Christian Goth and C.Goth Friendly Music

This was a great request from ETERNITY KIDZ.  So here it is, Christian Goth and C.G. Friendly music.  I decided to add Christian goth friendly music because there are some good bands out there that I myself do enjoy and I think others will too.  After all, goths don't just listen to just goth music non-stop, right?  Right!

Note: I will not say Christian at the beginning of every band but instead let you now that all of the following bands are Christian.

Christian Goth bands:
Saviour Machine is a progressive gothic band that has also been labeled metal by Wikipedia.  They got there name from David Bowie's album The Man Who Sold The World.  The lyrical content covers themes from Revelation, war and death and also personal introspection. 
BATZZ in the Belfry  are a darkwave electro band.  They started in 2003 in the tradition of old-school gothic rock.  Their latest ablum is Glow in the Dark released in 2007.
Ending The Vicious Cycle  are a post-punk darkwave band formed in 2009.  Their are influenced by bands such as The Cure, Bauhaus, Siouxie and the Banshees and Echo and the Bunnyman.  Their lyrics are introspective with melodic guitar lines and a classic 80's synth sound.
Reverend Leviathan has been programing/song writing since 2007, his music is more of goth electro.  His debut album, Eden's Graveyard, was released in 2008.  Voltaire stated - ". . . I think it's the only actual goth CD I've gotten in years. . . Keep up the good work!"
Dead Artist Syndrome is a gothic rock band formed in 1990.  Brian Healy was labeled "father of Christian goth" by Rozz Williams from Christian Death and Shadow Project. 
Beauty For Ashes is a gothic alternative band.  You can go to www.myspace.com/mysecretsin to listen.

Midnight Syndicate is a dark ambient band and are not Christian, and if you want to check them out you can read about them at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Syndicate.   Personally I rather like them.

Punk bands:
The Last Hope are a hardcore punk band (also considered streetpunk).  They are influenced by late 70's punk and 80's rock n' roll and themes in their lyrics are usually common to horror punk. 
Grave Robber are a horror punk (rock) band.  Everything they stand for is no without symbalism, like the name, which refers to Jesus return.  They also where brown costums and zombie/skull masks.
FBS (Fight Before Surrender) is a hardworking punk band from San Antonio, TX (U.S.) formed in 2003.  Some of the band that have influenced them are Motorhead, GHB and The Exploited.  And like many in not all of the bands mentioned above they can be found on Last.fm.
Children 18:3 are a punk rock band, whose members are David, Lee Marie and Seth, homeschooling sibling (I found this interesting).  Their name comes from a verse in the Bible, Matthew 18:3.  They originally formed in 1999.

Alternative Rock bands:
The Becoming (also known as We Are The Becoming) are a rock band with dark feeling of insturmental sound (and maybe a sound of pop).   Not too long back they toured with 69 Eyes and Dommin.  They are also in the prosses of changing their name.
Red are a hard rock (alternative) band established in 2004.  Their first single "Breathe Into Me" hit number 15 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart (and their a Christian band!).  (In fact I have their Innocence & Instinct CD and love it!)
Skillet is a rang from alternative metal and hard rock along with others.  Collide and Comatose are probably the most well known albums, along with their newest on Awake.  They officially started in 1996. 
Showbread is a band with no specific genre, or as they call it, "raw rock".  The band's name comes from biblical reference, that Jesus taught new Christians, it's not about rules but about love.  In fact the band's purpose was to be fit to play Sunday mornings at the Southern Baptist church they attended, but when the began to play "goth punk" music their church told them to spot playing that kind of music.  Their lyrics are often introspective and inspire different interpretations to listeners.  The have mistakening been labeled emo or screamo.
Nine Lashes are an experimental rock band and are brought together under one Name their hearts break for this world that is dying.  Their name comes from "Cat of Nine Tails" that was an instrument thought to have been used on Christ before the cross. 


Also here are a couple of bands I almost left out.
Vexing Souls are a metal band with strong gothic influence (or gothic metal). 
Demon Hunter is a hardcore metal band.

Also there are a lot more metal bands and I can asure you there are more of each of the genres I have covered (especially in alternative rock).  But these are the ones that I know of.  You can get out ChristianGoth.com because I know they mention a lot more bands, covering more in metal also.

I am Happy to Present. . .

Another Versatile Blogger Award from Outcast146 at Outcast of Adam Rd.  Thank you so so much, your too kind!

Rules:

1. Thank and link to the person who gave this award.
2. Answer 10 questions.
3. Pass it to 7 other blogs you love or have recently discovered.
4. Leave a note to the blogs you have tagged telling them about it.

I won't be answering the questions since I have before and nothing has changed.

And all the blogs I want to award have already been tagged by me or Amy (Ultimate Goth Guide).

But the ones I would award would be ETERNITY KIDZ, If Only I Were a Goth, Clockwork Mice and Toy Spiders, and the ones I already tagged before.  I have enjoyed reading your guys' blogs very much! 

Sincerely,

Angel of Darkness

Hello All!

As you can see I have changed my layout.  I liked the other one but this looks way better and everything fits better. 
I am surprised at how my much I have been on here with being so busy and all.  And My next post will be another Versatile Blogger Award.  Yes another!  And then maybe a bit of fiction. . .

I love the comments I get!  And yes I am very happy I now have 5 followers, even though the blogs I follow have way more!

And yes, here is another picture!  I love these pictures!

Sincerely,
Angel of Darkness

Listening to: FM Static - Girl fo the Year

Um, 15 Random Facts?

I have been kind of lazy, but I have been tagged by Amy at Goth Guide with this 15 radom facts thing, shoudl be fun!  Sorry it took so long.  School, school, school!  Okay. . .so here are the fifteen radom facts about me.  Oh, and I have to tag 5 other people.

