Impending doom is my favorite Christian Metal band. And they are NOT a black metal band, BUT they are as heavy, if not heavier than most secular bands out there. And they are unapologetically Christian.

Theocracy is a great band with Christian themes and a strong biblical message throughout

I've loved Demon Hunter since 2005 when I was 14 now 32 and first listened to The Triptych. ✝️

I love Lacey Strum she's close to a female Christian metal singer.Last month just started listening to Holyname.And a few of the ones mentioned here.

Deamon hunter was the band that got me into Christian Metal. Summer of Darkness is the first metal album I ever purchased.

Becoming the archetype is my favorite of all time. They introduced me to how incredible metal bands can be at classical music.

Thank you young man 🙏 I'm 60 but love music and heavy rock I'm new to finding the Lord (real new 😊🙏). This will help, bless you 🇦🇺

Wolves At The Gate really got me into the Christian metal genre. War Of Ages is another really good one. The Fire Itself was my album of the year pick.

Demon Hunter, Wolves at the Gate and Impending Doom have become some of my favorite Christian heavy metal bands. I love their work and their music and their messages while spreading the love and word of Jesus. Honorable candidates are For Today, War of Ages, Crucify the Flesh, For All Eternity, Sleeping Giant, The Forerunner just to name a few. Still looking up and listening to other bands in this genre and the more I find the more I enjoy and love

What about For Today, Sleeping Giant, The Chariot

I felt relief when i found HolyName. I'm a drummer and I've loved metal due to extreme musicianship and playing. It was tough for me because i would have to scan lyrics to make sure I'm not listening to black metal talking about antichrist, etc. Thank you for highlighting Christian Heavy Metal!

Not sure why I haven't heard of these bands before! Better late than never at least. Thank you for this.

I so needed this! Thanks for being out here!

I love metal and am a newly devout Christian, I was honestly so sad to give it up but I'm glad to see that there's some amazing Christian metal bands, so I don't have to! Do you know of any pop punk/alternative Christian bands? I'd love to hear that as well.

I love that you always keep your channel authentically you! The book reviews, the christian metal music, the mozzarella sticks. It’s great content and even better because it’s fully you!

Just found this video and love it, so I'm heading to your channel now! My favorite band, because I love how boldly they proclaimed their faith, is For Today (and I hate that I missed catching a show before they broke up). I also really dig Sleeping Giant, and Wolves at the Gate! Fellow Buckeye here, too! A Fallen Buckeye, but Buckeye nonetheless...

Thanks for this list, dude. I am an old '80s metalhead, listen to Stryper, Believer, Tourniquet, Bride, Sacred Warrior, Recon, etc. But I was curious about today's Christian Metal. I've heard of a couple of these bands but you have shown me several I have not heard of. So thanks and I subbed your channel. God bless.

Dude awesome info, thanks. Keep it up.👍🔥

Thank you! I backslid today and listened to KUBLAI KHAN TX. 😢 I needed this. ❤😂🎉

Great video, Josiah! I totally agree with your list. 🤘

Wolves at the gate :), listened to them as per your recommendation and love their music, thanks.

Huge fan of Bloodlines. I love Sleeping Giants and Fit for a King. Recently found impending doom and i really dig em. Keep it up man!

Hey! Thanks for the suggestions. 👍 Was totally expecting an actual music count down with video clips....

I discovered Bloodlines about a month or so ago and have loved their music. My favorite songs are Ruah, Hevel, and Spiritual Warfare. Great video!

Demon Hunter is so good. Their first album came out in 2002. They've always been very explicit that they are a _Christian_ metal band, even though their lyrics are a little ambiguous. They were my introduction to metal (2005). Great to see Phinehas get some love! They are one of the best metal bands out there, and certainly one of the best Christian metal bands. Their lyrics are more explicitly Christian than DH's amd their music extremely technical and diverse but consistently heavy. Do yourself a favor and check out the video for "My Horses are Many": I promise you, you will be entertained 😂

I love impending doom, fit for a king and Phineas good picks 🙏🏼

Spotted Gentle and Lowly on that stack of books - great read!

