Despite being eternally attached to “Enter Sandman,” Rivera actually isn’t a fan of Metallica, as his Christian beliefs keep him away from heavy metal. “With all due respect to the guys, I’ve never been to one of [their shows],” Rivera told the NY Post. “As a Christian, with all due respect to Metallica, I don’t listen to that kind of music.”
The article doesn't address what music he does listen to, which begs the question: if he were introduced to a Christian metal band, would he not listen to it? Would he dismiss an entire genre because of his Christian beliefs even if there were bands that were in that genre that are Christian? Would he listen to any of the bands in this list of the 10 Best Christian Metal Bands or would he just say, "No. Their music is heavy metal. I don't listen to heavy metal because I am Christian."
I have known of people who were like Mariano Rivera - in fact, I am very similar to him as I don't watch horror movies because I am ignorant of their value. In my opinion, Mariano Rivera is as ignorant about heavy metal as I am about horror movies. Or about Quentin Tarantino movies. Or Cohen Brothers movies. Or Bollywood movies. Or "The Fast and The Furious" movies. Or the Harry Potter movies. Or the Pirates of the Caribbean movies.
And the list goes on and on. My ignorance has led me to make a judgement about an entire genre (horror) or an entire set of work from a director (Tarantino, Cohen) or all the movies that are not made in Hollywood, CA, USA (Bollywood) or an entire franchise (Fast / Furious, Harry Potter, Pirates). Instead of claiming I don't watch any of those because I am Christian, I claim I don't watch any of those because I don't like them. Period. End of story.
Going back to Mariano Rivera, while I realize that Wikipedia is not considered a "source" for information because anyone can change the information, it is still the easiest place to go to get a list of Christian metal artists, which is what this page is: List of Christian metal artists. The following is a list of all the bands on that page that I copied into a MS Word file. That file had 11 pages because there are 439 bands listed. While I recognize a few of the bands listed - Beartooth (very interesting as that's one of Alex's favorite bands), Skillet (who I've seen in concert at least 3 times (Moline, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines), and Brian Welch (Korn's guitarist) - it strikes me as a shame that he dismisses an entire genre.
But it's okay for me to dismiss genres and franchises. Get the hypocrisy?
After all, what genre of music doesn't have Christian artists?
Rap does.
Pop does.
Metal does, as demonstrated in the list below.
I don't know if "Christian jazz" is a genre or not.
Anyways, here's the list from Wikipedia. I removed all the hyperlinks because I didn't want to be responsible for the content on that page. This is a snapshot of the page, used to illustrate my point. Use the link above if you want to read the relevant Wikipedia page about one of the following 439 artists.
- 2Tm2,3
- 3rd Root
- 7 Angels 7 Plagues
- 7 Horns 7 Eyes
- 12 Stones
- 38th Parallel
- Abated Mass of Flesh
- Ace Augustine
- Admonish
- Advent
- Aggelos
- The Agony Scene
- Aletheian
- Alisa
- Alove for Enemies
- Altars
- Altera Enigma
- Antestor
- Antidemon
- Argyle Park
- Ark of the Covenant
- Armageddon Holocaust
- Arvinger
- As Cities Burn
- As Hell Retreats
- As I Lay Dying
- As They Sleep
- The Ascendicate
- Ascending King
- Ashen Mortality
- At the Throne of Judgment
- Atomic Opera
- Attack Attack!
