Here is a list of Christian rock and metal artists, including artists that played Christian metal at some point in their careers.
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Christian metal, which is also known as white metal or heavenly metal, [2] is heavy metal music with a Christian message. Christian metal is regarded more of a concept rather than a genre since it has no specific musical characteristics. [3] Emerging in the late 1970s as a means of evangelization to the wider heavy metal music scene, it was pioneered by American bands like Resurrection Band, Saint, and Barnabas, Swedish bands Jerusalem, and Canadian band Daniel Band. [4] Los Angeles' Stryper achieved wide success in the 1980s. In the mid to late 1980s, extreme metal genres were popularized by bands such as Vengeance Rising, Deliverance, Believer and Tourniquet. [5] In the early 1990s, the Australian death metal band Mortification rose to prominence within its country's underground metal scene. [6] [7] At the turn of the 21st century, P.O.D., with two platinum-selling albums, achieved a mainstream commercial success rivaling that of Stryper. [8] The metalcore groups Underoath, Demon Hunter, As I Lay Dying and Norma Jean, dubbed by the music press as "The Holy Alliance", also brought some mainstream attention to the movement in the first decade of the 2000s as some of the leading bands in metalcore and hard rock. [9] [10]