My personal favorite Christian bands are The Chariot, Harp & Lyre, Showbread, and Silent Planet they're all so creative with their respective music and their lyrical content really displays the Gospel at work

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it and created a new playlist to check out the artists I am unfamiliar with. I know and love Demon Hunter but no one else you talked about. God bless brother.

Thanks for making this video! Always looking for a true Christian band and take the approach "you will know them by their fruit" just found Phinehas and love their stuff. Been a fan of demon hunter for years too!

I love Demon Hunter and have been a fan from the beginning at their first concert. I also like Bloodlines but now I have some other bands to check out. Thanks for sharing!

thanx for sharing, never seen your channel before but i always appreciate more heavy christian music to weed through. crowbar-cleanse me heal me the whole album Sever The Wicked Hand is christian, but most of the frontman's music (Kirk Windstein) is very grounded in his struggles as a christ follower.

Great picks! Darkness divided and For today are also great 😃

I searched for "christian metal" to listen yo during my workout and you were the 1st to pop up. I appreciate what you're doing and how your stewarding your gifts to reach our youth for Jesus and I'm excited to see the Lord continue to work through you. Subscribed!

0:01 holy eyebrow! Thanks for the references, I will be checking these guys out. ADVENIAT REGNUM TUUM

Love your attitude on Christian or so called Christian bands. Keep rocking.

Oh Sleeper needs to be on this list. They were my conversion years ago into christian metal. All great picks though along with bands others mentioned like Fit for a King and For Today.

excellent commentary on the Christian bands. I have been into the Christiam metal since I became a fan of Stryper back in 1984. The 2 bands I have discovered lately are Ignescent and HolyName.

Great list! As a fellow Ohioan, I can confirm we really do put out some of the best metal. Convictions is another solid Ohio based Christian metalcore band that would fit great on this list.

I do not listen to this kind of music but my son does. I am thankful that these bands exist!

Great list! I will check out the bands I don't know, for sure! I would have liked to see Project 86 and/ or Theocracy on the list. 👍 The world needs more bold, positive music that praises our Savior! Pethaps you can do a video on the top Christisn bands that have the best shot at crossing over (like Skillet, Stryper, Project 86, etc.). Keep up the great worrk! People (especially young people) need to know that this kind of music is out there! God bless you! I am subbing!😮

Great video Josiah!, you should react to Deathcore / death metak and black metal Christina bands, I'm pretty sure this will make entertaining videos since you said that those subgenres of metal are not your cup of tea.

Life in Your Way, Living Sacrifice, Spoken, Dens, Falling Up

Thank youuu 🙏🙏🙏🙏 metal has always beeen my thing, but lately i been feeling like listening to it can be so depressing with suicide toughts, violence and, im reborn since not sooo long, ive never been believing god until i got sober thats when it all changed and now im at church every sunday and i want to worship him but with metal so this is a huge THANK YOUUUUU

Great video

Thank you brother

Ive seen impending doom, in the midst of lions , and a plea for purging at my local church .. over 10 years ago now! I’ve been to hundreds of metal and punk shows , and that show still sticks out in my mind, very fun times indeed 🤙🏻

I surprised I didn’t see Living Sacrifice or Six Feet Deep on the list (check out LS Reborn and SFD struggle albums). Stryper, for sure. The godfather of all Christian metal. Aside from that, great list and video! Six feet deep is a classic band from cleveland! I’m from that state “up there” but I’d walk barefoot from Michigan to cleveland to see six feet deep play if they ever did another show. Amazing band and I always have a good time in cleveland anyhow (great people and restaurants! East coast custard is THE best!)

Another good one is Disciple, while not very heavy musically the words of their songs hit harder than and instrument could. They e been around since I believe the 90’s and all together their songs are good and have albums for almost everyone, give them a listen!

My 3 favorites are fit for a King, Convictions and Phinehas. All have help me come back to Christ.

