the intersection of ...
Stryper is back with “When We Were Kings,” a solid album with big riffs and an even bigger message. The band’s 12th album, which dropped in September, is just another step in the long Stryper journey.
To many, alternative genres like punk and heavy metal are the domain of anti-establishment bands like the Sex Pistols -- makers of music calling for an end to age-old institutions like, say, organized ...
NEW YORK (Billboard) - The biggest metalcore band in the land happens to be a Christian sextet that, for a second time, is primed to crash into the upper echelons of the Billboard 200. Sign up here.
The venue for P.O.D.’s show Tuesday night could not have been more fitting, as the veteran Christian metal band played New Kensington’s Preserving Underground, a former church converted into a concert ...
Don’t worry, many of us didn’t since she went under the name Katy Hudson before becoming famous. The revelation is making its way around fans and media alike, causing confusion. P.O.D. sets everyone ...
The embattled frontman of a Christian metal band sentenced to prison for plotting to have his wife killed recently confessed that he and other band members had become atheists, but continued to pose ...
In 1988, the Satanic panic was in full swing in the United States. Amid the hysteria, many religious ministries and Christian groups maintained that rock and metal music was a window into satanism for ...
Growing up in an evangelical Christian household, I was not allowed to listen to secular music—or to any music that did not explicitly point to Jesus Christ and reflect “biblical values.” Heavy metal, ...