Rainard Jalen

To be completely honest, I mean, I know it's been said before and it'll probably be said again, but the fact is that music that is really ostentatiously religious, to the point of evangelizing, is almost invariably ill-conceived trash as far as the actual music part goes. and there's a good reason for that: if the aim of it was simply to get out a preachy message, then that entails that the aim was not to create any compelling piece of music.

evangelical music is, as expected, usually generic and insipid in its instrumental/melodic/harmonic content. if you know you're 99.99% (maybe 100%) likely to encounter that, then why not turn your nose up to it?

right-track

I pm'd him about those links the other day...no reply.
Keep it up and you're banned.

Zer0

Christian metal is a contradiction, considering metal was born out of the 'devil's chords'. Believe it or not Christian black metal bands do exist! A very laughable fact.
Christian black metal@Everything2.com

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Pbr-kegbeater

YIKESSSSSSSSS I GUESS ID BETTER CUT IT OUT... i suppose to fix my homophobic remark i will say christian metal is false, and it creates false metal posers! I value this forum so much, i couldnt stand getting banned.. thanks!

right-track

First off, thanks for removing the myspace links.
And you're welcome here Pbr-kegbeater.

Inuzuka Skysword

I fail to see how we know that the devil created those chords considering we have no proof that the devil is real.

Zer0

Well of course the devil himself didn't actually create them. The Devils's Chords, or tritones as they are more technically known, are sets of notes that were seen in the middle-ages as too dark, evil and menacing for music and therefore they were associated with the devil. Musicians who used these were often punished by the church or excommunicated. Examples of tritones are B-flat-E, F-B, B-F, A-D-flat and many others.
Listen to 'Black Sabbath' by Black Sabbath for perfect examples.

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Rainard Jalen

Never heard them referred to as tritones before. To me that's an augmented 4th

Inuzuka Skysword

Yeah, well it is a bunch of middle age bull**** because I doubt that a note can be too dark. The Bible doesn't really have any sound so to say that a sound is holy or not is totally ludicrous.

mr dave

when the only way to be a musician was to compose music for the king (who ruled through divine right / appointed by god) or the church, you did what they said when it came to composing. if the powers that be decided a chord progression wasn't acceptable they made sure it wasn't used. after all, they were interested in making sacred music, not secular.

to act as if the church didn't have significant control over society in the middle ages is even more ludicrous than the idea that a note is too dark to be used in music.

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