- Audiovision
- August Burns Red
- The Autumn League
- Balance of Power
- Barnabas
- Barren Cross
- Beartooth
- The Beckoning
- Becoming Saints
- Becoming the Archetype
- Before Their Eyes
- Behold the Kingdom
- Being as an Ocean
- Believer
- Beloved
- Benea Reach
- Besieged
- Betraying the Martyrs
- Blessed by a Broken Heart
- Blessthefall
- Blindside
- Blood Covenant
- Blood of the Martyrs
- Bloodgood
- Bloodlined Calligraphy
- Bloodline Severed
- Cesare Bonizzi
- Bride
- Broken Flesh
- A Bullet for Pretty Boy
- Burden of a Day
- The Burial
- Burn It Down
- Cage
- Called to Arms
- Call to Preserve
- Callisto
- The Chariot
- Chasing Victory
- Chatterbox
- Children of Wrath
- Christageddon
- Church Tongue
- Circle of Dust
- Clear Convictions
- Close Your Eyes
- The Color Morale
- Colossus
- Comeback Kid
- Conditions
- Confide
- Conveyer
- Convictions
- Corpus Christi
- Creations
- Cries Hannah
- The Crimson Armada
- Crimson Moonlight
- Crimson Thorn
- The Crucified
- Cry of the Afflicted
- Daniel Band
- Darkness Divided
- Darkwater
- Day of Vengeance
- Death Requisite
- Death Therapy
- Debtor
- Defeater
- Deliverance
- Demise of Eros
- Demon Hunter
- Demoniciduth
- Destroy the Runner
- Detritus
- Deus Invictus
- Deuteronomium
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Die Happy
- DigHayZoose
- Dire
- Disciple
- Divide the Sea
- Divinefire
- Dizmas
- Doomsday Hymn
- Drottnar
- Earth Groans
- East West
- Echo Hollow
- Elgibbor
- Embodiment 12:14
- Embodyment
- Emery
- Eso-Charis
- Eternal Decision
- Evelynn
- Everdown
- Every Day Life
- Every Knee Shall Bow
- Everyone Dies in Utah
- Everything in Slow Motion
- Extol
- Falling Cycle
- Falling Up
- Fallstar
- Family Force 5
- The Famine
- Fasedown
- Feast Eternal
- A Feast for Kings
- Few Left Standing
- Figure Four
- Final Surrender
- Fit for a King
- Flawed by Design
- Fleshkiller
- Flyleaf
- Focused
- For All Eternity
- For Today
- For the Fallen Dreams
- Foreknown
- Forevermore
- Forfeit Thee Untrue
- From the Shallows
- Frosthardr
- Frost Like Ashes
- Galactic Cowboys
- The Gates of Slumber
- The Gentleman Homicide
- Gideon
- Glass Casket
- Gnashing of Teeth
- Golden Resurrection
- Grace Like Winter
- Grave Declaration
- Grave Forsaken
- The Great Commission
- Gretchen
- Guardian
- Gwen Stacy
- Hand of Fire
- Hands
- The Handshake Murders
- Harmony
- Haste the Day
- Haven
- HB
- He Is Legend
- Heaven's Force
- Here I Come Falling
- A Hill to Die Upon
- Holy Blood
- Holy Soldier
- Hope for the Dying
- Hopesfall
- Horde
- Hortor
- Hundredth
- I, the Breather
- I Am Terrified
- Immortal Souls
- Impellitteri
- Impending Doom
- Indwelling
- Inevitable End
- Inhale Exhale
- Inked in Blood
- In the Midst of Lions
- Islander
- Jacobs Dream
- Jamie's Elsewhere
- Jerusalem
- Jesus Wept
- Jonah33
- Joshua
- Justifide
- Kekal
- King James
- Kingston Falls
- Kohllapse
- Kryst the Conqueror
- Kutless
- Lament
- Leaders
- Christopher Lee
- Lengsel
- The Letter Black
- Letter to the Exiles
- Leviticus
- Life in Your Way
- Living Sacrifice
- Love and Death
- Lucerin Blue
- Lust Control
- Luti-Kriss
- LVL
- Mad Max
- Magdallan
- Majestic Vanguard
- Manafest
- Mantric
- Maranatha
- Mastedon
- Mayfly
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
- Means
- Mehida
- Memphis May Fire
- Messiah Prophet
- Messengers
- Metanoia
- Mindrage
- Miseration
- Misery Chastain
- Monotheist
- Mortal
- Morphia
- Mortal Treason
- Mortification
- Mouth of the South
- My Heart to Fear
- My Ransomed Soul
- MyChildren MyBride
- Nailed Promise
- Narcissus
- Narnia
- Necromance
- Neon Cross
- Nine Lashes
- No Innocent Victim
- Nodes of Ranvier
- Norma Jean
- Nothing Left
- Nothing Til Blood
- Officer Negative
- Oficina G3
- Oh, Sleeper
- Oil
- Once Dead
- Once Nothing
- One Bad Pig
- Onward to Olympas
- The Ongoing Concept
- Opprobrium
- Overcome
- The Overseer
- Pantokrator
- Paradox
- Paramaecium
- A Past Unknown
- PAX217
- Peace of Mind
- Petra
- Philadelphia
- Phinehas
- Pillar
- Place of Skulls
- A Plea for Purging
- P.O.D.