1.  I get nerves way too often.  Especially when I am going somewhere alone.
2.  I really want to get a purple mohawk even though everyoen thinks it's more of a boys thing to have a mohawk.
3.  I have been writing a story for three years and am still working on it.  I can't say why it is taking so long but I do know that I hope to be done by next year.
4.  I have a wacko goofy cat that I love very very much.  His name is Mittens, he's gray on top and white underneathe.  I sware he gets the devil in him at night because he goes absolutely crazy and overly hiper, and gets a whild look in his eyes.  Love that  cat.
5.  I am on the tech team at my church on Wednesdays (for youth group or Rift) and I do the lights.
6.  I actually do somewhat like vampires, as long as it has nothing to do with Twilight or sparkling vampires, that's just creepy.  My friends calls that Edward dude "twinkle teeth".
7.  We had a plastic skeleton that you hang on the door and even when it was not Halloween I would dress it up and act like he was my best friend, take him everywhere (him or her I can't say. . .) and he would keep the other bad monsters down in the basemeant away.  (I was five.)
8.  I love to watch the Twilight Zone when ever it is on.  First watched it when I was 13, a marathon was on.
9.  I love the show (I think it's manga) Avatar: The Last Airbender.  Been hooked since I first saw it in 2005 when it started (did it start in 200 or 2006?).
10.  I have lived in 4 different states, but born in Montana and is home.  Glad we came back.  I lived in Arizona, Wyoming, and Oregon.
11.  I have only ever stepped into Hot Topic once, this summer with a friend who had never been there herself.  I don't not like it and don't like.
12.  If you didn't already know I am, yes, a Tim Burton freak.  And there even beter with Johnny Depp in them.
13.  I can be shy and timid a lot and can't stand it!  Never used to be like that.
14.  I own over a dozen crosses (in jewelry, mostly).
15.  I generally like all kinds of music, whatever appeals to me.  I don't really like metal and can't stand rap or hip-hop.  But there is a metal band I like (Demon Hunter) and there is a couple of songs from a Christian hip-hop raper (Manafest) that I like (the songs Avalanche and No Plan B).  But more so listen to pop-punk, alternative, rock, post-punk, New Wave, punk rock, electro, synthpop. . . etc.

I'll tag:

Outcast146

ETERNITY KIDZ

And well I don't know who else?

What Are You Waiting For? The End of the World?

You've been trying to get me open
Caught out in the open
Everyone is hoping you'd give
Anything to take this
Everything that breaks this
Everyone is faceless
Give me
Something to believe in
Quick or else I'm leaving
Need a better reason
I know
Things get complicated
So miseducated
It's a wonder that we made it

Situation
Under speculation
What are we facing
Too much complications
Looking for a name
In a new generation
A new focus new destination

I don't wanna look
I just wanna find
Can you give me something to believe in
Keep your religion, don't need your lies
I'm just looking for one good reason
Feel like it's teenage hunting season
But nothing out there sounds half decent
Who's out there? Who's gonna save us?
Before we all fall through the cracks in the pavement 

You' ve been trying to get me open
Caught out in the open
Everyone is hoping
Give me
Something to believe in
Quick or else I'm leaving
Need a better reason
I know

I'm never going to fall in line
So don't even bother wasting your time
I'm a bread of a different kind
Sent back just to invade your mind

[Last part of song]
And if you don't know what I'm talking about
It's probably better cause I'm working it out
Don't want to spent my lifetime figurin out
That I could've just said one prayer

And if you know what I'm talking about
Then together where both working it out
Don't wanna spent my lifetime figurin out
I missed the point now it's over. . .
I missed the point now it's over. . .

Song by FM Static called Something To Believe In from their album What Are You Waiting For?

I first remember hearing that song whe I was just turned twelve back in 2007, on Air1 (Christian alternative radio station).  I loved that song and still do.  It's almost like my life song you could say.  I feel great listening to it, like I can do anything.  Music is personal to me, and something deep, I love listening to music.

You know, I am a bread of a different kind! 

Last night at Rift (the youth group I go to) was a question in small group.  How do you want people to perseve you?  I thought about it and this song came to me and my answer along with, from the heart!  I said the pure truth: I want people to see I am different, do not fit in a box!  Jesus doesn't fit into a box and never has, ever!  He didn't even come into the world like the Jews thought He would and He was the most different person ever, and He didn't sin!  He even talked to gentiles who the Jews thought unclean, and He was unpredictable.  He just doesn't fit into a box. 
I don't want to fit in a box.  I want to be all over outside it! 

Different.  Well, there's nothing wrong with it at all.  After all God made all of us individually, no one like another, none the same.  So why is it that we feel we must all try to be as similar as possible?  They say fashion is all about individuality, right?  What's wrong with being different then?  And I don't just mean on the outside but on the inside.  So different that you fit into no one catagory but many many, and even ones that don't exist.  The answer is there is nothing wrong with it, at all. 

In fact when I was trying to "fit in" I was losing myself and flet more invisible than before, just on of the crowd.  Normal. (cringe)  But being myself feels great.  And by being myself I find that I get closer to God because He is where my true identity is, the one who made me, well me. 

So that's my goal, to be different, not fit into any boxes.  Who wants to fit into a box?!!!?

Depression, I hate that word!  Happy, joyful, peaceful, yeah I like those words!

Would you rather have a best friend whose a ghost or skeleton?
(I pick skeleton!)

Listening to: FM Static - Something To Believe In, and now FM Static - Definintely Maybe

Sincerely,
Angel of Darkness