![]() Senior Pastor and Founder Brian Smith launched the First Heavy Metal Church of Christ on Sunday, June 19th, 2011 at a local VFW in Union, Ohio. We just want to love the Hell outta you in the process… Once you accept Christ as the Lord of your Life, He will begin to clean you up along the way with the rest of us! God wants you EXACTLY the way you are at this very moment with NO STRINGS ATTACHED. We bring in a different band every Sunday, ranging from Blues to Rock, so you are guaranteed to like something eventually! in Dayton, Ohio, and we would be HONORED to have you in for a visit!Īll first-timers get a FREE Heavy Metal Church shirt, so what have you got to lose? We are a Non-Denomination House of Misfits located at 1048 Patterson Rd. Please do not blame God for these imposters… They are NOT accurately representing Jesus plain and simple. You know, the kind that tells you that you will go to Hell for drinking a beer, but yet Jesus turned water into wine! The kind that tells you that you will burn in Hell for smoking a cigarette because it is “harming the temple” while they are 150 pounds overweight and double-fisting McDonalds every day… The First Heavy Metal Church of Christ is a bible-based church for those that would probably never step foot into a traditional church building because of snooty self-righteous, judgmental, legalistic so-called "Christians". He was actually mocking false prophets and going for a Jim Morrison vibe with that cover, for what it’s worth.Simply put, we are a Gathering Place of Black Sheep and Misfits. Which was too bad, as it’s a great album too. That whole album is strong, from the title song to “ Hero” to “Sin for a Season.” “ On the Fritz” from that album is also a sneaky beast of a song, as is “I Just Wanna Know.” His I Predict 1990 album cover got him accused of dabbling in Tarot because that’s the kind of thing we argued about in Baptist churches in 1989. I’ll go with “We Don’t Need No Color Code” from Meltdown (1984) because it tackled a huge issue, racism, from the Christian perspective decades ago and with a moral fire that few can match. “You save the whales, you save the seals, you save whatever’s cute and squeals, but you kill that thing that’s in the womb, would not want no baby boom.” ![]() “ Bad Rap” was in fact a bad rap that skillfully skewered the green pro-whale/anti-baby left. “ I Want to Be a Clone” tackled being a maverick in the face of conformist culture. He has put out so many songs across so many decades in so many different sounds - and under different bands, such as Sixpence None the Richer (he wrote and produced their massive hit “ Kiss Me“) and Newsboys, not to mention Chagall Guevara and Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil - that his best is very hard to pin down (so is his worst, for whatever that’s worth). He had a knack for making words that shouldn’t rhyme live together and pretty soon he was stealing the show at Christian music festivals and being written up in Rolling Stone. ![]() Steve Taylor was a youth minister who started writing songs for his church youth group. They’re back to sporting the yellow and black and still flying with the harmonic riffs. Here’s “Do Unto Others,” which they released in 2020. Stryper, for one, broke through in that era and they’re still going strong. Some of them wrote about issues years or decades ahead of their time, some went all the way from Eagles-style country to experimental, some faded away, and some covered Led Zeppelin covering Blind Willie Johnson and are still cranking out good stuff. Some we’ve long forgotten, and nature has reclaimed them like undergrowth on a jungle temple. Some of them were interesting and creative trails that are not yet finished. ![]() Even One Bad Pig.įrom the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, a whole bunch of bands followed after the 60s Jesus Music phenomenon led by the late Larry Norman and blazed some trails. ![]() What heavy stuff, you probably didn’t ask? Well, Steve Taylor for one. Actually, for those days I was something of a rebel, a Baptist bad boy, because I eschewed the likes of Steve Green and Sandi Patty for the heavy stuff. But it was Texas just south of Dallas in the 1980s and it was our culture. Whether I was born or born again that way we’ll never know. ![]()
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