Just happened upon your video. Very nice for off the top of your head. Could you do a history of Christian hard rock & metal video? Blessings! 🙏

Extol, Becoming the Archetype, Living Sacrifice are some I grew up listening to along with Demon Hunter. Just recently found Wolves at the Gate and love them.

Great video, brother. I'd love to hear you discuss and/or recommend heavy Christian bands with female vocalists and the best non-growler bands. I grew up listening to Sabbath and Maiden and I'm not fully given over to the Cookie Monster sound yet LOL. I'm trying.

Thank you!

Great list! ID is deathcore, black metal is a whole other level of extremeness. Love their album Death Will Reign, I find it's more very listenable deathcore in a weird way. Really heavy but also has some great hooky/melodic parts.

In The Midst of Lions, Living Sacrafice, Saving Grace, Fit For A King. Those are good ones too. Oh, and Impending Doom is more Deathcore than Black my friend. Great video brother, keep it up!

Listened to Demon Hunter and Wolves at The Gate from the start but will definitely check the other 3.

For Impending Doom, check out the song Satanic Panic. Their song Murderer got me into them. My go to bands for Christian Metal are Impending Doom, For Today, and August Burns Red. ABR puts on an awesome show. Saw them twice and I highly recommend seeing them live.

There are so many from the 80s and 90s. Bloodgood, Jerusalem, Daniel Band, Sacred Warrior, Deliverance, Whitecross, Eternal Decision. I was introduced to Christian Metal in 1987. At one time has over 900 cassettes. I now have converted them to mp3s. Well over 14k songs. I have listened to some that did feel right.

Petra! Stryper! Awesome!

Great video!! Fellow Ohio Christian metal fan here!

I think I’d say For today is my favorite band, they were on on fire for Christ their entire career and seeing them live being super unapologetic Preaching the gospel was beautiful. Definitely the best show I’ve ever been to. Wolves at the gate is a close second when it comes to my favorites I’d love to see them live one day soon

I just found this video, great breakdown on the lyrics and bands. Impending Doom is actually more deathcore with musically heavy slipknot influences though not black metal. Anything after nailed.dead.rise is a change in sound. Also you should check out if you haven’t For Today specifically “crown of thrones” and “devastator”. And Sleeping Giant the songs “eyes wide open” and “clutches”.

Check out A Secret Ending as well. Really class solo act, very good lyrics

Okay, these are all old school, beginning with Sanctuary, aka The Metal Church, founded by Pastor Bob Beeman. The Resurrection (Rez) Band, the first Christian "biker" band, and Darrell Mansfield, which are hard rock, Altar Boys, One Bad Pig, Lust Control (punk), and now for actual metal: Deliverance, Vengeance Rising, Die Happy, Bloodgood, Jerusalem, Leviticus, Bride, Barnabas, Ransom, Recon, Sacred Warrior, X Sinner, Ken Tamplin, and Galactic Cowboys. There's a lot others, but I can't think of them right now (past my bedtime, )The Cornerstone festival is a good place to find solid Christian bands.

JUST NOW found this channel! Mad props for Demon Hunter, who has been my favorite band since Storm the Gates of Hell was dropped. Forgot to mention Living Sacrifice, the forefathers of Christian Metal.

All these bands are great…Convictions is REALLY good as well. I just found out about a band called Cntxt (context) tonight and they are suuuuper good and very open about their faith.

I have always loved metal. Recently I purged my music of any rap and metal etc, so it’s nice to find some Christian metal!

Could you do a video on Christian hard rock? Skillet, Red, and Disciple are amazing Christian hard rock bands.

Dude, good video! Have you checked out Collapse//Revive? They are amazing and DEFINITELY glorifying Jesus in their songs!

Just listened to all 22 minutes of Mirror of Souls yesterday for the first time ever. Listened to I Will Fail You last night too. Went from 22 hours a day of listening to secular music for exes and my own escape to now trying very hard to cut all that out of my life and go back to listening to music that speaks to me and for me.

Whitecross and barron cross are 2 of my regulars, followed by Petra and Skillet

nine lashes and thousand foot crutch are one of my favorites. they have not made any new albums in a long time wish they would. I love demon hunter. never heard of the other ones i'll check them out.

