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Christian metal history is being made this weekend. One of the longest-running, still active bands in the Christian metal scene–Bride–is playing their final shows this weekend. Under their current moniker, the band has been making music for four decades. If we include their beginnings as Matrix, we can add a few more years on top of that. I first got into Bride in the late 80s in their traditional heavy metal era, which includes the band’s first three albums: Show No Mercy (1986), Live to Die (1988, my entry point), and Silence is Madness (1989).… Continued →

Recon was a Christian metal band active in the late 80s and early 90s. They were one of the earliest true “power metal” bands in the Christian scene. They played a traditional form of heavy metal that was augmented and supplemented by progressive tendencies and tempos that sometimes approached speed metal. The band released a pair of cassette demos, first in 1989 and then 1990, and also had a song featured on the most excellent California Metal II compilation where I first heard the band. Vocalist Vett Roberts sang in a high-pitched operatic style not too unlike Jimmy Brown (Deliverance) or Geoff Tate (Queensryche), or possibly even a more musical version of King Diamond (Merciful Fate).… Continued →