- Point of Recognition
- Poured Out
- Precious Death
- Project 86
- Promise Land
- Pyramaze
- Raid
- Random Hero
- Recon
- Red
- Reform the Resistance
- ReinXeed
- Remembrance
- Remove the Veil
- Renascent
- Resurrection Band
- Revulsed
- Righteous Vendetta
- Rival Choir
- Rob Rock
- Rod Laver
- Randy Rose
- Sacrament
- Sacred Warrior
- The Sacrificed
- Sacrificium
- Saint
- Sanctifica
- Saving Grace
- Saviour Machine
- Scarlet
- Scourged Flesh
- Seasons in the Field
- See the Rise
- Seemless
- Selfmindead
- Separatist
- Serianna
- Settle the Sky
- Seventh Angel
- Seventh Avenue
- Seventh Day Slumber
- Seventh Star
- Sever Your Ties
- Shadows of Paragon
- Shai Hulud
- Shout
- Showbread
- The Showdown
- Signum Regis
- Silent Planet
- Sinai Beach
- Sinbreed
- Since October
- SinDizzy
- Six Feet Deep
- Skald in Veum
- Skillet
- Slechtvalk
- Sleeping by the Riverside
- Sleeping Giant
- Society's Finest
- Solamors
- Solus Deus
- Soul Embraced
- Sovereign Strength
- Spirit and the Bride
- Spitfire
- Spoken
- Stars Are Falling
- Stavesacre
- Still Breathing
- Still Remains
- Strengthen What Remains
- Stretch Arm Strong
- Strongarm
- Stryken
- Stryper
- Sympathy
- Symphony in Peril
- Symphony of Heaven
- Taking the Head of Goliath
- Tantrum of the Muse
- Tempest
- Temple of Blood
- Texas In July
- Theocracy
- Thieves & Liars
- This Is Hell
- This or the Apocalypse
- Those Who Fear
- Thousand Foot Krutch
- A Thousand Times Repent
- Through Solace
- Timōrātus
- To Speak of Wolves
- Toarn
- Tortured Conscience
- Tourniquet
- Training for Utopia
- Travail
- Trenches
- Trouble
- Trytan
- The Tug Fork River Band
- Twelve Gauge Valentine
- Ultimatum
- Unashamed
- Undercover
- Underneath the Gun
- Underoath
- Undish
- UnTeachers
- V8
- Vaakevandring
- Vengeance Rising
- Venia
- Veni Domine
- Vials of Wrath
- Virgin Black
- Vomitorial Corpulence
- Wage War
- War of Ages
- Warlord
- We as Human
- We the Gathered
- Brian Welch
- What We Do in Secret
- Whitecross
- With Blood Comes Cleansing
- Woe of Tyrants
- Wolves at the Gate
- The Word Alive
- Worldview
- Wovenwar
- Wrench in the Works
- Wytch Hazel
- X-Sinner
- xDeathstarx
- xDisciplex A.D.
- XT
- XXI
- Your Chance to Die
- Your Memorial
- Zao
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