You should give Stryper and For Today. Got some great songs, and Mike Sweet from Stryper is an on fire for Jesus Christian

Great video, I love the band list. Just to let you know, Impending doom is classified as deathcore not black metal. They where talking to people that are in and that listen black metal in serpents tongue. Doom did have a slam metal sound in there first album, Then in there next albums there sound became more deathcore in the early years when the sub genre got first started.

The heaviness of Impending Doom makes their message hit so much harder. I think it's fantastic. I wish I had gotten into them earlier.

I’m not really into metal, I’m more into CCM myself. But If you have a Spotify account I’d would follow you! More book reviews would be interesting Also maybe you could do a Q and A video and or maybe do a livestream

“Every time my eyes fall to the stare of the unknown You take the night and replace it with your dawn When my path is unclear and my courage starts to fade You sow life in the deepest of graves Somewhere between bearing my shame And wearing my pain You still find it in you to love me For who I am”

Thanks bro for this list! I've been a believer now for two years and it's been difficult to find really good Christian hardcore metal bands. When The Wolves at the Gate was your first mention, I knew I was going to like your list, turns out that's the case. All of them are added to spotify. And you mention your in with the Christian metal community, is their like a social media or anything?

becoming the archetype amazing band! same with Sleeping Giant, in the midst of Lions, on of the most exstrem bands is called goatscorge.

There is not enough Extol being mentioned here. They are the BEST example of a Christian metal band that sing pretty clear messages of the gospel, whilst also suffering hatred from the church and their fellow Norwegian metallers. The music also blows everyone else out of the water

Haste the Day is so great Metalcore, Christian metal band. I love it!

What about Extol? I’ve listened to their music, their lyrics are pretty sound and they definitely follow the same track in the interviews I’ve seen.

Demon Hunter is one of my favorite bands of all time. For Today is another good one that I like.

We were going to play on a Bill with Impending Doom last year at Chains Unchained but they canceled which was a bummer. For something a little different check out Slaves Wage.

You probably wont see this but how about Whisper From Heaven or Renascent? They seem pretty legit plus Antestor. Anyway great content.

My friend Yogi, whom I’ve known since i was a kid, is an unbelievable drummer for Demon Hunter

Check out Fit For a King, For Today and arguably August Burns Red

Holy name is also great one. Love the song fall on your knees with Brian head Welch

Impending Doom all time favorite

Holy Name is My favorite rn! but I love demon hunter too!

Living Sacrifice is a chrisian metal band thats one of my favorites and the consistantly sing christian lyrics for many years since 1989!

You are so right. Like all of the Christian music industry, so many are secular/false masquerading as... If it weren't for Wolves, I probably would have not even bothered searching for a Christian metal band. I've been to a number of their shows and can confirm. I first heard them when they opened for Red, who since have drifted away from... sad. However,Wolves recently did some cover songs from secular artists, I'm not sure why. I'm going to be watching closely at their upcoming stuff to be sure, cuz that's what we as followers of Christ should be doing. I don't care how long I've liked a band or how cool the music is, if the lyrics no longer reflect biblical Christianity, we ought to be troubled by it and at the very least begin to reach out to them and ask what's this all about. Good video.... and btw, I'm an O-H-I-O guy too 😉!!

I was always told “The Crimson Armada” was a christian band & like you said they had members that were supposedly Christian. Their lyrics do have gospel references & I believe their first or second album “Guardians” was totally inspired by biblical accounts. Cool video man

I actually just discovered bloodlines last night at work and they are quickly becoming one of my favorites

Antestor, Horde, Pantokrator, Bedeiah, Verdelger, Crimson Moonlight, etc.

Living Sacrifice did one song with Ryan Clark from Demon Hunter

There is a new artist named Fyrebrand who is a big Demon Hunter fan and has even done a cover of Undying. His original music is also great and he mentions Jesus in some of his songs including a song called No Vice. Definitely worth a listen.

Impending Doom is one of my favorite bands.

Because Disciple is my favorite band, so I was just wondering